The Osceola times., 1885-11-28
CRIMES AND CAsUAIrtEs.

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Is at deaths door.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE Journal de 81. Petersburg advises
Prince Alexander to conform with the Sui.
tan's reply TO his request for assistance.
On the 18th six persons were fatally
burned by the explosion Of an oil tank at
the works OF the Lubricating Oil Company
at Philadelphia, Pa.
ON the 18th freight train Of eighteen
cars and an engine went through bridge
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railway, near indianapolis, fatally injur-
ing the engineer and dangerously injuring
the conductor, fireman and brakeman.
/ DIR. WILLIAM FRorHiYoHAM, one OF the
bsst known physicians Of New York, was
killed ON the 18th by the accidental dis
charge OF pistol he was cleaning.
A POOR demsnted woman named Mrs.
Johnston smothered her child to death at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 10th.
Two noted horse-thieves. John Truston
and Silas Drove, were captured in the In
dian Territory on the 18th, but afterward
released by friends.
THe body OF Judge A. 8. Sanborn, Of
Madison, Wis, was found in Lansing's
woods near that city on the 10th with evil
dence that he had suicided with laudanum,
He was subject to temporary iits of insan-
ity.
ON the Goth Gottleib vartz, aged thirty
eight, was scalded to death in vat OF
boiling malt at the Empire Brewery, New
| York.
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dentist OF Coldwater, Mich. while using q
vulcanizer, had his left arm blown OF and
was severely wounded in the breast by the
explosion Of the apparatus.
WILKINSON, the murderer Of Officer Law.
renee, was hanged at Thomaston, Me-, on
the Goth. and died coolly and unrepentant.
ON the night Of the 10Th MIS- Sadie Kirk
and Reeta Emmons, her niece, OF Dale
City, Ia, retired at hotel at Creston, Ia,
and blew out the gas. When called to take
the 3:45 a. m. train for their destination
both were found to be nearly sufYocated,
with slim chances of recovery.
SEVERAL persons were poisoned by
drinking water from an old well, recently
reopened, in Chester County. Pa, two OF
whom, Annie Poole and FRANK Townsend,
died. Th. water Is believed to be impreg-
mated with deadly mineral poison.
On the Goth two persons were instantly
killed and several severely injured by an
explosion OF new boiler which was being
tested in mill which had just been COM
pleted at Richland City, Ind. The dam
age to the property is estimated at 5000.
On the Goth Otto Koblank, a drunken
hr.,t 10, hna rdi dit,o HI in, lar
sey City, N. j., and began to abuse the
landlady, Mrs. Sweeny, and wound up by
poa,ng kettle of boiling water over her,
scalding her so severely that her recovery
is impossible.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Glencoe express near st. Thomas, Ont, on
the 2oth, by placing distractions on the
track Of the Air Line Road.
SEVERAL workmen were severely in
jured by the burning Of the Rubber Paint
Company's building at Cleveland, o., on
the I'D.
JOHN W. LANERs, of Omaha, Neb., shot
and killed his wife on the night on the 2lst,
claiming to have mistaken her for burg
lar.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 2lst. Eight
thousand buildings, including numerous
churches and school houses, were de-.
stroyed and twenty two persons were
killed.
SUSIE SMELTzRR, four years Of age, was
burned to death at Atwood, Pa, on the
22d, by her clothing catching fire from a
crate.
r,s,.rc. ~ th n lod sro,,, Cal,utta ays
that 5000 people have been drowned and
100 villages submerged In Orissa by cy-
clone. and that 1,24I square miles in the
Moonshedabad and Huddea districts have
been devastated.
SAMUEL and John May, farmers, were
robbed and brutally beaten on the night Of
the 2ist by seven highwaymen in WASH
| ington County, Pennsylvania.
JOSEPH MCCoNNAUGHrY, Town Marshal
of Bridgeport, o., was fatally shot on the
| 2lst by Silas Conway.
MASKED robbers at Marion, Pa, poured
coal oil on an old man and set him on fire
TO extort money.
A CONVICT in the Nebraska Penitentiary
confesses to the murder Of Colonel Wat on
B. Smith, Clerk of the United States District
Court, at Omaha, whose death has been q
mystery since 1881.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Porte, In q note to the powers, pro-
tests against the Servian invasion of Bul.
garia and reserves the Ri sht to take mill
tary action in the matter.
THE nailers at Wheeling, W. Va, pro.
pose to hold out for better rate of wages
ON the 18th the Secretary Of State re-
ceived information from the Vice Consul
at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Island
that an epidemic Of smallpox broke out
in that town last week. About thirty cases
had been reported to date. The authorities
were taking energetic steps to suppress
the disorder.
The annual report of Chief Post.office
Inspector West, shows that $50 arrests were
made by inspectors during the year. OF
this number 2O3 were tried and convicted
and 222 await trial. During the year 45a
Post offices were robbed; 258 burned and