Huntsville gazette., 1892-12-24
THr blockade Of Dahomey by the

French has been raised.
MISS KATIE ROONEY, patient, es-
capped from the hospital for the insane
at Mount Pleasant, Ia, on the 18th. and
committed suicide in a room in the
Brazelton house. which she had taken
under an assumed name Her home
was at Davenport, Ia.
IT is said that the woman who COM
mitted suicide few days ago at Los
Angeles, CAL, and supposed to be from
Detroit, Mich, has proved to be Mrs.
Kate Morgan, of Hamburg, La. She had
not been living with her husband Tor
several months
It is officially announced that the Do
minion parliament will meet for the
dispatch of business on January %,
1898.
THE Sunday opening question will
shortly be dragged into the courts at
Chicago. An application has been
made for an injunction restraining the
Worlds fair directors from closing the
gates on Sunday, on the ground that
jackson park is public property, and
Judge Tuley will hear arguments on
the matter on January 8.
LOUIS SIM, Hungarian, who worked
at the Carnegie steel works during the
strike, died at the Allegheny (Pa. hos
pital, on the 18th, and the physicians
say it is believed he was poisoned. This
is the first case of the alleged poisoning
reported to the coroner, and a thorough
investigation will be made.
GEORGE CENTER BROWN, a journalist
of Cincinnati, died on the 18th of heart
failure. For the past ten years he had
been on the local staff of the Enquirer,
but was formerly connected with the St
Louis press. Before going into jour
nalism he practiced law in ST. Louis and
owned considerable property there.
Several years ago Brown accompanied
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer,
on one of his expeditions.
GEN. JOHN A. WILEY, of Franklyn.
Pa. and party of capitalists, arrived
in Chicago, on the 10Th, after an eX-
tended tour Mexico. Gen. Wiley was
in command of the troops at Home
stead, Pa. during the Carnegie-Fricll
lockout
WARRANTS were issued, on the 10Th,
for the arrest of Hugh Dempsey, dis
trict master workman, Knights of
Labor, and j. M. Davidson, for COM
plicity in the Homestead (Pa.) poison
ing case.
A COLLISION resulting in the sinking
of the Norwegian bark Valberg by the
British steamer Lord ONeill was re-
ported in London on the 10th.
A LOCOMOTIVE exploded in the round
house of the Grand Trunk road at Lon
don, Ont, on the night of the 18th, do
ing considerable damage to the build
ing and surrounding property. The
conclusion was felt in almost every
part of the city.
BURGLARS entered Leigh court, near
Bristol, England, the seat of Sir Cecil
Miles, baronet, on the 18th, while the
family were at dinner, and stole S35,-
00o worth of jewels that Lady Miles
had left in an unlocked safe in her bed
room.
IT is said that the Rock Island Rail-
road Co. will supplant the telegraph
with the telephone in order to outwit
the strikers.
FIRE in st. Louis, on the evening of
the 10th, completely destroyed the
building occupied by the Udell &c Crun-
den Woodenware Co., and seriously
damaged those of the United States
Express Co., the Tyler Desk Co.. the
Trorlicht, Dunclxer & Renard Carpet
Co., and others, besides causing damage
to the store fronts on the opposite side
of Fourth street, running plate glass
windows, etc. The loss will proba bly,
foot up in the neighborhood of $3.50, 600;
fully insured.