Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-25

York City.
ON the 21st VIM. McEwan, one of Lord
Lonsdale's men, arrived in New York
city with four Eskimo dogs used by
Lonsdale in his northern trip.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Il. Cook was arrested in London, Ont,
on the 10th, for robbing the Sortersville
Savings Bank, in Mercer County, Pa, OF
$1,000. He confessed, and implicated
others in the robbery.
ON the 18th Nelson Colbert (coiored),
who murdered Philip Wentzel, superin-
tendent of the Columbia strset-car
stables, in Washington, in October last,
was hanged at the District Jail.
NEAR Beverly, w. Va, on the 18th,
a serious fight occurred among about
forty Italian laborers on the West Vir-
ginia Central railroad extension. Three
men were shot and badly wounded; two
were severely stabbed, and others were
cut, beaten, bruised by stones, etc.
On the 10th Judge John L. Milburn, of
'he st. Mary's County Orphans Court at
l.eOnardtown, Md, was struck by light
ming and killed.
GEORGE HOwERY, q farmer of Shelby
County, Ind, was arrested, on the 10th,
and taken to Rushville on warrant
charging him with being one of two men
who passed over $500 in counterfeit fves
and tens in the latter city.
A DISPATCH from BresIau, Germany. on
the 18th, says that conflict occurred be-
tween the military and the strikers near
there. The troops fired upon the strikers,
killing a number of them.
ON the 18th the ChaSanaaka g. Obio
Railroad Company's depot warehouse
at Norfolk, Va, was burned and entirely
destroyed. The loss on the building and
freight is estimated at 100000. The
building wooden structure, was nine
hundred feet long. The origin Of the fire
is unknown.
STEWART BROTHERS packing-house, at
Council Bluffs, Ia, was burned, on the
18th, with a quantity Of cured meats.
Loss, 100000; insurance, S93, 400.
On the 18th the Terra Central Sugar
Grinding Factory, at Manzanillo, Cuba,
was burned. Loss, 100000.
THE Turks, it is stated. are massacre
ing Christians on the frontier Of Mon
tenegro.
WHILE two roofers, named Alex. Frazer
and George Eddy, were engaged in roof
ing the dome of the new wheel elevator
on the island at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
18th, the scaffold gave way, and the men
fell hundred feet striking on the roof
of boiler house. Both were fatally in
jured.
On the 18th John Bogard, of Van Sue,
O., took a dose of arsenic with suicidal
intent, dying shortly afterward. He was
to have been married in two weeks to Miss
Lola Beck, and killed himself because
she received calls from another gentle
man. .
A WOMAN named Scott and her daugh-
ter, Carrie Emaker, o girl of fourteen,
have been arrested in Omaha, Neb.,
charged with putting arsenic in the coffee
of Lewis Marvin, an elderly man, for
whom they were keeping house.
AT Holyoke, Mass, on the 10Th, boat
in which Albert Arnold and William
Doyle were rowing was capsized, and
Arnold was drowned, leaving wife and
three children. Doyle clung to the boat
until rescued by the pleasure steamer
City of Holyoke.
On the 10Th Xavier and Mary Arnold,
husband and wife, were arrested in New
York on leaving the steamer La Cham
pagne, from Havre, France. On the
woman were found gold watches and
chains, bracelets and trinkets to the value
of $4,000.
On the Goth the trial of William E.
Howard, chief of the alleged swindlers
who defrauded the Electric Sugar Refin-
ing Company out Of thousands Of dollars.
was begun before Recorder Smyth of
New York City, on an Indictment for
grand larceny in the first degree.
On the Goth Conductor John W. Walsh,
aged twenty three, of the New York &
New England railroad, and Fred Metzger,
aged thirty letter carrier, were
arrested in Boston, charged with connec-
ton with the theft of the railway tickets
recently found at the house of Samuel w.
Staples, who was arrested several days
previously.
On the night Of the Goth the steamship
Johns Hopkins, OF the Boston line, was
burned in the Baltimore (Md.) harbor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 18th the largest oil well in Ohio
was struck at North Baltimore. 1t filled
a ] 800 barrel tank III an hour. Land In
the town is held at enormous prices.
IT is said that an Anarchist Republican
conspiracy has been discovered at Succia
in Valencia, Spain, among the peasants.
The plot was to seize the town, on the
18th, aud sack the houses Of the wealthy.
The police and soldiers arrested num-
ber of the conspirators. Firearms were
found in their possession, and many also
had passports to South America.
THE Drunkards' law has gone into effect
in Minnesota. 1t provides that whoever
becomes intoxicated by voluntarily drin=-
ing intoxicating liquors shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor. and upon con :
viction thereof shall be punished by fine
and Imprisonment.
On the 18th the National Tube Works,
at McKeesport, Pa, having granted the
demand of its employees for a restoration
Of last years wages, the 1000 men in al
departments resumed work. The con-
cession means an advance of ten to fif-
teen per cent in the wages of skilled
men, and five per cent. on those of la
borers.
In order to protect its property in Ohio
from tramps, who have caused numerous
fires on its premises lately, the Standard
Oil Company has ordered its Philadelphia
agent to purchase and ship to Lima two
hundred bull dogs. which will be distrib-
uted throughout their Ohio oil fields.
CREAGERSTowN and Middletown. Nd,