Huntsville gazette., 1892-10-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. at the
head OF his victorious army, $4,000
strong. He was proclaimed provisional
president.
The shaft for the Columbus monu-
ment in New York was successfully
raised and placed in position on the
9th. 1t is a single stone twenty-seven
feet high, four feet in diameter at the
base, and weighs thirty-six tons. 1t
rests on a base built up twenty feet
from the ground, and with the statue
added will be seventy-eight feet high.
BENJAMIN JOHNSON, member of the
congregation of st. Matthew's German
Lutheran church, Hobolxen, n. j., be-
came suddenly deranged in the middle
of services, on the 9th, and created a
panic in the church. He jumped to his
feet, threatened to kill the congrega-
tion and drew a revolver. Johnson was
arrested and locked up.
CHESTER GRIssEMER, a real estate
broker of Tacoma, Wash, died, on the
9th. at the Philadelphia hospital, from
the supposed effects of opium poisoning
that it is believed was administered to
him in low lodging-house to which he
had been taken by a designing cab
driver, and where he was robbed Of his
yalua bles.
JAMES NJ. RYAN, the Galena 0D.)
pork packer, well known in produce
exchange circles throughout the coun-
| try, died on a street car at Dubuque.
| Ia, from heart disease, on the 9th. He
was pioneer of Galena, and leaves six
children, his wife being dead.
| On the 10th the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture reported re-
duction of So points in the general
percentage of the condition of the cot
ton crop, from 1913 in September to 1873
in October. The deterioration was
heaviest in North Carolina and least in
Texas of any of the states of considera-
bic production.
On the 10th George Shiras, Jr., the
| new member of the United States su-
| preme court, subscribed to the oath of
office in the presence of the court and
took his seat upon the bench. At the
close of this formality court adjourned
White House and paid their respects to
| the president.
On the 10th the Spanish war ship
| bearing the queen regent and young
king of Spain to participate in the Co
| lumbus celebrat ton arrived at Huelva.
Their majesties were greeted by an
out-turning of the whole populace and
| by every mark of enthusiasm.
CHIEF JUSTICE PAxsON of the supreme
| court Pennsylvania charged the grand
jury in the cases of the Homestead
strikers accused of treason on the 10th.
The charge contained over 5000 words,
and is considered by members of the Al
legheny county bar as unfavorable to
the defendants.
IT is stated that Miss Harriet Monroe
will sue the New York World for pub
fishing, in a garbled form, her COM
memoration ode written for the dedi-
catory ceremonies of the Columbi eX-
position, regardless of her notification
that the matter was copyrighted.
Every member of the cabinet will at
tend the dedication of the Worlds fair
buildings in Chicago on the 2lst. Their
wives will accompany them, and sew
eral will also take other members of
their families.
THE press Of Boston and Fall River,
Mass, are seriously complicating the
case of Lizzie Borden by premature
publication of lines of evidence relied
upon by the state to convict. If half of
the allegations against the defendant
are true she must have been as two
faced as DIR. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde.
THE contest for the position of profes-
sor of modern languages at the West
Point military academy. a position which
carries with it salary of about $4,000
per annum and the rank of colonel, has
ended in favor of Capt. E. E. Wood, of
the Eighth cavalry, the present assist
ant professor of Spanish at the acade-
my.
NJ. J. O'BRIEN, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
fugitive from justice, who defaulted
as supreme treasurer of the Catholic
Knights Of America about a year ago,
was arrested. on the 10th, in Philadel-
phia, and taken back to Chattanooga
without delay.