Huntsville gazette., 1890-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF

1ney are wondering at Peru. Ind wha,
has become of Frank Elyin.
raul Slfferd accidentally killed himself a,
Newark with a Flobert rifle
"A Deer wagon and contents were demol
lSned py women at Pennington, Mo-
Aoner Falls fell through trestle neal
Covngton, Ind, and was fatally injured.
MI Ann Kise, aged 20, of Vincennes, Ind.
1eil In fireplace and was burned to death,
The Australian ballot system was sue.
cessfully tried in local elections in Mis-
souri,
A son OF Ex-Governor Lowe, of Indiana,
was killed while coupling cars at Hopkins
vile, Ky
constantine Kemper, saloonist at Pana,
w. sulclded because everybody asked credit
for drinks.
Morits Grether, a Canton, O., saloonist,
~as fatally shot by a drunken man who be
refused to serve.
Furnace No. 3 of the Debardeleben Coal
and Iron company at Bessemer, Ala, was
blownin Wednesday.
At New York Isaac Wirmer, a retired
Jewish rabbi, died Wednesday, aged 100
years month and IA days.
There is strong opposition to the new tariff
bill in the east and south There is lively
kick on silk, sugar and hides
White Caps near New Castle, Ind, have
warned Holman Davis, a colored man, to
leave the country He will resist.
The California Athletic club has matched
George LaBlanche and young Mitchell to
fight June q for purse of $1,000
The commandant of the Brooklyn navy
yard has received orders to put the United
States steamship Enterprise out of commits
sion.
Rumor has it that Jay Gould win estab-
lish steamship line from the United States
to Mexico and Central South American
ports
Congress has appropriated Sg2 900 for a
geological garden in the District of Column
liza, Il sort OF branch, as it were, of the con-
gressional bear pit.
An ice trust has been formed by Chicago
dealers and prices were advanced Tuesday %
to 80 per cent. over the figures current at
this time year ago.
The validity of the Virginia meat tax law
was argued in the United States circuit
court at Norfolk, Va, Tuesday Decision
will be rendered Monday next.
Two young Anglo-Canadians, James Gibbs
and Robert Rogers, were arrested at Mon
treal, and sentenced to six years nnprison
ment for insulting the French flag.
The articles of agreement for the season's
athletic sports between Harvard and Yale
universities bar Princeton from participa-
tion in the great collegiate contests.
At Savannah, Tenn, Henry Love and his
son, aged 10, have surrendered themselves to
Sheriff Gounce for the killing OF Guile
Hodge, a blacksmith living at Clifton,
Wayne county.
Evan Novagratz, Norwegian, aged 27
years, was drawn into an ore-crushing ma
chine at the Vulcan iron works at Pitts
furg, and almost instantly his body was
ground to pulp.
Near Dayton, Wash, Henry Sanders, 10
years of age, shot and instantly killed Della
Eddington, young lady aged II, and then
blew his own brains out. Jealousy was the
cause of the deed.
Mrs Snell-McCrea, the daughter Of the
Murdered Chicago banker, already regrets
her elopement to Europe with Douglass
Green, and talks of supporting herself by
going on the stage.
George w. Morris, young man from
Chicago, was sentenced at New YorG, yes
terday to ten years and eleven months in
state prison for outrageously assaulting a
little l4-year-old girl
Harold ST. John, who claims the foil
fencing championship Of the United States,
Tuesday defeated Sergt. William Williams,
late of the British life guards, in fencing
match at New York, winning four bouts out
of five.
1t is announced that both Premier Green
way and Attorney General Martin have re-
signed their positions in the Manitoba gov
ernment, and Col. Mcmillan, member for
Winnipeg, will be called on to form new
cabinet.
In the wreck of freight train on the
Cumberland Valley railroad near Martins
burg, Engineer Thomas Lightcap was
caught under his engine and one side of his
body and face was terribly burned. He and
his fireman will die.
A portion of the dam on the Little Ka-
nawha river at Palestine, w. Va, gave way
Tuesday, making break from sixty to 100
feet wide and drawing the third pool for ten
miles. Navigation will be suspended by the
break till the last of June. The damage is
fully $4,000.
A Chicago newspaper says it has it from an
entirely trustworthy source that the re-
Gently formed school book trust among the
leading publishers of the country has deter
mined on horizontal reduction of % per
cent. in the price of all school books the cut
to go into effect May l.
Mai. James c. Colt, who was nominated
for lieutenant governor by the farmers
convention at Columbia, S. c., last week,
has written letter TO Capt Schell, who
called the convention declining the nomina-
tion on the ground that he cannot support
Mr.. Ullman's platform.
Architect E. s. Jennison explained to the
Chicago real estate board Wednesday his
conception of big circular builLing 5000
feet in diameter with central tower ,493
feet high, to be used for the worlds fair.
The entire exhibition would be contained in
this one structure, which would be in the
form Of an immense tent
Mrs Hetty Green, of New York, does not
propose to give up the fight for the posses
sion of section of land in the town of
Cicero, ILL.,, recently sold to the Grant loco
motive works, of Paterson, N. j., for an in
adequate price, as she claims She has filed
q bill in court in which she offers to pay
Sfllo lnO fo,- tho lapd