The Osceola times., 1886-01-30

HERR BERG, vice e-president of the Danisi
Folkahing, sentenced TO six months i'm
prisonment for disturbing political meet
ing, has been committed to prison.
GRIMES AND CAsuALTIEs.
The ship Frank N. Thayer, from Manilla
TO New York is reported burned at sea.
Mrs. URrAH GoRpoS, Of Rushville, Ind.
committed suic de on the 2lst by hanging
BY an explosion of a boiler at Terri
Haute, lad, on the 2lst, six men were Ia
tally aud flve others seriously in:used.
AT Dawson, Pa, on the 2lst, young
man named Marshall and young lady
named Risen were drowned while skating
An explosion occurred in the shaft OF the
Newburs Oriel Coal Compauy's mine al
Newburg, W. Va, on tho 2lst, by which
thirty miners we:e killed or imprisoned in
the burning pit.
The Delaware Oil Works at Chester,
Pa, were almost entirely burned out on
the night of the Goth. The fire started
from an explosion and burned all night.
! Nearly all the buildings employed in the
manufacture of lubricating and paratiine
wax were burned Loss, about SS0,no0
| on the 22d Mrs. George Gravener jump
ed into ristern at Louisville, KY, with
her babe In her arms and both were drown.
Cd. An accumulation OF troubles had un-
settled her reason.
Oy the 22d a rear END collision occurred
at Oakdale Station, Pa, on the Baltimore
| & Ohio Railroad. by which caboose and
seven cars of freight were wrecked, three
men killed and others injured.
On the night OF the 2lst, during quar-
rel over religious discussion at Chicago,
Henry Neimeyer, cook at the Sherman
House. was fatally shot by William II.
Behler.
on tho 22d Jacob Christman, a young
German, received fatal injuries near Wa
bash. Ind, by a log rolling upon him
which he was helping to load upon a sled.
ON the 22d two young men were fatally
aud one seriously injured at Pittsburgh,
Pa, by colliding with q heavy wagon
while coastiug.
On the I'D John II. Moore, wealthy
farmer residing near Clifford, Mich,
while in n temporary fit of insanity,
plunged head foremost into large wood
stove in which fire was burning, and was
probably fatally burned before he could be
rescued.
A BRAKEMAN named Edward Heatom
was crushed to death by the cars at Ham,
burg, Ia, on the 22d.
On the 23d two men were killed by coll
lision on the Philadelphia & Reading road
at Ringtown. Pa.
THERE were eleven murders in Paris last
week, the last on the list being that of a
musician whom NJ. de Verneuil found in
the company of his wife on their way
horne from the circus. The weapon used
was a rapier, with which de Verneuil also
tried to kill his wife, who escaped with an
ugly wound in her arm.
THERE were three incendiary fires at
Kingston, Ont, on The night of the 23d.
The incendiary was caught and proved to
be the son of X. NJ. Horsey, a leading mer
chant.
WALTER BuRsoN, alias "The Kid" a
notorious desperate, was killed at Mon
tezuma, Col, n day or two ago, by Lewis
George. on whom Burson was pulling his
gun, when George got the "drop" on
him. The coroner's jury justified the kill
ing.
On the 23d Alice Halter, a pretty four
teen-y ear-old girl, was arrested at Buffa
10, N. Y, on a charge of arson, she hav-
ing made deliberate attempt TO burn the
house Of her employer, with two young
children, because she could not go to a
party.
GEORGE F. LANGRErS, JR., shot himself
dead In New York on the night Of the
23d because Mrs. Jennie Noll, divorced
woman, OF whom he was enamored, en-
couraged other admirers.
By the explosion of a locomotive boiler in
the roundhouse at the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul depot at Madison, Wis,
Peter Burk was instantly killed and nine
others were badly injured, some. it is
feared, fatally.
A FIRE in the West Shore ferry house at
New York on the cath caused loss OF
$4,000.
THE county poor.house near Jackson,
Mich, burned on the morning of the oath
and five aged and insane inmates perished
in the flames.