Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-20

O, "AO AA' ~ NoSefS, OF FennSyl.
vania, qualified, respectively. as deputy
commissioner and chief clerk Of the In :
ternal Revenue Bureau.
OK the 10Th the presentation of the
budget by Mr.. Goschen was the distin-
gushing feature Of the proceedings of the
| BRUSH house of Commons. Contrary to
expectation, the budget does not affect
any article Of trade with America, and is
singularly free from striking innoya-
| tions.
THE report that the Persian Govern
ment has ceded to Russia the fortress Of
Kalatuadir is denied by Sir James Fer
guson. British Under Foreign Secretary.
THE nomination of Mr.. SewelI, late
Consul General at Apia, as one of the Sa-
moan commissioners, together with the
appointment of Mr.. Bates, warrants the
supposition, says the Cologne Gazette,
tret the Washington Eovernmerkcso
not seriously desire a friendly settlement
Of the Samoan muddle.
On the evening of the 18th Edwin Booth
made his temperance, after his recent
illness, at the Cleveland CO., Opera
House, before large audience which re-
ceiyed him with perfect ovation. He
played Iago to Barrett's Othello.
PARNELL'S action in the Irish courts
against the London Times will be aban-
doned.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian liberia
tor, has had another relapse, and his
life is despaired Of.
IT is announced that the Pope is suffer-
ing from the effects of a fresh cold, and is
confined to his apartments.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 18th cycl one struck the mining
town of Beidler, O., demolishing six
dwellings. William Lewis twelve-year-
old daughter was caught in the ruins and
fatally injured. Others were badly hurt.
TOBIAS HIPPER, five years old, died, on
the evening of the 18th, at his parents
residence in New York City, from the
effects Of beating received at the hands
of three older boys. one Of whom lives in
the same house with the Hippers, and the
other two next door.
On the morning of the 18th, during a
thick fog, the steamer COnanicut, running
from Newport to jamestown, r. l., ran
ashore on the rocks in the outer harbor,
making q large hole in her. The passen-
gers were landed in the tug Fairy. A
wrecking schooner went to the assistance
of the disabled steamer.
OK the morning of the 18th an attempt
was made to blow up Jerry Driscolrs sa-
loon in Dublin Gulch, Mont. A couple Of
sticks Of giant powder were placed under
the building and exploded by fuse, bad
ly wrecking the building. Two men, who
were sleeping in the store wara -l;o,.'.
injured. man named Tom Mccarthy,
who had grudge against Driscoll, has
been arrested.
OVER seven hundred hand, were thrown
out of employment by the destruction Of
the Planet Jute Mills, of Brooklyn, on the
18th.
THE steamer City of Chester, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown on the
night Of the 11th, and reported having
passed, on April s, in mid-ocean, the Dan
ish steamer Danmark, from Copenhagen
for New York. The vessel had been
abandoned and was in sinking condi-
ton. She had apparently been In col
lision. Her bow stood high out of water,
while her stern was sunken almost below
the level Of the sea. The Danmark was
an emigrant ship, and carried in the
neighborhoo d Of seven hundred paSSen-
gers.
A BOOMER named Gordon was caught in
quicksand near Kingfsher. Oklahoma, and
drowned while his team was carried down
the river.
THE schooner Northern Belle foundered
off the Metlab Island banks, and four
white men and sixteen natives were
drowned.
On the 18th the body Of Mrs. John Ram
mage, highly-respected lady Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was found floating in the res
rvoir. She had undoubtedly committed
suicide. Her husband was killed last
summer, and later her son committed
suicide, and the poor woman was distract
ed with grief.
On the 18th Ed Lantz, while boiling
maple sugar on his farm near Canton,
O., fell into the huge evaporator and was
terribly scalded. He died few hours
later.