The Osceola times., 1885-04-04


was elected Treasurer of National Asso'
citation of x-German soldiers at meet
ing held at Chicago on the 10Th.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MILTON BucKSxR, a colored desperate
and murderer of Kentucky, was arrested
In Louisville on the 25th.
on the 25th Theron Brown, colored, cut
his wife's throat at Newark, N. j., and
then blew out his own brains.
WM HAISEs, of Muncie, Ind, went tC
the henhouse of Bishop Scott on the night
OF the oath TO play a practical joke, and
was killed by the latter.
Music HALL at Buffalo, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire the night of the 2Jth, to-
gether with the wardrobes and other prop
erty of the McCaull Opera Company.
The loss by the Buffalo fire, on the night
OF the 25th, foots up $4,000, including
Music Hall, valued at S2Oo,0)o
On the Goth WIN. ID. Cushing, NJ Wheel
ing, w. Va, was arrested on a charge OF
embezzlement, and shortly afterward COM
mtted suicide.
A PEDDLER who was given shelter for
the night In a house of two ladies at
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entered and demanded money Of the
ladies'.
On the morning Of the 26th fire broke
out at Monypennie's cooper r-shop, In the
Ohio Penitentiary building, and the con-
tents were entirely consumed. Loss on
machinery and stock, $4,000 to $4,000,
about two-thirds covered with insurance
Seven hundred and fifty thousand cigars
were also consumed
FIRE destroyed the Ohio Linseed Com
pany's mills at Harrie's Station, about
three miles east OF Dayton, o., the
night of the 2jth, with contents, incurring
loss of over $4,000 The company but
recently started up in Harre's old -four
stored in the building and warehouse, and
800 barrels of linseed oil ready for ship
ping.
john SEXTON was hanged at Barbour
vile, KY, on the 9th.
OAKLAND CRY, IND, was visited on the
eth by horrible conhagration. Fourteen
buildings In the business part of the city
were swept away. Loss, fully 100000
WM. NEAL, the last Of the Ashland MUIR
derers, was executed at Grayson, KY, on
the 27th. He protested to the last that he
are inclined to the belief that justice has
not yet found the true culprits.
THE steamer Mark Twain exploded her
boiler at Mound City, ArkN ON the 9th.
Four persons were killed and several
wounded seriously.
| AN explosion in the mines Of the Dom
brau Orman Mining Company at Trappan,
Austrian Slesia, on the 9th, buried forty
miners. All are believed to have perished.
There was also an explosion in the mines
of Baron Rothschild at Ostrou in Moravia,
which killed fifty-sx men.
| In a coal mine explosion at McAllister, /,
|. T., on the 2sth, eleven men were killed.
A POLICEMAN was fatally shot by gang
of thieves while attempting their arrest
at Rochester, Pa, on the 2Sth.
On the 29th the lithographic art estab-
ment of Schumacher e. Ettlinger, New
York, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900.
| FIRE destroyed w. NJ. Quirin & Co. Is
carriage factory at Boston, Mass, on the
Goth. Loss, $4,000.
On the 10th W. d. Hoyt, formerly of st.
Louis, killed a mulatto at Cleveland, o.,
who came into his yard and who first drew
revolver. ON Hoyt.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1T is announced in London that the cause
for calling out militia is that Russia has
rejected the English proposals.
THE Northwest Territory troubles are
becoming serious.
THE British War Department has or !.
dered 100000 pounds of canned beef from
one Chicago firm, aud 100000 pounds
from another house Of that city.
AT Birmingham, England, the arms fac
tories are working night and day.
On the 26th deleg cation of ministers Of
the gospel called upon the President and
urged him to enforce the Edmunds polyg-
amy act.
telegraph wires.
BRITISH soldiers In the Soudan are suf.
fcring from sunstrokes.
| On the 26,h the Yale Alumni of New
York gave dinner, at which Mr. Phelps,
the new Minister to England, was present.
THE Burmese Government is sendi ng
1900 camels to India, to be used In the
transport service Of the Afghan frontier.
THE Senate Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds reported in favor Of
electric light for the Senate chamber in =
stead of gas.
AT Constantinople the opinion prevails
that IL war Is commenced between En-
gland and Russia 1t will extend to the
Black Sea.
The ordnance officers at Chatham, En-
gland, have been ordered to ship to India
all the Martins Henry rifles available
AN attack was recently made by Gem
eral Negrier on the Chinese at Dong Dang,
but was unable to rout the celestials ow-
ing to the heavy forces of the enemy. The
French report POD killed and wounded.
THE Pennysylvania Senate passed tn Q
Congressional apportonment bill on the
26th. 1t gives nineteen Republican and
nine Democratic districts.
THERE is an impression in New York th at
many of the European war reports circu-
lated on the Stock Exchange are manu-
factured in that city.
| THE French papers urge an advance
upon Canton Mt once.
| The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
has recommended changes in several elec-
tion districts, ana it was expected the
President would nominate a number of col
lectors of internal revenue before adjourn
ment of the Senate.
OK the26th DR.. j. J. S. Doher;y, registrar
OF vital statistics at New Haven, Conn,
was arrested on a charge Of making false
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JOHN BULL continues to send his orders