Huntsville gazette., 1893-07-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND roL1rICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WHITE STARR, notorious burglar,
was being taken via the Monon to the
Michigan City Qnd.) pententiary, on
the 21st, by deputy sheriff Just as
the train had left Nora station Starr
said he wanted a drink and the deputy
went with him to a water tank near
the car door. Although he was hand
cuffed Starr made dash for the plat
form, jumped off and escaped.
ADvICEs from California are to the
effect that Gov. Markham has deter
mined to appoint Michael Fl. De Young,
owner of the San Francisco Chronicle,
United States senator, to fill the va
cancy created by the death of Senator
Stanford.
Ex-POsTMAsTER WILSON LIFF of
Weir City, Kas., was arrested at Leav-
enworth, on the 21st, by United
States marshal on the charge of en-
bezzling government money. Lift was
postmaster in 1892 and claims he set
tied his accounts, but did not get credit
from his successor for fifty-odd dollars
His bond is $500.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs, on the 22d. or
dered bank examiners to take charge
of failed banks as follows: Escott,
at Louisville Ky; Plumber, at Knox
vile, Tenn; Sawyer, at Russell, Kas.;
Stone, at Vernon, Tex, and Lynch, at
Milwaukee.
THE pope owing to the extreme heat,
has suspended for the time the grant
ing Of audiences.
ACCORDING to the New York World
President Cleveland will not appoint
successor to the late Justice Blatch-
ford until congress meets. The various
rumors circulated that the justiceship
| will be offered to Secretary Gresham
or Secretary Carlisle, or to Attorney
General Olney, the World adds, have
no foundation in fact.
PRESIDENT EzETA of Salvador, it is re-
ported, has discovered conspiracy
against him, and twenty-three of
the conspirators have been shot, among
| them Gen. Avilez.
| YAGATI SINGH. mahara jah of Kapur-
| thai, India, reached New York on the
steamer Paris on the 22d. He is ac-
| companied by one of his wives, the
| fourth in number, and quite distin-
guished suite.
ON the 23d there was mild sensa-
ton at the morning service in the Cen
ural Congregational church at Fall
River, Mass, created by the first ap-
pearance there of Miss Lizzie C. Bor-
den since the tragic event at her home
last August.
MCBRIDE Bros, of Philadelphia,
owners of the yacht Yankee Doodle"
have announced that they will match
their craft against the Rex, Vamoose,
Norwood, Javelin or any other yacht
in the world for 81 200 side, distance
from to so miles, in either smooth or
rough water, on river or at sea.
On the gath the District of Columbia
grand jury found true bills against Col.
Fred C. Ainsworth, chief of the record
and pensions division of the war depart
ment; George w. Dant, the contractor
employed to make the excavation for
the electric-light plant; William E.
Covert, superintendent, and Francis
Sasse, engineer of the building, hold
ing them responsible for the Ford's old
theater disaster of June last, in which
twenty-three persons lost their lives
and large number of others were in
jured.
FIRST CoMPTRoLLER ROwLER decides
that congressman are authorized to
employ clerks during an extra session
of congress; that any number of con-
gressmen may employ and pay the
same clerk, if they so desire, and that
clerks so employed do not have to take
oath of Office.
PROF. VINES, a well-known meteor
illogical expert of Havana, whose i'll
ness from an affection of the heart was
announced some time ago, died on the
23d He was in priestly orders.
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, referring to
the report that he was dying from
cancerous affection in the neck, said to
reporter on the 24th: You may
deny the story. 1t is absolutely false.
/ never was in better health and spirits
than at the present time"