Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE United States steamer Adams, re-
Gently returned from Samoa, has been
put out of commission, and will undergo
thorough repairs at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
The total damage to property by the
| Chinese riots in Ching KiangF Foo is
| placed at SOB 000
NJ. GEISENDORF, the son of the Swiss
Consul at Cannes, France, was found mur-
dered at Monte Carlo, Italy. His valise,
which was lying near by, had been riled.
1t is said that he had recently won large
| sums of money at the Casino gambling
| tables.
LIEUTENANT HARVEY BATEMAN, Of the
| Tenth United States Infantry, whose
| home is at Fostoria, o., was found lying
| on the Bee Line Railroad track two miles
| west of Muncie, Ind, on the 2Sth, with his
| head entirely severed from his body and
| both legs cut of. There are suspicious Of
| foul play.
GEORGE POWELL, alias G. Barnett
| Young, who, attired in priestly garb, was
| arrested at Toronto, Ont, charged with
swindling jewelers. in Ottawa and Toronto
out Of watches and diamonds, and who
confessed many other such crimes. was
sent by police magistrate to the King
ston penitentiary for FIVE years.
ALEX. GRAVES, employed by James
| Ferguson, near Terre Haute, Ind, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
| years. on the 2Sth. for stealing 800 from
his employer. Graves was engaged to be
married to Ferguson's pretty daughter.
JOHN FLEMING, an inmate Of the Michi-
gan City Und.) prison, has been returned
10 Konolsio for trial for the murder Of
Sheriff Robert Jones Of Grant County.
DISPATCHES received from Auckland,
New Zealand on the 30th, states that a
terrific hurricane had swept over the
Samoan Islands and waters, wreckin the
American war-ships Vandalia, Trenton
and Nipsic, and the German war vessels
Olga, Adler and Eber. Four American
officers and forty-six men, and nine Ger
man officers and eighty men were
drowned.
On the Is, Countess Josephine Radetzky
committed suicide in Vienna.
IT was stated, on the 1st, that the police
had secured an important clew, in a sub
urb of st. Peters burg, to plot to murder
the Czar. The Gear is thoroughly alarmed
at the disclosures.
The negro Reuben Samms, who stabbed
his brother to death in New York City, on
the night of the 31st, surrendered himself
to the police on the 1st.
A STAGE from Murphy's to Milton, CAL,
was held up by a single highwayman near
Los Angeles on the 1st. The driver was
ordered to throw off the Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s treasure box and the mail bag, which
he did. They were rifed by the robber,
but only a small amount of money was Sc
cured.
NJ Nj. MARSHAL, an old soldier, was
struck and killed by Thos. Eagan, hack
driver, in Milwaukee saloon on the 1st.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ARTICLES have been filed with the Sec
retary of State of Colorado, of the Colo
RADIO g. Pacific railway. The capital stock
is s., 100000. II is proposed to build from
Grand Junction. Col, to the point where
the Colorado river empties into the Gulf
of California, and thence to San Fran
cisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.
BY the recent election in the Province Of
Victoria, Australia, sixty-five govern
ment supporters and thirty two members
of the Opposition were returned to the
Victoria Legislative Assembly.
IT is stated that the increase in the out
put OF coal Tor the next TWO years Dy tHo
Reading Coal and Iron Company will be
at least 1000. 900 tons. This will be done
through the four new collieries that are
being sunk and the rehabilitation OF old
mines that have not been worked for sew
eral years.
In proceedings in New York City for an
accounting between C. R. Griggs and c.
K. Carr son, on the 29th, Judgment was
entered in favor of the Garrison estate
against Griggs for S2,19 131. The litiga-
ton arose from disputed ownership of the
Wheeling&Lake Erie railroad.
THERE is reported to be hitch in the
negotiations looking to the formation OF
the proposed National Salt Syndicate, and
manv manufacturers are apprensiye that
it will fall through.
AFTER April Is the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad Company will reduce
hours of labor of shopmen, bridgemeh
and carpenters from ten to eight hours a
day. with q proportionate reduction in
wages.
on the 29th two hundred weavers OF the
Berkeley (R. I.) mills struck on account
of a change Of speed involving cut in
wages.
In San Diego. CAL, no credence is given
to the reported ight between Americans
and Mexicans at the mines in Lower Ca L
Cornia, and no details have been recarve L