Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-06
HUNTsvILLE ALA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1886.

ON the night Of the 9th the body Of
John H. Fleming, book-keeper of To-
ledo, O., was found in the river at that
place. Fleming had been missing since
January l. Whether the case is one of
suicide or accidental drowning is not
known.
ON the 2Sth Faskell, the negro who out
ragged German girl at Indianapolis and
was afterward shot in court by the girls
brother, was sentenced to twenty-one
veerr' imprisonment.
JSa ~cMAHON was collector in Ho-
boken, y. j., for ten years. Two years ago
when shortage of $51 900 was discovered
in his accounts, he disappeared. He was
arrested in New York on the 2sth and
taken to Jersey City. There are several
indictments for embezzlement against him.
On the 2Sth John L. Gideon, clerk in the
general ticket Office of the Burlington &
Missouri railroad, at Omaha, was arrested
charged with altering and forging railroad
tickets and disposing of them to brokers.
1t is alleged that Gideon is one of ring of
bogus ticket operators, the amount of
whose frauds is yet unknown.
ON the 28th snow slide in Thaynes
Canyon, near Park City, Utah, buried four
men with their teams. Four men were
buried in a snow-slide on Lake creek, near
Ketchum, Idaho, in their cabin. One man
is reported buried under sixteen feet of
snow on Thompson creek, not far from the
scene of the last reported disaster.
ON the Goth P. Cox, Of Buchanan, Mich,
a. cousin of the murderer and suicide
Cowles, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
ON the 29th three persons condemned to
death for belonging to revolutionary So
ciety were executed at Warsaw.
ON the Goth four men, names unknown,
were drowned in the Ohio river at Evans
vile, Ind, while trying to cross in skiff.
ON the Goth collision on the Baltimore
G. Ohio at Chicago Junction, O., killed L.
Vandelier, a fireman, and severely injured
several other persons.
The prisoners in jail at Louisville, Ky,
refused to go to their cells on the 29th and
were fred on by the jailer and turnkey.
Two of them were wounded.
ON the goth an explosion at the Banks
vile coal mine of Lang &c Co., near Pitts
burgh, Pa, set fire to the pit and cremated
nine mules. The flames were extin-
guished.
ON the Goth carriage containing Mrs.
Wesley Stanton, her daughter, aged fif-
teen, and Mrs. Julia A. Hunter, prac-
ticing physician, was struck at the Erie
railway crossing at Carbondale, Pa,
by q passenger train. The occupants
were thrown out, and Mrs. Hunter was
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dangerously hurt.
ON the SOth Chyo Chyock, one of the
Chinese highbinders on trial in st. Louis
for the murder of Lou johnson, fellow
countryman, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
NICHOLAS HUDSON, has been arrested for
the murder of Stephen Ellis, at Rockport,
Ind.
ON the Goth a freight train ran into a
landslide at Scotthaven, Pa, killing the
conductor and fireman and badly injuring
the engineer and brakeman.
DAVE OvERsTREET, Sims Bree, VIM.
Garford and Mike Mitchell were killed and
several others injured by snow slide near
Telluride, Col, the latter part Of last week.
The dead and injured were dug out by the
men of the Sheridan and Smuggler mines.
Or the 30th the Chapman block, four
story iron, brick and stone building at
Portland, Me-, together with number of
smaller buildings adjoining burned, in
volving loss of $4,000. The day previous
the Central Wharf Company, at the same
place, lost like amount by fire.
ON the Goth six houses on Holloway
road, London, collapsed, and five passers-
by were instantly killed and number of
others injured.
ON the 31st Alfred Smith murdered his
wife and another woman, Mrs. Wilson, at
Cleveland, O.
On the night of the 30th process server
was horribly mutilated by moonshiners a
Tralee.