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Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE expert who has been examining
the books of O. H. Hollingsworth, re-
ceiver at the general land Office at
Austin, Texas, during the past four
years, has concluded his labors and re-
ports the defalcation S26, 900 instead of
$12, 900, as was at first reported.
A FREAK of nature has been discovered
at Medina, Tenn. A well which has
been giving forth limestone for the
past ten years has suddenly changed to
mineral sulphur well.
LUCY FREEMAN died a few days ago
at Helena, Ark, at the advance age
of 103 years. She was the mother of
twenty-seven children, all of whom
she has survived but one. She had
recently come into possession of several
thousand dollars pension money, which
was received from the Government on
account of some of her relatives.
SEATTLE, WASH, was visited on the
10th by a conf1agration which destroyed
in the neighborhood Of $500, 600 worth OF
property.
THE chiefs of the Iowa Indians met at
Tohee, Iowa, on the 10Th, and drew up a
memorial to President Harrison praying
that their treaty with the United States
for sale of lands be ratified and lands
allotted them before spring so they may
get ready to put in crops.
THE bill prohibiting the alien owner
ship of land in Kansas, passed the lower
house of the Legislature on the 10th.
The bill provides that every alien now
owning land in the State must sell it
within ten years.
THE first woman who ever voted in
Texas is Mrs. Carrie B. Foster, who
went to the polls on the 10th and cast
her ballot in the election to amend the
charter of Houston relative to issuing
bonds.
A REVISED estimate shows that the
deficiency for the Pension Office is $685.
s7s, 332. The estimate first presented to
Congress was for sa4, 100000
A BILL passed the Arkansas Senate on
the 10th providing for constitu tional
convention. The bill fixes the first
Monday in December, 1891, for the con-
vention to convene, and asks an appro-
priation of S35, 900 for expenses.
THE Woodland combine sale began at
Lexington, KY, on the 10th with a
large attendance and with spirited
bidding. Fifty-four horses were sold at
an aggregate of s2s,7So, being an aver
age per head Of S532.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
ANOTHER BURNING MINE.
Fifty-Six Acres of the Meyer Mines Near
Scottdale, Pa, on Fire-Three Persons
Burned to Death and Others Missing.

Fifty-Six Acres of the Meyer Mines Near
Scottdale, Pa, on Fire-Three Persons
Burned to Death and Others Missing.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. ia special
to the Times from Connellsville, Pa,
says: Fifty-six acres of the Meyer
mines owned by w. j. Rainey & Co.,
are on FIRE. Three persons are known
to have been burned to death. How
many more may have perished the man
ayers of the mines are not prepared
to say, and rumor fixes the loss of life
at not less than fourteen people. There
was no explosion in the mines, as has
been reported. The mine has never
been known to contain gas, and while
the authorities here are discreetly
silent it is known that the striking cox
ers throughout the region are charged
with setting the mine on fire to secure
a general suspension of the Rainey
works.
The names of the unfortunates who
are known to be in the burning mine
are: Jas. Waddell, aged twenty-five,
and John and Robert Rohevel, aged
twelve and fourteen respectively.
Those who claim to know say that
ten or twelve Hungarians were also in
the mine when the fire started, but the
officials of the mines say that the
miners have all been accounted for ex-
cept the three mentioned above
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
GIBSON INDICTED.
After Hearing Mass of Damaging Tes-
timony the Grand Jury of Cook County,
ILL.,, Finds True Bill Against Secretary
Gibson of the Whisky Trust for Con-
AMIR

UinOHy tne OFdnu Jury OF OOOk COuutyg
ILL.,, Finds a True Bill Against Secretary
Gibson of the Whisky Trust for Con-
spiracy.
Gibson, of the Whisky Trust, was in
dicted by the grand jury yesterday
afternoon. He will be arrested to-day
and compelled to give bail before Judge
Shepherd. The law under which Glib
son will be held is contained in Section
"a of Chapter So of the Criminal Code,
relating to the possession, manufacture
and guilty knowledge of explosives in
tended to be used for the injury of any
building or person.
The case against Gibson was taken
up by the grand jury shortly after two
o'clock yesterday after noon. Special
Agent Brooks, being the first witness,
told of his work in unearthing the con-
spiracy to destroy the Schufeldt distil-
lery and Dewars part in it.
Dewar, the next witness, displayed
such mass of damaging evidence
against Gibson, that little if any was
needed afterwards. Dewar had the let
bottle of fluid and the machine al
legged to have been sent to
him by the secretary. An experiment
was made with the fluid on hand
and it burst into a bright flame as soon
as poured out on piece of paper. 1t
was precisely the same as taken from
the valise. The Internal machine was
not unsealed, but Captains Stuart and
Bond explained what it was to the jury.
At five o'clock the jury voted unani-
mouslY for an Indictment.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

The old veterans throughout the
country will be panied to learn of the
serious illness of General w. T. Sher-
man, who is suffering with erysipelas at
MS MS home in New York City. Uncle
billy Is the last of the more con-
splcuous figures brought out by the
war OF the rebellion, and is the idol of
the Union veterans, who love him as a
solder, as comrade and as man with
heart beating in unison with their
o"n and who will devoutly pray for his
recovery and preservation for many
Years to come.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

As was natural to expect, the popu-
larity of the new silver notes has in
creased with the reduction of their
magnitude. When they were first is
sued they were of large denominations,
and quickly found their way back to
the Government vaults through the
custom-house. AS their denomination
has now become smaller they go into
the general circulation. The same
thing occurred in the case of the certifi-
Gates based on the silver dollar.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

THE bill permitting marriage with a
deceased wifc's sister, or, as it's oppo-
nents used to facetiously call it, the bill
for the abolition of sisters-in-law, seems
to be growing in favor in England.
That is, the majorities which it obtains
In the House of Commons on it's sue
cessive rcappearances are growing
greater. The House of Lords, how
ever always defeats it, and will prob
ably continue to do SO until some of the
modern spirit touches that body, say
about 1925 or thereabouts.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

AMONG the prominent names on the
mortuary roll of 1891 thus far are those
of Bancroft, Kinglake, Emma Abbott,
Window, Bradlaugh, King Kalakaua,
Meissonier, Baron Hausman, the re-
constructor of Paris during the second
empire; A. H. II. Stuart, distinguished
Wing statesman of forty or fifty years
ago and Secretary of the Interior in
President Fillmore's Cabinet; Admiral
Porferand General Sherman. And yet
1871 is not two months old.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

THE well-meant efforts of humanita-
rians in this and other countries to Sc
cure an amelioration of the persecution
of the Jews in Russia are being met
with the very opposite of the hoped-for
effect. AS an intimation that outsiders
would better mind their own business
the autocrat of all the Russias has sim
ply given an extra twist to the screws,
and the condition of the prescribed race
has been made more intolerable than
ever
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

G. SOME OF our contemporaries, says the
~. 49, LOUIS Republic, are disposed to dis
cuss cr.s General sherman's military career
SS'4'.cally g on the occasion of his death.
I'd ~ iar as we have seen they show very
M understanding of the subject. One
inmates that the Battle of Franklin
~, confederate victory, and another
wa ,ra' the Federal victory at Nashville
roa' as ah accident which saved Sherman's
SIT s'dtion on the March to the Sea.
ny. Iecklessness in statement is un-
SaFoonable, and even if correct. would
Csno ~ o1 place at the present time.
rn;e reldl oherman's great service to the
nIaoo cause will find it's appropriate
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

IT is said that the three big gypsum
stucco mills in Fort Dodge, Ia, have
joined the syndicate now being organ
lied to control the stucco business of
the country. Hamilton Brown, of st.
Paul, Mimi, who is engineering the
combine, says the syndicate has secured
control of every gypsum mill of any
size in the United States. The Organi-
zation Of the combine will be completed
about April l.
On the 14th the Nord Deutcher Lloyd
steamship Havel, the last addition to
the fleet of that line, arrived at New
York, on her maiden trip, from Bremen,
having made the passage in seven days
and ten hours.
RABBI MARKUs and a Jewish physi-
clan named Chassanovitch living in
Grodno, Russia, have been arrested and
exiled from that province for two years,
for sending to the government in behalf
of the Jewish community a petition de-
manding redress for an outrage COM
mitted by Russian doctor named
Granvoski, who was charged with hav-
ing branded the word Thief in three
languages upon the forehead of jew
ish boy.
THE McCarthyites have acquiesced
in the proposition to devote the re-
naming e36, 600 Of the Irish National
League fund to the benefit of evicted
tenants.
RUMoRs of impending revolution in
the Hawaiian Islands were dispeled by
the Kings death, though it is said the
change of rulers is likely to cause some
friction.
RIVER men predict the greatest rise
in the Ohio, Monongahela and Ale
gheny rivers since 1884. Everywhere
up the valleys extra precautions are be-
ing taken.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

THE tailors of Cincinnati have a novel
method of dealing with those who are
inclined to swell the dead-bea list in
so far as paying their tailor bills is
concerned. They are met by a stern
refusal to accept their patronage either
for credit OF spot cash, and are com
peeled to go out of town or to the ready
made dealers for their personal adorn-
ments. The plan is said to have con-
verted many from the error of their
WaVS
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

A New JERSEY boarding house keep
tf sued boarder for damages for hav-
ing so placed phonograph in the
Ntchen OF the house that it would alb
soro the verbal instructions to the cook
auu then reproducing them in the din
IIg room, with the result that most of
me ooarders left. The phonograph was
operated in court, and the plaintiff
neard her own picayunish instructions
!epeated IN her own tones. The justice
eecioed that the machine was truth
5u witness, and that the plaintiff, un-
uer the circumstances, could have nc
reasonable cause of action.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

JOHN LUDLOW, aged ffty-fve, for

JOHN LUDLOW, aged fifty-fve, q for
mer well-known carpenter contractor,
was found dead in the hay-mow of Lane
d Ullery's barn at Muncie, Ind, on
the morning of the 10Th. Ludlow was
finely educated and at one time quite
wealthy, but lost his money by strong
drink. 1t is supposed he died in a
drunken stupor. He leaves destitute
family.
On the 10Th New Westminster, B. c.,
was visited by disastrous confagra-
ton. Several business blocks were
destroyed together with their contents.
Loss, nearly S50O,0O0. One fireman was
killed and two others were seriously in
jured.
On the 10th the Meyer mine, owned
by w. j. Rainer, near Scottdale, Pa,
caught fire from an explosion, and four
miners were supposed to be entombed.
-Four bumpers were known to have been
killed, and six or seven men were re-
ported missing. Fifty men were at
work when the explosion occurred.
THE nuns in the Catholic Hospital at
Rochester, N. Y, which burned on the
night of the 18th, are credited with
most heroic work in the rescue of the
three hundred patients, many of whom
were unable, without assistance, to
leave their beds.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
FIirted His Head on.

Brakeman Ward, of Albany, Ga, as
killed while flirting with two girls from
the top of his train. He backed off tue
car and was decapitated.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

MEssRs. OBRIEN and Dillon have sur
rendered to the English authorities, and
have been taken back to Ireland to
serve out the Jail sentences imposed up
on them while fugitives, for violations
NJ the Crimes act.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

THE death of General Sherman
leaves General Joe Johnston the most
nrominent surviving figure of the civil
war-the only one, in fact, of all the
really great captains on either side.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

ST. Louis lays claim to being the
largest fur market in the United States.
At recent sale of peltry in that city
more than a million skins of raccoon,
muskrat, skunk, mink, gray fox and
opossum were disposed of.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
War vessels at New Orleans.

Three war vessels of the White Squad
ron, the Chicago, Dolphin and York.
town, were recently anchored in front
of New Orleans.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Fatal Dispute Over Cards.

At Greenville, S. c., during dispute
over a game of cards, Major W. A. Will
Jams was shot through the heart and
instantly killed by J. B. Williams.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
VOLUME XII.

THE numerically smallest religious
denomination in the country, as shown
by the recent census, is the Schwank-
fcIdens. There are but 800 of them,
and they dwell in Pennsylvania.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
North Carolina Ex-Confederates

The North Carolina Senate has passed
bill incorporating North Carolina
soldiers home for ex-Confederate sol
diers and appropriating $4,000 to sup.
port it.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21

ton NJ, indian chiefs visiting Washing
Suco;,a ;,,''iuentally learned of Signor
wbon recent forty-fve days fast,
tb4 0n ION one OF them innocently inquired
of b;s s-iie n Oh the agent who had charge
met = supplies, intimating that he had
him persons who must be related to
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Redistrictinp the state.

The Alabama House of Represents
tiyes has passed a bill redistricting the
State into nine Congressional districts
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Escaped in Their Night Clothes.

The residence Of A. Fl. Prince, in the
southern part of Phillips County, Ark,
was destroyed by fire, the occupants es-
Gaping in their night clothes. Supposed
to have been incendiary.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Age one Hundred and Sixteen.

Aunt Hau9le Rodgers, a pure -blooded
Ethiopian, died on the farm Of Mr..
Drew Mayo, in Gibson County, Tenn,
aged one hundred and sixteen years.
She was the oldest person in West Ten
nessee, and was brought to America
from Africa in 1910.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
PERSONAL Ann POLITICAL.

GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMsEH SHER-
MAN died at his residence in New York
City at 1:50 p. IN. of the 14th.
SENATOR MOODY has abandoned the
Senatorial contest in South Dakota.
THE United States attorney has filed
suit against and the United States
marshal levied upon $50, 900 worth of
property belonging to the Mormon
church at Salt Lake City, Utah, which
includes the residence of George Q. Can
non, first councillor to the president of
the church, and the various lots in the
proximity to the old Tithing House.
Mrs. BRADSHAW, of Oconee County,
Ga, the oldest inhabitant of that State,
is dead, at the age of one hundred and
twelve. She had an immense family
connection, including grandchildren
seventy-two years of age. She was a
prodigy of strength and endurance, and
required specially-made coffin, seven
and one-half feet in length.
On the 10th Senator Quay, in a speech
of some length before the United States
Senate, specifically denied all the
charges of personal corruption and
malfeasance in office so industriously
circulated against him, referring to per-
sons and records for substantiation of
his statements.
IT is said that the dead body of Pad
lewski, the murderer of General Sell
iverskoff, has been found in Bulgaria.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Atlanta Indorses Reciprocity.

At a special meeting of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Chamber of Commerce the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resoired, That the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce heartily indorses reciprocity, and that
we congratulate the whole country, and es-
pecially the South, upon the recent success
of Mr.. Blaine in that line; that the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce believes it the true
policy Of the United States Government to
enlarge our foreign marketsby adopting the
principle of reciprocity with Central and
South America and Canada; that we believe
that the connection of all these countries by
better and swifter means of transportation,
both by land and water, and that the adop-
tion of a common coinage would advance
the interests of the people of all the Amer
lcas and help forward civilization and Chris
tianity.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Killed with a Maui.

Another member of the French-Ever-
sole faction that has given Perry Coun-
ty, KY, such unenviable notoriety, is
dead, and like most of his predecessors,
he died with his boots on. This time it
was Frank Policy, the youngest mem
Der of the Eversole side, and the most
reckless and daring member of either
factiod His death, however, had no
connection with this trouble, as his
uncle, Ira Davidson, beat him to death
with maui.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Caring for Disabled Ex-Confederates.

The Alabama House of Representa-
tives has passed bill levying a special
tax of one-half mill to raise fund for
the relief of disabled Confederate sol
diers, and of widows of such as were
killed in the Confederate service. The
tax will raise fund of S125, 900 annual
ly. A special provision of the bill sets
apart 81, 200 annually for the blind sol
diers, of whom there are only ten or
fifteen in the State. The bill received
only one negative vote.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Southern University.

At Florence, Ala, preparations have
been completed for the opening of the
Southern University for Ladies Septem-
ber Is in the spacious and elegant build
ing recently erected by the Florence
Land Company for Baptist University,
at cost of $1,000 unfurnished. The
building has 165 rooms, and will ac-
commodate 400 boarders. Rev. L. ID.
Bass, of Huntsville, graduate OF
Furman University and the South
ern Baptist University, will have
charge of the institution, and will
at once assumed the duties. A faculty
of thirteen experienced and competent
teachers have been secured from the
United States and Europe, and the
school will be devoted to the higher edo
ucation of women. The university will
be unsectarian.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
The Rube Burrows Reward.

Post-office Inspector Short, located at
Birmingham Ala, has been notified by
the Postmaster-Ge that the rewards
of 81, 900 each for the capture of Rube
Burrows, Joe jackson and Rube Smith,
offered by the Government, will be paid
as soon as it can be determined who If
entitled to the money.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Left a Fortune.

Lucian Jones, president Of the City
Bank of Hoplzinsville, KY, died from
p!eurisy, superinduced by protracted
attack of la grippe. He had been
leading merchant OF the city for thirty
years. He was about fifty-five years
old, and leaves an estate variously esti-
mated at from 500, 600 to $500, 600. A
young wife and two children survive
him.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
Mrs. Frances A. Burnley.

Mrs. Frances A. Burnley died at
Frankfort, KY, aged eighty-one years.
She was probably the oldest resident OF
Frankfort.
[she was the daughter Of George NJ. Bibbr
formerly chancellor of the Louisville Chan
Gerry Court, Chief Justice of the Court of APP
peals, Secretary of the United State Treas.
ury, and twice United States Senator, and
also was the granddaughter of Governor
Charles Scott of Kentucky. Her husband
Albert Burnley, was the Public Printer al
Washington City during President Taylor's
Administration.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 18th j. L. Flett, agent of the
Northwestern Elevator Company, at
Arthur, n D., was found murdered in
the hay-mow of the elevator. A bullet
hole in the back of his head showed
that he had been shot from behind.
The crime is supposed to have been
committed by man who is said to have
sold load of stolen wheat to Flett the
day before.
on the 18th Frank Smith, the nine
teen-year-old train robber who held up
q, train in Ohio and robbed the Adams
Express car last October, confessed his
crime and pleaded guilty at Urbana, o.
Smith has agreed to reveal the names
of his accomplices, and his sentence will
be made lighter in consequence.
THREE young prisoners tore away
part of the roof of the Vigo Coun-
ty und) Jail. on the night of the 18th,
and made their escape. Two of them,
Driscou and Vaut, were under sentence
for two years for burglary, and the
third. Dinsmore, was awaiting trial for
participation in the same burglary.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire visited the city OF
Sheffield, Ala, on the night of the l4tn,
destroy ing the Flournoy building IN
which was the j. T. Morris Drug Com
pany's store, and the Sheffield Daily
Enterprise office. The loss IS estl
mated at from ,Ooe to $4,000; insur~
ance, $40 900.
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