Huntsville gazette., 1893-07-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
OARsMAN GAUDAUR has accepted
Stansbury's proposition to row s-mile
race with a turn for the championship
OF the world. The race will take place
at Lake Quinsagamond, Mass, August
Is.
JOHN BERRY. the cowboy who arrived
first at the Wild West show in Chicago,
in the great race from Chadron, Neb.,
was awarded the first prize of 81, 900 by
the committee
THE arrest of Elias Maillox, of Mon
treal, the absconding accountant of
the public works department of the
province of Quebec, at Salem, Mass,
on the 3oth, is regarded in that prov
ince as an occurrence which will give
rise to revelations of a scandalous ma
ture
On the 30th Edward C. Lockwood
started from in front of the New York
World building promptly at 9 o'clock
for his long walk to San Francisco. At
Albany he will be joined by friend,
George Cramer, and the pair will make
the tour together. They think they
Will w tHc "Trip III IoS udSS.
On the I'd the duke of Veragua and
party sailed from New York on the
French steamship La Bretagne.
CAPT. ANDERSON of the Viking was
nearly drowned near Clyde, N. Y, on
the 1st He went in bathing and got
under the boat, and but for the as
sistance of students present would have
drowned.
On the I'd statement was published
in Paris that Count Ferdinand de Les
seps, who had been failing in health for
long time, had suddenly become
worse Much anxiety was felt regard
ing his condition.
A CALL has been issued by the joint
| committee from the various organiza-
| tions of Denver, Col, for convention
| of the advocates of free coinage, to be
| held at st. Louis, July.
A NUMBER of congressman hold the
| opinion that the extraordinary session
called by the president will not be a
lengthy one, and that financial matters
alone will engage its attention.
THE czar of Russia sent a message 10
his subjects at the Worlds fair, on the
30th, that was as startling as it was un-
expected. 1t was peremptory order
to Russia's army and navy contigent at
jackson park, doing duty there in con-
nection with the Russian exhibits, to
return to their own country at once.
IT sannounced that the accident that
befell Mr.. Gladstone, on the I'd, at Ham
house, Petersham, the residence in Sur
rey of the earl of Dysart, was not at all
serious. The spraining of his ankle
was very slight. He returned to Lon
don on the 3d. showing no signs of the
accident.
On the 4th Secretary and Mrs. Car
Isle left Washington for Chicago. Sec
retary Carlisle expected to be absent
about two weeks, during which time
Assistant Secretary Hamlin will act as
secretary of the treasury.
On the I'd William b. Leonard, a
venerable merchant and public-spirited
citizen of Brooklyn, died athis country
residence in Oswego, n. Y. He is said
to have left an estate valued at 81, ,000,
900.
Mrs. U. S. GRANT will spend few
weeks at Narragansett Pier, n. j., as
the guest of Mrs. jefferson Davis.
1t is stated that DR.. Samuel Hart,
professor of Trinity college at Hart
ford, Conn, who was elected bishop of
the Episcopal diocese of Vermont, has
declined the honor. feeling it his duty
to remain at the college.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has instructed J.
J. Clark, an inspector of public build
ings of the treasury department, to
make thorough inspection of the pub
lie building at Chicago, which has been
examined by the local building commits
sion and pronounced unsafe.
A. C. SHINN, of Ottawa, Kas., vice
president for that state of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic league, has issued a call
for state convention to be held in
Topeka on the 26th, in the interest of
silver agitation.