Huntsville gazette., 1888-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

REPORTS from In0 hang NOW anu
Kinkiang (China) tea crop show a de-
ticiency of 100000 half chests.
DAVID JoYCE's saw and planning mills
at Lyons, Ia, and a large amount of lum-
Der was destroyed by fire on the night of
of the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
about 500, 900. Nearly one hundred and
fifty men were thrown out of employment
by the disaster.
ARTHUR OTTo, aged fifty-fve years, a
butler of Ex-Governor Robinson, was
found in a room at No. 419 Sixth avenue,
New York City, on the night of the 9th,
dead, with four bullet holes in his head.
He ha valuable jewellery on his person.
KING MILAN proposes a separation
mensa thoro from his wife, Queen Nata-
lie, provided Her Majesty accepts the
conditions, which will be made known to
her by Bishop Demetrius, who has taken
them to Wiesbaden.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt at Toxic
and Hiogo, Japan, on June II. No dam
age is reported.
THE British steamer Monarch arrived
at Yokohama, Japan, on June 20, from
Batoum, carrying the first shipment of
petroleum ever made to Japan from the
Black sea.
force an entrance to the saloon of Thomas
Tierney, in Long Island City, N. Y, at
two O'Clock on the morning of the 7th, for
the purpose OF getting liquor. Tierney
appeared on the scene, and in defense of
his property fired into the crowd, killing
Richard Owens and fatally wounding
Cornelius Walsh.
GEORGE L. CoLwELL's large saw-mill,
p sc+
quantity of lumber belonging to Cowley
6 Lett, at Harrisville, Mich, were de-
stroyed by fire on the night Of the 9th.
Loss, S25,O0o; no insurance. The town
was nearly surrounded by forest fires,
and serious trouble was feared. Very
little rain has fallen for two months.
THE hunting schooner Memo, which ar
rived at Yokohama, Japan, on June 81,
reports that on May y, while three boats
from the schooner were cruising near
Copper Island, Behring's Sea, they were
attacked by natives. Three of their crew
were killed. and the captain and several
others wounded.
JOHN E. WENTz, a wealthy manufacture
ing ieweler of Dayton, O.. went to the
river bank, on the 9th, and cut his throat
from ear to ear with a razor, and to make
death doubly sure plunged into the water.
No cause is assigned for the suicide.
ID THE Paris Gaalois, of the 9th, says that
Germany is about to compel the French
landlords of Stras sbourg to sell their prop
erty.
ELECTION riots occurred at Boom, Bel
GUM, on the 9th. The troops fired upon
the mob, and many persons received pay
onet wounds.
COUNSEL for Mrs. Sarah Jane Robin
son. sentenced to hang at Boston IN No.
vember next, will apply to the Governor
of Massachusetts and Council for COM
mutation of sentence.
Mrs. LEILA FERDINAND, colored
dressmaker Of Providence, r. l., pleaded
puiltv, Oh the 9th, to the charge of having
stolen SO 900. The sheriff recovered u, ,Ooo.
IT was rumored in Wall street, on the
9th, that Jay Gould was very i'll again,
but his family denied the report
THE United States steamer Swatara
sailed from. New Bedford, Mass, on the
9th. for the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
A MARRIAGE has been arranged between
DIR. Stewart, a practiciHg physician OF
Ion.lon. and the eldest sister of the Duke
CT Norfolk.
OWE of the large boilers of the Adelaide
Silk Mills at Allentown, Pa, exploded,
on the 9th, killing three men and wound
ing several others.
THE Singer, Mimic1 & Co. Iron-mlll at
Pittsburgh, Pa, that recently started up
with non-union men, closed, on the oth,
owing to the refusal of their employees 10
continue work until the union wage scales
are signed.
THE New Albany Ind.) Structural Iron
Company, employing 600 men, signed the
Amalgamated scale on the 9th.