The Osceola times., 1886-09-25

| ON the night OF the 18th q carriage con-
tanning VIM. Lewis, Joseph Mullen and a
man named Carpenter, was struck by a
train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington q
Balti more railroad at Chester, Pa, and
Lewis was killed and tho other two so
badly injured that their lives were de.
SPARED Of.
on the 10th the schooner r. J. King, Of
Morristown, N. Y, laden with iron ore
from Escanaba to Chicago, sprung a leak
and sunk in twenty-five fathoms of water
about six miles Off Cano island, Lake Su-
perior. The crew reached shore in the
yawl The vessel and cargo are a total
loss.
Ell CoYorE's band was surprised by Mex
lean cavalry on the l7lh, and the leader
and seven others were butchered.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Bucharest on the 18th to assassinate NJ.
Bratiano, Roumanian Prime Minister.
A RuMoR was current in London on the
18th that plot had been discovered 20
assassnate Prince Alexander, aud that
two men have been found who were paid
TO commit the crime.
A FARMER named Upsolp, living six
miles from Chetek, Wis, cut his wife's
throat from ear TO ear on the 18th, and
then hung himself with a bed-cord. Do
mestic infelicity was the cause.
a BLOOMINGTON ulL) hack driver twice
att empted suicide in Clinton on the 18th
by taking laudanum, and TO prevent any
further attempt to take his life he was
placed in jail All efforts to learn his
name were unsuccessful
THREE officers belonging 10 the Spanish
army at Barcel ona have been arrested and
imprisoned for leniing a band of soldiers
to join the Carlists.
Rev. JE sSE Cook, colarcl, was hanged
In Butler, Ga, on the l7ih f1r the murder
Of his wife last April. The crowd at the
execution was estimated at eight thou
sand. Cook made full confession.
ir has been found that James l.. Litton,
the Englishman who was sent TO the
Charles street jail in Boston few daye
ago for attempting to defraul the propri-
etors of the Revere House, /, Stewart
Letablere Litton, the son Of the late Right
II IN. Edward Litton.
HENRY RoGERs, keeper of the toll bridge
at Saratoga Lake. n. Y, was accidentally
shot and killed on the 18th by h nephew,
Allison b. Petit, of New York. The lad
had a shotgun and was loading il when
il was discharged in some way and the
load entered Rogers stomach. lie died
almost instantly.
MRs. MARIE GoDFRry, wife of Rufus
Godfrey, wealthy farmer of Grard
township, Pa, left her husbands side on
the night Of the 18th, and on the 18th was
found at the bottom Of the Nickel Plate
bridge, near by. The unfortunate woman
had thrown herself over the precipice, a
distance of $50 feet, and was dash cd to
death.
MRs. ANNIE HUBaELL, wife of W. II.
Hubbell, of New York, drowned her six
year-old daughter in bath-iub on the
lS.h, and then hanged herself They had
been dead about six hours when the hus-
band and father returned home and found
them.
ABOUT dozen cottages at the Johanna
Heights Methodist camp meeting
grounds, near Reading, Pa, were burned
on the night Of the 18th as the result Of
incendiary efforts.
SAMUEL 7. LEE, Of Attleboro, Mass, was
convicted at Taunton, Mass, on the 18th,
of bigamy. He is only twenty-one years
of age.
THOMAS RoGERs, a printer, made des-
perate but unsuccessful attempt to end his
life in New York on the iS.h. First he
tried an infusion Of match heads, then
stabbed himself twice with picture nail
and finally tried TO cut his throa. with a
broken bottle. He recently inherited a
fortuna and this IL oua Of tho ra.ultg