Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1891-05-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND poLIrIcAr.

Ex-MTNIsTER TAFT died at San Diego,
Cal, on the 2lst.
Hon. A. C. PHILLIPS, the founder of
Sioux Falls, S. d., died suddenly, on
the night of the 2lst, at the residence
Of his brother-in-law, Dr. j. M. Stra-
pies, of Dubuque, la.
= THE liabilities of the Hill Shoe Co.,
which failed recently at Memphis,
Tenn, are now given as 5000, ,O00 in
stead of $40o,00o the figure at which
they were at first placed. The assets
delivered the assignee by the terms of
the instrument amount to about $780,,
900.
COMMISSIONER RAUM of the pension
bureau, on the ed, approved and signed
a pension certificate in favor of John G.
Hildt, formerly of company X, First
Michigan volunteer infantry, for SIC, 500.
This pension is for gunshot wound in
the right arm, causing amputation of
the same, and resulting in nervous pros
tration and insanity, and dates from
1862, for amounts varying from $25 to
S75 per month.
On the 22d a bronze monument to the
Andrews raiders was erected in the Ma
tional cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn,
and the unveiling ceremonies set for
the 3Oth.
The king of Siam has granted pen
sion of $500 yearly, for period of four
teen years, for the education of the
three children of D. E. Bradley, an in
terpreter in his service recently de-
ceased.
AT meeting in Detroit, on the Esd,
the election of Rev. Philip Brooks as
bishop of Massachusetts was unanimous
ly confirmed by the standing committee
of the diocese of Michigan.
AT Homecoming, Md, John Mcmillan,
aged IL years, was handling revolver,
on the 23d, which had carelessly been
placed on a window at his home, when
the weapon went off, killing him in
stantly.
O'BRIEN & CLARK's suit against the
city of New York for $500, 900 for work
done on the new aqueduct has been be-
gun. Similar suits aggregating $S,O00,-
900 are expected.
On the cath David Meeker, pioneer
and former partner of Senator Stanford,
died in San Francisco. He went to
California in 1850, and was prominent
in state politics.
M. BoUeEUREAU, the distinguished
French painter, and member of the
Paris Academy of Fine Arts, delivered
an address at the celebration of the
American Students association of
Paris on the evening of the 23d. M.
Bougoureau testified to the high aims
and achievements of American artists.
The pope's encyclical (translatedj
will be distributed among workingmen
of all countries. The document is re-
garded as an Endorsement of the views
contrasted with those of Bishop Frep-
pei.
THE well-known Jewish financier,
Herr Goldberger, director of the Inter
nal bank of Berlin, who recently went
to Moscow to establish branch bank,
was ordered by the police to leave the
city within twenty-four hours. Some
scinded, but Herr Goldberger left the
city in disgust.
On the 25th Congressman L. c. Houk,
of Tennessee, died at Knoxville, as the
result of drinking solution of arsenic
instead of a glass of water. He asked
a drug clerk for glass of water, and
the clerk placed it beside a glass filed
with the poison. Mr.. Houk took the
poison, and drank every drop of it.
When the clerk seen what had been
done, he gave Mr.. Houk an emetic, sent
for medical aid, but he could not be
saved