Huntsville gazette., 1890-11-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
oompiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


o4hors Mayor Grant of New York City
sent another letter to Secretary Noble
demanding recount OF the inhabitants
~ that city. Governor Hill has also
rreferred like request.
THE will of the late Franklin 3. Jag
rers. of Burlington, Ia, has been filed.
= beoneaths, among other amounts,
& ooo to the American Home Mission
srv Society of New York; $4,000 to the
Iowa Congregational Home Missionary
Society. 5000 to the Iowa College, at
Gr;nnel and 81, 900 to the Public
Library Of BurlingS on
Ar the last days session of Interna-
+ionaI Bee Keepers Association at Keo-
Ink Ia., the following officers were
elected: P H. Elwood, Starkville, N.
Y president; Eugene Secor, Forest
Citv. Ia. vice president; c. p. Dadant,
Hamilton. Ill, secretary; Ernest r.
Root, Medina, O., treasurer. Albany,
Y, was chosen as the place OF next
meeting.
THE contemplated change in the pro-
prietorship of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette will not be made, the deal
being off owing to the objections OF Mr..
Halsteads partners, who, according to
the company's constitution, have first
refusal of the stock OF any OF the mem
bers who wish to retire.
CAPTAIN J. r. MCCONNELL has been
detailed by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office to proceed to
Tucson, Ariz., to testify on behalf OF
the Government in the case of the
United States against Fred Smith, late
receiver of the Land Office, who has
been indicted for approp rating public
funds to his own use.
THE President has issued proclama-
ton extinguishing the Indian titles to
lands situated in South Dakota and Ne
braska, in compliance with an act Of
Congress providing for the extension OF
the northern boundary Of Nebraska;
reserving, however, from entry or set
tlement the tract of land now occupied
by the agency and school buildings of
the old Ponca Agency.
OK the 1st the Board of Methodist
Bishops called at the Executive Man
sion by special invitation of President
and Mrs. Harrison They were infor-
mallY received in the East room by the
President and his wife,
On the 1st the Mississippi Constitu-
iOnal convention brought its labors to
close by adopting, with few imma-
terial changes, the Constitution and
ordinances as printed Only nine mega
tive votes were cast. The printed Con-
stitution makes sixty-two printed pages,
and is said to be the longest of any OF
the States except that of Texas
GENERAL CAsTELNA, once an aide-de-
camp Of Emperor Napoleon I'LL, died in
Paris on the Sd
The preliminaries of an Anglo-Turk
lsh convention respecting African af-
fairs are being considered by Lord Sal
iSbury and the Turkish Minister to
Great Britain.
Mr. GLADSTONE, having been tend
cred nomination for the office of lord
rector of the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, has felt compelled to decline
the honor, owing to advancing age.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
INSPECTOR JOEL w. BOWMAN of the
American Security Company Of New
York City, on the 31st arrested John w.
fardley at Omaha, Neb., who is want
ed IN Montreal for embezzlement. Yard
ley was cashier of the Canadian Express
company, and disappeared in the early
part OF last September with large
amount OF the company's funds.
ELEVEN German life-boa tmen were
drowned, on the 31st, while trying to
rescue the crew of the British vessel
Elk Berendsen, which was wrecked off
Slesvig. Only one of the vessels crew
was saved.
oN the 1st City Clerk John Roller of
youngstown, O., was sentenced to two
years In the penitentiary. Before SEN
ence was pronounced he made a pa
thetc plea for mercy. which broaght
sears to the eyes of every one, includ-
ing several attorneys and Judge Robin
sun. Roller embezzled many thousand
irink.
A"O, IA q ollCCV ouCl DCtWOcu
W. +. Richards, of the Clarksburg (W.
Telegram, and Edward Basset, son
VI HON. John Basset member of the
vest Virginia bar, growing out of an
'"aCk Of the former through his paper
- 'ae private character of the father of
VIC latter, Basset was shot in the back
s.,ne base of the spinal column. Rich
a'us at whom the first shot was fred,
h'% saved from a mortal wound by the
jail striking silver dollar in his vest
pocket ~ :
AT Meadville, Pa, at q late hour on
.' night Of the 31st, two men knocked
~ 'ne door of the Wells-Fargo Express
-. lVe' while the agent was making up
40 report He admitted them, and was
no Ol'e seized, bound and gagged, and
' men secured from the open safe
r. amount between SIS, 600 and SIS, 0O0
ICY ass ie<t the agent bound on the Office
yot.; ' Out after time he succeeded in
vhias alg loose and giving the alarm, by
h.s 49, ume he had become so nervous
,mou ne could give little idea Of the
'nount of money taken.
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