Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

featuring Company and president Of the
Hartford Silk Company.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,
OK the night of the oath James Iley,
charged with highway robbery, and James
Smith, alias Morris, broke Jail at Youngs-
town, o. They cut their way through the
roof and dropped into a garden thirty
feet below.
L4sANDER B. RANDALL, aged thirty
seven, of Bangor, Me-, was found dead on
the morning Of the oath, having committed
suicide by strangulation. A note was
found on his person saying: "Rum did it."
On the oath John Mays and wife and
James M. Linderman, a boy Of twelve
years, were killed at Newport, five miles
south Of Wilmington, Del, by train on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balt-
more railroad.
On the oath Albert E. Holt, aged thir-
teen, of Lawrence, Mass, was examining
a gun when the weapon was accidentally
discharged, the ball passing completely
through his head and killing him in
stantly.
FRANK MILLER, Of West Union, Ia, was
convicted. on the oath, in the United States
Court at Dubuque, of using the m ails for
| fraudulent purposes. His method was to
write letters to parties, offering green
goods at q discount, and after obtaining
the money, giving blank paper in return.
E. L. WHITAKER, book-keeper and con-
| fidential clerk for the plumbing firm of
Smith g. Conners, at Cleveland, o., has
| been arrested for embezzling the firms
| money. The shortage is said to be $11,
600.
CHARLES SMITH, son of W. j. Smith, of
Monmouth, ILL.,, was killed, on the 24th by
q kicking colt. He was o graduate Of
| Abingdon College, and was recently
| licensed Methodist m mister.
HUMBOLDT Bros large barns at Bode,
| Hum noldt County. Ia. were destroyed by
| fire on the oath. Loss, $1,000; insuran ce,
81, 700.
| AN explosion occurred in the Brance-
peth colliery at durham, England, on the
| oath. Five person were killed.
| On the 26th, Mrs. Flosse de Marco, aged
| eighteen, shot herself dead in New York,
owing to dependency at her childless
| condition. She was married fifteen
months ago to a railroad contractor.
| The husband tried to commit suicide on
learning of her death.
HEAVY storms have destroyed crops in
| the Goerlitzen district of Silesia. Five
persons were killed by lightning
On claim near Alfred, Oklahoma, on
the oath, a Kansas man named Stevens
was shot and killed in the presence of his
wife and four little children. The mur-
derers fed, and the unfortunate widow
walked to Alfred with the news.
In the Hawes murder case, at Birming
ham, Ala, the theory of the defense is
that Fanny Bryant killed Mrs. Hawes for
her money, and her accomplice, man
named Thompson, who resembles Hawes,
killed the child and disappeared.
On the 25th the American steamship
Alliance was cut nearly in two in a col
lision, in the Willimette river, near Port
land, Ore, with the British steamship
Danube. No lives were lost.
WHILE in fit Of despondency over
financial difficulties, on the 25th, farmer
of High Bluff, 8 little settlement near
Winnipeg, Man, killed his eight-year- -old
daughter and fatally wounded his son
with an axe, and then committed suicide
by cutting his throat.
DURING a gale, on the 24th the steamer
Australas ia and consort, the schooner
George, were driven ashore off Michigan
Isl and, in Lake Superior, and sunk.
On the 2Sth Henri Rochefort's son COM
mitted suicide.
On the 2Sth the twenty-seven archbish-
ops, who are in attendance at the Catholic
congress in Madrid, paid a visit to Queen
Regent Christiana. The object of the
visit was to show that the prelates are not
in sympathy with the Carlists.
OK the 2Sth train on the Grand Trunk
railway was wrecked near Hamilton,
Ont, and score Of people were killed
and many were wounded. The train was
filled with passengers from the North
western States, and most of them were on
their way to the New York Centennial
Celebration.
MRS. KINNEHER was expelled, recently,
from tho Presbyterian church at Rock
ford, ILL.,, for worshipping false Christ.
Mrs. Kinneher believes that Rev. S. j.
Schweinforth, leader Of the Beekmanltes,
is Christ.
POSTMASTER E. S. JAMIso of Ash
bourne, Pa, shot and killed burglar
who was trying to break into the post
Office, on the 2Sth.
BENZ. LAW, a convict in the Jefferson
vile Und.) penitentiary, has fallen heir
to $75,OOO He has almost ten years to
serve. He has three relatives in the same
institution.
ON tne Zotn tne queen OI w uT uTteHiuuIS
was out driving, at Nice, when her horses,
becoming frightened by q noise of train
that sud denly emerged from tunnel,
ran away and one of them was killed.
The O ueen was not hurt.
On the 2Sth two Lake Shore passenger
trains, east and west-bound, collided near
Rolling Prairie, six miles east of La
Porte, Ind. A tramp who was stealing
ride was probably fatally injured.
On the 2sth City Marshal Griffith of
Dayton, Tenn, shot Bud Bryson through
the heart, killing him instantly. Bryson
had been fined in the mayors court, and
had gone out without paying. Griffith
went after him to collect the fine, and
taking hold of him, Bryson showed him
awav. when Griffith drew his revolver and
deliberately shot him down.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE Bank of Montreal declared
straight dividend of five per cent. without
any bonus, on the oath.
AN Austrian imperial decree has been
issued dissolving the Provincial Diets and
ordering new elections to be held.