The Osceola times., 1885-11-07

THE safe In the Southern Pacific Rail
road office at San Fernsndina, Cal, was
robbed the morning OF the 18th. The rob
bers got 100 belonging to the agent aud q
large sum belonging to the company. The
exact amount Is unknown. The safe was
blown open.
ABOUT midnight OF the 2sth the hand
some four-story hotel and business blocl
OF Amos Poorman at Eaton, Ind. contain
ing also the Town Hall, burned TO the
ground. Mr.. Poorman also had a grocery
and meat market on the ground floor
Loss, S12.00 to $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The building was the finest in town.
On the ssth VIM. Bowen, Of Erie. Pa,
went to Cory and attempted to kill his
grandfather, Rev. Mr.. Frink. a Baptist
minister, seven five years Of age
Bowen was arrested and jailed. Bowen
when but a lad. decapitated his step
father with an axe while he lay asleep, In
revenge for punishment, for which he was
sentenced to prison for life, but was par
doned after serving ten years.
THE horse Brookwood fell and was killed
at Jerome Park on the 29th, and Jockey
Potter was dangerously injured.
AN attempt was made on the Goth to as.
sassinate NJ. DE Freycinet, the French
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, while taking
a drive at Paris.
AN Ottawa (Ont.) dispatch OF the 2 tn
stated that q boat containing a whole fam
ly-.ather, mother and child-was cap
sized in the st. Lawrence, opposite Isle dc
Grace and all were drowned
ErGHT buildings were destroyed by fire
at New Hartford. Conn, on the Goth. The
loss is estimated at SJO.0O0, partly insured.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon to Madrid left the rails on the
Goth. while on a bridge over q river near
the boundary bstween Spain and Portu.
gal. The train fell into the river, and
several persons were killed and many in
jured.
THE steamer Georges. Dana was burned
near Cincinnati, o., on the 3)th.
VERNON YOUNG shot his divorced wife
dead in clearinghouse at Wausau, Wis.
on the 30h.
On the goth the schooner George B. Sloan
was wrecked in gale on Lake Ontario
and the cook was drowned.
AN engine on the Richmond & Allegheny
Railway went through trestle on the 30th
killing the engineer and fireman.
BY the explo iion Of a steam-drum in
Roberts laundry, New York, on the 3Oth,
number of young women were badly
scalded.
The National Furnace Company at viii
Transport, Pa, was burned on the 3lst.
| SEVERAL officials of Port Washington,
Wis, have been arresi ed on charge of grave
robbery.
| On the 31st David Conger, Of Zapes
vile, o., was sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for life for wife.murdor.
| On the 3lst a sudden rise in the Kama
wha River at Charleston, W. Va, caused
the sinking Of a number OF barges and the
loss of half million bushels of coal.
On the 3lst a collision occurred on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail
way at Delta Station, Ohio. in which En-
gineer Sparklin was badly injured.
On the 1st, fro a. Geneva, o., dc
stroyed property valued at 500, 900.
On the 1st the livery stable Of Hunt &
Pence, together with some valuable horses
burned at Anderson, Ind.
On the 1st a stock train was wrecked
and two men killed at Norwood, on th,
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Railway.
| On the 1st four men were killed an,
several wounded by the explosion of tn
boiler of the tug boat Frank Moffett, oppo
site Marine City, Mich.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| TEMPORARY coercive laws have beei
published In the official gaz,tte at Copen
hagen, and force of military and polio
has been formed to assist the civil authori
| ties in carry ing the laws into effec..