Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ter, N. Y, was elected trustee in place
of the late Hiram Sibley.
PATRICK SKELLY, a Louisiana miser,
was picked up on Park Row, New York
City, with $4,000 in his pockets. In his
greed for gain he had deprived him Sc II
OF proper nourishment and was suffe fering
from partial paralysis and showed signs
OF softening Of the brain.
GAETANO Russo and his wife Para were
sentenced to twelve and four years re-
spectively in New York, on the 26th for
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
| money. Both are notorious counterfeiters,
| and have been ''shov1ng the oueern
| in a number of towns throughout the
| United States
| THE jury in the trial of John C. Keegan,
of Scranton, Pa, for the murder of Mrs.
P. Nj. Barrett, in May last, brought in a
| verdict, on the 26th, of guilty of murder
| in the second degree.
MRS. HENRIETTA SPIEL, aged seventy
| five, and Mrs. Martha Beckel, aged sixty :
| five, inmates of the German Home for
| the Aged, at Baltimore Nd, were found
dead in their room on the Goth. They had
| been suffo Gated by gas.
| JOHN JONES, the night watchm an, aged
sixty, was burned to death in the partial
| destruction of Platt g. Co.'s oyster and
fruit packing house, at Baltimore, Nd. !,
and Frank Welthy was shot in the head
and probably fatally wounded by the sup
| posed incendiary.
THE switchmen's strike on the Rio
Grande railroad at Pueblo, Col, was tenn
| porarily settled, on the Goth, and the men
| were ordered back to work pending an
| investigation.
| TrrrST I An,
| at Shanghai, China, says that reports
| from Corea denote that a declaration of
| the independence of that country may
American representatives support the
King.
| IT is reported that Queen Natalie will
shortly go to St Peters burg as the guest
of the Czarina.
| MRS. MYRA BEALs secured verdict Of
$4,000 damages, in her suit, in Boston,
against DR.. Augustus Thompson, Of
Lowell, Mass, on the Goth.
MRS. P. j. LYNCH, aged thirty six, wife
| of wealthy retired New York merchant,
| jumped from third story window of the
| Hotel Bristol, corner of Fifth avenue and
| Forty second street, on the 26th, and was
| killed. She was suffering from mental
! trouble caused by an injury to her head,
| sustained during a recent voyage from
| Europe.
| THE Babylonian expedition of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, which left Phil
| adelphia early last summer, was ship
wrecked in the Mediterranean sea, on the
| night of September 30, on rock off the
Island of Samas. Passengers and crew
were rescued by Turkish brigantine.
INSPECTOR BACHELLER, of the Post-Ot- :
| fee Department, arrested Deputy Post
master Michael Sheldon, of Hudson, N.
Y, on the Goth, for mail pilfering.
THE third days registration in New
York City was 66,041; total for three
| days, 253. .532-against 20S, 26S in 1884.
CHARLES WARREN, chief clerk and
cashier of the Baltimore & Ohio freight
Office at Columbus, o., was arrested, on
the 25th, charged with embezzling 5000
| OF the company's money.
| TUE New York Herald, of the 25th, pub
| fishes a special dispatch from Los
Angeles, CAL, indicating that the now
| famous letter sent to Lord Sackville-
| West was written by Chas. F. Lummis,
| formerly city editor of the Los Ang eles
| Times, who is at present in Mexico.
| WHEN the President and his party ar
rived in Washington on their return from
| in New York, on the 9th, only the rail-
road officials and two newspaper report
ers were present in the depot to greet
| them.
THE Chinese Legation at Was hington
are inclined to regard the reports Of Chi
nese Indignation over the enactment OF
the Exclusion law, by the American Con-
gress. and Of threatened retaliation as
exaggerations.
THE number of inmates on the rolls of
the Soldiers Home at Washington, Sep
tember 80, was /, ,0S4, and in their annual
report the commissioners say that the
number Of applications and admissions
are increasing.
THE President, on the 9th, extended
clemency to Lieutenant Colonel For
sythe and First Lieutenant Alexander L.
Dean, of the Fourth Cavalry from SEN
tences of dismissal to suspension.
ONE of the heaviest rains ever known
in Jacksonville, Fla, occurred on the
night of the 9th, but the hope that 1t
would clear off cool was blasted when the
sun reappeared, at noon OF the 18th, pro-
ducing a moist and sultry atmosphere,
very unfavorable to the health OF tne
stricken city.
Mr.. JEREMIAH SHEEHAN, Member OF
Parliament for South Kerry, ireland, VINO
was arrested, on the 9th, for conducting a
meeting of Lord Kenmare's tenants, was
offered his release on bail if he would
promise to make no speeches pending ms
trial. but the offer was refused ana ne
was taken to Tralee jail
Ex-MINIsTER LoTHRoP was in wash
;noton. on the 27th and accompanied by
Raron Bertholdi Henle, of St Petersburg,
Russia, called upon the Secretary OF
State. ~,
PRINCESS HELENE died, on the 2Sth, at
Arolson, the capital of the principality OF
Waldeck. of which her husband, George
Victor. is the relgning Prince
BELGIANs of all political parties are &C.
tiyely working together in the cause OF
temperance, but do not appear to be max
ing much progress.
An Elkhart Qnd.) police officer name q
Tosenh Barrett, shot and killed brother
officer named William Burton, while IN
toxicated on the 2Sth
THE whaling bark J. A. Rowland, whlch
arrived at San Francisco from Fox lsland'
in the Arctic ocean, on the 2otn, re-
norts thirteen whaIers in the ice, with III
~ ,,rosnects of their getting out.