Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-22
NEWS IN BRlee.


Condensation of Interestrnf Item. on
Various Subjects
Three Springfield, O., breweIies have gone
to the British @
They say Charlss Vail, of st. Louis, mur-
dered his wife,
Porter Coates was gored to death by a bull
near Mt. Sterling, Ky.
The Kentucky legislature has extended it,
slxty-iay session indefinitely.
John T. Swiney, well known banker Of
Paris, KY, Lied Wednesday.
The New York senate p,ssad the Saxton
ballot reform bill by vote of 10 to g.
DR.. Charles Draper, of Zanesville. O..
severed his Jugular in fit of the blues
John Crawford was found dead on the
road near linton, w. Va. Mysterious
William Bacher was fatally hnrt by. ma
chlnery IN a stave factory, at Menter, Ind
Considerable excitement prevails at Tiffin,
o., by an abandoned gas well beginning to
flow oil.
Thomas Lee assaulted and fatally injured
his wife at Bladensburg, Nd. and then com
mitted suicide
The bill establishing the Australian svs-
tenn of ballot passed the senate of the state
of Washington.
The trial of Baker, the alleged Hurley
bank robber, is in progress at Ashland. Wis.
The amount stolen was 81, 200.
Another mammoth pottery is to be estab-
ished at THIN, O.. the company to be COM
posed of Tiffin and Trenton, N. j.. capital
ists .
The Knights of Pythias celebrated the
twenty-sixth anniversary of the order at
Charleston, W. Va, by grand parade and
supper.
The Stock Breeders association, of Chrks-
burg, has been incorporated at Charleston,
W. Va. Among the incorporates is Gen.
Nathan Golf
The public schools OF Three Oaks. Mich.
have been closed on account of the preva-
lence Of diptheria. A number of cases have
proven fatal
The bill providing for the inspection Of
fresh meat slaughtered over 100 miles from
Virginia has been approved by the governor
of that state
Governor Fleming, of West Virginia, has
refused to commute the sentence of Felix
Kampf, who killed his two children. He
will be hanged March next.
The suit of Mrs. Abner Danforth. against
$4,000 damages for slander. resulted in
verdict in favor of the church sU
Gen. Crook, as the result of visit to
Fort Sill, l. T., states that he will redouble
his efforts to have the Apaches now in
Florida removed to that locality
The second trial OF Sandy Olds, at Port
land, Ore, for the killing of Emil Weber, q
gambler, formerly OF London. O., resulted
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| the first degree.
Daniel Downey, a cabman, was probably
fatally shot at Chicago, by Han Murphy,
; the book-maker, who is a well known figure
on southern race tracks. The shooting was
entirely unprovoked, and Murphy was half
drunk 1
The Jones ore mines, near Reading, Pa,
have resumed operations, with a large force
of men, after two months suspension These
mines are among the oldest in the country,
having been worked almost continually for
nearly 125 years.
The North Dakota senate, by vote of q
to 8, adopted the Australian election system,
and the house passed the bill offering a
bounty during the next five years for the
production Of potato starch and beet sugar
in North Dakota.
At the session of the department of super
intendence of the National Educational
association in New York, resolution was
unanimously adopted indorsing the efforts Of
American authors to secure an interna-
tional copyright law.
Mrs. Harry Hall, of st. Louis, swallowed
dose of morphine and forced another
draught of the deadly drug down the throat
of her 1-year-old girl Both may recover.
She was respondent over the expulsion of
her husband from the Masons.
Michael Diecher was convicted of violating
the prohibitory ordinance at Alliance, O..
Wednesday, and fined $500 and costs, and in
default was sent to the Cleveland work
house. Milton Baxter and Mrs John Bess-
Ter were found guilty Of the same offense.
The former was find 500, and the latter $500
and costs. ~-r -
Mrs Ida Walker, who was saloon pas
senger on the steamship British Princess,
which arrived at Philadelphia Wednesday
from Liverpool, committed suicide on the
11th inst, by taking laudanum. She was
buried at sea the next Hday. She was the
wife of well known English bicyclist, and
was Is years old
At Topeka man ransacked the residence
Of B. f. Booker and took $50 in cash, and
diamonds, watches and jewelry valued at
81 ,0OO Mrs. Booker was awakened and
found the burglar in her room. He sat
down on a window sill and talked to her for
half an hour, finally calling the servant and
asking her for the money. When he got
ready to go he bade them good night and
went out the front door, William Ragan,
brother of the servant, has been identified as
the thief.