The Osceola times., 1886-06-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
rrxsoxAL AND POLITICAL.

Missouri refused ia honor the Illinois
requisition for the deputy sherifsin In the st.
Louis jail until the killing OF Thompson on
the bridge has been adjudicated.
OS the 2lst the remains Of the Bishop Of
Madrid, who was shot by priest on the
18th. were buried with imposing cers-
monies.
THE Marquis Of Salisbury 10 convinced
that the nation will Indignantly reject
Gladstone's "desperats scheme" for the
government Of Ireland.
On the 2lst, in speech at Glasgow, the
Duke Of Argyle admitted the sincerity Of
Gladstone, but believed the Premier was
misled by the Parnellites.
ON the 22d Jay Gould appeared before
the select Congressional committee at
Washington and detailed the status Of af-
fairs on the Southwestern roads and the
causes leading TO the strike, from his
standp oint.
AMONG the nominations confirmed BY
the Senate on the 22d were those Of Chas.
E. Gross, TO be Governor of New Mexico,
and W. 8. Rosecrans, Register Of the
Treasury.
ON the 22d great Liberal mass -meet-
ing, presided over by Labouchere, was
held at 1t. James Hall, London, at which
resolutions indorsing Gladstone's Irish
policy were adopted.
FATHER ABRAn J. RYAN, the ''poet priest
Of the South" Is lying critically IN with
brain fever at st. Bonifacs Church in
Louisville, Ky.
ON the 22d the African Society at Naples
gave banquet TO Henry NJ. Stanley, the
African explorer.
ON the 22d 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 10 the embassy in carriages,
after which the eK-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 n. Chief-Justice Waite will
preside, and addresses will be made by
Senators Brown, Sherman, Logan and
Evarts and many other distinguished gen.
tlemsu.
HoH. WIZ. wHrrrLr, Associate Judge Of
the Superior Court Of Delaware, died on
the 23d Of hemorrhage Of the stomach after
lingering illness.
IT 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 SELBoURSE publishes q 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.
SrKPHEx d. WHITE has applied for a
mandamus on Secretary Bayard to COM
pei him 10 pay to the relator, rs a 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 Gu ebec has
chosen George Hosmer, of Boston, to meet
Hanlan for three mile sculling race on
Lake st. Joseph on the 2ith of June, for a
purse OF $500.
1t is not thought probable that Congress
will be able to adjourn before the lst Of
August N
HAsLAN, the oarsman, proposes TO hold
an international regatta at Toronto bay
June Q and 0.
SENATOR CALL, Of Florida, Is credited
with sentence containing three hundred
II, -
ord in Congress.
FoREsr L. PUsNEY, editor and proprie-
tor Of the Oakdale tNeb.) Journal, has
been held for trial on charge Of infant.
eide.
LETTERS are being received by Congress
man Hatch from Rll quarters approving
the bin to regulate the manufacture and
sale Of imitation butter.
CHARGES have been filed with Attorney.
General Garland at Washington that the
fee bills presented by District Attorney
Bliss in the Lindsay case are Illegal, and
the matter has been taken under consider
alton.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, IL is stated, has
given notice that he will introduce In the
House of Commons an amendment In op-
position to the Land bill.
NJ. DE FREYcISET 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 since
Congress began its session, vet more than
half Of the general appropriation bills re-
main unactcd upon by the House, In which
body they must originate. The Consular
and Diplomatic and Military Academy
bills are the general appropriation bills
now on the calendar.
SECRETARY MANNING continues to i'm
prove daily. He left his room on the 25th
and walked down stairs. His physicians
expected that he would be able to take q
drive in few days.
In an address at Thurles, Ireland, Arch
bishop Croke declared that Gladstone was
Ireland's greatest friend.
SENIOR ELNoRE, who has represented the
Government Of Peru at Washington for the
past i've years, has been recalled, and will
take Official leave Of the President this
week.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JOHN CRAIG aud John Laurie, two pris
oners, lost their lives by the burning OF the
Jail at Cornwall, Ont, on the 2lst.
AT Wiggan's colliery, Shenandoah, Pa,
on the 2lst, John Shamousky and his
brother aud two Hungarians, names un.
known, were working gangway when a
blast exploded prenaturely, killing Sha.
mousky and fatally injuring his brother
The other two men are serioualy but NOT
fatally injured.
ON the 2ist Mrs. Henry Agnew was ar.
rested in Philadelphia on . charge Of ar.