The Osceola times., 1885-09-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

wife sailed for England on the ID.
N. FLowRy, an Italian Treasury Off
cial, embexzled public funds, which h
lost in gambling, and commi tied suicid,
when detected.
Of Princess Beatrice, has been appointed
. commandant In the British navy.
THE employees OF Sir William George
Ar mstrong's gun and machine works al
Elswick, England, are on a strike. Five
thousand are idle.
ON the ID, Brooks, alias Maxwell, made
his second appearance in the Court oi
Criminal Correction, at st. Louis. His
lawyer was not ready, and the case was
continued one week. when examination
may be waived.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS OPEN
I'd q workngmen's club near Rugby, En-
gland, on the I'd, and in speech advised
chose who thought OF emigrating that
worthless persons.
How. DAN. MANNING visited Mr.. Tilden
at Greystone on the I'd.
The National Convention of the Ma
sonic Lodges of Relief, in session at Balti-
more on the 3D. elected Martin Coll ms, OF
St Louis, President
A SON Of Admiral Cooper was arrested
at New York on the Sd on a charge of
burglary.
DRKYFuL and Lsbaudy, two French
Deputies, fought duel on the 81, in which
Lebaudy was wounded.
LrxUrENASr-G GENERAL JOHN H. MELL-
WILLIE BABISaroS, of the British army,
was accidentally killed while grouse-
hunting on the 81.
Hon. WM. WARNER, OF Missouri, was
elected President of the Waterways Con-
vention at St. Paul, Minn.
THE French Embassy at Constantinople
has assumed an aggressive attitude to-
ward Sir Henry Drummond Wolf.
Ex-SESAroR GwYSS, OF California, who
had been seriously Ill at New York for
several days, died on the 81.
LIEUTENANT ScHUErz has reached
romsk on his way to Yakoutsk with the
presents for the natives who aided the
Jeannette survivors.
Mr.. STAED, editor Of the Pal Mall Ga
xefte, telegraphs from Switzerland that he
alone Is responsible for the abduction of
the Armstrong girl.
TIE hoalth Of the rebel leaders Riel and
Dumout was propose ed and enthusiastical-
ly drank at banquet at Papineauville,
Province OF Quebec, on the 3d.
JUDGE @. w. McILvANE. of the Ohio
Supreme Court, has declined the Republ
can nominate on for re- election, owing to
Ill health.
The London Times, commenting on the
speech OF Minister Phelps at Rugby,
congratulates the speaker on his power Of
oratory and avoidance of offense to either
political party.
Mr. K l. WAKEMAS, former proprietor
of the Chicago Current, who disappeared
some time since. has been found In u
monastery In Wisconsin.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURoHrLL, in an ad-
dress at Sheffield on the Sd, announced
that the Afghan frontier question had
been settled, Russia having largely modi.
fed her claims, and also stated that he
saw no reason to regret the absence Of
coercion in Ireland.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN JAS. c. FREEMAN, OF
Atlanta, Ca, who appointed the cele-
brated negro "Fiipper" to West Point,
died in that city on the 3D., aged sixty.
He was wealthy citizen and one of the
leading business men Of Atlanta.
MAJOR CHERMsIDE telegraphs that the
garrison ut Kassala has not surrend cred.
SECRETARY MANNING met a small party
Of bankers in the Treasury building at
New York on the Sd. The bankers gath
cred assurance from the interview with
Secretary Manning that the Administra- :
ton was a unit in desire to abolish the
silver coinage law at the next session OF
Congress.
LIEUTENANT WErssMAN, the German
explorer, has discovered that the River
Kassai, heretofore believed TO Join the
Congo above the equator, curves aud falls
into Lake Leopold III.
GOVERNOR MARMADuKe of Missouri has
offered a reward of 81, 900 for the Blue
Springs train robbers.
THE reply u Germany to Spain in re.
gard to the Caroline Islands has been re-
ceived by King Alfonso.
THE remains of ex Senator Gwinn have
been sent TO his home In California by ex :
press
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, British Em-
bassador at st. Petersburg, has presented a
his letters of recall, aud taken leave of
the Czar.
QUISTAs WALKER drank quart of
whisky at Reidsville Ga, on the night
Of the 81. His wife found his remains in
the yard next morning.
The dead man found near Chica %, re =
ported on the 4th, has been iden,ifie I'd as
II. Sulvin, of Springfield, Mass. He had
been drowned.
OK the 4th the Supreme Court of Illi-
nois overruled the motion for continu.
ance in the case Of Mackin, convicted of
perjury in the Chicago election fraud
cases.
JOSEPH Helm, shoe manufacturer and
merchant of Louisville, KY, and also
Treasurer Of two benevolent societies, is
missing, and 1t Is charged that he has
taken several thousand dollars Of the So
cieties' funds
Rev. DR. STEPHEN II. TYING, SR., died
at Irvington, N. Y, on the 4th.
some Of the members of the Cabinet
are quoted as having recently stated that
the administration will not advocate any
amendment OF the civil law by the
next Congress.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBy, of Illinois, has Of
fered reward of 500 for the apprehen-
sion of Thomas Mcqueen, alias Mex Gown,
the alleged murderer of Robert Burgoyne
at Minonk, Ill, on the 26th of August.
OK the 4th J. II. Aufdemorte aud Eras-
mus Shepherd were arraigned bsfore
United States Commissioner Wright at
New Orleans. They waived examination
and were remanded. Aufdemorte's bail
Is 81, 900; Shepherds, $4,000