Huntsville gazette., 1891-08-22
CONDENSED NEWS Dis PATCHES.

Interest.
The Texas Alliance has taken steps to
prevent spectators from controlling
the cotton crop.
FRANK Cannon, colored man of
knoxville, Tenn, was bitten by pet
rattlesnake and has died
The Ryan 80 per cent. settlement has
Tailed to materialize, the Boston credi-
oots having rejected the Atlanta ex-
merchants offer.
Patrick Dunphey, workman en-
pioyed In an Akron, O., clay bank, was
Killed by falling mass of of earth. He
leaves wife and five children.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived 1t Milwau-
Zee. Wis, where he assisted in confer
ing the palllum on Archbishop Ketzer,
OF the arch diocese of Milwaukee.
The native press of India is indignant
over Engiand's haste in executing the
Manlpur prisoners, the brutality of one
hanging being painfully conspicuous.
President Harrison and party jour
neyed from Cape May to Bennington,
VT, where he spoke at soldiers monu-
ment dedication. He made several
speeches on the way.
The Columbus Southern depot at
Dawson, Ga, was burglarized, and all
me tickets stolen, together with the
money in the Office. $14, and two bank
checks. There is no clue to the perpe-
traitors.
OF the 100 counties in Kansas. So have
organized Worlds Fair associations for
the purpose of raising their apportion-
ment of the 100000 which Kansas
started out to provide for its represen-
tatlon at the exposition. Twenty-Five
counties have already raised their full
share.
Alfred Goldthwaite of New Orleans,
state senator OF Louisiana and distin-
guished as counsel in the celebrated
Gaines case, was stricken with paralysis
in the left side while at Point Clear, a
summer resort ON the eastern shore of
of Mobile>bay. His condition is serious.
Two hundred men, women and child
rem of Raper NJ E. church were on
canal boat pleasure trip below Dayton,
O., and the boat collapsed, throwing the
entire party into the water. A score of
passengers Were injured The most Sc
riously hurt were Miss Mollie and Miss
Ella Haas, who We're rescued from I'M
der the boat.
: The return of the czarowitz, safe and
sound, has caused tremendous rejoicing
in the Russian court and among Rus
sian officials everywhere. The young
man is said to appear none the worse
for his long journey, while his brother,
Prince George, who used to be the
strongest of the cars children, is far
from being Welt and robust
The London Times argues that many
of the Office seeking abuses in the
United States are due to the power to
re-elect the president. and that it would
be better if reelection was forbidden.
The Times is of the opinion that the
only argument against such a change
appears in Mr.. Cleveland's question !:
"What will you do with the ex-presi-
dents?"
Jim Wilson, negro harvest hand
from Kansas City, was taken from the
calaboose at Corder, eighteen miles
southeast of Lexington, Mo-, given a
whipping with thick leather strap,
coated with,tar and told at the points of
reyolvers to forever leave the neighbor-
hood. He had almost frighteneda white
Lady to death by breaking into her
room.
Argenta, Ark, was the scene of an
other tragedy. Joseph Hicks, an engi-
neer employed on the Little Rock and
Memphis railroad. and John Shaffier.
switchman, working for the same cor
poration, became involved in a dispute
over the moving of an engine off the
main track, and Hicks was shot through
the heart and instantly killed. The
murder was unprovoked, and Shaffier
was held and placed in Jail.
At Danville, KY, the south end of
Funk.& Anderson's new Touring mill in
which was stored in -four bins 5000
bushels Of wheat and several hundred
bushels of shelled corn, gave way this
evening, preeipitaeing the contents into
the street. A colored man named Ben
Pellman, who, with spring wagon,
was waiting for some flour, was buried
in the wheat and badly injured. al
though yet alive. The wagon was bro
ken beyond repairs.
At Salem, nls., the last legal act in
the trial of the train wreckers, Charles
A. Smith and Charles w. Buch, who
were convicted by jury in the circuit
court recently and given fourteen years
in the pen, was enacted by Judge Will
derman who refused to give the prison
ers a new trial on a motion made for
that purpose. They will be taken to
Chester at once to begin their term of
service.
Governor Toole of Montana has been
informed by Acting Secretary Grant of
the war department that in compliance
with the petition of citizens of Custer
county, the cavalry detachment on
Tongue river, has been ordered from its
camp there to the Indian agency on
that river. In the opinion of the mill
tary commanders, this force will be
sufficient to guard the interests of both
Indians and settlers.
The Independent state convention or
eanized at Hastings, Neb., by the cleo
ton of State Senator Paynter as tenn
porary chairman. Nearly 700 delegates,
representing seventy-six OF the eighty
nine counties, were in attendance. AT
ter the appointment of committee on
credentials, addresses were delivered by
Congress1nan-elect Kern, of the third
district President Powers, of the Ma
tional Alliance State Master workman
Deck and others.