Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

BY HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE
VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
ComDiled from Various Sources.
r,.sor;os treaty, said to be salts
lhE - al parties, was signed by the
a,,,r,issroners on the l4th.
prssr.,s finance minister has prepared
aT monetary measure for consldera.
49, bv the council of the empire.
ro,rv narsons were kill ed in a mine
.-nIosion in the Krenzgraban coal mine,
eaar Kaiserlan tern, Bavaria, on the
18th.
rBr constables who arrested the whole
ala Iiouor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving bribes.
Mn. HERBERT GLADSTONE taunted the
rovernment on its ntter failure to prevent
sha nrogress of the plan of campaign, or
10 supp ross the Irish National League.
MISS CLARA BARTON has just completed
an interesting report of the proceedings
n the Fourth International Red Cross
conference, held at Carlesrhue, Baden,
last September.
Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN's arraignment of
chief Secretary Balfour in Parliament on
tbe nth has raised him at single bound
To the position Of parl iamentary debater
Of the first rank
7 y. PYNE was convicted at Dublin on
tbe 18th Of melting resis tance to the bail
ifs. and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment At the close of the trialIhe
was arrested on similar charge.
BREEY. the defeated candidate for Con-
gress from the Eleventh (Michigan) Con-
gressional district, will contest the cleo
ton of H. w. Seymour, on the ground of
intimidation of voters by mine bosses.
REVOLUTION in the transporta Of
live stock has been inaugurated by the
American Live Stock Express Company.
Speed, economy and comfort of the ami
mails shipped commend the new system.
THE new rules of procedure proposed
in the British Parliament greatly increase
the power of the Speaker, and provide
that cloture may be voted if one hundred
members are present, instead of two hun
dred, as now.
BY decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, promulgated on the
10Th, Southern railroads are required to
furnish accommod tions, equal in all re-
spects, TO white and black first-class
ticket-hoders.
BENJAMIN E. HOPKINS, late cashier OF
the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, was on
the 18th refused new trial He will be
sentenced as soon as he is able to appear
in court. He is very sick, and expects to
leave his cell only for the cemetery.
PREMIER TIRARD left the French Cham
Der of Deputies in disgust on the 10th, de-
claring he would resign because of an
adverse vote on the appeal os the govern
ment to take into consideration the ques-
ton Of reducing the salaries of treasury
paymasters.
The estate of the murdered millionaire,
Smell, has been administered upon. He
died intestate, and his property, valued
at ST. 05O,000, goes to his wife, son and
three daughters. Three years ago he
decided his wife in fee simple property
valued at So 100000.
BREADsTUFFs exports from the United
States during January pas t aggregated
IN value SS,l22, 277 against S14, ,523, 800 in
January, 1887. Exports of the principal
articles Of provisions during January
past We're valued at $6. .S26,9SO, against
sa alSl 442 in January, 1887.
COLLECTOR MAGOYE of the New York
custom house promised on the 18th to take
acuon IN few days against a local ring
y opium smugglers, whose operations,
0oFefihg period of years, will cause the
te0en' seizures of opium on the Canadian
"on'ler TO pale into insignificance.
DURING the Congressional inquiry into
lne cause and conduct of the Reading
strikes, on the 18th, John Norris, of the
fhlladelphia Record, a stats tician Of
some note, showed from the books Of the
heading company that instead of losing
I-VVGOO0 on mining operations since
1910, the company has cleared $29 600, 900.
RICHARD CAssIBoNE was sent to the
Uno State penitentary on the 18th, for
Years, on a thirty-two-year old SEN
,ehce, Tor manslaughter, received in
Aasklngum County in 1850. He broke
!aH after sentence was passed, and
was not discovered until two months
age living at Chillicothe under an as.
samed name.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has
.nSUucted customs officers that 1t quaran-
,le stations under control of State or
WA authorities the Federal Gus stoms Off
9. Y's must not interfere with reasonable
Ias. Isa'e Or local laws; but where such regu-
@ ~''oas conflict with Federal laws, the
eaa a'soms officers must perform their duty,
-, na 'ue Federal laws must be enforced as
supreme.
" nS late directors and officers of the
topolltan Bank of Cincinnati are
amAg aalng tardy restitution by paying the
rJuu's r. due from them to the bank.
~. resident Means has paid the receiver
Am hundred and TWENTY-FIVE thousand
ro.5 lars, and George K. Duckworth has