Huntsville gazette., 1889-01-12

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NEWS IN BRIEF.
I couniled from Various Sources.
rsr sa,ectmen of Beverly, Mass, sent
~,nnno j, The 1st. to be added to the Mar
Ilehead relief fund.
FL wrTHrRELL, the husband of Emma
.bbott tbe prima donna, died suddenly
- tbe windsor Hotel in Denver, Col, on
the 9th.
OVER $4,000 of the Bedford Avenue
/Prooklvn) Dutch Reformed Church's
debt was lifted, on the 9th, by the aid of
Church Debt Raiser Kimball.
THIRTEEN persons were arrested at Fall
carragh. Ireland, on the 4th, for interfer-
ing with and resisting the police and
bailiffs in the discharge of their duty.
AMAJoRIrY of the Bulgarian refugees
in southern Russia and Roumania will
return to their homes in consequence of
the governments proclamation of am
nesty.
THE town of Cochin, on the Malabar
coast, India has been almost entirely de-
stroved by fire. Only one building, an oil
factory, was saved. The loss is placed at
$1,50O0O0.
SAM WAH KEE, prominent Chinese
merchant Of Boston, banquetted 700 of
his countrymen, on the 9th, to celebrate
the birth of his son, the first Chinese male
child born in Boston.
GOVERNOR AMEs was inaugurated be-
fore joint convention of the two houses
of the Massachusetts, Legislature on the
Sd. He occupied about thirty minutes in
the delivery of his message.
A COMPARISON of dates by the best au-
thorities at Cairo, Egypt, shows that there
is no basis of truth for the reports of
Emin Pasha's victory over the Mahdi's
forces in the second week of September
last.
THE president pro tempore presented
to the Senate, on the 5th, the memorial of
the Common Council of Seattle, praying
the admission of the Territory of Wash
ington to the Union under its present
name.
THE warrant for the pardon of Hopkins,
of Fidelity Bank notoriety, was mailed to
the warden of the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus on the ID. Accompanying it
was an order for Hopkins immediate re-
lease.
THE extensive foundry of the Reading
Pa.) Foundry Company where large iron
pipe for gas and water mains for many of
the larger cities is made, has closed down
indefinitely, throwing 100 men out OF en-
ployment.
AN auditing of the accounts Of j. q.
Leighton, who was for twenty years clerk
of the municipal court of Boston, develops
a shortage which will probably reach
S200,OO0. His term of service expired two
years ago.
A LETTER from the Oklahoma territory
states that five thousand 'boomers" have
laid out the town of Springer and elected
town officers from their own ranks. They
have resolved to hold the town against all
opposition.
PROF. GEFFICKEN, whose trial in connec-
ton with the publication of Emperor
Frederick's diary was announced to take
place this month, has been released from
custody, and the prosecution of his case
abandoned.
SIR A. w. PIERCE, Conservative mem
Der of the British Parliament for the
Govan district of Lanark, Scotland, who
died recently, left property valued at
S6. 100000 to be divided between his son
and widow.
FAMINE and drought are prevailing in
tlo ;r+ Of
in severity, causing terrible suffering. In
the province of Shan-Tung crops have
been destroyed by the overflow OF the
Yellow river.
GREAT uneasiness prevails at Panama
regarding canal affairs, as no news has
been received of any settlement having
been effected. Work on the canal is be-
ing lessened daily, and its total suspen-
sion is feared.
THE glass bandage which was placed on
the left leg of Chauncey NJ. Depew after
the strain of tendons at the heel, which he
suffered some weeks ago, was removed on
the 4th. 1t was sawed off. 1t was one
quarter Of an inch thick.
THE Erie Railway Company, in order to
reduce expenses, has notified fourteen OF
its travelling passenger agents and dl-
vision passenger agents located IN the
West, that their services will be no longer
required after February 1.
THOMAS AxwoRTHY, the default1ng
treasurer of Cleveland, o., who he'd to
England and afterward, smitten by re-
morse, refunded 100000 to representa-
tive Of the Cleveland municipality, ar
rived at st. Johns, N. F., on the 9th.
THEJournal de st. Petersburg says that
every nation in Europe sincerely hopes
mat the coming year will verify the favor-
able auguries of King Humbert and Herr
Won Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister,
who in recent speeches predicted peace
for 1889.
IL the Idaho House of Representatives,
on the I'd, Mr.. Kurtz introduced Dill, re-
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