The Osceola times., 1882-07-15

treasury, has been over s144. 900 900 during
| the eleven months of the current fiscal year.
| Hence ID is safe TO estimate that the actual
reduction of the debt, interest bearing and
non-interest bearing, will aggregate at least
sl50.000, 900 for the current fiscal year.
! II is fact not generally known tha
Lieut.. Danenhauer. whose he roism In con
nection with the Inflated Jeannette Arctic
exploring expedition has given him sud
den and worldwide fame, is native OF
| Illinois, and though having made Washing
ton City his home since early boyhood, was
appointed cadet at the United States Ma
val Academy at Annapolis on the recon-
mendation Of an Illinois member of Con-
gress, the Hon. A. J. Kuykendall, of John
son county, and that the gallant Lieuten-
ants name stands in the naval register Of
the Academy as from the Cairo, ILL.,, Dis
trict, then represented by Mr.. Kuykendall.
A New York special says about LOO of
the striking boiler-makers returned to work
today at the increased wages, the Morgan
and Dclamater Iron works still hold out
against. At the request of these two en-
ployers the committee visited them yester-
day. The employers said they were willing
to pay as high wages as were going but not
recognize the union. The committee replied
that all the men formerly employed in these
shops are now members of the union and
that IL would be an impossibility to treat
with them before the union. All the union
asked was an advance of ten per cent. which
all the other shops were paying. The com
mittee reported back TO the union and IL
was promptly decided not TO allow these
men to return TO work in these two shops
until the ten per cent. advance is uncondi-
tionally granted.
A big counterfeit case has been unearth-
ed in Kirwin, Kansas. George +. Best was
arrested for passing counterfeit coin. lie
is Just from Boston. He lived in a dug-out
on an 50 acre homestead two miles north of
there. The sheriff searched his house and
found pal named Hudson, a complete set
of dies and a quantity of unfinished coun-
terfeit coin in different parts of the house.
Best proposes to "squeal," intimating that
he has accomplices in the East who are in
terested with him in this business. lie has
been successfully showing the queer in
country townsfor two weeks. Both he and
Hudson hint strongly OF their connection
90 and New York. MANY Kansas towns
have been systematically worked for the
past six months. Thousands Of small coun-
terfeit coins are in circulation. The case
excites much attention, as ii is believed the
head was struck in the arrest of the parties
named.
The Grand Trunk Railway station and
sheds and DOMINION, ontario ana quebec
immigration sheds and offices at South Que
bee, Ont. burned. Several Intercolonial
aud Grand Trunk ears were also burned
Benoit's Hotel, adjoining the station, was
gutted. Loss varously estimated from
100000 to 100000, according to the value
of the freight in the shed. Nothing
can be ascertained about the insurance, as
that is arranged in Montreal. Smoke was
first seen issuing from the planking OF the
wharf upon which the buildings were erect
ed between the freight and custom offices
and the Office OF the train dispatcher. An
Intellectual attempt was made to drown the
fire with buckets of water, but in few
minutes flames broke out, and the surround
ing buildings were soon in flames. An
alarm was at once given, but the rapidity
with which the flames spread rendered un-
availng all the efforts of the firemen. and IN
a short time only n heap of ruins remained.
The property burnt consists of wooden
buildings erected parallel with each other
and with the river. The length of the
buildings was from 175 to 200 feet, each
about 60 feet broad and one to three stories
high. The fire also burnt into the wharfs
upon which the buildings were erected.