The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES. IT was stated on the 29th that Moore, the Indianapolis embezzler, had fled to a
 place of safety, probably Canada. The unaccountable delay in his arrest made this easy to do.
 c. P. HurcHISGs & Soys' car roofing concern in West Detroit Mich., with premises covering three acres ot ground,
 was burned completely on the 2sth. Loss,
 S30,000 The firm furnished goods to near ly all car builders in the country. A. P. EMERY was under arrest at Lewis.
 ton, Me-, on the 2sth, charged with de- falcation amounting to S2. 600 as secretary
 of an Odd-Fellows Lodge. FORTY wooden buildings in Dutch Flat, Cal, comprising the Chinatown of that place, were destroyed by fire on the 2Tth. Loss. $20,0O0; no insurance. PRESTON BELvIS, H. NJ. Smith and J. R. Cottrell, Democratic challengers of Rich ! mond, Va, were held in bonds of $500 1 each by United States Commissioner | Pleasants, on the 18th, for obstructing 1 votes at the late presidential election. l ENGINEER WILLIAM R. ROGERS and . Fireman H. G. McNally, of Columbus, I Pa, have been arrested on a charge of | manslaughter. They ran the train on the ! Pennsylvania railroad which collided with
 another ct that point recently, in the l wreck of which Conductor John c. Ryan was killed.
 | GEORGE T. DRIVER, an American, cut | his throat with suicidal intent at the | Angel Hotel, London, on the 26th, and | died on the 29th.
 | ON the 29th two firemen and the family
 occupying a small frame house adjoining
 the burned opera-h house in Duluth, Minn., were crushed in the demolition of the | building by a falling wall, and all lost 1 their lives either in the crash or by the i flames which subsequently, consumed the ! ruins.
 1 ON the 29th the trial of Red Nose" | Mike charged with the murder of Pay
 master Mcclure and Hugh Flanagan, near | Wilkesbarre, Pa., was postponed for eight days. The prisoners friends have raised | Sl GOO and employed General Mccartney to take charge of the case. Ar Denver Col, an attempt was made, | on the 29th, to assassinate John Grinrod, | the most important witness in the Sullens murder case. Giant powder was placed
 under the floor of his cal bin and fired, tear ing the end of his cabin to pieces. There l is no elew to the perpetrators of the out
 rage.
 Ar Washington, Ia., Hale's grain ele- vator, containing l5,000 bushels of oats and 1000 bushels of corn, was burned on 1 the 2Sth. Loss, S15000; insurance, 5000. CAPTAIN JOHN B. RIFE, of Middletown, Pa., brother of Congress sman-elect Rife,
 was thrown from his carriage in South Harrisburg, and almost instantly killed,
 on the 29th. He was Captain in the regu- lar army for a number of years, and was ! a prominent citizen.
 OS the 31st Secretary Abbett, of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, began the first direct litigation against Joseph A. Moore, by making an affidavit in attachment and garnishment against the embezzler for an alleged in- debtedness of SIS 45i.
 ON the 3ist the stables of the celebrated Mt. Hope farm, at North Attleboro, Mass, were burned, with twenty head of import ed cattle. Loss, Sl0,000.
 OLIVER w. VooRHIs, a well-to-do farm CT of Marion County, Ind, was arrested. on the 3lst on Federal grand jury in- dictment for swearing in an illegal vote at the late election.
 ON the 1st the Union Academy, at Johnstown, N. Y., containing about one thousand pupils, was totally destroyed by fire. George Thompson, chief or the hre department, was instantly killed, and Teddy smith, badly hurt, by falling walls. The loss is estimated at S45,0 900.
 Ir is announced that Joseph A. Moore, the defaulting general agent at Indian apolis of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company, of Hartford. is in Montreal
 MELEE BUSNELL, editor of the Duluth
 (Minn.l Herald, was arrested by Chief of Police Hennessey of Grand Falls, Dak., on the 31st, on a telegram charging him with the embezzlement of Sl,S00 worth of diamonds. He was on train bound for Winnipeg.
 ON the 3ist devastating fire visited Clear L ake, la, sweeping away an entire block an q badly damaging number of adjoining buildin gs, causing in all total loss of fully S50,000.
 OS the 1st Adolph Sambolina, the de- faulting manager of David Spero's arti- ficial flower store at No. 603 Broadway. New York City, who fled to Belgium after defrauding his employer out of Sls,0O0, and who was brought back, tried aud con- victed, was sentenced to ten years hard labor in State prison.
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