The Osceola times., 1886-10-30
NEWS IN BRIEF
osapiled lsva yarisss Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoLIrICAL.

the Lake Shore road for $4,000 for ma
icious prosecution.
How. ABRAM S. HEWITT, Democratic
candidate for mayor of New York, has
written an open letter to Henry George,
Labor candidate for the same Office, In
which he declines the latter's chall enge tc
public discussion of the issues between
them.
THE win Of the late Samuel J. Tilden
was probated at White Plains, N. Y, on
the 3oth, without opposition.
MAJoR-GESERAL Mop HERsos, COM
mander of the British army Of occupa-
tion in Burmah, died recently of few er,
after two days illness.
SECRETARY ENDIcorT has ordered that
Geronimo and thirteen bucks of his band
be sent to TT. Pickens. Fla, TO be kept In
close confinement, the balance Of the band
to be sent to Ft. Marion, Fla.
IT Is announced that the Czar has made
an agreement with the Porte by which he
has obtained permission to fortify the
Dardanelles and to occupy Bulgaria and
Roumelia with Russian troops.
THE people Of South Carolina tried very
hard to persuade the President TO exten d
his trip from Richmond to Charleston, but
the latest advices indicated there was no
probability whatever Of his complying
with their desires.
JuDGE GoEBEr, of the Cincinnati Pro :
bate Court, has accepted the offer Of Judge
Hoadly to pay the trustees Of the estate Of
Archbishop Purcell So, 500 in full satlsfac-
tion Of his liability as bondsman for ]. B.
Mannix, defaulting assignee.
ArroRSKY-GESERALG GARLAND has given
an opinion in regard to construction of
section Of the Oleomargarine Act, which
is in effect that oils or simples used in the
manufacture of oleomargarine are not
subject to tax, unless made In imitation or
semblance Of butter.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND contributed one
hundred dollars for the relief of the Sabine
Pass sufferers.
EMPEROR WILLIAM returned to Berlin on
the 2lst.
JOHN BRIGHr has declined an invitation
to attend the presentation to Mr.. Schnad-
horst at Birmingham, England.
NJ. WADDINGToN, French ambass ador at
London, has protested on behalf of France
against British occupation of Egypt.
oENkhAk 0OOhkOs
at Warsaw, has been summoned to st
Petersburg to receive instructions pre-
paratory to replacing General Kaulbars In
Bulgaria.
JUDGE DURHAM, First Comptroller Of the
Treasury, In his annual report to the Sec
tetary Of the Treasury, makes an earnest
Recommendation for revision of the law
In reference to the compensation of United
States commissioners.
j. ]. GEAGHAN, assistant State Dairy
and Food Commissioner OF Ohio, has
sworn out warrants for the arrest of sew
eral prominent grocers at Dayton whom
he caught selling butterine for creamery
butter.
WHILE firing salute In honor OF the
President at Fredericksburg, Va, on the
2ist, cannon was prematurely dis
.chlrged, and James Wheeler, who was
rarhping the charge, was terribly burned
and mutilated, and is expected to die of
his injuries.
GERONIMO and his band started on the
22d from San Antonio for Florida.
GADBAN EFFgNDI's recent note TO the
Bulgarian ministry is said to have been in
the form of personal advice and was un-
official
LIEUTENANT scHwArKA- has returned
from Alaska, and claims that his dis
covery is the only original and genuine
Jones river.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS health Is said to be
improving. He will attend the cutting Of
the first sod of the Baltic & North Sea
canal in November.
NJ. LocKREY, French Minister of Com
merce and Industry, has informed the
guarantee committee of the proposed ex.
hibition that the necessary capital of D.
10000 francs has been obtained.
IT is thought probable that the Duke of
Connaught will succeed General McPher-
son, deceased, as commander Of the Madras
army.
WAsHINeroS's National drill is now as
sured beyond any chance Of accident.
The sum of Si2,s has been actually sub
scribed and 5000 more is reported as in
sight. At a meeting of the commit tee
$4,000 was fixed as the amount to be dis
tributed In prizes.
s. r. HUBBARD, principal keeper OF the
life-saving station at Fire Island, N. Y,
who is charged with secreting goods from
the wreck OF the steamship Oregon, has
rendered his resignation to the Secretary
of the Treasury.
The contested election case at London
derry, Ireland, has been decided in favor
of Justin Mccarthy.
Prince ALEXANDER has requested the
Sobranje to ignore him as a candidate for
the throne of Bulgaria.
Hon. s. s. Cox, United States Minister
TO Turkey, has formally resigned.
KAuLBARs again demands that the
meeting of the Sobranje be postponed and
the Bulgarian government refuses to ac-
cede thereto.
The recent trip Of Lord Randolph
Churchill to the Continent was to confer
with Bismarck and Kalnoky on Bulgarian
affairs, and his mission was failure.
Ex-PREsIDENr HENRY WILLARD Of the
Northern Pacific railroad arrived at New
York on the cath.
THE Earl of Iddesleigh and Right Hon.
Sir Lyon Playfair have been nominated
for the rectorship of Edinburgh Univer-
sity.
DR. SALMON, chief Of the Bureau Of An.
imal Industry has made an official report
on the outbreak Of pleuro-pneumonia at
Chicago.
A REDUCTION Of twenty FIVE per cent.
Of the judicial rents has been made by
Mr.. Scully, the largest Landowner in Tip
perary, Ireland.
On November the Curtin committee
viii resume the investigation Of the South
western strike at New York, when 1t Is ex-
pected Mr.. Hoxie will be able to attend.