Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-02

--LATEST ueVeiOpIHeHJS IN too hnOCn mur.
der near Detroit, Mich, show that the VIC
TINS heads were split open with an axe.
ON the 22d snow slide occurred in the
San Juan Mountains, near Clement Creek,
Col, filling up a shaft in the Prodigal Son
mine, and burying Burke Hovey and j. NJ.
Skates, who were working in the mine.
ON the 23d Vincennes, Ind, had terri
bic visitation of fire, several large business
buildings having been destroyed up to last
accounts and the fire still raging. Terre
Haute was appealed to for help and
promptly responded.
ON the 23d Frank Ricketts, and his son
Frank were caught under falling wall at
the Blind Asylum at Columbus, 0. The
boy was instantly killed and the father Sc
riously injured.
THE Indianapolis wife-murderer, Phil
lips, was sentenced on the 23d to hang on
the Sth of April.
A BOILER exploded at the Lochiel Roll
ing Mill, Harrisburg, Pa, on the 23d, and
| six persons were injured.
| On the 23d the Colonial Cordage Com
pany's Rope works, at st. John, N. F.,
| the largest in the world, were destroyed
| by fire.
ON the night of the 22d burglars at Mil
ton, Ontario, made clean sweep of every
thing in Ramsey & Co.'s jewelry store,
using cart to carry off the goods.
ON the 23d at least fifty mon were killed
and great many more were terrible in
| jured by an explo sion in a coal mine at
| Pont-y -Pridd, Wales, in which 720 men
! were at work.
JACOB HAMMERsTEIN, of Indianapolis,
| Ind, committed suicide on the oath.
| JOHN r. ELMoRE, a Baptist minister,
committed suicide on the 9th by drowning
| near Clayton, Ind.
On the 18th Hugh Sherman, a merchant,
shot and fatally wounded his wife at Buff
falo, N. Y.
VIM. SHEEHAN confesses at Dublin to the
murder of his mother, brother and sister.
On the 24th Richard N. Hotchkiss, a
school teacher at Prospect, Conn, as
saulted scholar so brutally that death
was thought probable.
On the 25th in fight between negroes
and tramps at Johnstown, Pa, one tramp
was fatally and another seriously wound :
ed.
FIRE in the hold of the British steamer
|
the oath, badly damaged her cargo.
ON the 18th six boilers of the San Fran
cisco (Cal.) Water works exploded, killing
two men and dangerously wounding two
| others.
On the 25th John Dennis was shot in the
| abdomen and his brother William in the
arm during a street fight at Wellsville, 0.
| On the 25th D. j. BEGGHs, a prominent
merchant at Clinton, O., was robbed and
left for dead in his room with several cuts
in his neck and face.
A FIRE occurred at Newburyport, Mass,
on the Goth, involving a loss of fully $780,
900. Thirteen business houses were burned
throwing $50 persons out of employment
Two men were killed by falling wall
and several were injured, among them
| some of the fremen from neighboring
| cities who had responded to call for as
| sistance.
| MRS. L. A. BRADLEY died at Milwaukee
Wis, from the effects Of blood poisoning
produced by pricking her thumb with the
| fin of fish. Her husband cut himself with
razor he had used to remove a piece OF
| flesh from his wfe's thumb, and he was, at
last accounts, in critical condition from
| similar poisoning.
| JOHN HARNEvIRE, confined at st. Paul
Mimi, on charge of Illegal liquor selling
died in his cell on the morning of the Goth
from delirium tremens. He had been
heard shrieking and groaning all night
but no notice was taken of him.
CLARENCE e. IsEMAEN, awaiting trial al
Lincoln, Neb., for forgery, died on the
morning of che Goth from an overdose OF
morphine, taken with suicidal intent.
DIR. o. o. WELLS, of Beatrice, Neb.
whose wife died on Christmas Day, was
found on the morning of the 26th dying
| from the effects of laudanum, self admins.
| tered.
GEORGE MITCHELL, Philadelphia tramp
| was burned to death at Eufaula, Indian
| Territory, on the 9th.
WILLIAM WEST, chief distributing clerk
in the Des Moines Ua.) Post-office, has
been arrested for robbing registered let.
ters.
In wreck on the New York & New
Haven Road, near Mt. Vernon, N. Y, on
the 27th the fireman of the "Owl" express
was killed and the engineer slightly in
jured
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE steel rail workers at Pittsburgh
Pa, want fifteen per cent. advance in
wages.
AS remedy for the Irish troubles, the
London Times suggests exclusion of Irish
| members from Parliament and martial law.
DURING the seven days ended the 24th
the imports of dry goods at New York
were valued at 81 ,167 ,545.
For the seven days ended the Goth the
| failures in the United States numbered
| 1893; for the year up to date, 10,964.
| The French Chamber of Deputies has
| adopted the Tonquin credit by vote of