Huntsville gazette., 1889-01-19
FOOD FOR FICTION.
Realistic Tales Taken from Daily Life and
Jotted Down Hastily.

heal1Stfc lai0s IAken from l1fe ana
Jotted Down Hastily.
Debate has begun in the lower house
of congress on the bills to admit five of
the territorie S as states.
VIM. j. Harrison. the defendant in the
Martins Harrison breach of promise case
at Cleveland admitted that his relations
with the plaintiff had been most init
mate, but denied that he h, d promised
to marry her He SAID that he had liven
her at different times at least $4,000.
B. F. Oberlin, business man Of Inde-
pendence, O., has absconded. leaving be-
hind him numerous creditors.
A new invention for hydraulic ma
chinery for rolling pipe iron was success
fully tested at Sharon, Pa.
Wilson Wilder and Sol e. Dees revived
an old quarrel at Shelby vile. KY, and
Dees was shot and killed by Wilder.
Daniel Reynolds, colored, was taken
from his house at Helena, Al k, by nine
men and whipped so severely that he
died.
The Campbell county chancery court
has ordered resale of Harper's roll ng
mill, at Newport, KY, on the Both OF
January.
Two clairvoyants were arrested at New
Haven, Conn. under an old Blue Law,
which Drovides for the punishment OF
fortune tellers.
1t is not believed at, New York that
Claus Spreckles has obtained the entire
sugar crop of the Philippine islands for
his Philadelphia and San Francis retin-
cries.
Col Wilson Vance is quoted as saying
that in his opini II Ex-Governor Foster
has better chance for recognition in the
" ay OF a cabinet position than any other
Ohio republican.
At Somerset Kv., ames Pemberton,
while intoxi ated, ordered Cha les Che
viot to and aside and let him pass.
Chez lot refused to do SO. and was shot
AMI ia ally wounded by Pemberton.
A farne named John Weland fell
from load of hay, at To'edo, o., and
broke his neck.
murdered Nellie White. who was at one
time his mistress. and then cut his own
thr at.
The repub lean members of the Oregon
legislature have nominated United States
Sen,tO DOlph Tor re-eIecllOn.
Governor Fleming has issled pr
lamation, calling the Legislature of
Florida in extra sess on on teLruary 9TH
next, for the purIo of establishing a
state board Of health, as required by the
new constitution.
The United States sena es committee
on interstate commerce have or
dered a avorable reporG to lie made on
the nom n 1t on of Walter l.. Bragg, OF
Alabama, for reappointment as an inter
state railroad commissioner.
A dispatch fir, ~ Jacks on. Miss, says:
The celebrated suit involving $50, 900,
claimed to be due the tate from les ees
of the peni entiary, though tho ght 70
have been settled favorably to the latter
year ago. will be REQ, ened by the at
torney general OF the state.
The seer tary of the interior has sent
to the sena the report of the commits
sion appoi ted to ratify and confirm tie
trta with the Ute indians.
at Cir1 lie lie. Ohio Edwa Mag
was sent, need to five years in the Ieni
tentiary for rec living olen goods, and
Edward lie :aney, for as ault ana latte
ry, was fined So and costs.
RepraSe NATIVE Campbell. or ONO,
made argument Lefoe the house Ju-
dietary committee in support of a bill to
Ia, Dist,icC At orney Burnett s., eco for
ser les REM, red in prosecuting Harper
and Hopkins.
Harry Vanno:man. bagga ge-maste
on the Lake iTrie and Western, ha sued
the Pitt burg. Fort Wayne and h cago
rai way company for $1,000 damages for
iniuri 5 recei ed by train on the Fort
Wayne road running into his car last
fall.
,ohn McLaskey, farm hand, living
near Gain s,i le. Tie "a, bought a new
Win he -rer and began firing prom iscu-
ously a reople who he pa sed on the
road. Hi, rea On for doing SO was that
he wanted to convince The ublic that
"he was bad man"