Huntsville gazette., 1892-10-22
WIS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


THE president has granted pardons to
Gustave Anderson, Charles A. Ander-
son, L. H. Berg, Warren C. Child, Louis
Fanstrup, Andrew Hauser, Peter John
son, James L. Jensen, Ed d. Mills, Neil
P. Nelson, w. S. Poppleton, all of Utah,
and convicted of polygamy, on condt
ton that in the future they abstain
from unlawful cohabitation.
Miss LEOLA YoHN. young lady of
Champaign county, O., has proved to be
an heiress and the possessor of an es-
tate estimated to be worth $40, 900. DIR.
Yohn, prominent physician Of Val
paraiso, Ind, died recently, leaving his
estate to his wife. This was his second
marriage, however, he having obtained
divorce from his first wife, who was
the mother of Miss ohm.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERsoN, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, accepted an
invitation to deliver the dedicatory ad
dress at the Worlds fair. The invita-
tion reached him by telegraph, on the
14th, and he replied at once by wire.
REV. S. w. Army, who has won IS, 600
in racing premiums this season, has
sold the last horse in his string of trot-
ters except 2:20 roadster. and has gone
back to preaching. A church in one
of the Minneapolis suburbs has given
him a call.
Ex-PREsIDENT PELLIGRINI of Chilli, in
taking leave of congress, was met with
storm of whistling. and some stones
were thrown. In his farewell address
he said he had done the best he could
for his country and to maintain order.
This statement was greeted by the rad
icals with ironical cheers.
PRIOR to Minister Egan's departure
from Chilli, the refugees who found an
asylum in the American legation in
| the hour of defeat, presented him with
a superb testimonial, which is a brief
address in Spanish engraved on an elab-
crate card of gold six by four and one
half inches.
IT is announced that Bandmaster D.
| w. Reeve of the American band of
| Providence, R. T., now playing at Port
land, Ore, has accepted the offer to be-
come the leader of Gilmore's band, New
York city. just closing long engage
ment at the st. Louis exposition.
EFFORTS are being made by Archduke
Albert of Austria to arrange for long
distance ride from Vienna to Rome, and
Rome to Vienna, on the same plan as
the recent riding competition between
officers of the Austro-Hungarian and
German armies.
On the nth the grand jury at Quebec
Can, rendered mo bill' in the case of
The Queen VS.. Premier Mercier, charged
with malfeasance in office in connection
with the Hereford railway su bsidies. A
like decision was rendered in the case of
Ernest Pacand, Mercier's political man
ager, for bribery in connection with the
same deal
SELMA FETTER, the actress, and Ed
win Milton Royle, the author, were
married at Christ church, New York,
on the 10th.
The United States supreme court, on
the 18th, decided that the law of Mich
igan, dividing the state into districts
for the election of presidential electors,
is invalid only so far as it conflicts
with the act of congress of 1877, re-
lating to the time of meeting of the
electors.
On the 18th James II. Coleman, ad-
vertising agent for the Boston Globe,
dropped dead of heart disease on the
corner of Nichol and Washington
streets. Boston.