Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-20

BY HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE G
VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
co,,r,,sa frem Various Sources.
- sY,ry G. THURMAN left Washing
n0" his home in Columbus, o., on the
18th.
-s r FLOOD the "Bonanza King,n
'e Can francisco, died at Heidelberg,
Germany, on the 11th, of Bright's dis.
ease.
v,s CLEVELAND and her mother at
tended the performances OF the Coquelin-
uodiro Company at Palmer's Theater,
New York. on the 18th.
THE new gunboat Petrol was launched,
in the view of large assemblage, from
fhe ship-vards OF the Columbian Iron :
works at Baltimore on the 18th.
FuPERoR WILLIAMS visit to Rome has
created a better impression in Russia
han dill his visit to Vienna. 1t is not
the subject of alarmist comment
ABIoOD- STAINED man with razor and
Knives in his possession, was arrested in
Belfast, Ireland, on the 18th, on suspicion
Of being the WhltechGpel murderer.
TIE President on the 18th. approved,
among others. tho Sundry Civil Appro-
priations bill, and the joint resolution
in aid Of the yellow fever sufferers,
SENATOR EDMuNDs, en- the 9th, de-
nounced as forgery and a fraud the use
Of bis frank in sending Henry Georges
CAMPAIGN tracts to Republicans in Texas.
MIS-. CLEVELAND returned to Washin e.
ton from her trip to the Adlr ondacks on
the 11th. She was accompanied by her
mother Mrs. Folsom, and DR.. w ard and
family.
AT conference between Clerk John B.
Clark of the House and Senators Allison,
Hawley and others, on the 11th, it was
proposed to adjourn Congress on the Goth
or 22d inst.
ALL the visiting physicians at Jackson
vile, Fla, resigned, on the 18th, because
of an anonymous newspaper article ac-
cusing them of sordid motives in their
work in that city.
EMPEROR WILLIAM visited the Vatican,
on the 18th, aud was received by the Pope
in the Throne Hall. The ceremonies at
tending the reception were on colossal
scale and very impressive.
THE championship pennant Of the
League was formally presented to the
New York Club at the Star Theater, New
York, on the 14th. Many prominent
theatrical people took part.
JOHN III, OBERLY, recently nominated
and confirmed as United States Commls-
sioner of Indian Affairs, took the pre-
scribed oath, on the 11th, and formally
entered upon the duties of the Office
MAYOR HEWITT of New York, on the
18th, denied q numerously-si signed re-
quest of business men that the base ball
championship penuant be permitted to
fly from the flagstaff of the City Hall.
THE London publishers of DR.. Macken-
zie's book will take legal advice as to
whether its publication by newspapers
in advance of the appearance Of the book
itself is not a breach of the Copyright
law.
MISS VIRGINIA SCHLEY, daughter Of
Captain W. S. Schley, Chief of the Bureau
of Equipment and Recruiting, was select
ed to christen the gum boat Petrol, which
was launched at Baltimore, Nd, on the
18th.
THE last of Geronimo's murderous band
Of Apache5 were recently captured in the
Sierre Madre mountains in the State of
Sonora, Mexico. A wellknown Mexican
aesperado named Elias was leader of the
band.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred near
MaSsilon, O., on the Cleveland, Lorain &
Wheeling road, on the 11th, between an
accommodation and freight train, by
which a number of passengers were in
Jured.
THE Senate has received no reply to the
resolution calling upon the President for
the Chinese treaty and the reported fail
ure of the Chinese Government to finally
agree to the treaty.
FORTY THOUSAND copies of DR.. Macken-
lje's book on Emperor Frederick's case,
were seized at Leipsic by the police on
the 10Th, The book is not allowed to be
sold in Berlin, and the police are seizing
copies exposed for sale at all the book
shops.
IHE President, on the 10Th, vetoed the
OIL granting pension to Sarah A. Wood
bridge, on the ground that the precedent
should not be established of granting a
pension to a soldiers widow after re-
marriage, while the second husband sur
Wives.
IHE PaU Mall Gazette, of the 11th,
Vlsrges Sir Charles Warren, Metropoli-
sA Police Commissioner. with erasing
@e writing that the Whitechapei mur-
V left on wall at the scene of one of
Ie lUrders before it had been photo
g1apled.
LIE Papal Secretary of State has is