The Osceola times., 1886-09-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Missouri refused to honor the Illinois
requisition for the deputy sherifs in the 81.
Louis Jail until the killing Of Thompson on
the bridge has been adjudicated.
ON the 2lst the remains Of the Bishop OF
Madrid, who was shot by priest on the
18th, were buried with imposing cere-
monies.
The Marquis of Salisbury is convinced
that the nation will Indignantly reject
Gladstone's desperate scheme" for the
government OF Ireland.
OK the 2lst, in a speech at Glasgow, the
Duke of Argyle admitted the sincerity Of
Gladstone, but believed the Premier was
misled by the Parnellites.
OK the I'D Jay Gould appeared befor e
the select Congressional committee at
fairs on the Southwestern roads and the
causes leading to the strike, from his
standpoint
AMONG the nominations confirmed by
the Senate on the 22d were those Of Chas.
+. Gross, 10 be Governor of New Mexico,
and w. s. Rosecrans, Register of the
Treasury.
ON the 22d great Liberal mass -meet-
ing, presided over by Labouchere, was
held at st. James Hall, London, at which
resolutions indorsing Gladstone's Irish
policy were adopted.
FATHER ABRAM J. RYAN, the 'poet priest
Of the South,"i Is lying critically III with
brain fever at st. Boniface Church In
Louisville. KY.
On the 22d the African Society at Maple
gave banquet to Henry NJ. Stanley, the
African explorer.
On the ed Chang Yen Won, the new
Chinese Minister and his suite, arrived In
Washington. The minister and his party
were met at the depot by the retiring min
lister and the attaches Of the legation and
were escorted 70 the embassy in carriages,
after which the ex minister and his suite
returned to the hotel.
The sixty-fourth anniversary of the
birth of General Grant will be celebrated
at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church in Washington on Tuesday even
ing, April 27. Chief-Justice Waite will
preside, and addresses will be made by
Senators Brown, Sherman, Logan and
Evarts and many other disting uished gem
tlemen.
Hon. WIN. WHITLEY, Associate Judge Of
the Superior Court of Delaware, died on
the 23d Of hemorrhage of the stomach after
a lingering illness.
1T is reported that ex-President Arthur
is rapidly convalescing, and that he is
very much better than at any time since
the commencement OF his indisposition.
LORD SELBoURNE publishes letter, In
which he attacks certain features Of Glad
stones Home Rule bill and pronounces
the measure hopelessly faulty.
Dir. FRIscH, the Austrian delegate sent
TO Paris to investigate Pasteur's hydro
phobic treatment, advises the medical pro-
fession of Austria to adopt the French
mans method.
STEPHEN ID. WHITE has applied for a
mandamus on Secretary Bayard to COM
pei him to pay to the relator, as n ssignee
the tenth instalment of an award made by
the Mexican claims commission, amount.
ing to about one hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars.
The regatta committee at Qu ebec has
chosen George Hosmer, Of Boston, TO meet
Hanlan for three-mile sculling race on
Lake st. Joseph on the cath Of June, for a
purse OF $500.
1T is not thought probable that Congress
will be able to adjourn before the lst OF
August.
HASLAN, the oarsman, proposes to hold
an international regatta at Toronto bay
June 3 and 8.
SENATOR CALL, OF Florida, is credited
with sentence containing three hundred
and eighty-six words, the longest on rec.
ord in Congress.
FOREST l.. PUsNEY, editor and proprie.
tor of the Oakdale (Neb.) Journal, ha,
been held for trial on charge of infant.
eide.
LETTERS are being received by Congress.
man Hatch from all quarters approving
the'bii to regulate the manufacture and
sale of imitation butter,
CHARGES have been filed with Attorney
General Garland at Washington that tn,
fee bills presented by District Attorney
Biss in the Lindsay case are illegal, and
the matter has been taken under consider
alton.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, il is stated, ha,
given notice that he will introduce in tn,
position TO the Land bill.
NJ. DE FREycINEr has assured the Greek
Prime Minister Of the sympathy of France
and begs him TO use his influence to pre-
serve peace.
NEARLY five months have passed sine.
Congress began its session, yet more thar
half Of the general appropriation bills re
main unacted upon by the House, in which
body they must originate. The Consular
and Diplomatic and Military Academy
bills are the general appropriation bill
now ON the calendar.
SECRETARY MANNING continues to i'm
prove daily. He left his room on the 25tl
and walked down stairs. His physicians
expected that he would be able to take
drive in few days.
In an address at Thurles. Ireland, Arch
bishop Croke declared that Gladstone wa
Ireland's greatest friend.
SENIOR ELSoRE, who has represented tn
Government of Peru at Washington for tn
past five years, has been recalled, and will
take official leave Of the President thi
week.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JOHN CRAIG aud John Laurie, two pris
oners, lost their lives by the burning Of tn
jail at Cornwall, Ont, on the 2lst.
AT Wiggan's colliery, Shenandoah, Pa
on the 2lst, John Shamousky aud hi
brother and two Hungarians, names un
known, were working gangway when
blast exploded prematurely, killing Sha
mousky and fatally injuring his brother
The other two men are seriously but nc
fatally injured.
OK the 2lst Mrs. Henry AgAew was ar
RATED In Philadalnhia ON n charre Of ar