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Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
CONDENSED TEEEGRAMS.

THE railroad to connect Little Rock
and Hot Springs, and to be ultimately
extended on to Paris, Texas, is now-re-
garJed as certain of being built.
THE available cash balance in the
Treasury on the Sd was 500, ,375, ,555; ma
tional bank notes received for redemp-
tion, S420, 734; government receipts, in
ternal revenue, S12S, 1856; customs, S246,-
264; miscellaneous, S131,159.
A ROBBERS roost, rich with piunder,
has been found beneath the floor of the
great agricultural building at the
Worlds Fair grounds. The thieves
escaped, but much valuable stolen prop
erty was recovered.
DANIEL WEBSTER, wife and two chill
dren, were poisoned at their home near
Millville, Ala, on the Sd by hogshead
cheese eaten at supper Mrs. WEBSTER
died, before help, which was summoned,
could arrive. Her agony was terrible.
THE New York Legislature met on
the I'd. Gov Flowers message an
nounces that for the first time in more
than rs years the State is free from debt
and recommends measures to do away
with direct taxation.
THE sheep men of Western Texas are
badly discouraged. A dispatch from
Fort Stockton says conservative men
estimate that so per centof the sheep IN
that section will die the present winter,
for there is nothing for them to eat ex-
cept dead grass.
THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd shows the net increase OF the
debt. less cash in the treasury, during
the month of December to have been
S6. .s51. .662. The interest bearing debt
increased 100000.
The wavs and means committee has
agreed upon per cent. tax on incomes
above $1,000, an additional tax OF 1O
cents gallon on whisky and tax OF
cents pack on playing cards.
HoN. CHARLES T. O'FERRAL was in
augurated governor of Virginia on the
1st with great pomp and ceremony.
AT Huntsville, Ala. on the 1st, James
Darwin, aged II years, while teasing a
big hog, made him angry. He jumped
on the boy, knocked him down and
literally ate his arm off, besides tearing
huge slices of flesh from his legs ana
breast. Darwin died in few minutes.
THE new Young Mems Christian AS
sociation building in Chicago, thirteen
stories high and costing $3.50. GOO was
formally opened on the las.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
NEW YEARS RESOLVES.
A Number of Persons Make Them at q
Methodist Watch Meeting.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2-Centenary church
had watch-night service Sunday
night, the like of which has been
rarely witnessed in this city. IN the
morning the pastor, Rev. DR.. John
Mathews. announced that the Olive
street and Suburban cars would be
held, so that all who welcomed the
New Year with religious hymns, would
have transportation homeward.
The regular evening preaching serv-
ice in the upstairs auditorium was at
tended by an immense crowd which
packed all the available space. At Q
o'clock DIR. Mathews had his audience
adjourn to the Sunday-school room on
the first floor, and there for at least
three hours he did not suffer the in
terest or zeal of the throng to flag for
an instant The result was thirty
seven new additions and sixteen con-
versions. So continuous was the
stream Of new members and converts
that DR.. Mathews was prevented sew
eral times from starting the Covenant
hymn.
AS midnight approached DIR. Mathews
invited those present to come and shake
hands with him, and as the bells be-
gan to ring in the New Year he was
being besieged by several hundred we'll
wishers.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
HUNTSVILLE. Ala. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6,
BEN CAREY. who murdered Dan Nc.

Ben CAREY. who murdered Dan Nc.
Guire in Logan county, w. Va, a few
weeks ago, and who escaped got
drunk in Huntington. w. Va, on the
29th, and created a serious disturb
ance. Officer Jones went to arrest him.
whereupon Carey declared that he
could not be taken alive, and, drawing
his gun, began firing at the officer.
Officer Jones lodged behind tele.
graph pole and threw his club at
Carey, striking him on the head, knock
ing him insensible, and then secured
him.
CHARLES WATKINS, a clerk in the
Bank of England for forty years, has
been arrested on the charge of having
stolen $500 from the bank.
Soon after midnight of the Cd the
Globe theater III Boston was DESTROYED
by fire, entailing loss of $500, O00 The
Hanlons. who were performing in the
theater, lost properties valued at s20,.
600, and narrowly escaped with their
lives.
SEVERAL persons lost their lives by
the destruction by fire of cheap
restaurant in Buffalo, n. Y, at 2
o'clock on the morning of the I'd.
DURING a charity carnival on the
Volga river, in Russia, on the soth, the
ice broke and twenty-eight persons
were drowned, and it is thought that
some of the rescued will die from the
effects of the shock and exposure.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS.
Two Men Killed by a Terrible Boiler
Explosion.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Jan. 1.-Two
men were fairly cooked alive in ter
rible boiler explosion that occurred at
10 o'clock yesterday morning in the
round house of the Cincinnati South
ern railway. Charles Beckert, white
boiler maker. was engaged in repair
ing engine SOC, which came in with a
leak in the steam fiue. He was stand
ing in the fire box with Jessie Lang,
colored assistant. Mistaking screw
plug for driving plug he gave the
screw a careless tap, driving it in.
The steam burst through the small
aperture with a loud report. Both
men were horribly scalded and the
flesh dropped from their bodies in
sickening manner. Death was instan-
taneous. The bodies were taken to
Sharp's morgue, where verdict OF
death from the carelessness of Beckert
was found by the coroner's jury.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
The Confederate Dead at Alton. n,

Inc confederate Dead at Alton. Ill.
At last a tardy justice is to be done
to the gra YES of those southern men
who, taken in battle, died at Alton,
ILL.,, in captivity.
Fer many years nothing has been more dis.
sressing to the eye or revolving to the sensi.
ollltles than the condition OF the last resting
places OF the confederate prisoners of war at
North Alton and the tomhs or those who died
of SMALLPOX McPike's island Both have
been wildernesses, deserted and forlorn
with scarce mark to tell that ever
loved one rested there and
with moth ing in sight by which an indi.
vldual might be identified. One has been used
as COW pasture, while OF the other the least
said the better. The ST. Louis papers have
frequently alluded to these graves and their
neglected condition, and demanded that some.
thing be doncte-~sasaady il, and now il seems
that the seed thus sown has rooted and sprouted
and is to grow
Lieut.. w L. Thompson, OF the ouartermas.
ters' department, u. S. A., with headquarters
at st. Louis, went to Alton the other day to look
ever the ground, as an immediate result OF the
action taken by the members OF the Jersey.
vile Gll) ex-confederate camp some weeks
ago In an interview he said:
II came with view to improving the grounds
and beautifying them as much as may be at
this late day. restoring ths graves OF the for
gotten soldiers and arranging for the future
care of the grounds. / learn that there Il
roster of those buried at North Alton in the
hands OF the undertaken who buried them, but
as this roster dates back to 1883 il will Re i'm
possible to identify any OF them. when the
prisoners were buried each grave was provided
with wooden headboard and the number was
inscribed on each.
But these are all gone and the graves are
mostly sunken However, each will be pro-
a ct tn RI he do
will be improved and surrounded with fence
at least that is the intention now. and II will
probably be carried out We can tell be tier az
we progress, as the work Is yet new to US"
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
To Stimulate Immigration.

No move has yet been made by the
present legislature Of Virginia, says
Richmond dispatch, looking to stimu-
lating immigration to the state.
II is. however believed that the attention OF
the two houses will be called to this subject
AS stated several months ago, some persons
favor stationing agent in New York for tho
purpose OF impressing upon the desirable class
of immigrants the advantages afforded by Nir-
ginia At the conference In Richmond last
spring OF southern governors suggestion was
made for all of the states represented in that
body to jointly employ an agent in New York.
Nothing ever came OF the sugg estion.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
INDIAN PRISONERS.
Forty of Them Domiciied In the Kings
County IN. " Penitentiary.

Forty of Them Domiciied In the Kings
County IN. " Penitentiary.
New YORK, Jan. 2.-Forty Indians,
nearly all full blooded, became resi-
dents of the Kings county peniten-
tiary yesterday, to remain for periods
of from five to twenty years. Their
home is in the Indian territory. They
belong to many tribes, but the most
dangerous among them are members
of the Navajo and Black Feet. They
we're convicted at Paris, Tex, of va
rious crimes, principally horse-steal-
ing, felonious assault and manslaugh-
ter.
The Jail in Paris would not hold
them over night without guard of
soldiers. To keep them locked up un-
der such circumstances would be very
expensive, and Uncle Sam sent them to
Brooklyn, agreeing to pay for the sup
port of each Indian 100 per cent. more
than it costs to take care of the Kings
county criminal.
The Indians objected to having their
hair cut, but only one or two made any
trouble. Sabado Nuntotree, known in
his own country as Eye of the Blazing
Sun, refused to sit in the BARRIERS chair,
and told Warden Hayes in fine Navajo
dialet that he preferred death TO losing
his locks 1t took four keepers to
hold him ia the chair while the barber
eat or his iowiHg locks.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY
To be Held Into the Cause of the Louis
vile Bride Disaster.

DiS1&ceSh'
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 2.-The official
inquiry into the cause of the awful
Louisville e. Jeffersonville bridge dis
aster, in which an unknown number
Of lives were lost, will begin next Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock at Miller's
undertaking esta blishment. Coroner
Mccullough has impaneled his jury
and summoned thirty or forty wit
nesses. The bridge company has also
quite number Of witnesses, and the
inquest will probably be very lengthy.
The affair will be sifted to the bottom.
So far ten deaths are known to have
occurred from the accident, and the
bridge company says that there are
abount twelve bodies still in the wreck.
The general opinion, however, with
which DR.. Mccullough agrees, is that
twenty will not nearly cover the mum.
Der ef dead,
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06


Fair and Gather Relics-The site of the
Java Village Perfectly Denuded.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-The people of Chi
cago took possession of Jackson park
anew yesterday. 1t was done without
the flare of trumpets, and only the
ceaseless tramp of curious public from
Midway to the lake front indicated
that the people were glad of their re-
turning privileges.
At o'clock the gates were thrown
open. From that hour the crowd
passing through the gates increased.
At 10 o'clock, when the press was
greatest, it seemed like the scenes of
summer enacted anew. People came
on foot and in their carriages. Enter
ing the Plaisance, the crowd pressed
everywhere. Every nook and corner
was explored. All were absorbed not
ing the desolation.
The relic hunters were in their glory.
Each separate ruin contributed to the
welcome vandalism. Mosaics and
ornaments, bits of plaster and tiling,
nails, wood, anything was seized as a
precious trophy. The Java village was
plundered without hindrance, and by
evening it was entirely denuded.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
A Rich Colored Mans VIII.

The will of Thomy Lafon, who was
the richest colored man in the south,
was probated at New Orleans.
The will Is written in French. II makes be.
quests ranging from $500 to 5000 to over a
score Of persons, and also leaves property to
charitable institutions valued at from S. 900 to
10000. Among the institutions mentioned re
the Shakespeare almshouse. the Old Folks
Home society for Catholic colored indigents
and dozen others. The estate Of the deceased
is estimated to be from 800 900 to $500 900,
sisting principally Of real estate. The only heir
the deceased left was a sister who is bed-rid-
den She was left enough to live upon com
fortably the rest Of her life. The bulk Of the
estate goes to charitable institutions.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
Shiloh Battlefield.

Col. z. Il. Lee, Of Monticello, Ill,
was in birmingham, Ala, recently on
an interesting mission.
Col Lee desired to confer with a number OF
the confederate veterans with view OF getting
them to Join the association OF the Shiloh bat
tlefeld Col. Lee is a member OF the commit
tee which has secured an option on the cele'
brated field and congress win take hold OF the
matter and most likely purchase the battle
field Now the association intends taking
charge of the field and erecting mounds over
the unknown dead and will keep II in shape
At least 100 bodies lie on that field in Ten
nessee uncared for.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

Suit for $40, 900 damages was entered
against the dry goods firm of ]. NJ.
High & Co., of Atlanta, Ga, by Miss
Mary A. Crosier.
The plaintiff is lady of excellent standing.
The other day Miss Crosier, who was among
the customers, was touched upon the shoulder
by strange man, and requested TO step in
side back room. This she Indignantly re-
fused TO do when she was violently taken ivy
the arm and led of and searched Nothing be-
longing to the firm being found on her person
she was released. The case has excited much
comment. because OF the excellent standing Of
the plaintiff
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
Tried to Execute His Threat.

t. J. Manley, city marshal Of Griffin,
Ga, is lying at the point Of death from
a murderous assault made by George
Taylor, colored
In 1891 Manley arrested Taylor, who was
wanted for mansaughter. Taylor was convict
ed and sent enced to two years in the peniten-
tiary. He announced in the court that on the
expiration of his term he would return and
kill Capt. Manley The other night Capt. Man
ley was called to his front gate, where he YVES
met by Taylor, who had just returned from
prison, and who proc eeded to execute his threat
Of two years before. The marshal was found
on the sidewalk stabbed in the throat, breast
and back. The culprit is in jail.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
A Holocaust at Buffalo.

BUFFALO, n. Y, Jan. Soon after
2 o'clock this morning fire was discov-
cred in the rear of a cheap restaurant
and lodging house on the west side of
Washington street, just north of Swan
street. In addition to the proprietress,
notorious character. known as
Scotch Liz" there were from twelve
to eighteen dodgers.
At o'clock five dead bodies had
been taken out of the ruins, and others
were supposed to be lost.
The building was an old and dry ons
and proved verita BILE tinder box.
Several of the inmates jumped from
the second story and received terrible
injuries.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
A burglar Blown Tp.

A story comes from Geesbend, IN
Wilcox county. Ala, Of the strange
death of a burglar.
William Mack started TO burglarize the store
Of John Pettaway After he had gained en-
trance TO the store he got cigar and lighted
It. and then went to work deliberately gather.
ing up stun he wanted. He went near keg Of
powder, and a spark from his cigar exploded
the powder He was blown in the mir. Petta
way heard the explosion and was just IN time
to hear Mack recite the story before dying.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the goth Thomas & Richards, one
of the largest dry goods houses in Lima,
O., was taken possession of by the HI.
B. Clafiin Co., of New York, who held
chattel mortgages on the firms stock
for over $4,000. The stores of Marcel
lus Thompson, senior partner, at Ken
ton, O., was closed to satisfy the claim.
Other creditors will get nothing.
THE New York associated banks held
$50, ,sl5, $50 in excess of the requirements
of the 25-per-cent. rule on the 30th.
NATIVE runners arriving at Fort
Salisbury, South Africa, report that
King Lobengula, with heavy force of
Metabeles, is moving back in the direc-
tion of Bulowayo, his former capital,
from which he was recently driven by
the forces of the British South Africa
Co.
THE estimated profit from the South
African gold mining industry during
1898 was $4,000, 600. The diamond min
ing industry, apart from the Wesselton
mines, last year yielded a profit of
1850, 900.
JOHN Y. McKASE. chief of police of
Gravesend, n. Y, and many others,
including a justice of the peace and
several election inspe ctors, have been
indicted for election frauds in the late
state election.
IMPORTS, exclusive of specie, at the
port of New York for the week ended
on 30th were SIS, ,621, ,5O4, of which 81, ,631,-
179 were general merchandise and ST.
$50, 1876 dry goods.
IMPORTS of specie at the port of New
York for the week ended on 30th were
s37, ,35S, of which S2S, ,SsS was gold and
SS,470 silver.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
DEATH OF AN OLD FIRE CHIEF.
ii. Clay Sexton, OF st. Louis, Goes to His
Reward.


ST. LOUIS, Jan. HI Clay Sexton,
one of the best-known citizens of St.
Louis, died at his home, 3677 Cook
avenue, at $40 o'clock Sunday evening.
His death was the result of a compli-
cation of diseases. About three weeks
ago he fell off a street car and sus-
tanned severe injury. An attack of the
grip followed and left him in such a
weakened state that slight stroke of
apoplexy proved fatal
No man in St. Louis is more widely
known than was Mr.. Sexton. He came
to this city in 1914 from Virginia. He
became chief of the old volunteer fire
department, and was the organizer of
the paid fire department, Of which he
was chief for twenty-seven years. He
was afterwards city collector for four
years, and at the time of his death he
was bailiff of the school board.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

Mr. HAROLD FREDERIC, one of the
shrewdest American observers across
the seas, notes the estimate that there
are 10000 more men under arms in
Europe than there were at this time
last year, and remarks: "It is now the
universal expectation that when the
year 1894 comes to an end it will find
an altered map. The strain is too
heavy Something must give way
somewhere during the coming wear"
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

SEVERAL musical critics have been
disturbed that Anton Dvorak's Ameri-
can symphony should be founded upon
negro and Indian melodies. 1t will
not, however, be the first time that
music has gone back to the early le-
gends of country for inspiration.
Negro and Indian are both of the soil,
Mperhaps as closely related to our
has the Knights of the Round Ia BILE
the life of Tennyson's England.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

ChksTMAs captured the country, as
Usual, r and to all outward appearance
n pas llle same Jolly old season as ever.
!, pu' mere were many things we didn't
'' ana there was the rub. It's what
y 0ion see that gave the holiday
taoon ~ a us minor tones of misery, and
= only BY bearing well in mind what
~ uo1 IN see, that we can hope to come
rir r2 me true spirit of the season of
S,I ,ns' that is going to last longer
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

DR' HERMANN SCHUMACHER, of Ber-
na' Is IN this country making a study
u industrial features, principally in
Felatlon to breadstuffs. He has visited
NE western states, and was recently
Un Inc tioor Of the Baltimore corn and
Hour exchange, and has since visited
0'nef eastern cities. DR.. Schumacher
was sent to this country by the in
error department of Germany, and is
" report to the government on his re-
turn.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06
meath n, an Aged southerner.

J. B. Trottman died at Dallas, Tex,
the other day, aged e3.
He was born in Alabama educated In the
colleges Of that state, and was aity years q
leading business man OF Huntsville Ha YES q
member D. the Methodist church Tor sky
gears, ara also Royal AgnA Maseai
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

WOMAN has crossed the entire con-
.;nent of Asia. This in itself is re-
,narka bic as the most adventurous jour
nev ever undertaken by woman; but
his is not all; the heroine of this jour
nev has decided not to publish book
Of travels with preface on why she
did it-"How came to 60"
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

ASIDE from the circumstances attend
hg his removal from the command of
the squadron at Rio Janeiro, it is to be
presumed that Commodore Stanton
much prefers his new post at the head
of the North Atlantic squadron to that
he lately held. To do precisely the
right thing in Brazilian waters just
now is the most delicate task to which
an American commander can be as
sirned
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

ALTHOUGH Italy is talking of trans.
terring her Fava from this country to
another, it is believed that the rela-
t;ons between her and the United
States will continue to be as friendly
az thev have been since Mr.. Blame and
the marquis di Rudini settled the dis
nute over the New Orleans affair.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

THE city council of Mankato, Kas.,
have adopted new and laudable way
to replenish the city's treasury. They
have passed an ordinance making it a
nuisance for any person to whistle or
sing after the Bali between the hours
of6 a. m. and 10 p. m. The offense is
punishable by fine of fifty cents for
aarh nerfOrmance.
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

ANoNG the exhibits in the mining
department. at the Midwinter fair in
San Francisco is Senator Perkins old
cabin at Thompson's Flat, where he
lived in the old days. Senator Fairs is
another, and John w. Mackay's third.
These are not copies, but the verita BILE
structures occupied by these now prom
lnent men, which have been taken
apart carried to San Francisco and
pattogether again on the fair grounds
Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1894-01-06

WITH the New York, the San Fran
,;sco the Newark, Charleston and De-
troit Rear-Admiral Benham will have
very respecta BILE fleet under his COM
raand in Brazilian waters, and one
rrobablv large enough for any emer-
rancy that may arise.