Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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.,,,nr.nzee Of Central Park, New
lhE rl. o-rn as Mr.. Crowley, died, on the
VOTE H+ ,;ctim Of American consumption.
4 rur striking workmen on the Ashland
psnokee division OF tne wisconsin
Santral e. road resumed work IN oody on
the 9Sth
+o+ol coinage Of all denominations
. nnId silver and nickel during the
y ,pth of August was 4,769, 257 pieces. Of
the value Of s., S35, 41s
= G. SMITH, the unpopular master me-
.bonic who was the chief cause Of the re-
.ant strike on the Peoria Decatur &
Fvansville railroad, was discharged on
the 1st
SPEAKER CARLISLE, who was to have de-
pvered an address before the Democracy
o.Iexiugton, Va, on the Sd, missed his
rain In Washington and failed to keep
bis engagement
THE survivors of the Engineers brigade
~ the Army Of the Potomac held their
afteenth annual reunion in Elmira N.
Z on the 30th. Six hundred members
u the brigade were present
GENERAL HARRISON did nothing all day,
IN the 9Oth, but lounge around the porch
81 the Middle Bass Island club house and
stroll about the grounds. He was max
inr the most Of his resting spell.
VryoyA, Mimi, is to have the finest
hospital in the Northwest. The building
occupies two squares, is of brick and
stone. three stories high, and cost $50, 900.
Il will accommodate 200 patients.
THE young Republicans Of Michigan
who we're booked for visit to General
Harrison at Middle Bass, on the 1st,
failed to put in an appearance or forward
any explanation of their deriliction.
In an accident to Barnum & Bailey's
circus train at Hampton, Ia, on the 31st,
8 car containing five lions was demolish-
ed and the animals liberated, but they
we're all captured after an exciting chase.
The tenants on the several estates about
Kilmish. County Clare. Ireland, have
paid their rents upon the landlords
agreeing to abatements amounting to
thirty per cent, the tonants paying all
costs.
MARY ANDERSON will return to this
country in October, bringing with her a
company of sixty people and the COM
plete scenery for the production OF "A
Winters Tale" as played by her in En-
gland.
CHAs. I. DEBouM, who labsconded to
Canada about May l, with S1l0,O0O be-
longing to the Park National Bank OF
New York, has been arrested and in
dicted for forgery, and will be extradited
at once.
ELLEN TERRY, the English actress, will
pass the autumn in Venice and elsewhere
in t he South of Europe. Her re-entrance
upon the London stage, to be made as
Lady Macbeth, is anticipated with eager
interest.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON left
Washington, on the I'd, for the South, to
confer with Southern civil and railroad
officials with a view to the establishment
Of a uniform system of quarantine in.
speCti0n.
THE losses by the forest fires around
Ishpeming, Mich, are estimated at 500, 900
to $1,000. The homeless people are being
sheltered and fed by those who saved
their homes. They will require assistance
to rebuild.
NEARLY 10000 people witnessed the
great race at Sheepshead Bay on the Sd.
Not far from 100000 changed hands on
tne result The race was won by neck
i by Proctor Knott in Ills 1.2; Salvador,
I'd; Galen, ST.
The police seized and translated the
papers belonging to Hohenburg, the re-
tired German officer who was arrested at
Nice France, on the 29th. The present Is
the third time he has been arrested on
charges of spionage.
TROUBLE broke out, on the 31st, in Camp
PhlI Sheridan, at Columbus, O., where
400 State militia were encamped. All
tie officers Of the Eighth regiment from
ae Colonel down to the captains, ten
Tered their designations.
BOND purchases up to September !,
Under the circular Of April II last, aggre-
sale >23, l6l, 400 four per cents, and $10,-
.A5W four land a. half per cents. The
'0Fmar cost the Governm ,nt $25, 452, 492
md the latter $l1, 36l, ,653.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NEIL (Dem.), OF In
mana, says the victory in that State will
lVpend exclusively on the manageable,
!. 'purchaseable, vote, Of which In
.Iaaa has an unusually large contingent,
a4u mat it will take cash to secure this.
'Hs London Post stated, on the Sd, that
~ lines had secured evidence Of ahigh-
! sensational character in the West and
t,ol,lWeSt Of Ireland. which will be used
p. a@ torthcoming trial Of the case OF
,aileA vs.. the Times in Scotland, and
--'' oetore the Parnell Commission.
A me Poh teal Correspondence, on the
~ ~. GAINED to have positive information
-a' me published telegram alleged to
~ a'T oeen sent by Prince Bismarck to
W! - ope with reference to the Emperor's
~ ' 10 Rome, wherein the priority OF