Huntsville gazette., 1891-04-25
PERSONAL AND. POLITICAL.

with view of settling the bill of ex-
ceptions that will be presented to the
court at Washington.
IT is said that Secretary Foster has
decided to suspend the consular seal
system on cars, and instructions to that
effect will be issued shortly from the
treasury department. In its place Secre
tar.y Foster will adopt the system of
locked cars and manifests, which he be-
lieves will be better all around.
On the 18th John Mulligan, who
claimed to be over 100 years old, and
was said to have been the oldest veteran
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
died at his home in Mechanicsville, N.
dred and Fifteenth regiment, New York
volunteers.
CAPTAINS +. L. DoDGE and G. S. l..
Ward, of the Twenty-second regular in
fantry, have been retired on account of
disability.
BARON FAvA arrived in Paris on the
Goth, on his way to Rome. The Soliel
says that in conversation Baron Fava
stated that Marquis Imperiali would
soon be recalled, and that Italy would
not be represented at Washington until
the New Orleans affair was definitely
settled.
UNITED STATES CONsUL-GENERAL
CRAWFORD has been elected an honorary
member of the Slav benevolent society
in st. Petersburg. Count Ignatieff,
president of the society, warmly praised
Mr.. Crawford's administration of the
consulate
On the Goth Col August V. Kautz of
the Eighth infantry was appointed brig
adier-general to fill the vacancy caused
by the retirement of Gen. Gibbon.
| On the Goth Rev. Henry Darling, d.
D., LII. D., president Of Hamilton col
lege, Clinton, N. Y, died of bronchitis,
at his home in Clinton.
A SPECIAL committee of the Mime
sofa legislature, after an investigation
! of charges of needless cruelty to pris-
oners, recommended the discharge of
Deputy Warden Lemon of the Still
water penitentiary.
JAMES X. THACHER, professor of
physiology in Yale, died at New Haven,
| Conn, on the Goth, aged 43 years, of
pneumonia.
Ex-SPEAKER REED has arrived at
Rome, and will remain fortnight. He
was rendered dinner on the 18th, by
| the American consul, Mr.. Bourn. Min
lister Porter and number of prominent
visiting Americans were present.
On the Goth Congressman-Elect M. HI.
Ford (dem.) died at Grand Rapids,
Mich. Mr.. Ford had been ill for week
with the grip. He was found uncon-
scious in bed stricken with apoplexy.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th VIM. Marsden, of Chat
field, Mimi, dug up some wild parsnips,
which he mistook for artichokes. His
mother and her two sisters, Beatrice
and Eta johnson, ate them. An hour
afterward Mrs. Marsden died in con-
vulsions, and the life of Eta johnson
was despa ired of.
WILLIE MENDHEIM, aged IS, of Mont
gomery, Ala, angry with his mother,
hanged himself before her eyes. He
fastened a rope to the ceiling, and
jumping from high chair, broke his
neck.
NEAR Fallston, Md, on the 10th,
niured in an accident on the Maryland
Central road.
On the 18th Gen. o. II. Enochs, mem
ber of congress from Ironton, o., was
dangerously injured by runaway team
ON the 18th the trial, at Elmira, n.
Y. of William i. Decker for the muir
der of Miss Nellie Foster, formerly of
BROOKLYN, ended in verdict of murder
in the second degree. Decker was sem
fenced to Auburn prison for life. The
defense was insanity.
on the nth William Green, a negro,
was hanged in New Orleans for the
brutal murder of Joseph Parker, on
January 6, 1890. Green did not deny
the killing, but held that it was in self
defense.
Ar Sioux Falls, S. D., Mrs. Frank
HYDE poisoned her two young children,
on the 18th. and then committed suicide
She left a note stating that insanity
was hereditary in her family, and she
thought it best to kill the children and
herself.
By an explosion near Kootinay, Man.,
on the 18th, several worknen were
buried under mass of rock and killed.
AT Kipton, o., on the 18th. q collision
between the Toledo express and. the
fast mail, on the Lake Shore railroad.
resulted in the killing of six postal
clerks and the engineers of both trains,
and the fatal wounding of a boy who
was sitting on the platform OF the sta
ton where the accident occurred. Ihe
engines were demolished and the postal
car reduced to kiudling wood.