Huntsville gazette., 1890-10-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


constitutional.
| AT the trial at Croydon, England,
of Lord Cahir. for making threats
against neighbor. his lordship roundly
cursed the police magistrate, and was
| in turn sentenced to the work-house.
THE Count of Paris and party, includ-
| ing Colonel Coppinger, U. S. A., visited
Fortress Monroe and Richmond. Va.
on the 9th
On the night of the 9th Captain Peter
| Foster, the oldest member of the Grand
Army of the Republic in the United
States. died at Mount Pleasant, Ia.
He was ninety six years of age, and
fought in the war of 1912, the Mexican
war and the civil war. His funeral
was held under the auspices of the
Grand Army.
THE centenary of the birth of Father
Matthew was celebrated on the 10th
throughout Ireland by special services
in the Catholic churches, and by public
celebrations in local halls. In Tippe-
rary, where he was born, the celebra-
tion was especially enthu siastic, thou
sands of people resorting to Thomastown-
to see the birthplace Of the great apostle
of temperance.
BARON WIssMANN positively refuses
to return to his former station in East
Africa to play second fiddle to Baron
Won Soden.
LOT FLANNERY. the Washington Cd.
c. sculptor, has completed a model for
an equestrian statue of General John
A. Logan, which has attracted consid
cradle attention among the Generals
friends and comrades The Society of
the Army of the Cumberland contem-
plate the erection Of an equestrian
statue of General Logan, which will
probably be made from this model
General Logan was friend of the
sculptor for many years, and sat for him
for the bust from which the model is
taken.
JOSEPH Il. DoNoGHUE, of Newburgh,
N. T., the skater, started for Christi
ania, Norway, on the 18th. He will
enter all the amateur contests that he
can, and will probably skate in Hol-
land, Germany, England, Austria and
Norway.
THE formal summons on Mrs. Rob
srt Ray Hamilton to appear, on No
vember 10, in the SurrOgate's court in
Trenton, N j., at the probation of the
will of Robert Ray Hamilton, was served
On her at the State prison on the 18th.
Mrs. Hamilton made no response when
the document was read to her. She Will
be represented by counsel.
IT is Estimated that $4,000 persons
were present at the funeral OF the late
Mrs Booth, wife of the head of the Sal
vation Army, in London, on the 18th.
| AT a consultation, held on the 18th,
between the royal physicians and two
members of the Dutch Cabinet, it was
decided that the condition of the King
was such as to unfit him for longer
reigning over the kingdom.
AT the opening Of the October term
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, on the 18th, Chief-Justice Fuller
announced that, in the shadow OF i'm
pending death, the usual programme
for the opening day of the term would
not be carried out He said that his
usual visit to the President would not
take place, and gave notice that cases
set for hearing on the Goth would be
| postponed for one week.
PRESIDENT DELANO of the National
| Wool-Growers' Association has issued a
circular in which he follows words OF
encouragement by the rendering of his
resignation.
A DEsERTER from the rebels at Tokar
| Cat q
Osman Digna has succeeded in revict-
| ualing his army. and that he has re-
| ceived large reinforcements, and will
shortly make grand attack upon Sua-
kim.
on the 18th General w. w. Belknap,
ex-Secretary of War, was found dead in
bed in his Washington hotel. The cor
cner's inquest showed that the General
had suffered from fatty degeneration OF
the heart, and that the immediate cause
of death was Inflammation OF the heart
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER, Associ-
ate Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court, died in Washington at
eleven o'clock on the night of the 18th,
| in his seventy-ffth year. His death
was the result of stroke of paralysis
received a few days previously.
| CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| On the 10th an explosion occurred IN
the pyrotechnic school at Bourges,
France, which is leading center OF
| military and industrial manufactures,
and capital OF the department OF Cher
Zen persons were killed and many in
iured by the explosion
BY an explosion of petroleum IN
skittle alley at Saignolles, France, on
the 11th, twenty-seven persons were
Frustrated and seventy burned. Many
of the victims died.
THE corning mill connected with the
Dupont Powder Works at Wapwallopen,
Pa, exploded at about seven o'clock on
the morning of the 11th, from some un-
known cause. The conclusion was felt
fully twenty-five miles distant.
THE steamer John E. Tigert was
burned to the waters edge while lying
At,<.