Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1891-05-30
SHORT ITEMS.
Important General News Dispatches IA
Condensed Form.


city OF Atlanta next week
The state meeting of physicians at
Excelsior Springs, Mo-. continued.
A Greek fruit vender was arrested in
Atlanta for kissing pretty girl in his
employ.
Governor Buchanan has appointed W.
L. Maston police commissioner of Chat
tanooga.
Duncan, the American charged with
assaulting his wife in Wales, will plead
insanity.
DR.. D. Pagin, of South Bend, Ind,
predicts the world will come to end in
the year 2062
The Northern Pacific Express COM
pany was robbed at Medford, Wis, of
$4,000 to $4,000
). X. Brantley, the Iron Mountain
land office defaulter at Little Rock, Ark,
has become insane.
Baloting still continues at Tallahas-
see, Fla, and Call lacks the necessary
two-thirds to elect him.
Marion West, a farmer near Van Blu
re,,, Ark. was called to his deer at night
and shot to death. The lover of his
daughter is under arrest.
Popular clamor has started in Eng
land against the enormous influx of des-
tltute Hebrews from Russia.
EpiscOpalians, in session at Richmond,
adopted a resolution declaring the do
cese should be divided in two.
Eugene Michel, of Helena, Ark. whose
wife has just died, drank embalming
f1ulA oy mistake, and will die.
The National Conference of Charities
and Correction has made arrangements
for unique display at the Chicago fair.
Rev. Henry j. Hamilton was killed in
Cincinnati by falling stone from
building i'll course of erection i'll that
city.
1t is reported that Mrs Langtry has
been unable to satisfy her creditors and
that she will shortly appear in the bank
ruptcy court.
1t is said that the British government
Is taking steps to prosecute weekly
publication for printing charges against
the royal family.
John L. Sullivan is no longer an Elk,
the grand lodge having decided that the
Newark lodge had no authority to admit
him, as he is a resident of Boston.
1t is stated on authority that Gen.
Raum has not resigned, and that he has
received no intimation from the presi-
dent that his resignation is desired.
Professor Stanton, of Cheyenne, Wy.
T., predicted a bloody war between the
east and the west in speech to the
Transmississippi congress at Denver.
A committee of directors of the Union
Theological seminary catechised Profess
sor Briggs and then adopted resolutions
declaring their confidence in his ortho-
doxy.
Lem Ca1 pbell, Creek Indian, sent
to the Columbus, O., penitentiary from
Arkansas for two years for grand lar
ceny, died i'll the prison hospital of con-
sumption.
DR.. Philip Brooks, the newly elected
bishop of Massachusetts, may not be
confirmed, ON account of his outspoken
sympathy with DIR. r. Heber Newton's
literal views.
The Covington and Macon railroad
was sold at public outcry at Macon, Ga,
for 100000 to Skipworth Wilmer of
Baltimore, chairman of the committee
of bondholders.
A cave-in on the improved sewerage
work in Elmwood, r. L., buried eleven
Italians. Seven were saved, but the
other four are still buried, and are I'M
1oubtedly dead.
J. A. Gallon 81 Son, an old firm of
contractors and builders at Knoxville,
Tenn, have assigned, with liabilities of
$40, 900 and nominal assets of $5O, 900.
FL. Gilmore is assignee.
The report of the committee on immi-
grafton of the National Conference of
Charities and Corrections takes stand
against dumping on our shores indis-
criminately of undesirable foreigners.
The fight between Jim Corbett, of
San Francisco, and Peter Jackson, the
negro pugilist of Australia, at the Cali
fornia Athletic club in San Francisco,
was declared draw after fifty-eight
rounds.
AT Bellville, Ont, James Kane was
executed for the murder of his wife.
TIE drop fell i'll three minutes after
Kane left his cell. He died hard. He
did not speak to any person after he left
the cell.
Fire destroyed the machine shops and
bolt department Of the massive works
owned by the Knoxville, Tenn, iron
company. The loss is estimated at be-
tween $75, 900 and $50, 900. Cause of the
fire unknown.
The board of aldermen of New York
unanimously adopted resolution grant
ing the letter carriers of the United
States permission to erect a statue to
the memory of the late Samuel S. Cox,
member of congress, at the junction of
Astor place and Eighth street.
Some settlers arrived at Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, by sail boat from Sugar
Island, and reported that terrible forest
fires were raging and devastating the
island. More than dozen families have
been burned out, and had to leave all
they possessed in order to save their
lives.
The Glass Manufacturers association.
composed of manufacturers in Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, indianapolis and Hi
nois points, met in secret session at Chi
cago to listen to the monthly reports of
the condition of the trade, which is said
to be only fair, dizziness having set in
three weeks ago.