Huntsville gazette., 1889-06-15
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 7th fire at Livingston, Ala, de-
stroyed fifteen buildings on the west side
| of the public square. Loss not stated.
ON the 9th fire in the village Of Lii
bonsch, near Ratibori, in Prussian ST.
| lesia, destroyed los houses, including the
village church and vicarage. Seven hum
dred Of the villagers were rendered home
| less.
| On the evening of the 9th the business
portion Of the city Of Seattle, w. T., was
practically wiped out by great confa-
| grafton.
| On the morning Of the 9th the Marchion-
ess de Chesteler, belonging to one of
the oldest of the noble families of Bel
GUM, was found murdered in her bed at
her residence, the Chateau Moulbaix. at
Mons.
| On the 9th the cotton mills in Offenburp.
Baden, were destroyed by fire, involving
q loss of 100000 marks. Several workmen
were killed.
On the 7th fire broke out among the
| bales !of cotton which had been taken
| from the Cunard Line steamer Scythia
and placed on the dock at Liverpool
Sixty bales were damaged by fire and
| water.
STEWART SMITH, of Her Majesty's ship
Comus, who fled recently, from Halifax,
N. s., being guilty Of forgery and en-
bezzlement in connection with his vessel
accounts, has been arrested in Boston.
A TELEGRAM from Bellefonte, Pa, says
over a million dollars damage was
wrought by the storm in Center County
A large number of lives were lost also.
| On the 7th Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Son
nijorn, old and respected citizens, were
knocked senseless by an electric current
while returning from La Porte, Ind,
to their country home during severe
thunderstorm. Mrs. Sonnijorn can not
recover, but the old gentleman rallied,
and the physicians think he may live.
On the 7th an English schoolmaster
named Kneeling. while travelling on the
Northwestern railway, with his sweet
heart, Miss Lester, the principal Of
school at Devices, shot the woman and
threw her dead body out of the window
and then committed suicide.
On the 9th accounts from the confag-
ration at Seattle, w. T., placed the loss
somewhere between SIS. 900, 900 to $40 000,-
| 900.
| On the 7th VIM. White, the counterfeiter
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large amount Of ''green" in his posses
sion, pleaded guilty in the United States
Court at Fort Dodge. Judge Shiras
promptly sentenced him to two years in
the State penitentiary and imposed q
$1,000 fine. This is Whites second of
fense.
On the 7th E. D. Hogan, the eronaut Of
Jackson, Mich, had narrow escape
from death at Auburn, N. Y, owing to
his parachute failing to work. He fell
1900 feet, when the parachute partially
opened and somewhat broke the fall. He
was badly injured.
IT is stated that the register of the
Hubert House at Johnstown, Pa, has
been recovered, and reveals the fact that
forty -four of the guests and employees of
the hotel lost their lives in the late food.
On the 9th William B. Young aged
twenty eight of Oakdale, Pa, q member
of Company c. Fourteenth Regiment, COM
mitted suicide in his tent at Johnstown
by placing the muzzle of his rifle against
his left temple and pulling the trigger.
Dependency caused by slight illness,
and doubtless intensified by nights
guard duty among the gloomy ruins, is
the only known cause of the soldiers act.
He was farmer, and leaves widow and
two children.
ON the 9Th Harry Heffright, engineer,
was instantly killed, and Lincoln Post,
fireman, fatally injured by their engine
going over an embankment eight miles
west of Huntingdon, Pa. Heffright's body
was literally roasted. and Post was terri
bly, scalded.
On the morning of the 10th an unknown
guest at the Van Dyke Hotel, in New
York City, was found dead on his knees
in his room. He had turned out the gas
with suicidal intent.
AT Plymouth, Pa, on the 10th, Reese
Lloyd. Pat Carley, William Williams and
Matthew Davis were instantly killed, and
two Poles had their legs cut off and will
probably die, by the collapse Of the rocky
roof of the Gaylord mine. insufficient
propping to sustain the roof was the
cause Of the accident.
On the 10th the fast express train on the
Lehigh Valley railroad was thrown from
the track at Sugar Notch, Pa The cars
were all telescoped, and two of them
crashed into a frame house which stood
near the track, the occupants of which
had close call. The escape of the pas
sengers from instant death was mlracu-
lous.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 9th the great National Dunkard
meeting began at H arrisburg. Va. at
tracing thousands OF visitors.
IT is said that in Coburn, Pa, there is
not one good house left standing as the
result of the recent storms. The total
loss will aggregate 100000. The valley
is strewn with bodies of all kinds of ami
mails.
The Treasury Department since April
| 10, 1888, has purchased bonds amounting
to S146 4O9, 500 at cost of S169, $40, ,993. The
s56. 543, 700 As purchased cost So, ,967,
and the $50, ,S65, 800 AS cost S97 269,0 ops.
On the 9th the Washington Sunday
Herald declared upon trustworthy in
formation that the dam to the George
town distributing reservoir was in pre-
carious condition, and likely to precipi-
tate another disaster such as devastated
the Conemaugh Valley.
A PORTION of the contribution of CO.
lumbus, O., to the stricken people of the
Conemaugh Valley, consisted of hum
dreds of pals in each of which were
packed half dozen each of plates, cups,