The Osceola times., 1885-12-05

TIE Porte has asked Prince Alexander
TO stop the advance Of the Bulgarian
army.
SENIOR NICOLAS AvALLANEDA, ex-Presi-
dent of the Argentine Republic, died at
| sea while en- route to Europe.
The announcement is made in New York
financial circles that Jay Gould will retire
from Wall street with the closing of the
present year and devote himself exclu-
sively TO his railroad interests.
MARcHEsE RITA CASDIcE, daughter OF
Mario, the tenor, ANA Grisi, has been sem
fenced to eighteen months Imprisonment
at Berlin for swindling.
LORD LAYsDowSE, Governor General OF
Canada, has commuted the death sentence
OF John Easterbee, of Eflingham, who was
to have been hanged on the 30th for abet-
ting the killing of his brothers. wife and
finishing, by request, an incomplete effort
by his brother to take his own life.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH died intestate. His
estate Is valued at $4,000.
SENATOR MILLER, of California, is too i'll
to go to Washington at present.
COLONEL SwITzLER, chief Of the Bureau
of Statistics, has returned to Washington
from his Southern trip and reports a most
cordial reception.
A SPECIAL messenger, bearing dis
patches from Queen Victoria to Prince
Alexander, is said to be on his way to
Sofia.
SEVERAL members OF the National Cabi-
net went to indianapolis to attend the fu-
81 NJ he ha 10
concluded to remain at the Capital.
ON tho 2sth Mr.. Gladstone made speech
at Carlisle, in which he expressed encour-
agement over the prospect.
MARSHALL CLEMENTS is to be hanged at
Saguache, Col, on the Sd, for the MUIR
der Of his brother and sister in law.
THE remains of King Alfonso have been
placed In the palace of the Escurial.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Bismarck, ID. T., on the 23d the e was
found on piece of floating Missouri River
ice the body Of a man, and beside him was
found note purporting to be from his
wife in London, England, and which read :
"My dear husband, you must hurry home
II you expect to find your little Nellie
alive. am doing all in my power to save
her, but she is very low. Hoping you will
return soon, remain, with love, your own
Mary" The note was addressed to Cap
tain John Bannock, Fort Assinaboine,
M. T.
AT Omaha, Neb., a special Grand Jury
has been called to investigate the case of
John w. Lauer, who killed his wife re-
Gently, claiming to have mistaken her for
a burglar.
Four children were crushed to death and
several others seriously injured by the
falling Of an old building at Jersey City,
N. j., on the 25th, in.whichthey were gath
ering wood from the condemned structure
MRS. JOSEPH BANNING and her infant
child were burned to death in their dwell :
ing, which was set on fire by an in
cendiary, in the Cannon Ball Valley, Da-
kota, on the night Of the 2ith.
JOHN AND WILLIAM Belts were arrested
at Angola, N. Y, on the 25th, charged
with selling cancerous beef to their GUS
toners.
ON Che 27th the steamer Emma Graham,
Of the Cincinnati Packet Company, sunk
at Ripley's Landing, Ohio River One man
was known to be drowned and several
others were missing.
ON the eth eight Indians, convicted of
murder and participation in the Frog Lake
massacre, were hanged at Battleford,
Northwest Territory.
AaANe Of Chinese pirates recentlyIseized
the steamship Greyhound, trading between
Hong Kong and Pskhoi, they having taken
hoI
orable opportunity to carry out their plan.
The Captain was murdered and thrown
into the sea, the ship plundered and the
pirates and their booty taken off by three
junks, two of which were afterward cap
tured.
A GANG Of exceptionally expert counter
feiters have been operating In Montreal re-
Gently, and nearly every bank in the city
has been victimized, and some Of their is
sues have had to be withdrawn.
On the 2sth John j. Kelly, former EN-
ploye Of Lord e. Taylor, New York, was
arrested, charged with embezzling 900
from that firm by means of false entries.
EARLY on the morning of the 2sth an at
tempt was made to assassinate Mr.. Sam
uel Britain, aged seventy years, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, in the office of his son, where
he slept. He was found later, uncon-
scious, in pool of his own blood from two
pistol shot wounds. The affair is shrouded
in mystery.
NEWS is received of the killing of Gram
ston Gregg, formerly of Milwaukee, Wis,
by Charles F. Wahl, at Tin Cup, Col.
ON the 2sth John Edward, James Burke
and Edward Doyle was killed by falling
$50 feet down the new acqueduct shaft at
Merritt's Corners, N. Y. An Italian, name
unknown, was also fatally injured.
ON the 2sth the body of Warren G..
Yates, of Omaha, Neb., the Yale student
who was blown out to sea while duck hunt
ing few nights ago, was found at Batting
Hollow, N. Y.
BY the explosion Of the boiler of the
Tropic Furnace coal shaft at Jackson, o.,
on the 2sth, Andrew Dobbins, day en-
gineer, and Lincoln Ingles, night engineer,
were killed. A son Of Dobbins' was blown
fifty feet but he was not seriously injured.
On the Goth the Jones Hotel and several
other buildings at Omaha, Neb., burned,
and several persons came near losing their
lives.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Servian forces confronting Widdin
naIa Iasparata aseault on that ylara