Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-13
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
e. c. GREEN and M. L. Ely brakemen
on the Decatur division of the Louisville
& Nashville railway. were killed, on the
4th, in collision at Browns cross roads.
near Nashville. Albert Finch fireman.
was severely injured. A misunderstand-
ing of orders caused the accident. The
two engines and sixteen cars were demol-
ished.
AT Attica, o., fire, which originated
in gambling den, on the morning of the
9TH, destroyed $50, 900 worth of property.
OK the morning of the 9Th Martin Thom-
as, prominent grocer of Lancaster, Pa,
was found hanging in his stable. His sui
eide was the elimination of financial
troubles. He was fOrty-seven years Of
age, and leaves wife, but no children.
THE steamship Santiago from Havana
arrived in New York on the It'll, bringing
as passengers Captain Brown and nine
seamen of the brig Taufar, which was
wrecked on the Great Bahamas on March
q.
On the 7th the schooner Carrie Dingle
came into collision with the steamship
Nordland, off Beachy Head, on the south
coast of England, and sunk. The Nord-
lands bow was stove i'll, and she had to
discharge part of her cargo IN order to
make necessary repairs.
On the night of the 9th the Oakland
High School, at San Francisco. valued at
So 900, was destroyed by fire.
On the night of the 9th Savannah, Ca,
was visited by a destructive conhagra-
ton. A large number of stores and
| dwellings, covering an area of four or five
| blocks, were burned, the total loss being
estimated at ST. 800, 900.
On the night Of the 9th the business por-
| ton of the town of Clarksdale, Miss, to-
| gether with q number of residences, was
| destroyed by fire. The total loss is placed
| at S75, 900 to 5000
On the 9th two freight trains on the
Santa Fe road, each drawn by two en-
gines, came into collision, twelve miles
south of Trinidad, Col, and the four en-
gines and one of the express cars were
piled in heap. One tramp was killed
and another was missing and Engineer
Joe Hare was probably fatally injured.
NORFOLK, VA, was visited by terrific
gale on the night of the 6th and damage
was inflicted to wharfage and shipping to
the extent of 100000.
B. F. PRATT, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Anoka, Mimi, has gone to
Canada, and the banks cash is short
100000. He also raised $4,000 On per-
sonal notes indorsed by widow, which
will ruin her.
THE losses by the fire at Savannah, Ca,
on the 9th, is placed by later estimates at
$3.50, 000-just one half the amount first
stated.
LATER news about the fire at Smithf1eld,
N. c., on the 7th, places the loss at $50, 600,
with $4,000 insurance. Twenty eight
business houses were burned and thirty
two dwellings. Only four stores are left
in the town.
AT White Plains, N. Y, VIM. B. Dona-
hoe, who claims to have studied law in
Hon. Grover Cleveland's Office in B uffalo,
has been arrested, charged with grand
larceny in obtaining money on fraudu-
lent mortgage.
On the Sth Ann Mccarthy, daughter of
John Mccarthy, Of Rochester, N. Y,
twelve years old, fell over the river bank
at the lower falls, distance Of nearly
two hundred feet. She was conscious
when picked up. No bones were broken,
and her physicians expresseJ the opinion
that she escaped internal injuries, and
that her recovery is probable.
ARAILwAY mail clerk named Herbert
G. Stout. on the route between st. Paul,
Mimi, and Council Bluffs. Ia, has been
arrested, charged with stealing letters
containing money from the mails His
stealings had been going on for nearly
eight months, and amounted to several
thousand dollars.
DEVELOPMENTS leave no room for doubt
that branch of the wing of the Italian
Camorra, known as La Malta, is now in
working order in Boston. Its meetings
are held almost nightly, generally III
North End bar-room, having large
room in the rear, or in one of several
tenement houses. It's members are active
in passing counterfeit money.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE American Commissioners to the
Samoan Conference at Berlin have en-
gagged passage on the Umbria, which
sails from New York on the 10th. Mean
while they are frequently at the Depart
ment of State consulting with the officials
and studying the protocols Of the last con-
ference.
IN Relpil1m the reuOrt Of Stanley's