Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-18
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,

A SHORTAGE of over So 900 is reported
in the accounts Of Eckford Moore, late
postmaster at Trenton, N. j., which is un-
derstood to have been the cause Of his
summary removal.
On the 9th fire at Danville, Mont, de-
stroyed twenty three buildings, leaving
only the bank and hotel standing in the
business portion of the village.
AT Toxic, Corea, one hundred con-
stables beat man to death because he
had paid the entire tax levy of his village.
the people being too poor to pay it. The
| enraged townspeople thereupon attacked
the constables, killing number of them
and wounding the survivors.
On the 10th a sudden wind and rain
storm, resembling cyclone, swept over
the Potomac valley near Point Of Rocks,
seventy miles above Washington.
Twenty-Five men working on railroad
trestle spanning the river were blown off
into the water, sixty feet below.
THREE miners were killed and several
wounded in q conflict with soldiers at
Bracket, Germany. on the 10th. The
strikers had gathered in a large body and
refused to disperse when ordered. The
soldiers thereupon fired on them.
A ZANZIBAR dispatch states that an Off
Ger and two seamen belonging to the Ger
man cruiser Schwalbe were killed at
Bagamoyo, on the East coast of Africa.
| IT is said that Italy declines to surren-
der Vitelie and Bovine, the murderers of
Paymaster Mcclure, near Wilkes barre,
Pa. but will try them in that country if
evidence is forwarded.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, the jury in the Kemm-
Ter murder trial. after being out eighteen
hours, returned a verdict, on the 10th, of
murder in the first degree. Sentence was
deferred.
| FIRE in the hold of the steamship Ru-
gia, from New York for Hamb lrg, en-
dangered the safety of the passengers
and crew for over two days, but was fin
ally extinguished by turning steam into
the burning compartment and the yes
sci put into Plymouth il sa fety On the
18th.
On the 11th, while James Smith was on
trial in Kansas City, Kas., on the charge
Of burglary, he drew a razor and cut a
seven-inch cash in the neck of Detective
McGlley, producing fatal wound, and
then made a dash for liberty, but was shot
dead, pierced by five balls.
On the 11th the quarterly whipping at
N ew Castle, Del, was remarkable in the
uumDeT Oh ldSueS ldlu Oh ny the SuoTlIt,
who struck 215 blows on the backs Of
twelve men. Three of them received forty
lashes each for highway robbery.
On the morning of the 18th James
B. Smith, local editor of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, was shot and in
stantly killed by his brother in law, who
tistook him for a burglar.
On the night of the 18th the brake on a
dummy of the Front Street cable road at
Seattle, w. T., failed to work, and the car
ran down gra de at great speed, and was
thrown fir ON the track at turn, pitching
the pas sengers out on the pavement, and
causing the death Of Mrs. Sophronia Wag-
ner, of Chadwick. Neb.
A BUILDING at the corner of Spring and
Wooster streets, New York. fell, on the
18th, killing two men, Patrick Gilling
and James Joseph. Both were laborers.
Foreman George Thomas was badly in
jured.
On the 18th serious affray occurred at
Elsenheim, Germany, arising out of dis
puted claims to the occupation OF private
lands. The military were called out to
disperse the angry villagers, but were
unable to do so without firing upon them.
Seven persons were killed.