The Osceola times., 1886-06-26

sia, ere said TO have been defrauding the
government for years. The amount EN-
bersled 10 placed at several million rubies.
OK the 22d Edward T. Shaw. who for
twelve years has carried the mail between
the local post -ofiice at Beverly, Mass, and
the railway station, was arrested. He con-
fssssd to having systematically robbed the
mails for several years, taking between b.
900 and 5000 letters and obtaining upward
Of 81 800.
AN emigrant named Uransky fell from
train at Antelope station, on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, forty miles east Of Chey-
enns, on the 22i. Both his legs were cut
OF, and he died In few minutes. He was
bound for Butte, NJ. T.
MRs. FANNY SMITH, who lived near Kew
port, N. j., In . At OF mania ON the 23d,
killed one of her children and seriously
wounded three others with an axe.
FREDERICK HILLERNAS, wife and two
children were drowned while fishing In
the Auglaize river at Defiance, o., on the
2Sd.
ROBERT FOWLER was banged according
10 programme at Morganheld, KY, on the
23i.
MARY JOHNSON, a Philadelphia colored
woman, was killed on the 23d by VIM.
Bush, q former lover.
A sKIYr capsized In the river at Moline.
ILL.,, on the 23d, with three Xrung men, and
Chas. W. Schaefrer was drNvned.
AT New Orleans on the sd William c.
Nessen, aged sixty-two, attempted to kill
his wife and then shot and killed himself.
JENNIE THOMPSON, fifteen years old,
committed suicide at Delavan, H., on the
23d. by throwing herself under train.
On the oath six Italian iaborers were
burned to death and three others badly
injured in a sleeping shanty at Alton, Pa.
On the morning Of the oath Henry u.
Smith, a prominent Michigan farmer,
while drunk, attempted to enter the house
OF q merchant at Port Huron, and was shot
and killed by the latter.
ON the oath boy named Terry O'Don-
aid was fatally shot at Danville, Ind, by
q sixteen -year-old normal student named
J. r. Miller.
timore, Md, named Henry Fryer, was
found dead on the cath, hanging head
down from tree, on which he had been
training q wild rose vine.
GEoRGk DowNEy, who was assaulted
with an axe by John A. Erskine at Bennett,
Neb., few days ago, died from his nju.
ries.
ADv,cEs from Magdalena, Sonora, states
that the Apache's attacked Bado Secs
ranch, twenty-five miles southeast Of
Magdalena, killed three men, two women
and destroyed a quantity Of property.
On the 25th the twenty months old child
OF Mrs. Habisreltinger died at Philadelphia
from the effects OF a desc Of spirits of am
monia, administered BY its mother in mis-
take for medicine.
THE police Of Brooklyn have concluded
that Mrs. Frederickson, who was found
dead in her apartments in that city, COM
mitted suicide. The statement of Vim.
Lohf, who is said to have quarreled with
Mrs. Frederickson, that he had killed
somebody, is not credited, as the man is of
unsound mind.
MRS. LENA DouT, who was shot by her
husband at Philadelphia on the 23d, died
on the 2ath from the effects of the wound.
The husband, George Dout, blew his own
brains out at the time he shot his wife.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE President, in q message to Congress
on the 22d, recommended the appointment
Of three commissioners 10 act as board of
arbitration in labor troubles.
AUSTRALIA will send q rife team TO
Wimbledon.
1t is semi officially stated that France
will refuse to join the powers in the plan
OF coercing Greece into disarming.
THE clergy Of Cleveland, o., headed by
Bishop Bedell Of the Episcopal Church
are preparing TO boycott the Sunday Sc.
cular newspapers. Confidential circu-
lars have been issued TO clergymen, and
all have been urged to join the movemeD,
and denounce Sunday papers from their
pulpits ON May 2.
| INDEPENDENT coke manufacturers, OPP
Grating nearly eight hundred ovens in
the McConnellsville region in Pennsyl.
vania, and employing 5000 men. have fol-
low ed the example OF the coke syndicate
and advanced wages from five to ten per
cent, to take effect Mayl.
A LARGE number OF leading business
nen OF New York have signed call for a
special meeting of the Chamber OF Com
merce, with view TO taking action rela- :
tive to the labor disturbances now in ex-
istence there.
| The Spanish sanitary council has au-
thorized the practice OF incubation for
cholera.
| An attempt 10 blow up the church OF San
Lius at Madrid, on the 23d, was partly
successful.
THE labor investigating committee closed
its sitting in Washington on the 23d, and
the members intended to leave for ST. Louis
on the 21th.
A FIGHT took place in East Flanders on
the 23i between gendarmes and striking
watchrpakers, in which the rioters were
routed and several were arrested.
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven day.
ended the 23d were valued at S2,369, sos
and to- amount thrown on the market
50 20, $40.
THE Municipal Council of Stry, Galacia
account Of culpable negligence in failing
to provide the town with fire engines.
| THE last stone in the pedestal ON Bedloe's
Island, on which will stand Bartholdi's
colossal statue "Liberty Enlightening the
World" was laid on the 23d. The statue
will be unveiled September 3.
| A socrALIsric mass meeting OF German
workingmen was held in New York on the
night Of the 23d to denounce "the capital
lists and the police who were endeavorinR
to crush Herr Most and his workinemen.'
lr is now understood that France will
join the Powers in an ultimatum to Greece
insisting on disarmament, but will refuse