Huntsville gazette., 1890-06-14
NEWS ,N BRIEF.
A Condensat '"n Of Interesting ite.ns an
t;tri.,u. subjects.

Various subjects.
Three liat.iel /, who We're present at the
killing OF Affair Mccoy Will be tried at
Pineville. Ky.
Cowles is sufficiently recovered to make
a deposition, but refuses to prosecute his
brother-in-law Hale
Maj. Butterworth says that if the secre-
taryship Of the worlds fair is offered him
he thinks he will accept
A house in south Fairfield Mich, was
set on fire by the rays of the sun reflected
from some tin pans that had been set on
to dry.
An aged lady and her granddaughter
were fatally burned by an explosion of
natural gas in the cellar of their house in
Pittsburg.
Eai4aheth Coward and Kate Xa,p9
| carved DIR wig old of fhe lnhan+SsJxs
female refOrnla+Oey by saving of the bars
with @ so knives.
The men who gave 30 Mrs. Harrison her
cottage at Cape May were George w.
Childs, A. j. Drexel, Wanamaker, Gen.
Sewell and A. H. Hamilton
Miss Elsie Hull, aged IL years, is the
latest prodigy in a musical way She is an
Australian production, and plays any
thing and everything at sight.
Postmaster General Wanamaker's life
and accident insurance now amounts to
81, 3OO, ,OOJ-the largest insurance carried
by any individual i'll the world
In the second race at Morris park
Wednesday, Brother Ban, 6year-old,
dropped dead near the quarter pole Gar
rison his rider escaped injury.
The Grand Trunk has consented to re
main in the Central Traffic association,
the latter having consented to recognize
the difference claimed by the Grand
Trunk.
John Coraty, inmate OF the Hendricks
county. Ind, poor house, has back pen
sion Ot Sl3, 800 granted him in compcnsa-
ton for his reason lost through ininries
received in the Wag.
1t rained chunks OF ice at St. Louis
Wednesday, and span of frightened
hearse horses dumped the coffin ia the
gutter and dashed up the stree. With the
remnant OF the helrse.
Mrs. Llvina Williams has just fniahed
grading portion of the Evansville and
Richmond railroad at Colunb,s, Ind,
and comes to Wellington, O., where she
has "a similar contract.
Ex-Governor Holiday. OF Virgnit was
in the TransNiad region o1 Africa wne.i
last Heard from, III his third tour around
the wOEii Thes'e is no hali-huli,iav busi-
ness about the governor.
The sheriff OF Miller count. Ark. has
arrested five men near Te4arnatl;l un sas-
picoa of being the nIea niip roih,ci tie
train on the Cot1oA B,fI rs,ir,tl one Of
tie pri ol.o's, named Polish uYw,ri. .l,
been idciItliitI
There IL no change III the Columbus
street car strike, except that the DANCE.
of serious riot grows more lnmine IT,
The mayor has called meeting of prom
inent citizens To confer with him ~ to the
best methods of settlement.
In indianapolis Maud johnson Childs
was granted divorce from Austin Cor
bin Chiids, a .:e. PIE " % Austin Cnrhiil
the railroad mignate. He hal deserted
her soon af,ef marriage ecauSc his
wealthy relatives opposed III. alliance.
with "a poor gil.
The cyclone "a 4 sw..DC DsS.t; e5tta v
Ill.,. wrect,e II schpJi hlase hA.r B.rk-
beck, inj,iring five hiiirel, >. w.I IN .wo
may die. Al Wal.eiiii IL wfec.,e tbs Cen
trail depot and Methodist clIrc.l aaI IA
tally iniure.l maA nanlei HJase b.
sides which it destroyed barn ami Killed
three horses.
The American steamer St Lawrence.
taking the Canadian Forestefs on an ex-
cursion, at Kingston, refused TO lower the
American flag when the bani OF a British
battery, eagagei for the occasion, were
about 10 20 aboard. Both the colonel aud
American owner OF the boat were stub
born. aud the band was left behind
Assistant Postmaster General Whitfield
has made a new departure and put stop
to the practice Of compromising for actual
damages with professional star route mail
contractors. He has enforced the law
against one W. A. stoddard, who has
about 100 OF such contracts which have
been thrown upon the governmeat's
hands One case involves about 5000
damages and Imprisonment, and Stoddard
is in bad fix rs well as the whole fra
ternity Of professional bidders Wana-
maker supports his assistant