Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLIrICAr.


baltimore and to the families of such of
the wounded as may die; second, the ar
rest and punishment of the participants
in the assault, and, third, a suitable apol-
ogy to the United States The tone of
the dispatch indicates that the admin
istration will brook no DELAY in secur-
ing settlement of the matter. The
situation is regarded as one of extreme
gravity.
GEN. JOHN PALMER. commander-in-
chief Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public, will issue an order after the
November elections forbidding mem
bers parading in professions where con-
federate flags are carried.
AT Little Rock Judge Lea overruled
the demurrer in the case of ex-Treas-
urer Woodruff of Arkansas, and the
trial of the case began on the 26th.
On the gath testimony in the Hop
kins-Searles will case was concluded,
and the case was submitted without ar
gument. The court announced that the
will was sustained, and counsel for the
contestant gave notice of appeal.
On the 25th Isaac Tefkowski, a Rus
sian Jew immigrant, when questioned
by the inspectors at the landing bureau
in New York as to- his financial ability
to take care Of himself, greatly surprised
the barge Office officials by producing a
belt from around his body and taking
therefrom $40, 500-S1, 500 in cash and
the remainder in letters of credit. He
| was passed.
In the celebration of Archbis hop
Kenrick's golden jubilee in St Louis,
in December next in accordance with
a circular issued by James Il. Coffey,
secretary of the executive committee,
Catholic children attending the public
schools will be excluded from partici-
patton in the ceremonies. Some of the
priests who have no parochial schools
are quite indignant in consequence.
MRS. ELIZA HARPLE, steerage pas
senger, was held by customs inspectors
in New York, on the 25th, on a charge
of attempting to smuggle jewelry,
quantities of which she had concealed
about her person and that of her infant.
She had with her $4,000 in cash. She
had run away from her husband in
Germany, it is said.
Mrs. BOOTH CLAIBORNE, the leader Of
the Salvation Army in France and Swift
zerland and her secretary, Nine. Pyron,
arrived in New York, on the 25th, by
the steamship Columbia.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, secretary of
state, returned to Washington on the
Oath, and will soon be seen at his desk
in the state department again.
On the 2eth Secretary Blaine was at
his desk at the state department. Dur
ing the forenoon he saw no callers, but
occupied his time in acquiring himself
with the status of the numerous mat
ters before the department.
DoCToRs say that Katie Cole, of
Pottstown, Pa, colored girl of Is.
who dropped dead in the street. on the
25th, died from the effects of tight lac
ing.
On the Goth the navy department re-
ceived dispatch from Capt. Schley Of
the steamer Baltimore announcing the
death of Coalheaver Turnbull, who was
injured by the mob which attacked the
American sailors at Valparaiso re-
Gently.
On the Goth an order was sent to Adj
miral Brown at Callao, directing the
cruiser San Francisco to return to San
francisco for repairs. The vessel has
been at sea for some time, and her bot
tom is badly in need of cleaning and
painting, and the department considers
it unwise to delay.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Of r, q
Northwestern railroad at West Side,
Ia, was held up by burglar at 5
o'clock on the morning of the 21st.
who compelled him, at the point of a
revolver, to surrender the company's
funds in his Office.
On the 22d the three men who robbed
the Enterprise (Ore.) national bank
some weeks ago of SO, 800, were arrest
ed at Kamela, Ore.
On the 2lst Forest Inn, the largest
principal hotel at the famous natural
bridge in Virginia, was destroyed by
fire. Loss on hotel and furniture, S75,-
600, on which there is little insurance.
Appledose Inn and Pavilion Inn, the
two other hotels, were saved.
GILBERT VENDOR, president OF the
Gold Queen mine of Colorado. has been
arrested in London on the charge OF
misappropriating funds with which he
was intrusted.
THE Minneatta hotel at Hot Springs,
S. D., was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 21st; loss, $4,000.
The long boat belonging to the
French training ship Austerlitz, and
manned by twelve boys and two quar-
termasters Of that vessel, was capsized
when in dangerous spot at the en-
trance Of the harbor of Brest, on the
Esd, but all hands we. e saved.
FIRE in the stables at the Council
Bluffs Qa-) driving park, on the 2Sd,
caused heavy loss, and several OF the
horses were burned to death. Heavy
losers are: H. Sweet, S2s, 900; Searls d
Ellsworth, $1,000. and Chamberlain. OF
Denver, So, 900. The driving park asso-
citation is also heavy loser.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in
the case of the negro Smith, taken from
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