The Osceola times., 1885-02-07

OK the 5ist Sir William Vernon Har'
court, British Home Secretary, received
an anonymous letter informing him of al
extensive dynamite plot that is beins
hatched.
On the 3ist the Arkansas Legislature
elected Hon. James X. Jones TO the United
States Senate TO succeed Senator Walker
Mr.. Jones is now tn. Representative from
the Third District.
GENERAL woLsELEy's chief OF stan
General Butler, has been temporarily ap'
pointed to succeed General Stewart
THE well-known journalist, traveller and
diplomat, Porter C. Bliss, died in n New
York hospital, on the lst.
On the LIST DIR. Jean Baptiste Marchise
born in Italy In i,so, died at Utica, N. Y
He was once attached to the army of Ma
poleon Bonapart,.
PHILLIPS won the ten mile skating mattel
for the amateur championship Of Americi
in ~ min. is 3-5 ssc. at New York on thu
3lst.
On the 3lst Crittenden Rogers, the ex'
pert bicyclist and polo player, fell while IL
a game at Bnghamton, N. Y, and diet
from his injuries.
On the LIST Senator German visited Presi'
dent elect Cleveland and gave him de-
tailed account Of the arrangements for th'
inaugural ceremonies at Washington.
ADvIcEs from General wolselcy dated al
Korti the LIST have been received at Lon
don. He gives much news Of interest and
encouragement respecting the position ol
the British forces.
CHAIRMAN MUrcHLER Of the House Com
mittee on Reform in the Civil Service has
been instructed by his committee to make
an adverse report on the bill to prohibit the
removal OF any honorably discharged
Union soldier, sailor or marine, or widow
or dependent relative OF any deceased
Union soldier, sailor or marine from any
office in the civil service of the United
States except for specified causes.
The Fenian O'Leary lectured TO 1900
people at Manchester, Eng, ON the 1st.,
and condemned the recent dyna Iaite out
RACES, but was interrupted. Other speak
ers advocated dynamite, and many in the
audience cheered for O'Donovan Rosa.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE cavity made in the White Tower,
London, by the recent dynamite explosion
is ten feet long by five feet wide.
AN enterprising clerk in a store at Wa
hoo, Neb, has been loanin 9 out the firms
money for two years. He has made
confession and turned over $3.50 in money
and mortgages.
The famous outlaw, Nicholas Aragon, at
one time memb,r OF tho "Bllly the Kid"
gang, was captured near Choita, N. NJ, on
the 21th. In taking him one OF the officers
was shot dead by the desperate. The
populace were liable to lynch him.
On the 2sth Mrs. Dooley of Winterset,
Ia, who was deserted by her husband,
gave her son and daughter opium aud took
a dose herself. The girl recovered; the
others died.
A COAL mine at Plummer Hill, o., was
fired on the 10th, supposedly by incendi.
aries.
The Ereniag Star building at Washing
ton, d. c., was partially destroyed by fire
on the 10Th.
THE crew OF the British bark Wellington
mutunied oil Cornwall, aud the Captain
was killed and the mate wounded. The
vessel was towed into Plymouth AMI the
crew arrested.
FORTY persons are reported Killed In a
recent railway accident in Australia.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the New
Jersey Central Railroad on tho outskirts
OF Jersey City, N. j., on the @th, by
which several cars were derailed and
smashed, and many Of the passengers in
jured, some of them fatally. A broken
wheel was the cause.
A MAN named Goodman has been arrest
ed in London, charged with being impli-
Gated in the recent dynamite explosions
at Westminster Hall and the Tower.
FIFTY villages in Spain were destroyed
and two thousand lives lost by the recent
earthquakes. Thirty thousand persons have
left Malaga, and those who remain are
sleeping in the open air. The death rate
from diseases has increased three hundred
per cent In one village river disap-
peared, In another churches, converts and
occupants were swallowed up.
On the 3lst colored woman and her
two children were burned to death in their
home at Altoona, Pa.
FIRE destroyed the tin can works OF
Beardsley g. Co., Cleveland, o., on the
3lst, loss, $4,000.
J. j. BuRpsALL & Co.'s wholesale drug
store at Cincinnati, o., was damaged Sl5,'
900 by fire the evening of the 3lst.
NATURAL gas explosions in Pitts burgh
Pa, on the 3lst, caused several persons to
be fatally and a number seriously injured
and the demolition of a few buildings.
The effect was terrible, and caused al
most a panic in the city.
FIRE destroyed the Union Knife Com.
pany's factory at Union City, Conn, on
the lst.
OK the evening of the 3lst, Lizzie Kauf.
man, only two years from Germany
dropped dead at dance in Cincinnati.
A CASE OF criminal use of dynamite in
New York was reported on the lst. Ar
attempt was made to blow up a dry good.
store, and the crime is laid at the door OF
discharged employees, who organized q
strike not long ago.
On the 3lst Steven Hall, of Detroit, Mich.
and Miss Jennie Hoople, Of Wauseon, o..
were killed and others injured ina sleigh
ing accident at Oak Harbor, o.
AuSCELLANkOUe.
AT Muscatine, Ia, the mercury dropped
to thirty -four degrees below zero on the
2sth, the coolest weather in twenty three
years.