Huntsville gazette., 1890-11-15

Charles Ross, of Oxford, O., has been
awarded $1,000 damages for being called a
horse thief.
In two days Dillon and O'Brien have
collected $4,000 in Philadelphia for the
Irish cause
The latest returns make the Democratic
majority in the house of the Fifty-second
congress AS
Shawhan's opera house block, at Tiffin,
o., has been sold for $4,000 to the Hon.
w. P. Rouse.
Covers have been ordered for 1000 for
the birthday banquet in homer of ex-Sen-
ator Thurman.
j. X. Humphrey, business man of Ere
mont, O., has skipped, leaving his credit
ors in the lurch.
Safe blowers, of Osborn, o.. got lot of
valuable jewelry and some money, all
amounting to ST. 900.
James Lynch, more than so years old,
was again sent to prison at san Antonio,
Tex, for counterfeiting
The Inman and White Star Steamship
companies have agreed not to do any
ocean racing after Jan. l.
The president Saturday issued pro
clamation setting apart Thursday, Nov
q, as Thanksgiving Day.
Joseph Shrock and five children, of Can
ton, o., were poisoned by eating tainted
cheese. Condition serious.
The Produce Exchange, of New York,
has addressed Secretary Blaine in favor of
reciprocity with Newfoundland.
William Manhamber, of Anderson,
Ind. was accidentally shot in the face by
Ed. Gustin, who was hunting quail.
Five men were terribly scalded by the
premature removal of the bottom of a
dye tank in works at Brooklyn, Y. Y.
Farley hartman, young student at Tif-
fin, o., is under arrest charged with
criminally iibeling Judge J. C. Roger.
Frank Keelty, the young operator who
caused the Pleasant Valley, o., railway
wreck, was seen Friday at GAINESVILLE, o.
Mrs. San. Mills, Of Springfield, O.,
wanted to die, and threw herself in front
of train. A police officer rescued her in
time.
The Ohio state board of agriculture pre-
dict an increase in the next wheat harvest,
while prospects tor corn, potatoes and
hogs are poor.
Nathaniel Chapman was Instantly killed
by the explosion of a cartridge at Fort
Wadsworth, S. |. Four others were seri-
ously injured.
William Waldorf Astor has filed plans
for S1,OOO,00O hotel on the northwest
corner of Fifth avenue and thirty-third
street, New York city.
Hon Barclay Martin, the oldest living
ex-congressman in Tennessee, lies very ill
at his residence near Columbia There is
no hope of his recovery
In the Petit case at Charlottesville,
Ind, the defense are trying to prove that
Mrs. Petit died of locked-jaw and not of
poisoning by strychnine.
Orren Munger, of Anderson, Ind, es-
capped prosecution for abduction and Sc
duction, by marrying the young lady in
the case, Miss Mollie Moore.
r. Gilgen's place of business at New
Philadelphia, o., was robbed while his
wife was being buried, and while himself
and child lay i'll with typhoid fever.
Abbey Cox, an aged colored woman, Of
Hopkinsville, KY, was burned TO death
from her clothing catching fire i'll some
way while she was alone in her room.
Mrs. Lily Hildburgh, of New York
city, while delirious, escaped from her
nurses and jumped through a window
into an area where she was found dead.
At Irvine, Ky. on election day. in a
fight growing out of dispute over
negro's vote, John Wilson, Democrat. and
Grant and =. A. Lilly, Republicans, were
killed.
An oil tank at the electric light plant,
Middletown O., exploded. Joseph West,
who was at WORK near by, was hurled
distance of twenty-five feet and Instantly
killed.
Patrick Kelley, a copper wire thief pre-
ferred the Ohio penitentiary TO the
Youngstown, o.. work house, and was, a.
his request, given year at the former in
stes Of six months at the latter.
Henry Breen, Fort Wayne, Ind,
brakeman, is suffering with the only
known case of aneurism of the eye. He
has to wear an iron collar about his neck
to regulate the flow of blood to his eyes,
Congressman Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, says he will not be candidate for
speaker until he sees whether the elec-
tions next year in the Republican states
that went Democratic this year demon
strate that this revolution is to be per-
manent.
The Carnegie company, of Pittsburg,
has purchased the plant of the Allegheny
Bessemer Steel company, and will begin
to operate it at once. The acquisition of
this mill will enormously increase the in
fiuence of the Carnegies, as it virtually
gives them a monopoly of the steel rail in
dustry in the United States