Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE lateSs intelligence from SeGatOr
Beck received by members cf his family
is to the effect that he has arrived at
Tampa, Fla, on his return from Cuba. He
is not expected to return to Washington
until some time in April.
IT is asserted that a young Baroness
committed suicide at Meyerling on the
same night that Prince Rudolph died.
THE rumor that Lord Sackville has
been appointed British Ambassador to
Constantlnople is entirely without foun-
dation.
THE Omaha (Neb.) Daily Republican of
the I'd announced that it had been sold to
Fred Nye, one of its proprietors at the
time of its purchase by S. P. Rounds. 1t
is to appear as a four-page two-cent
paper.
THE Reading (Pa.) Coal and Iron Com
pany has found it advisable to restrict its
output, and on the ID all but twenty of It's
fifty colheries were shut down. The Le-
high Valley Coal and Navigation Com
pany followed suit, and their mines are
now idle.
EIGHT more arrests were made at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the ID by the deputy
United States marshal for violations Of
the election law. With one exception the
eight are well-known citizens, men OF
considerable means, and seven OF them
possess tirst-class farms.
DR.. PATTON, president Of Princeton Col
lege, accompanied by John Fl. Voorhees,
and Mr. Alex. Porter Morse, of the
Alumni Association, called upon the Pres
dent and Mrs. Cleveland on the I'd.
On the Sd, French Deputies La Guerre
and La Croix fought q duel with pistols.
Neither was hurt.
FATHER MARRINAN, of Castle Connel,
County Limerick, Ireland, was sentenced
to five weeks Imprisonment under the
Crimes act on the ID. He appealed from
the decision of the court.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred
near Groeneudael, Belgium, on the ID. a
train from Brussels for Namaur struck
pillar of a bridge near the latter place,
causing the bridge to collapse. The tram
was carried down with it and completely
wrecked. Fourteen persons were killed
and fifty injured.
So much rain has fallen in the mount
ain district of Prussia that further Hoods
are feared. Three pilots OF Hengoland
were drowned on the sea during heaVy
storm recently.
IT is announced from Washington that
President Cleveland, immediately upon
laying down the presidential office, Will
resume the practice of law in New York
City.
THE German Reformed Church at Day
ton, O.. which was to have been dedicated
on the Sd, caught fire from an overheated
furnace and was totally ruined inside by
fire. water and smoke.
SEVERAL persons were badly injured by
a runaway motor car jumping the track
at Denver, Col, on the Sd.
MRS. MATILDA GRIswoLD FRELING-
HUYsEN, widow of the late ex-Secretary
of State Frederick t. Frelinghuysen,
died at Newark, N. j., on the Cd.
AT Fudsley, Yorkshire, England, on the
Sd, the spire Of the Congregational Church
was blown down and crashed through the
roof. There was an average attendance
of worshippers in the building at the
time. and many of them We're hurt by fly
ing splinters, glass, etc., but no one was
killed.
THE ice carnival at Montreal, Can,
opened on the 4th, with great eclat. The
Governor General and party opened the
Ice palace at $3.50 p. m. There We're
speeches by distinguished guests. A vast
crowd Witnessed the ceremonies in the
palace which was brilliantly illuminated
with electric lights.