The Osceola times., 1885-08-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


tally assaulted with kn ives at Allentown,
Pa, on the 2lst. One will die and the
other will lose an arm.
The steamer Hecla collldsd with the
Liverpool and London steamer Cheerful
in fog In the English Channel Oh the
2lst. The latter foundered and thirteen
persons were drowned.
THOMAS PoRcHER was held at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 2lst by Commissioners
Mckay, for unlawful cob abitation with
his niecs as plural wife, in $1,000 hail.
They are alleged to have had ten chill
dren, all dead.
On the I'D Edward Motz, a robber, was
killed at Philadelphia by VIM. Battersty.
AT Yarmouth, England, on the 2ad,
eight men were drowned in an attempt to
relieve the crew Of a boat in distress.
THIRTEEN persons were killed and
twenty-t injured by lightning during
a storm on the 23i near Cajetana. Italy.
The imm snss Ger ,al dspot Of Kalasch.
nikow In st. Petersburg was burned on
the 23d. large quantity OF grain was
d stroyed. The loss will reach an enor.
nous sum.
MILTON W. SMITH was han yed for MUIR
der at Osceola. Neb, on the Gath.
The wife OF Rev. John Light was
struck by freight train at New Boston,
Ia, on the 23l aud killed.
JOHN WOLFF, a notorious character of
Washington, Pa, was shot and instantly y
ki led by O.ilcer Ha nm mi on the 23 |
while resisting arrest.
SIXTEEN houses were consumed and sew
erai persons burned to death near Aix-la-
Chapelle, France, on the 23l,
THE Oakland tannery at Louisville, X ",
was destroyed by fire on the Gath.
ABE JACKSON an | his sister were bound
over for murder and incest at Rod Oak,
Il.
worth, Kas., for forgery and embezzle
ment while clerk a. the Psnltsntiar y, was
arrested at Cincinnati on the 2itl and sent
home.
The loss from the recent fire in Carde-
mas, Cubi 1, by whi ch seven sugar housoS
were destroyed, is $4,000. The insur
ance amount, to Si4D,0)0.
Two houses at Cologne, Germany, ten
anted by sixteen families, collapsed on
the cath. Three dead bodies and sever.
teen persons more or less seriously in.
jured were recovered from the ruins.
Fifty more remained bensath the debris.
In Baltimore on the 18th three persons
died from trichinosis, CEASED by pork
eaten May 10Th.
on the 25th incendiaries caused loss oi
$4,000 roubles' worth OF property near
Moscow.
ON the Goth fire at Minneapolis, MINI.
dana ed the Nicollet House to the extent
Of Sll,00).
On the Goth, by the collapse of pier al
Chatham, Eng, eighty persons werJ
thrown into the water and it is thought a
number were drowned.
On the 25th Miss Dickson, school
teacher living alone on h mestead nesr
Valentine, Neb., was brutally outraged
by Sioux Indian.
SERIOUS oods are reported fro n Colo /.
RADIO. Bridges and houses have b,en
swept away aud several persons drowned.
FIRE consumed five blocks of buildings
in a workshop aud factory quarter ot
Paris on the 25th. Several tiremen ar,
reported missing and 1t is feared they ar,
killed.
ON the 25th, about a hundred men wert
prostrated and many more obliged to seel
the shad, at the conclusion of a military
parade in Boston. Two Of the cases, il
was feared, would prove fatal.
THE Postmaster at What Cheer, la.
on the Goth, drove off a mob that attempt
ell to seize a lot of liquors stored in his
office by the Prohibition League. In doing
SO he killed two of them.