Huntsville gazette., 1890-04-26
NEWS IN ERi=F.
A Cond sation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

q. K. Davidson was robbed in Chicago and
bis body thrown into the river.
Col. Dave Homshell was arrested at
Bellefontaine, o., for assaulting Col. Dom
Piatt.
whisky drops to boys under 16 years of age
has been stopped.
Near Golconda, H.. a box cont tanning
81, $50 in cash was round in house wrecked
by the storm of March 27
Miss Abby Moore Goowin, professor of
Latin and Greek at Vassar college, ciad in
Vassar hospitl Wednesday,
The shortage of ex-Treasurer Archer. Of
Maryland foots up sl32, 40l25.
The Pennsylvania Republican convention
will be held at Harrisburg June 25.
The starch trust has bought the Topeka
starch works for something over $3.50 OOU
The store and postoffice at Lair, KY, was
robbed OF s25 in money and lot of postage
stamps.
In the asylum for insane at Cranston, R.
l., Catherine Hanley beat Mary Mccarthy
to death.
A colored man who outraged a respectable
white lady near Cameron station, Ark. was
shot to death
Nine. Juliette Adam, the brilliant Paris
ian editor, will probably visit America. some
time next autumn.
The second trial Of the Lenhart I.lgamy
case, at Zanesville, o., resulted III th. ac-
quittal of the defendant.
Veterans of the Mexican VIZ W. hold
their sixteenth annual reunion au Nit.
Vernon, o., May 8 and 8
At Canton, o.. Wednesday, Homer .eech,
small boy, was run over by a lu.I1 stone
wagon, ana his collar bone was broken
Charles kueb!er, saloon keeplr At Non
roevillc, o.. was fined S23 and sent TO j.l
Tor ten days for keeping open on SuAd
Holzhny, the Go3ebic his h Naynl N ia jail
at Marquette, Mich. is try ins to sts.rve hi.l-
self. lie has not eaten anything for scv,rl i
days
The body OF the man found dead in an
alley at Terre Hauto, Ind, Alo.td ', has
been identified as Joe Walton, Of Charleston
Illinois
Catherine Hanley murdered Mary Sic
Carthy at Cranston, r. l., brcAuy. Llo
victim disturbed the murLeress, who desired
to sleep.
While boring for gas on his ground at
Spencer, Ind, Calvin Flochrr struck min
eral water, which flows at the rate of l30
barrels an hour.
Joseph Lr.cl,ire was Instantly killed by
being struck by an engine on the Plttsblrg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago road at Hanna
station, near Laporte, Ind.
Daring the Riel rebellion Gen. Middleton
appropriated certain frs from half-breed.
He has been required to compensate tue
owner for his illegal confiscation.
The death penalty was awarded by Chi
cago jury to w. L. Purdy, for the murder Of
Samuel Reininger. Not muscle in Purdy's
face moved as he heard the verdict
Suit was entered by Receiver Wells, of the
defunct Commercial National bank of Du-
buque, Iowu, against B. Z. Graves the
former president, to recover 600
Sherman Knight, the young man from
Tiffin, O., who defrauded the Commercial
National bank out of 81 200, was arrested in
Chicago yesterday. He had 1854 left
Lamb, who was indicted with Madame De-
we're, the clairvoyant of Toledo, O., for the
forgery of notes to the amount of S5T 900 on
Richard Brown, of Youngstown o., was ac-
quilted.
Miss Lena Woodruff, Of Appleton, Wis,
en- route to Chicago to purchase millinery,
with S70O, slipped her purse into the bosom
of her dress and went to sleep Some one
else now has the money.
George w. Hancock, convicted of killing
a young man named Jones, thirty-two years
ago, was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment. He was released ON $15, 900 bail pend
ing appeal. One Of the old Mormon church
murder cases.
Oren Daley was arrested at Mechanics
burg, O., Wednesday, on requistion from
the governor of New York, charged with
grand larceny in that state last September.
took him east.
Ira ID. Sankey, the revivalist singer, has
retired from his association with o. L.
Moody because his voice has given out. The
sale of the famous Moody and Sankey hymn
books has provided both the proprietors with
handsome competence.
On July 20 1890, Jesse Lee, the apostle
of Methodisln in the east preached under
the old elm on Boston common the first
Wesleyan sermon ever heard in Massachu-
sets. The anniversary of that event is to
be celebrated in an elaborate manner in
October, and the great and hourishing
church which has, from the seed sown on
that day 100 years ago, grown to be the sec
ond in the commonwealth, will commorate
its achievements by oratory, poetry and
song, and with the assistance of its greatest
minds.