The Osceola times., 1886-03-06

ALEXANDER RosE, an employe Of tn
Brush Electric Light Company at Detroit
Mich, while fixing the carbons on tn
tower on Gratiot street on the a5th, fel
headlong distance of las feet, being hor
ribly mangled by the fall. He lived for al
hour after the accident.
| The body Of well dressed man about
thirty -fve years old was found in the rive
ct New York on the a5th. In his pockets
were two cards bearing the name OF w. II
Smith, one as Of the New York Clipper
the other as the correspondent OF the Gin
cinnsti Sporting Journal.
ON the 26th Wiebren Wartena was
hanged at Rensselaer,, Ind, for murder.
A large crowd gathered in the town tc
witness the execution, and 1t was conduct
ed In the presence of over thousand peo
pie.
ON the Goth the vallambrosia Skating.
rink and two or three other buildings a,
Troy, N. ", were burned. Loss, 1000
insurance, $4,000. Owing to the fierce
gale the northern part Of the city narrowly
escaped destruction.
PAT SMITH, of Stone City, near Ana.
mosa, Ia, was arrested on the 26th on sus.
picion Of having murdered his wife, who
was found dead in bed the day previous
He Is In Anamosa jail.
FIRE destroyed Mitchell & Wells plan.
ing mill in the southern part of Kansas
City, No., and eight tenement houses ad-
joining, on the 26th. Loss estimated at
$4,000. The mill was the only property
insured.
FRANK J. CANNON and Angus Cannon
have been held In 81 900 bail each at Salt
Lake City for assault on United States At
torney Dickson. 8. A. Kenner was dis
charged. H. l. Gowans, W. H. Lee, II. j.
Foulger, all defiant, unlawful cohabitors,
were sentenced on the 26th each to six
mouths imprisonment and $500 fine.
In the case Of Fred Foote, charged with
the murder O: Andrew J. Brink, saloon
keeper at Fenton, Mich, on the evening
of December % last, on trial at Flint on
the 26th, the jury brought in verdict of
murder in the first degree. The prisoner
listened coolly to the verdict aud was re-
manded to Jail to await sentence.
ON the 26th Charles Boulen, who was
awaiting trial in New York for the murder
of his wife, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with pocket knife in his cell in
the Toombs.
On the 2Gth John Schlaesman, sixty five
years old, committed suicdein West Ham,
burg, Pa. He tried TO shoot himself with a
revolver first, but the cartridge failed to
explode. He then cut the artery of his left
wrist with pocket knife, and gashed him
self at various places in the arm and in one
of his feet, and bled to death.
GoTTLIED LENrz killed his wife and then
himself at Philadelphia, on the 2sth.
EDWARD o. OLIVER, OF Evansville, Ind,
lost his life ON the 2sth by an electric
shock.
ON the 2sth an unknown man went over
the falls at Suspension Bridge, N. Y, and
was lost.
FRANK BURGEL, who shot his wife at
Massillon, o., on the 9th, afterward COM
mitted suicide.
On the 27tb Reeser Davis was instantly
killed by the fast express on the New
York, Pennsylvania q Ohio railro3d, at
New Portage, o., while attempting to cross
the track ahead of the train.
On the eth the Lutheran Cemetery &
Cypress Hill Railroad Company's depot at
Brooklyn, N. Y, burned, together with
forty cars, seven motors and a quantity of
harness, involving loss of Sl00,000; par
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