Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Condensation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The Australian ballot bill has passed the
house of delegates at Charleston, W Va
The annual meetlng of the American
Newspape" association is in session at New
York
4 Etta Bixbv, of Hudson, n. Y, had her
scalp torn otf. her hair being caught OH q
rcooivilg shaft.
Ottawa parliament voted against admit
ting American corn to Canada free OF duty
foi' the use of distinars
At Americus, Ga, the 6-year-old daughter
of Gel. r. 4. Crutchtield, was burned to
death by her clothing taking fire from a
CRATE
Carlo Brattan, negro, shot and killed D.
K. Gairard, rising young lawyer, at Man
chester, KY The murderer has not been ar
rested
In the destruction Of the residence of Oil
yer Benway, at Central Lake, near Beliaire
Mich, by fire, his mother, who is missing, is
supposed to have perished
The second woman lawyer was admitted to
the bar in Philadelphia few days ago. She
is Miss Rebekah E. Roberts, and was pre-
ceded by Miss Carrie 3. Kiigore.
Mrs Poeher, consumptive woman with
two small children, whose husband recently
deserted her in Nebraska died on the train
upon her arrival at Knoxville, Tenn.
William Stein, of North Vernon, Ind, was
awarded 5000 damages against the Ohio
and Missississippi railroad for injuries re-
ceivej while i'll its employ as brakeman
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purchase the twine and cordage works of A
N. Morris 4 Company, of Montreal, the
only mandatory of the kind in Canada.
Miss Tart, of White Bear Lake, Mimi,
will get $1,000 from DR.. Rom III, OF
ST. Paul, because the doctor would moi
marry her alter having promised to do 50.
The New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty, to Children is warning against
the insurance Of children's lives, claiming
that it is an Incentive to wicked parents tt
murder.
The contract for three and one-half miles
of elevated railway i'll Chicago has been lei
to Carnegie, Phipps & Company, of Pitts
burg The price will be between $500, 0O0
and 81 10000.
The Maryland senate, by strict party
the bill become a law five of the six con
gressional districts iu that state are made, il
is declared, surely Democratic.
j. E. webster, q contractor, of Denver
Col, lost his life in the late blizzard He
had been out in the country business and
returning home was overcome, sank down il
drift and was frozen to death.
At Fulton, KY, Dee Brooks stabbed te
death his stepfather, Calvin Clements.
Brooks was assisting an officer in taking
Clements to Jail for whipping Mrs
Clements. Brooks acted in self-defense.
Mrs. Henry W. Grady returns thanks for
the many expressions of sympathy on the
death of her husband from various state
and municipal bodies, organizations, socie-
ties and individuals ali over the country
The distiliery plant of J. B. Mattinglys
Sons, one of the oldest firms in Kentucky,
was sold at auction at Louisville, Wednes-
day, in consequence of an assignment some
months ago. The price paid for it was SIPS,
100.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the author. is on
his way from Australia to the United
States, and 1t is said that he intends here
after to make his home in New York. He
has had long cruise among the South Sea
islands
A collision between Chicago saengerfest
excursion train and regular occurred near
Birmingham. Ala, Wednesday. The engi-
neer of the latter will die. The excursion
lists were badly shaken up, but no one was
injured.
The body of S. D. yelling of Des Moines,
was found dead near hls hotel on the rail
road track, at Davenport, Iowa At one
time he was bookkeeper in the Office Of The
Des Moines Register. He had been run over
by the cars.
James D. Reid, who has been appointed
United States consul at Dunferlnline is com
monty called ''the father of the telegraph,
having personally handled the first presi-
dents message ever sent across the Allie
ghanies by wire.
An unknown assassin fired through a win
dow of the residence Of DR.. Martin Fosdick,
at Pawpaw, Mich, Wednesday evening, the
charge entering the doctors neck, head and
shoulders. He may possibly recover. His
brother was arrested an suspicion.
1t is said that The New York Sun, World
and Times are working vigorously toward
increasing their price from two cents ia
three cents. 1t is tacitly admitted that at
the present rates the publishers do not get
the value of the white paper back.
The funeral of the six victims of Sundays
drowning accident at Kingston, N. Y, 90
Cured Wednesday. Six coffns, preceded by
muffied drum, were borne by comrades Of
the dead veteran upon biers, then placed in
hearses, which conveyed them to the Re
formed church, at Bloomingdale, where
services were held, and the bodies were
buried in the church yard near by.