The Osceola times., 1885-07-11

| French provinces The destruction oi
property by the winds and floods has been
enormous Eight persons were killed by
lightning.
+. A. BOYD and Geo. II. Boyd, father
and son. were sentenced at New York on
the Both for deirauding the Government,
the father to the Penitentiary for two
years. the son to pay fine of 81 900
A HORRIBLE murder was committed at
Dawson. Oak, on tn 9 3Oth. The body OF
Mrs. Unger was found buried in the hay
In one of the stalls OF the barn. She had
been dead some time. Ii Is suppose cd a
tramp that was work ng for Mrs Unger
did the work by beating in her head with
an iron wedge.
| In accordance with recent decision of
the New York Court Of Appeals, Franz
Joseph Petmeaky, the Auburn murderer,
was taken to Buffalo on the 3Oth and re-
sentenced by the General Term of the Su-
preme Court to be hanged in Auburn, FRI
day, August 2lst.
On the lst woman and two children
were burned to death Ia tenement house
at Cleveland, q.
OK the LIST, in stephens County, Texas,
a man named Thompson inaugurated a
campaign against Archie Freeman bent
on taking his life. Freeman's cousin
came along at the right time, and ended
the campaign by shooting Thompson. 1t
was all about woman.
On the lst James Oglesby, of Detroit,
Mich. fell from the steamer Alaska at
Put-in- Bay, Lake Erie, and was drowned.
PATRICK LEFFoRD aud James Miller,
two tramps, were struck by the Western
express OF the Pennsylvania Railroad near
Pittsburgh on the 1st. Miller was in
stantly killed aud his companion fatally
hurt.
On the night of the LIST fire in Sloss
Bros millinery establishment at Cleve-
land, o., destroyed $4,000 worth OF feath-
ers, flowers, etc. Insured for 1900. w.
c. Bell, jsweler, lost 5000, and Hull, a
dealer in rubber goods, 800. Fully in-
sured.
On the I'd fire destroyed s75,ooOworth
Of property at Peshtigo, Wis.
OS the I'd Mrs. Lewis Steele, newly
married lady, committed suicide at Utica,
NY.
VIM. MrISRIcKs was hanged in the Jail
yard at Binghamton, N. Y. on the %, for
the murder of Katie Bredhofr.
OK the I'd Edward Hall and Isaac Law
renee were convicted in the United States
Court in New York of conspring to coun-
terfeit Guatemalan currency.
EUGENE SAULsBURY who killed Peter
Mil Ter at Union City, Mich. in May, has
been convicted of manslau yhter, and sen
fenced to ten years in the States prison
at jackson.
DURING the first six months Of 1885 there
have been ninety three lynchings in the
United States, the South being respon-
sible for over three fourths OF the number;
legal hangings, forty-two. The total num-
Der OF lynchings in 1884 was 1873; legal
hangings, 123.
On the 5th George II. Dunbar was mur-
dered by unknown parties at Pitts1eld,
Mass.
On the 5th an unknown man h ad his
clothes stolen VIII le bathing at Omaha,
Neh, over which he went crazy aud die |.
AT Utica, N. Y, on the 4lh VIM. Van
Volrt and Charles Maxwell were killed
by the premature explosion OF n cannon.
On the 4th Louis Hasson. of Nsw York,
spent the day on the top of Storm King
Mountain, near Newburgh, and wound up
by killing himself, after trying to kill his
wife.
AT Stoughton, Wis, on the 5th, ten
large tobacco warehouses were burned,
and 5000 cases of tobacco were destroyed.
The losses will aggregate 100000.
ADvIcEs from japan state that the con-
fagration which occurred at Toyama, May
18th, destroyed 59l7 houses.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The French Chamber OF Deputies, by a
vote of 2l9 to 30 has restored to the wor-
ship estimates the sum for cauons' sala-
ries expunged by the committee.
FORTY thousand hands are thrown out Of
employment through the masons' strks
in Berlin. Tho masters refuse to nego-
tiate with the men and are beginning to
employ foreign masons to take the places
of the strikers.
RECENT thunder storms in Germany
have done much damage 10 property,
flooding large tracts of lowlauds and
many houses.
RUSSIAN advices from the Vlad vostock
say that a Russian steamship which at
tempted to enter Port Hamiltol was inter-
cepted and forbidden to enter by an En-.
glish man of-war. The English are said
to be fortifyng the port.
Dun, WyMAS & Co. report 620 failures
in the Dominion of Canada for the first
six months OF 1881, as against 7j2 failures
for the first six months of 1851 The La
biliiies for the first half of 1885, are only
s. 1Gj 00). as against 81 az 900 in the cor.
responding period of 1884
DISPATCHES from Russia report fresh
trouble on the Chinese frontier.
TOTAL number of new cases of cholera
in Spain on the 3oth, 1,2l0; deaths, Gi5; on
the LIST, new cases, 1,l6l; deaths, AS.
ON July 1st the total debt of the United
States, principal aud interest, was Sl,SS9,-
577 .l0375
FiGHrISG is reported in Mexico between
Lieutenant Davis and the Apaches. Six
teen of the latter are reported killed.
July lst being the eighteenth anniver-
sary of the Dominion confederation, was
observed as a holiday in Canada.
lSTIMArIoS is given by member Of the
English Government that the Irish Crimes
Act will not be pressed.
AT Indianapolis a telephone rate war
is in progress, the Company trying to
evade the rate imposed by the last Legis-
lature by charging for extras.
COERCION in Ireland is to be abandoned,
and the government will rely upon the
strict administration of the general law.
The question OF convict labor is the
cause of trouble in johnson Coun'y, Ar
kansas. The people threaten to liberate
all the prisoners now at work in tho mines.
The proposed naval demoust, ion