Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-10
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES.
Domestic and Foreign and of General
Interest.

Domestic and Foreign and of General
Interest.
A London dispatch states that Mr..
and Mrs. Gladstone will pass the winter
in Florence.
AT Rock Island, Ills, L. FL. Dudley
died suddenly at his dinner table. he
| choked to death on a piece OF meat.
Owing to the disturbance at the tomb
of Victor Emmanuel the pope has in
formed nuncios abroad that he will be
unable to receive any more pilgrims.
General Ruiz Sandoval, who is in
New Orleans. says that while he Is
opposed to President Diaz, he took no
part in the recent uprising III Mexico.
The work of allotting Cheyenne and
Arapahoe In liam lands west Of Guth-
RE, Ok, is 10 be resumed, and the
land will be thrown open 10 settlement
before long.
Eighte steamboats,, loaded with
freight and carrying passeA Sere, are
aground beiw en Cincinnati ahd Point
Pleasant, w. Va, where there is but
| twenty inches OF water.
Reports are coming IN of hurricane
| in the northern pineries of Minnesota.
Several townships were deyastaie! and
the loss of timber Is said to be Id hun
dreds of millions of feet.
Mr.. Andrew r. French of Kansas
City, who proposed rs Il means of re
| lieving the distress III Europe that
each farmer should donate three or
| four bushels of wheat, has gone in
sane.
Business at Kingston, n Y, is at a
standstil, owing 80 the wrecking OF the
savings banks Other banks have no.
| tices on their doors requiring sixty
| days notice Tor the withdrawal Of de-
! posits.
At Montgomery. Ala, kolb has turn
| ed over the office of commissioner OF
| agriculture to Lane. VINO was appointed
to succeed him in pursuance TO the de-
| cision OF the supreme court rendered
Saturday.
An Eldon, Ia., special says: Sanford
| Dowd, the pioneer citizen of this local
ity, has died at the age of 81 years. He
was the father of thirty-one children,
| five by his first wife. ten by his second
aad sixteen by his third.
At Reading, Pa. Rev. Phillip Ell. Gar
rett, the well known United Brethren
minister convicted III court on the charge
of fraudultntly obtaining 500 OH life
| insurance policy, was sentenced to one
| years Imprisonment. He wept as he
went to jail.
A Vienna dispatch says: The Hun
| garlan diet has unanimou 1y adopted a
resolution expressing its great inelgna-
| tlon at the attempt recently madt on
/ the life Of Emperor Francis Joseph, and
assuring him OF their deepest gratitude
| for his escape from death.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, special says.
Charles Fox and Lena Mapes, the elop-
| ing couple who took up their abode III
a cave on the mountain, was captured
and placed in jail FOX is charged with
stealing goods from farmers Fox re-
sisted, but the losse overpowered him.
The four years term of Commodore
| ted States navy, expires next January.
| In recognition OF the work performed
| by the bureau of steam engineering
under his direction, Secretary Tracy
has signided his intention of reappoint-
ing Commodore Melville for third
term OF four years
A Paris dispatch says: The remains
| of General La Sale, which were re-
Gently disinterred in Vienna by depu-
tation OF French officers and placed in
silver coffin. have been transferred to
this city and deposited ii the Hotel des
Invahdes The placing of the body in
this famous place WAS the occasion of
great pomp and ceremony.
At dance, about two miles sonth of
Napanee, Ind, there was cutting
afffay, in which William Heckelman
was stabbed to death by Joseph Santup.
Upon examination there We're twenty
four knife wounds found on his body.
There is a searching party after the
murderer, and all probabilities are he