Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,

AN inmate of the National Soldiers
home at Hampton, Va, named Simon
birmingham committed suicide, on the
I'D, by cutting an artery and bleeding to
death.
FIRE in a school building at Long ISL
and City, N. Y, on the 22d caused pam
lc among the children, but was extin-
guished with slight loss, an none Of the
children were injured.
II. Fl. SCoTT killed Sidney z. Irwin at
Hinckley, Mich, on the %.
FIRE at Duluth, Mimi, on the 23d, de-
stroyed property to the value of $25, ,000
On the 23d Philip j. Goss, the New York
policy dealer, in whose place James E.
Bedell the forger, lost $125.00), pleaded
guilty to felony, and was fined $1,000.
On the 23d, fire in the Crescent Avenue
Presbyterian Church Of Plainfeld, N. j.,
caused loss of S.. 900; fully insured.
On the night of the 22d nearly all the
business section of Pocomoke City, Nd,
village in the southern part of Wor-
cester County, on the eastern shore of
Chesapeake Bay, was destroyed by fire.
On the 23d Albert Shnltz, at Altoona,
Pa, fired gun. which he thought was
not loaded, and killed his eight months
old brother.
NEAR Tralee, County Kerry, al Irish
farmer, recently returned from America,
took farm from which former tenant
had been evicted. On the 231 his dead
body was found, pierced with four bull
lets.
ADAM BERKEs who was whipped. re-
Gently, at Sardinia, O., by White Caps,
has lost his reason, and is now a maniac.
MpC nnpAN of Cn11r1 b1S Ind
who murdered her husband by pouring
carbolic acid into his mouth while asleep,
was, on the 23d, acquitted by jury on
the ground of insanity.
FIRE destroyed the extensive works of
the Ft Wayne Qnd.) Jenney Electric
| Light Company on the 23l Loss, $500, 600;
| insurance, $15S, 000 Three hundred en-
ployes are temporarily thrown out Of
| work.
| AFTER reaching an altitude Of half a
mile the balloon in which Prof. Vandegrift
made an ascension from the Exposition
Park, at Columbus, Ga, on the 22d, sud-
| denly burst and the 4ronaut. descending
| by parachute, alighted in the Chatta-
! hoochie river, and was drowned.
| On the 23l Re ecorder Smythe of New
| York City sentenced James E. Bedell the
| forger, to State prison for twenty five
years and four months
DETECTIVES connected with Philadel-
phia police headquarters cantured John
Williams, alias Charles Dunn, fugitive
negro murderer, at Avondale Mills, Pa,
on the 9th. He is charged with tho kill :
| ing Of Benjamin Bachelor, negro, on
January 23 1887.
GOVERNOR HILL Of New York has fixed
date for hearing on behalf of Frank
A. Hawkins, the condemned Islip matr1-
eide. Miss Hattie Schreck, his affianced,
secured the hearing. Hawkins, who was
brought up IN the Methodist faith, says
he desires the offices of q Roman Catholic
priest.
EMMA RoCH, shot by James Nolan, her
rejected lover, died in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, on the oath. Nolan, in his fury,
fired five shots at the woman, all Of
which took effect.
Two MEN were killed and four others
rendered unconscious by an explosion of
dynamite at Thompson's mills, near
Schuylersville N. Y, on the oath.
WILLIE DUNDoN, aged ten, while play
ing with a shotgun, at Binghamton, n. Y,
shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Michael Dundon.
THE murdered remains Of Bernard Nc
Lafferty were found at Mahonoy City,
Pa, on the 25th. His head had been
crushed and an ear cut off with hatchet.
The murder is a mysterious one.
On the oath the bark Moro Castle went
to pieces on Delaware brea kwater. The
crew was saved.
A wELL-To-Do farmer, named Frank
Eich, living near Royalton, Mlnn., was
waylaid and murdered on the 24th
O.
Boston, were destroyed by fire o. the
24th Loss, $4,000; probably fully in
sured.
AT LIE Mars Ia, on the oath, John Gay
nor shot and killed Town Marshal Z.
Mclaughlin
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