Huntsville gazette., 1889-09-28
NEWS In BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL aND porTr4cAr.

STATE TREASURER HART of Pennsylva.
MIA, who has been ill for several months.
had another severe attack Of heart failure
on the 2lst.
On the 21st M. M. Matthews, a wealthy
railroad contractor OF st. Paul, Mimi,
prominent all over the Northwest died
in Al Lungs opium joint at Butte, Mont,
after smoking ten pipes. The Chinaman
was arrested.
ON the night of the 22l Jennie Hatfield,
nine years old, was arrested in New York
City by an agent Of the Children's Aid
Society, charged with begging on the
street. She is the daughter of John Hat
field, the time base ball player, who
is now book-maker in Chicago, and said
to be worth 100000.
EX-SPEAKER JOHN G.. CARLISLE and
Mrs. Carlisle have gone to Pokatello,
Idaho, to see a son who is seriously ill,
The duration Of the ex-Speaker's stay in
the West will depend altogether on the
condition of his son.
CYRUS w. FIELD was passenger on
the steamship Alaska, which arrived at
New York from Liverpool on the 22d
On the 22d DR.. George 81. Cook State
Geologist of New Jersey and vice-presi-
dent Of Rutgers College, died suddenly of
heart failure, in his seventy second year.
He was born in Hanover, N. J.
On the 21st an attempt was made at
Oklahoma City, l. T., to vote on charter
which, if carried, would end the terms OF
the present city officers. At the request
of Mayor Couch a company of United
States troops, under Captain Stiles,
cleared The streets in front of the two
polling places. clubbing citizens with
their guns and using their bayonets.
CHAPTER on irrigation, testing the
ownership of water in the State, and
recognizing the right of prior appropria-
tors, was adopted by the Wyoming Con-
stituti onal convention. An eight-hou
chapter and a proposition creating a
| State board, which shall settle differences
between employer and employe, were
presented.
IT is stated that the Emperor of China
and the Supreme Council are debatin 6
over q memorial asking the expulsion Of
Americans from that country.
THE will of the late S. S. Cox, of New
York, was filed for probate on the 22d.
All the real and personal estate is left to
his widow. The will is dated August 30,
1885,
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1 agree that the returns from Montmartre
were so manipulated as to count the
| doughty General out after the people had
| given him handsome majority.
| CIVIL SERVICE oMMISsIoyER RoosE-
WELT has returned to Washington from
his vacation, spent in Idaho bear and
deer hunting. He says there is nothing
in the newspaper reports that he is a
1ofa
kcta.
The Wyoming Constitutional conven-
ton has determined the Legislative ap-
portionment and adopted chapters pro-
viding for board of arbitration to set
tie strikes; excluding foreign police, and
forbidding railways to transport other
than employees and their families free of
charge.
CARDINAL MANNING has been con-
graduated by the Pope for his success in
settling the London lockers strike.
KING HUMBERT, upon the Inauguration
of the new italian code, will grant am
nesty TO all convicts serving short terms.
ON October 6 the Prince of Wales will
embark at Venice on the Greek royal
yacht for Athens to attend the marriage
of Princess Sophie of Prussia to the
Crown Prince of Greece.
AN examination of the books of E. E.
Zintsmaster, treasurer of Bethlehem
township, Stark County, O., shows a
shortage of 81, 400. His dry goods store at
Navarro, five miles south, was promptly
closed by the trustees, but the father of
the treasurer, wealthy farmer, went Sc
curity for the shortage and business was
resumed.
On the 23l A. Lowden Snowden, of
Philadelphia, the ewly-appointed Min
lister to Greece, was at the State Depart
ment receiving final instructions before
sailing for Athens.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. II
On the 10Th Maggie Tobin, aged ten,
shot and killed her six-year- old sister
Ellen, in Philadelphia, while playing
With revolver that had been carelessly
left within reach.
THE British war-ship Lily was
wrecked in the Straits of Belle Isle.
Seven men were lost. The survivors
were taken to Halifax, N. S., by the war;
ship Emerald.
RECENTLY, in the Servian village Of
Losowiks, q body of ge ndarmes sur
rounded and set fire to house in which
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