Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-03
HUNTSVILLE ALA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 1885,

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GENERAL WoLsELEy having changed
his route, the relief of Khartoum is two
months further in the future than was ex-
pected.
On the 9th Orvin Skinner, alias H. M.
Scudder, who swindled many people out of
money, including James G. Blaine, was ar
rested at New York.
The outlook for an early reconciliation
of the differences between the Senate and
the House on the naval appropriation bill
is not favorable.
On the 9th the Rev. James o. S. Hunt
ington, son of Bishop Huntington, of Gen.
trail New York, took upon himself the
vows of the order of the Holy Cross in the
Holy Cross Protestant Episcopal Chapel,
New York. There are but two members of
the order in America.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the oath VIM. S. Kerker, late Teller
in the Second National Bank at Ironton,
O., indicted on nineteen counts for embez-
element of the banks money, was found
guilty in the United States Court on three
counts, charging false entries, whereby
the bank lost $4,000.
On the 26th Walt Henry, a saloon-keeper
of Akron, O., was arrested on charge of
| wife murder.
| On the 26th Fred Barinbrock, of Dayton,
| O., after brooding over financial troubles
| killed himself. He leaves wife and seven
children.
| On the night of the 25th Mrs. John Car
roll, of Green Ridge, Pa, was taken from
| her house, assaulted and left in the woods,
| where she was frozen to death.
| BANDITS entered the house of Catholic
priest in Galica for pillage. Failing to
get money they tied the priest in heap
of straw and burned him to death.
On the 26th the steamer Vint Shinkle
burned on the Mississippi, below Cairo.
She was owned by the Cincinnati & Mem
phis line, and was valued at $4,000.
A SIXTEEN year-old boy named David
McGinnis shot and killed Jerome Gay at
Burgin. KY, on the 26th. The fight was
forced on McGinnis by the victim and his
brother.
On the 26.h Rainwater & Starn's large
elevator at Dallas, Tex, burned, causing a
heavy loss. Two men were burned TO
DEATH and boy was also missing.
On the Goth Joseph A. Kuhn, cashier of
the Hotel Moser, st. Louis, Mo-, left for
parts unknown, and is charged with hav-
ing taken about $1,000 belonging to the
hotel, and also 500 belonging to his wife,
to whom he had been married only four
months.
On Christmas Day William Lyons, of
| N ila in, .%,,
por, went home to whip his wife, and when
! his brother Thomas interfered William
dealt him a blow behind the ear with his
fist, knocking him down, his head striking
a stone step. He died instantly. William
was arrested by another brother, Bernard,
who is a policeman.
ON the Goth James Collins, ticket agent
of the Pan Handle Road at Cadiz juno
tion, o., disappeared with $4,000 bor-
row ed from friends and belonging to the
company.
| JOSEF ZENARI, manager of the Discount
Bank of Caraney at Labache, Austria,
who defaulted for 10, 900 florins, killed him
| self in the bank on the Goth, when about to
be arrested.
| On the. .2Sth fire destroyed the Blake OPP
era house block at Racine, Wis, and three
| lives are reported lost.
| The Indianapolis cotton mill fire in
volved loss of 100000.
The remains Of Alonzo r. Jones, of Bos-
ton, Mass, were found in Charles River on
the 2Sth with every Indication of suicide. !.
THE recent earthquake in Spain was
more disastrous than at first reported.
Several towns were partially destroyed,
and nearly thousand persons were killed
in the Provinces of Malaga and Granada.
BY the burning of Egbert's knitting mills
at Cohoes, N. ", two hundred and fifty
operators are thrown out of employment.
On the 2Sth an attempt was made to blow
up the Office of the Plunkett Woolen
Company, at Hinsdale, Mass. A sack
containing explosives was placed under
the building, which, however, was only
slightly damaged, as the force of the ex-
plosion spent itself laterally.
MORE robberies of the mails along the
Rocky Mountain Division of the Canadian
Pacific Railway have been reported to the
Dominion Post-office Department, but par
ticulars are not obtainable, as the Govern
ment and railway company think the pub
lication would tend to defeat the efforts to
catch the robbers.
CHARLES B. SIMMONS, local Treasurer of
| the Louisville & Nashville Road at Louis
vile, KY, has departed, leaving memen-
to for the company in the shape of a note
stating that his accounts were $34, 900 short
and the climate too warm for him. 1t is
thought he has gone to join the Kentucky
colony in Canada.
AI6CELLANEOUS,
The Mechanics Bank of st. Louis, Mo-,
obtained a new certificate of incorpora-
tion on the 26th, its old charter having ex-
pired.
On the night of the 25th two violent