The Osceola times., 1886-01-23

ufacturers OF stampeu YIN anu HohWu'o'
at Cambridgeport, Mass, burned. The
loss will reach $4,000 on stock and ma
chinery and $50, 900 on bui.ling insurance,
S25 1000 on building and 10000 on machH-
cry and stock -.
ON the 18th Jasnes Shaifert and Frank
Eek, while worxing In a slope 200 feet deep,
excavating Gre, near the Catasauqua and
Fogelsvilie Railroad at Reading, Pa,
were crushed TO death by rock, weighing
about ten tons, falling on them.
| AT Lewiston, Me-, on the 18th, Kate
Mccartney, sixty years OF age, was burned
to death.
THE schooner Mabel Dilloway, Of Glou-
cester, Mass, with a crew of sixteen men,
is reported as lost.
ON the l4th NJ. Barrim, Prefect OF the
Department OF Eure, in France, was muir
dered and thrown from a railway train.
| MoRMoNs in Arizona are creating some
alarm by asking arms OF the Governor to
protect themselves, as they say, from In
dians.
IT is officially announced at Berlin that
the German Government has no intention
of annexing the Samoan Islands.
AT Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th, Wiley
B. Bryan was convicted OF sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails and gets
three years in the Penitentiary.
THE Kentucky Court Of Appeals sus-
tanned the conviction aud sentence Of Rob-
ert Fowler, who murdered his niece near
Henderson. and he will have to hang.
ON the 14th Connecticut woman placed
her child in an oven to keep it warm. Her
husband returning in her absence and not
knowing the fact, made hot fire, and the
child was roasted to death.
On the night of the lith a mail driver in
Kerry, Ireland, was stopped by masked
men, and the mail searched for writs Of
ejectment.
ON the 10Th Samuel Robinson was as
saulted and brutally beaten by masked
robbers near Ligonier, Pa.
THE battle Of Yorktown was comm EN-.
Grated at Paris on the 18th by banquet at
the Hotel Continental.
THE Fulton Market New York; fishing
smack Eliza Baker and crew are missing,
supposed to be lost In the recent gale.
on the 14th, fourteen miners were killed
by an explosion in the Almy coal mines,
near Evanston, Wy. T. Seven bodies
have been recovered.
On the 18th fire at Lexington, KY, de-
stroyed Innes & Sons grocery store, the
Opera house and the Adams Express
Company's Office and stables.
THE jury in the case OF Enoch Cook at
Louisville, KY, charged with killing James
Prewitt, sentenced the prisoner to two
years in the Penitentiary. Cook and
d.. IaI Ia IrIx
was kicked and beaten to death.
ON the 18th a tenement house on the
premises Of Captain Bell at Kings Noun
tain, N. c., was destroyed by fire, and
three colored persons. Gertrude Bendle-
man, Julian Earle and Julia, child eigh-
teen months old, perished in the flames.
ON the 18th a large fly wheel burst at
Harper's rolling mill at Newport, KY, a
piece Of which struck the boiler, causing it
to explode. Several of the employees were
injured, some seriously, and the building
was badly wrecked.
THE Puritan shirt factory at Province
ON the nth.
Two men were killed and a number in
jured by a snow slide at Mount Sneffies,
Col, on the l7th
CHARLES MITCHELL, who killed Simo
Cox at Indianapolis, Ind, has been ar
rested at Chicago.
NOTHING has been heard from the over
due steamship City OF Nassau, which pass
ed out of the Delaware capes on Christmas
morning for jacksonville, Fla, and beyond
doubt she is lost with all hands, seventeen
in number, on board.
EARLY on the morning Of the 18th the
works of the International Starch Com
pany at Black Rock, near Buffalo, N. Y,
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, S55,-
600; insurance, $4,000.
TIE Westover block at Bay City, Mich,
containing the opera house, Second Ma
tional Bank, Post-otiice, Sirmeyer &
Edwards clothing store and a number of
offices were totally destroyed by fire on the
nj ght of the 18th. Nothing was saved.
The loss is placed at from So, 900 to $4,000,
with an insurance of about one fourth that
amount.
THE cabin at the Ruby Trust mine on
Mount Snefiles, Col, was carried away on
the nth by snowslidc, burying six men.
A call was made on Ouray for help, but
utAuIt tnt party tht seven
men who were fortunate enough to es-
cape had uncovered those who were
buried. Martin Pearson and Andy Pear
son were killed outright, and the cook for
the party, name unknown, wa, badly in
jured.
Two hundred colored people were rem
dered homeless by a fire at Washington,
ID. c., on the 10th.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 10th, Geo.
H. Desque, wife-murderer, was sentenced
to be hanged March Goth.
A MOB went to the Jail at Vincennes,
Ind, on the night of the 18th and took out
to tree.
A DYNAMITE explosion at the Croton IN.
" aqueduct on the 10th caused consider
able damage to property, but fortunately
only one person was injured.
MIsCELLANrOUs.
ON the night of the iith the corner -stone
was laid of the ice palace at st. Paul,
MINI. The ceremonies were very impos-
ing.
SEvE ERAL Mexican editors have recently
been imprisoned for making libelous at
tacks on the authorities.
THE Secretary OF the Interior decides
that the Government should enter into
suit to test the validity of the Bell tele-
phone patent.
FoR the twelve months ended December
81, 1885, the value of theexports Of mineral
oils was Si9,2li, ,2sl, against $40, ,l0s,5li the
year before.
TnE number of employees required in the
| Gu toms SERVICE tho neYl nscal year Is