Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-21
BRIEF MENTION.
News of the Day Condensed for the
Hasty Peruser.

John Degnan, aged fourteen, was killed
while coasting at Youngstown, o.
John Krell, a brakeman on the Wabash
railway, was killed at Danville, Ill.
| The State Horticultural association, of
Pennsylvania, is in session at Lebanon.
The Massachusetts, senate has passed the
prohibition amendment by vote of 25 to s.
William McClelland, farmer, living near
Sandova, H., committed suicide by shoot
| ing.
| The steamer Britannia has arrived safely
in New York, after most tempestuous
voyage.
The Ohio Miners association, in session at
| Columbus, has indorsed the official course of
State Inspector Bancroft.
A Washington rumor says that c. r.
| Faulkner, chief of the record division of the
pension bureau, will resign.
Billy Myers, of Streator, ILL.,, knocked out
Harry Gilmore, of ST. Paul, in twenty-six
seconds, at North Judson, Ind.
DR.. Pingree an eye and ear specialist of
Chicago, has been sued by A. B. Pullman for
81, 900 damages for malpractice.
E. Pauker and L. Fulton blew out the gas
when retiring at the International hotel,
New York, and were found dead
William Lohr, aged fiftyfour, attempted
suicided at Akron, o., by drinking carboiic
acid He is in a critical condition.
The aged mother of ex-President Garfield
is very low at her home at Mentor, and is
not expected to live more than few days
The Turner's of Green Bay, Wis, have
asked the North American Turner Bund to
exr'el Anarchstic members Of the organiza-
ton.
Minnie Ray, daughter of prominent
citizen of Colorado Springs, threw her.
self in front of train, and was instantly
killed.
+. G. Martin, who murdered Samuel Hig-
don, at South Pittsburg, Tenn, was captured
ON Cincinnati Southern train near Chatta-
nooga-
In a wreck on the East Line railroad, near
Jefferson, Tex, caused by the general bad
condition of the railroad, seven persons were
injured.
The secretary Of the treasury has desig-
mated the National Branch bank, of Madi-
son, Ind, to be a depository of public
moneyA
A small can Of dynamite was exploded at
the Hoboken ferry in Jersey City, causing
considerable commotion and slightly iniur-
ing one person.
Albert Sanders, mill hand at Youngs-
town, and Jack Wilson, a Pittsburg pugilist,
fought two rounds, in which Wilson was
knocked entirely out.
Tommy Barnes, the old featherweight,
tried but failed to knock out Jimmy Flanni-
gan at Jacksonville Fla, last night in eight
rounds for purse Of $500.
Miss Mary A. Brown, maiden lady, of
NorriStown, Pa, has been swindled out of
$4,000 by Philadelphia woman, who
claimed to run a ladies' bank
The secretary Of the treasury has trans
mitted to congress a list Of 65S of the Fourth
of July claims, aggregating S10S, ,037, ex-
alnined and allowed by the treasury.
The Northern Pacific railway directors
have accepted a joint lease with the Union
Pacific, Of the Oregon Railway & Naviga-
tion company'S line from Portland, east and
south
Camps in the northern Wisconsin pineries
are rapidly breaking up owing to the deep
snow. Prominent logging men say that only
two-thjrds crop of logs will be banked this
winter
Tbs annual performance for the benefit OF
the Roman Catholic orphans asylum at the
Metropolitan opera house, New York netted
$4,000. Four thousand people were refused
admission.
A faith cure revival is being held at
Reading, Pa, among the Mennonites. Many
persons afflicted have iockad to the church
| and announced their faith, but no cures are
SO far reported
The ice in the straits is 50 weakened bv the
snow upon it that it will not bear teams
with safety. Consequently crossing this
winter will be failure. This insures an
early opening of navigation.
Public indignation is aroused in the state
of Pueblo, Mex, over the assassination in
the past few months of several Freemasons
whose political and religious ideas were re-
pugnant to the fanatical clericals
Mrs. Libby Culbertson McCune. Of New
York, went to Ironton, o., and kidnapped her
y Jung daughter, whom she found on the
f.reet. She made her escape with the child
'Sut hackInan who assisted her has been ar
'ested
The Mormon church made application to
the territorial supreme court for an appeal to
the supreme court of the United States for an
order appointing receiver in the Escheat
cases The supreme court refused to grant
the appeal.
Kentucky has organized an industrial COM
mission, with Governor Buckner as its chair
man, to arrange an exhibit Of the resources
OF the state for the Cincinnati centennial.
The legislature will be asked to appropriate
$4,000 for the purpose
George ". Voice and Patrick O'Neil have
filed suit at Belleville, H., for S50, 900 each
against Detective Thomas Furlong and
Frank b. Bowman, for false Imprisonment in
connection with the murder of ex- Mayor
John B. Bowman, of East st. Louis.
| The National board of trade, in es,ion at
Washington, adopted by two-thirds vote
resolution declaring that the usefulness of
the postoffice department should be extended
i'll the direction of telegraphic communica-
tion and urging the earliest favorable con
sideration of the question by congress
Two daughters of William Williams and
young man named Babbitt, all residing
near Ennis, Tex, broke through the ice
while skating on Sand lake, and were
| drowned in four and half feet of water.
together with three rescuers, who. one by
one, were overpowered by the drowning
ones
A delegation headed by Congressman But
terworth, of Ohio, has extended to President