Huntsville gazette., 1890-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.


manded an advance of wages.
Kentucky legislature passed the bill max
ing ''oontzn or ''crapsn a felony.
At Omaha, Neb., George Nicholson was
shot by his daughter Family quarrel
Indianapolis is trying to lay the dust and
fifty miles Of pavement simultaneously
Mr.. Quintet, Canadian, fed the country
with another mans wife and owing $25, 900.
The estate Of the late American banker,
Junius 5. Morgan, is estimated at s150,000.
Mrs. DR.. Petty john, OF Indianapolis, lost
her life in saving a horse from burning
barn.
Excitement and oil are bubbling up in i'm
nense quantities in the Eureka Newport, o.
oil field.
The Canadian cabinet has decided to ex-
tend the modus vivendi for the coming fish,
ing season.
Employees of the Rockaway, L. L., hunt
club have been fined and jailed for docking
ponies tails.
R. G. Tweeton, cashier of Fosson, Mimi,
National bank, left on April g. He is about
IS, 900 short
In the Iowa senate, the bill providing for
capital punishment by electricity was in
uennloely postponed.
There are indications that Cinnamon are
being SNUG yled over to Detroit from Sarnia.
Ont, in large numbers.
The United States Rolling Stock company.
O, Decatur, Ala, lost $4,000 by fire at
t..elr works Wednesday
An Italian section man, name unknown.
was struck by train and instantly killed,
at Alliance, o., Wednesday,.
The late heavy wind storms have caused
phenomenal tiGal waves i'll Lake michigan,
rendering harDorase unsafe.
Charles l.. Lancasi er, ex-treasurer of the
Buffalo press club, is short in his accounts
about 81, 10, and has gone to Canada
! j. r. Morgan and Marion Powers Lexing-
| ton, Ind, politicians, exchanged harmless
shots and chin music at that place " ednes-
day.
President Ray has ordered 600 Journey
men taiiors out OF the Youngstown, O.,
shops until the requested advance is
+, granted.
D-uid Hunnicut, railroad and mining
contractor, was shot by an unknown assassin
at bis home, fifteen miles east of Birning-
! ham, Ala.
Three PresDyteries in Indiana voted for
revision Of the confession of faith. The
Presbytery i'll session at Logan, O.. also
voted for it.
The only daughter Of Steward o. Camp
bell, proprie or OF the Continental hotel, at
Crestline, o., eloped and married one of the
negro walters.
| A gypsy wedding, i'll which T. W. Camp
! and Maggie Stanley were made intensity
happy, occurred at Hopkinsville, Ky,
Wednesday evening
| A wind storm Wednesday evening at
Roanoke Va, destroyed the Crozier steel
| and iron works, and crushed four coIored
| laborers to death in the ruins
| The Pan-American congress will probably
adjourn next Wednesday. A Pan-American
arbitration treaty has been recommended by
the general welfare committee
Near Cynthiana, KY, Cass Garnett re-
| turned from the field to find his wife dead
| on the floor, with her skull fractured Sup
posed to be the work of tramps.
| Peter WushargsU, of Leetsdale, Pa, ioined
the Economics, an order forbidding matri-
mony. The restriction preyed on his mind,
resulting in suicidal mania. He hung him
self Wednesday.
| Samuel w. Rhode, connected with the
II.
was found dead in his room at the Windsor
hotel, Denver, Col He is believed to have
committed suicide
The Chicago carpenters strike is costing
the union about S35, 900 a week, but thew
affirm that they are good for an all summer
siege, backed ny tbs National council and
the Federation of Labor
The grand jury at Warrenton, Ga, found
a true Dill against Charles E. McGregor for
the murder OF j. NJ w. Cody at that place
Oct. IL last year. Cody had previously at
tempted to assassinate McGregor
At San Diego, Cal, Customs Inspector
Eldridge captured ten more Cinnamon being
smuggled in from Lower California in fish
ing boats. This makes thirty-three SNUG
gled Chinese now in custody there
Some women at Oakland, Cal. have be-
come insane on account of the prediction Of
the crank Erickson that an earthquake
would swallow up that city, San Francisco,
Chicago and Milwaukee this week.
At Chicago, the jury in the case of Henry
Lyons, charged with the murder of Peter Pet
erson, found Lyons guilty in the first degree,
fixing the penalty at life Imprisonment. The
prisoner, only 16 years of age, merely said:
well, I'm in luck"
c. w. Hatch, of Boston, general agent of
the Travellers Insurance company for New
England, is on trial at Colorado Springs,
Col, on charge of having murdered his
uncle, Henry Hatch, on the latter's ranch,
near Flagler, Col, in April, 1889.
Advices from northern Texas say that rs
per cent. of the wheat crop in the counties
of Cook, Grayson, Collin, Denton, Wise and
Montagus has been destroyed by insects
One of these creatures is very similar TO the
northern clinchbug, and the other is the
common ladybug.
The Western Flint-glass ASSOCIATION has
advanced prices in the various classes of
goods five cents to meet the heavy advance
made in soda ash recently. 1t was resolved
hereafter to refuse orders from jobbers to
be filed on demand as some joobers have
been taking advantage of the manufac-
turers
Jennie Carney, of Birmingham, the
lightweight champion of England, is
anxious to have another 60 with Jack Nc
Auliffe before the California Athletic club,
with two ounce gloves. Carney wants the
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