The Osceola times., 1886-03-27

On the 10th Michael Riley, a boiler
maker, killed his wife at Windsor, Ont
The couple were in the habit Of getting
intoxicated and quarreling.
ON the 18th Laura A. Miller, aged nine
teen, hanged herself at Buffalo, N. Y. be-
cause she was forbidden to attend roller
skating rinks.
On the 18th, during a magistrates trial
Of a matter between negroes at Carroll
ton, Miss, in which about twenty negroes
were present as witnesses, a party oi
about fifty white men rode up, armed with
repeating rifles, surrounded the building
and opened fire on the negroes, killing ten
of them outright, mortally wounding three
others and more or less seriously wound
ing the rest.
ON the 18th Mrs. Bohrman, Of Avondale,
o., while temporarily insane, killed her
son Albert, seriously wounded another
son, Arthur, and then committed suicide
by cutting her throat with razor.
ON the 18th a court martial at Fort
Wayne, Detroit, Mich, sentenced Robert
E. Rivers, of the Twenty third United
States Infantry, to twelve years impris-
onment at Leavenworth, Kas., for forgery
and desertion.
FURTHER details concerning the Car
rollton (Miss.) affair show it to have been
fully as horrible as first reported Twelve
negroes were slaughtered, and others will
die of wounds received.
Mas. LIPPRNDoRF jumped into the Ohio
river from the ferryboat while crossing
from Cincinnati to Covington on the after.
noon OF the 18th. She held her little child
in her arms, aud it was drowned, but the
mother was rescued by the captain OF the
boat.
Ok the 10th Joseph Taylor was acciden-
tally shot and killed in Clay County, Ten
nessee, by his six-year- r-old child.
STATE protection was asked and granted
for Archer and Lynch at their preliminary
examination at Shoals, Ind.
On the 10Th Texas 4 Pacific engine,
pulling a passenger train, exploded near
Aledo, Tex, killing Engineer Metcalf and
severely injuring Fireman Clark.
DAISY CARROLL was arrested at Spring
City, Tenn, on the 10th, charged with
completely in the embezzlement of $780,
600 from the Champion works at SPRING
field, o.
Two more victims have died from the
effects of injuries received in the recent
Murraysville tPa.) natural gas explosion.
BEN MOTION, of Evansville, Ind, fell
down an elevator shaft on the Goth and
was crushed TO death.
A QUARRY collapsed at Baxes, France,
on the Goth, burying u number of persons.
AN accident occurred on the Wyoming
Valley railroad near Hoadly, Pa, ON the
Goth, killing fireman named Fred Smith.
THE ferryboat Cooper's Point was burned
at her wharf at Camden, N. j., on the 10th
Loss, $4,000.
WILLIAM II. CARTER, proprietor OF the
Nelson Pharmaceutical Works, New York,
committed suicide at his office on the 10Th,
by shooting himself in the right temple.
No cause Is assigned for the act.
EDWARD JOHNSON, known also as Allen
Wright, committed a murder near Oak
land, Neb., on the Goth, aud to escape pur-
suit killed three more men. At last ac-
counts he was fortified In a barn and was
keeping mob at bay.
IHE monarch Line steamer Ierslan Mon
arch, Captain Watson, which left London
March II for New York by the way OF
Havre, went ashore on the 2Oth near Tor
quay, Devonshire, in a dense fog. Tugs
succeeded in floating hSr. and she proceed.
ed to Plymouth, where she will be over
hauled.
EARLY on the morning OF the 2nth light
occupied by VIM. McGalrey and Clarence
Cook. Two daughters of Mr.. McGaffey
were killed.
Four notorious Mexican horse thieves
with seven stolen horses in their posses
sion, were overtaken by the same number
Of Americans near Lordsburg, n NJ, on
the Goth, and in the fight which ensued
three OF the Mexicans were killed. The
other escaped. Six stolen horses were re.
coypred