The Osceola times., 1886-08-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 2Sth children playing in an
empty ice-house at Des Moines, Ia, set
fire to II, and it was destroyed. Every
thing was as dry as powder, and a hot
wind bore the flames ahead until fourteen
buildings, mostly homes of people in m od-
crate circumstances, were destroyed. The
loss is not less than $4,000, pretty well
covered by insurance,
WIDE SPREAD destruction is being
caused by forest fires in Wisconsin.
ON the 29th Frank Bergh was arrested at
Cleveland, o., in connection with the
Knoch tragedy in Michigan.
o, thu .9ih twelve prisoners escaped
from Jail at Wheeling, W. Va, ten Of
whom were captured.
On the 29th the preliminary trial Of the
men charged with wrecking a Missouri
Pacific train near Wyandotte, Kas., was
commenced at Wyaniotte.
Or the 80 sentences Of from three
months imprisonment to fifteen years
penal servitude were passed on the Bel
gian Socialists convicted OF destroying the
RouN glassworks.
CHINESE pirates recently captured the
Dutch steamer Hok, killed the captain,
first mate and chief engineer, and hold the
captains wife and the remainder of the
crew for ransom.
On the 20 h Ross Raymond, formerly a
newspaper reporter AMI a well-known
swindler, both in this country and Europe,
was arrested in hotel in New York, and
locked up for passing worthless checks.
ON the night of the Goth the bolt and nut
departments of the Elba iron-works at
Pittsburgh, Pa, burned. Loss, S25, 900; in
sured. The building viii be rebuilt.
A FIRE occurred in the tenement house
No. 2020 Third avenue, New York, ON the
Goth. Mrs. Mitchering, aged sixty five,
was too feeble to fight her way, and was
burned to death. The money damage by
the fire was trifl ing.
On the 29th John McDermott, eighty
eight years of age, afll licted with a cancer
and weary of life, cut his throat at the
residence of his som law, John Heer,
who lives about ten miles below Dubuque,
la.
On the SOth Rudolph Schultz, German
| gardener, committed suicide at Peoria,
H., by hanging.
THE Wyandotte (Kas.) train wreckers
have been held for trial in the Dis rict
| Court without bail.
| On the night of the 30th the train of ten
coaches bearing the Iowa, Michigan and
| New Jersey delegations to the G. A. Il.
encampment, and also Senator Logan and
| A Ipa ~ tabf tfh
an engine at Echo, Utah, wrecking both
engines. No one was hurt except one OF
the firemen, who was slightly bruised.
A SLICK swindler has worked Albany
| IN. " foundrymen extensively on a
worthless "facins" mixture.
On the Both Brakeman Porter was killed
in railway accident at Button, Ind,
and Engineer Sipple was terribly scalded.
On the 3Oth the principal business houses
of Thomson, Ga, were burned. Loss,
| $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
On the 30th the Touring mills Of Buck &
Hoff in Manchester, Va, burned. and the
| Old Dom inion cotton mills were partially
| destroyed. Loss, S9j 700; insurance, $50
900.
Oy the 3Oth fifteen cases Of sunstroke
were reported in New York, two fatal. A
slight shower in the evening cooled the
atmosphere for an hour or two.
TIE Baptist Church at st. Clair, Pa,
was wrecked with dynamite on the 3lst,
owing to bad blood engendered by the
crusade Of the Law and Order League.
ORvILLE SHoHT's extensive carriage fac
| tory at Syracuse, n. ", was totally de-
s,royed by fire on the 3lst. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, $1,000.
FIRE destroyed the No. mill Of the In
dian Orchard Mills Company at Spring
field, Mass, on the 3lst; loss, $500, 600.
THE schooner yacht arah Craig, with a
party of ladies and gentlemen on board
from Philadelphia, capsizel of Sandy
| Hook, n. j., on the 3ist. and six Of the
ladies and one gentleman were lost.
DURING the recent severe storm on the
Atlantic coast a man named Dorpher,
living near Dunham's Corners, n. j., was
struck by lightning while cultivating corn
and was instantly killed.
| THE market train on the Lebanon Valley
railroad was wrecked near Derry, Pa, on
the morning Of the 3lst by washout. En-
| gineer Stanton was killed and the fireman
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