Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-11
HUNTSVILLE ALA, SATURDAY. MAY H. 1889.

1T is announced that Captain Wissman's
force, nine hundred strong, has arrived
at Bogomayo, Africa, and active HOSTILE
tles with the natives at that place are i'm
minent.
the 9th, the Governor was requested to
return the Ballot Reform bill for verbal
amendment. This, it was thought, would
kill the bill.
PERRIN, the man who fired at President
Carnot in Paris, on the 5th, was recently
under treatment for insanity. He had not
long bee1 released from mad house.
On the 9Th, in the British House of Com
mons, Mr.. L. Atherly Jones (Gladsto-
nian) )moved to aGjourn,in order to discuss
the question of the conviction of Cony-
beare at Falcarragh, Ireland. The mo-
tion was rejected-250 to 153.
THE executive committee of the Repub-
lican general committee Of Kings County,
N. Y, has withdrawn the distribution of
Federal patronage from Hon. Frank
Woodruff, and appointed Messrs. John
A.. Nichols, Earnest Nathan, W. H. Leay-
craft and Jessie Johnson as an ad-
visory COMMITTEES on patronage.
AT Ashtabula, O., three children of a
Portuguese family named Silvey were left
alone in the house on the 81. The build
ing took fire, and one Of the children was
burned to death and the other two were
fatally burned.
On the Sd the jury in the Hawes murder
case at Birmingham, Ala, returned a
verdict Of guilty, and fixed the penalty at
death. Hawes was calm, and said he
was sure of conviction in that county.
The Supreme Court will probably. on ap-
peal, grant change of venue and a new
trial.
On the Sd a destructive explosion of fire.
damp occurred at the Beechwood (Pa.
cOlliery. One man was fatally injured,
and considerable damage was done to
the property.
On the Sd Kern's cigar box factory, at
New Orleans, was burned. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance.
THE brigantine Addie Benson, which
sailed from Halifax N. s., for Cuba in
January, was wrecked off Venezuela, and
her crew rescued by passing vessel and
carried to Norway.
AT Bridesburg crossing, near Philadel-
number of passengers was struck by a
train on the Pennsylvania railroad. Two
persons were killed and four badly in
jured.
NEAR La Porte, Ind, the tool-house of
the Washington Ice Company and sixteen
ice-houses, together with 60,000 tons of
ice, and twenty Lake Shore freight cars,
at Stone Lake, were destroyed by fire on
the 9Th. Loss, $4,000.
On the 9th til body of NJ. R. Silber,
who hired a sIn..ol boat at Portland, Ore,
and went out in il, was found hanging to
the mast Of the boat with bullet hole in
the head. 1t is supposed that Silber was
killed by smugglers or pirates, but the
affair is a mystery.
EARLY on the morning of the 5th the
Bangor House, at Bangor, Me-. was par
TALLY destroyed by fire, many guests es-
Gaping in their night clothes and losing
their baggage and effects. Loss, about
$50, 900; partially insured
AT Bermuda court Of inquiry has
found that the brig Richard H. B. Buck,
which was burned at that place last month,
was set afire by sailors while on drunk
en- carouse on liquor stolen from casks in
the cargo.
On the 9Th the Northern Pacific railroad
trestle near Walbridge, Wis, on the Su-
perior line, was destroyed by fire.
On the 9th Matthew Griffith, Of Cass
City, Mich, identified one of the victims
of the recent wreck on the Grand Trunk
railway as his cousin, George Conlen.
THE indicted members of the Jersey
City IN. J.) Board of Public Works,
Messrs. Kern, Hilliard Watt and Rey-
nolds, commonly known as the "Big
Four" were placed on trial, on the 9th,
charged with malfeasance in office.
NEAR Houtzdale, Pa, on the 9th, during
q fight at Hungarian christening, Joseph
Teeser was killed and several others were
severely injured. Seven persons were
lodged in Jail.
On the 9th the case Of Howard, the
alleged chief of the electric sugar frauds,
was called in New York City. Howard
was confronted with an indictment charg-
ing him with grand larceny. He demurred
to the indictment. The demurrer was
overruled, and the prisoner was again
remanded to await trial.
AT Lafayette. La, on the 9th, large
bodies of armed men surrounded the polls
and refused to allow any colored man to
polls, and reported to the Governor. Later
ten Of the regulators were arrested.
In Westphalia, Germany, the strike of
the miners is rapidly increasing. A seri-
Gus riot occurred at Gelznkirchen, on the
9th, in which one miner was killed and q
large number of men, including several
OF the police were injured.
On the 9th Irving Latimer was found
guilty, in jackson, Mich, Of the murder
Of his mother on January 81. The pris-
oner listened to the reading of the ver-
dict with the Same unconcern that had
characterized his action all throug b the
long trial. Sentence was deferred.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 4th St. Marks Reformed Church,
three miles southeast of Gettysburg, Pa,
celebrated the centennial Of the congre-
CATIONS formation.
THE French Government, says La
France, intends to postpone the general
election for members of the Chamber OF
Deputies until the spring of 1890.
Mr.. r. T. REID, Q. c., is delivering lect-