The Osceola times., 1886-06-12
MISCELLANEOUS,

ON the 3d the Knights OF Labor conven-
tion at Cleveland adjourned sine die.
The anti-Powderly faction has been sat
upon.
Two Canadian cruisers have been sent
TO Newfoundland to watch American fish
ermen, and see that the poor natives do
not acquire any Yankee lucre by selling
bait or supplies.
YELLOW fever is said to be epidemic on
the Isthmus OF Panama.
THE Ottawa tOnt) Free Press claims to
have been informed by the Master OF an
Orange lodge in ihe Western Ontario dis
trict that over thirty thousand stand of
fret arms have been sent 70 Ulster by anti
Home-Rule sympathizers.
Az address expressing confidence In
Gladstone's Irish policy has been signed
by one hundred non n-conformist ministers
Of Derby and Nottingham.
A ST. LOUIS correspondent Of the Lon
don Times saws the statement that twenty
or even ten million Americans are ready
TO BACK the Irish in the Home Rule fight is
Islander upon the American people.
HALIFAX IN. S.l adviccs OF the 3d
stated that forty thousand British troops
had been ordered 10 rendezvous there.
Why they are ne del there is unknown.
DUBLIN police surprised two parties of
unarmed Orangemen which were drilling
near Armagh and Portadown on the 81.
The Orangemen made N attempt to con-
ceal their actions, which they believed 10
be lawful. The police took the names of
| all who were engaged in drilling.
! Of ialf.e taH
at Laconia, n. H., charged with stealing
Memorial Day offerings from the Union
cemetery. Other arrests will follow.
THE strike of the journeymen bakers at
Buffalo, n. Y, still continues, but fears Of
famine have been dispelled by the action
Of the bosses, who have united and are
baking bread in one or two of the largest.
1 bakeries.
| Two THOUSAND women and children oc-
cupied the Rock Island tracks at Cum
Minis nail mill, near Chicago, on the 4th,
and refused to get out of the way Of the
engine, thus preventing the moving of
cars loaded by non-union men.
THE International Copyright bill was
read third time in the British House Of
Commons on the ith.
AT the meeting of the Nationol Stove-
makers Association at Cleveland, o., on
the 4th, the prices Of stoves were advance
ed seven and a half per cent When the
convention adjourned the members were
Immediately called to order and formed
the Stove Founders National Defense As
sociation.
AT Venice on the 4th, there were re-
ported twenty-five new cases of cholera
and twenty zone deaths. Two cases were
reported at Florence.
RESOLUTIONS fsvoring home rule for
Scotland were adopted by the Highland
Reform League at Glasgow on the ith.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended the 4th, numbered for the United
States 100 and for Canada -, or total OF
ls9, as compared with total OF Isl the
preceding like period. More than one-half
Of the casualties are reporte from the
Western and Pacific States.
TIE attorneys in the Pan-Eectric case
at Columbus, o., have decided TO ask
Judge Jackson to hear their case this
term, and have sent for Joseph r. McDon-
aid and other counsel. The court will in
sist on the case coming up in the regular
order.
New YORK, Brooklyn and Jersey City
street cars we're tied up again on the ~
THE Secretary OF the Navy says that Ue
vessels of the North Atlantic squadron
have been under orders for several days
to prepare for sea. They will go easterly
a. usual. and report for orders at Portland,
Ne. They will visit the fisheries under
inshyctions from the Department. and it
b hspsd wiIl help to allay. rather than in
crsess, - existing sn.agonisms.
o1Asssflcs show an increase ef exports
os tsxtsls fabrics, hsrdwsFs aad ws
esa!.>sy 'san e~naav