Huntsville gazette., 1891-11-07
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND poLrrICAL.


The Austrian government has re-
solved to comply with the request of
the United States and to remove the
restrictions on the importation of
picked pork and bacon. but will retain
them on lard. The government is in
fuenced by the fact that similar con-
cession was granted by Germany. The
assent of the Hungarian cabinet. is still
wanting, but will doubtless be OBJ
tanned
The consensus of opinion from all
quarters, both foreign and domestic,
seems to be that Chill will madly court
conflict with the United States rather
than give way one iota from her AFRO
CANT attitude in regard to the recent
attack upon American men of -warsmen
in Valparaiso.
A SWEDISH journalist named Undgren
has arrived at Dunltirk, France, from
Gothenburg, Sweden, having made the
voyage in an open boat the dimensions
of which are: Length. 16 feet: width,
6 feet. The journalists only means of
propulsion was oars He will row to
London and then return to Gothenburg
IT is positively known that the cruiser
Newark is booked for Chilian waters.
There are also developments which in
dicate that the Philadelphia and Allan
ia will also leave for Chilli as soon as
practicable. This will make seven yes
sells for the Chilian service.
The treasury department has been
sv,fa fl,o4 1,o
from October 20, the import duties on
corn, rice, beans and peas, which were
suspended on April 20.
On the 1st DR.. Reardon sailed from
Queenstown on the Umbria for New
York, bringing with him large wreath
of ivy and laurel from the grave of
Parnell. This, with violets and sham
rock gathered near Cork, are sent by
the women Of Cork to be exhibited at
Parnell memorial service and after
ward presented in due form to Mrs.
Parnell, the mother of the late Irish
leader.
DB. STEINER, of Berlin, has published
letter from Emin Pasha, in which the
latter mentions, his intention of cross
ing to the Cameroons, but makes no
mention of the Wadelai. DR.. Steiner
declares that there is noroom for Emin
in the lake region if Wissmann is re-
tanned as governor.
CHEvALIER MoTT, Italian vice-consul
at Boston, has been transferred tenn
porarily to take charge Of the Italian
consulate at New Orleans, vacated by
Consul Corte, whose rabid utterances
on the New Orleans malta affair caused
his departure from that city.
CoMMANDANT SELFRIDGE of the
Charlestown navy yard has received in
structions from Secretary Tracy direct
ing that the cruiser Newark be made
ready for sea by the 10th Orders were
also given that in employing men for
work on the cruiser the civil-service
rules recently put in force must be
strictly adhered to.
THE mayor of San Francisco has
called meeting of prominent politi-
clans of that city to take steps to secure
one or both of the national conventions
next year. The railroads promise to
make round-trip fare Of $50 from all
points east of San Francisco if success
full
On the I'd the census office announced
the population of Mississippi by minor
civil divisions. The population OF the
state is given as 1,2S9, 600, against 1,131,-
597 in 1880. Of the seventyfive coun
ties in the state eleven show decreases.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 3Oth Charles Beardsly. mo-
torneer on a Minneapolis (Minn.) elec-
trio car, met death under the wheels OF
his own car, which ''bucked," or ran
backward few feet, and then started
forward, throwing Beardsly over the
front of the car. which ran over him.
He was dead when picked up
AT Bangor, Pa, on the 3oth, while an
employe of the Excelsior Slate Co. was
tending gate at the head of the
quarry, and while trying to haul in
stone weighing about ton, severe
wind-storm started the derrick, which
struck the man and dashed him head
first into pit seventy-five feet deep,
and he was instantly killed.
The steamship Moselle, carrying the
lOSLd AlCd CpOltSO ~ ~ " SONsNA
wreck near Colon. Her cargo is known
to have been lost, and it is feared that
the crew have met with the same fate
Nothing has been found of the mails.
Unprecedented storms have prevailed
off Colon.
on the 3Oth cave-in on the Roanoke
& Southern railroad near Martlnsvllle,
Va. resulted in the killing of two men
and serious injury to three others.
--LATEST reports in connection with
the burning of the steamer Oliver
Bierne at Millikin's Bend, La, place
the loss of life at seventeen.
On the 31st fifteen miners were buried
by the collapse of a coal pit at DOM
browka, Poland.
A FIRE which started in the dry-goods
store of Deneclke & Yetter at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the 1st, caused loss OF
fully S75, 600 before it was got under
control. J.. l.. Billan, druggist and art
dealer, was a heavy loser, and several
LAWYERS offices were badly soaked.