The Osceola times., 1885-11-14

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sign In the event Of Risl being hanged.
JAMS A. BAYARD, son Of Secretary
Bayard, has been appointed Secretary OF
the Territory Of Arizona.
LIEUTENANT GREKLY Is to lecture before
the Scotch Geographical Society on the
10th, and will return to the United States
about Christmas.
LUDWIG HANSEN, the head Of an old
Danish banking firm at Copenhagen, has
confessed TO having unlawfully disposed
Of moneys intrusted TO his keeping to the
amount Of l,5O0, 900 kroners.
On the 7th the monument Of Washington
erected in Milwaukee by Miss Lizzie Plank
ington ct cost Of $4,000, and presented to
the city, was unveiled.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 4th julius Rabiner, . New York
groceryman, pounded VIM. Silverman, Q
boy, to death with a cane.
DANIEL BURGESS attempted to shoot an
enemy in the Greek Nation on the 4th, but
missed him, and was shot and killed by his
intended victim.
ON the 4th, Chas. A. Hull, supposed to be
from Deruyter, N. Y, was knocked from q
trestle and killed by q freight train near
Salisbury, No.
on the 9Th the men who have been dyna-
miting street cars in st. Louis were ar.
rested. Their names are: w. P. Sears, M.
w. Weathers, Fred Pinkerton, P. 8. Burns
and David keenan,. They are all Knights
Of Labor and street-car men.
ON the 5th Mrs. Mary Slower, a blind
woman at Benton Bridge, Hancock County,
O., was burned to death, her clothing
taking FIRE while shs was working about .
stove. Her husband, also blind, was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
wife.
ON the 9TH James Dana, q brother Of
Chas. A. Dana, of the New York Sun, was
out hunting on North Fork, near Thorpe,
Wis, with Z. Vantrot, q prominent mer-
chant Of Durant. The hunters separated
for time and Dana mistook vantrot for a
deer and shot him in the back, the ball
coming out In front. He will recover.
PETER MCCARTHY was fatally injured
and Michael Wood quite seriously burned
by an explosion Of natural gas at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 5th. The men were dig.
ging trench and had just lit lamp to
work by when the accident occurred. The
explosion was caused by the light coming
In contact with gas leak from the pipes
along the street.
ON the 9Th fire In the Farwell building,
Chicago, caused loss Of SaOO,OOO.
OK the 9Th robbers boarded train be.
tween Naples and Benvento, shot the
guard, and secured 1000 francs in money.
ON the night Of the 5th DIR. J. A. Mona.
maker and his wife committed suicide to.
gether at Salido, Col.
J. r.. HoaLE has been arrested at Chi.
cago on charge OF robbing d. G. Sterling
on Lake Shore train.
JOHN KNELL and his whole family at
Baltimore, Nd, came near losing their
lives by escaping gas. One child died.
On the 9th q collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Road at Akron, o.,
caused by an operator falling asleep, de.
molished $4,000 worth Of property.
The steamer Mountain Girl was sunk in
q collision with the James w. Gaff on the
Ohio River below Lawrenceburg, Ind. A
lot Of circus property was destroyed and
two lives were lost.
ON the 9Th two Germans were carried
over Niagara Falls in boat.
OK the evening of the sth State Auditor
Keisewetter of Ohio shot and wounded W.
J. Elliott, editor Of the Columbus Sunday
Capital.
INDICTMENTS have been found by the
Grand Jury in the Superior Criminal Court
at Boston, Mass, against A. J. Mellen, OF
Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. Emma Coolidge,
Of Boston, for conspiracy to kill the wife OF
the son of Mellen.
REV. h. d. PHILLIPS was arrested al
Branchport, Yates County, N. Y, on the
7th, for forging two notes Of $1,000 each
agsinst his father -in-l law, and other notes
aggregating 5000.
G. E. LEWIS salt works at West Bay
City, Mich, burned on the 7th; loss, $40.
900.
On the 7th the McMicken University
building at Cincinnati, o., was DANCED by
fire TO the extent of $4,000.
A SEVERE cyclone devastated portions oil
Illinois on the afternoon and night Of the
9th, accompanied by serious destruction Of
property and loss Of life.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE Turkish War Office continues active
warlike preparations.
ON the 5th the Indiana department Of
Union Veterans met in annual session at
indianapolis.
IT Is stated that the New York Central
and Pennsylvania roads will withdraw
their fast passenger trains between Chi.
cago and New York.
On the 4th sixty Cinnamon made des
perate attack on NJ. L. White, foreman Of
9 raisin ranch near Los Angeles, Cal, but
were repulsed.
IT Is predicted that the nailsrs' strike in
the East viii be terminated at the meeting
to be held in Cincinnati on the 18th.
AN experiment will be made at McKees-
port, Pa, to use natural gas for illuminat.
ing purposes, and, il successful, to pipe the
gas to New York and other cities.
A GERMAN commission will shortly be
dispatched to Brazil to secure suitable 10.
calities for German settlements.
OWING to disagreement over the Riel
question the editor of La Pdtrie at Mont.
real has challenged the editor Of La Min.
erpe to fight duel.
THE German Government will prosecute
the Berlin Toiks ZeitnRg for libclng the
Gear Of Russia.
ON the 5th the plant Of the Postal Tele-
graph Company within the District Of Co
lumbia, was sold at auction to satisfy a
deed of trust, to Mr.. s. c. Elliott, the
plaintiff in the suit. for 1900.
| A PETITION has been forwarded from
New York to the Postmaster-G q General asking