The Osceola times., 1886-05-15
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News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


refuses TO interfere with the death sem
tence against Sam Archer, Of the notori-
Gus Archer gang, recently pronounced at
Shoals. In answer to an appeal on the
bth the Governor wrote: "while deeply
sympathize with his mother, can not in
erfere with the judgment of the court"
JOE wADpEcK, another victim Of the
Mccormick riot in Chicago on the Sd,
died on the 5th.
OK the 9th Captain Jeffrey Gerrior, on
trial at Boston for barratry, in scuttling
and casting away the schooner Racer, was
acquitted by the jury.
DURING performance in ST. Louis on
the 9Th Prof. II. Hathaway, a lecturer in
W. W. Coles circus, was severely bitten
by large anaconda which he was hand
ling.
LORD HARRINGTON will introduce a mo-
tion to reject the Home Rule bill on its
second reading in the House OF Commons.
CHARLES RAIL-, an extensive carpet
dealer Of indianapolis, Ind, is unaccount-
ably absent from home, and receiver has
been asked for his business.
On the 9Th a warrant was issued at Lon
don for the arrest OF john Rogers, Minnie
Palmer's manager. for seeking to fight a
the company.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, OF Boston, who
recently left for a trip to California, has
telegraphed 70 his parish that he viii not
leave Boston TO accept the hsshopric for
which he has been n ominated.
ON the 9th General Thomas II. Ruger,
recently appointed to the command Of
the Department Of Dakota, arrived at st.
Paul, Mimi, and took formal command Of
the department, with headquarters at For
Smelling.
On the night of the 5th George Coe,
nephew Of the president OF the American
Exchange Bank in New York, was shot
and fatally wounded at Engiewood, N. j.,
by a burglar. George Coe. his brother
Lewis and young man named Brinker-
hoh discovered the burglar robbing the
school house and attempted to capture
him. They succeeded, but with the above
iamsntable result.
DANIEL DUNBAR, an oarsman, OF Chi
cago, was drowned in the lake on tine 7th.
A. W. 8. MISEAR, of Athens, o., was
shot by mistake on the night OF the 7th by
his clerk and killed.
A WASHINGTON rumor has ..it that Judge
Buckner Is 10 succeed Land Commissioner
Sparks.
FouR shots were exchanged in a duel at
Paris on the 7th between Henri Rochefort
and NJ. Portalise without effect.
MICHAEL DAvIrT says that the differ
euces between Chamberlain and Glad
stone being irreconcilabIe, the proposals
Of the latter are acceptable.
Ir Is officially denied that General
Wolsely said he would resign his COM
msnd to lead an army of Ulster men IL
home rule was granted TO Ireland.
A REHEARIxG has been asked for in the
case Of 7. J. Cluverius, convicted OF the
murder OF Fannie Lillian Madison at Rich
mond. Va.
A SUIT has been filed in the United States
Court In Cincinnati by the attorneys OF
Martha Taylor, colored woman, who
seeks TO recover $1,000 from the Cincinna-
Il, New Orleans 4 Texas Pacific Railroad
Company. The plaintiff purchased at Lex
ington, KY, first-class ticket to Cincin-
natl, and was not permitted to ride in
hrst-elass coach, but was compelled to oc-
cupy a seat in the smoking-car.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered de-
cision in the pension case OF Samuel W.
Robertson, of Seneca, Kas., on appeal
from the Commissioner of Pensions, re-
versing the Commissioners decision and
ordering that the claimants name be
placed on the pension rolls at S72 per
mcnth, and that he be paid the sum Of
5000 the amount due at the rate speci-
fed from date Of final discharge from mil
itary service.
The remains Of Thomas J. Barney, a
leading citizen Of st. Paul, Mimi, lately
deceased, were cremated at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the Ith.
GOVERNOR FORAKER OF Ohio informed
the truant Democratic Senators on the 1th
that unless they stopped their foolishness
and returned TO their duties and attended
to the appropriation bills, the State would
go to protest In a week.
THREE more names have been added to
the list of victims of the Chicago riot
Officers Flaven and Sheehan and one OF
the wounded Anarchists are dead.
The London Daily Nelcs SAYS no Ameri-
can author, though all are welcome, will
be so welcomed as Holmes, the patriarch
of literature.
hartley CAMPBELL, the noted dramatist
and manager, is said TO be going the way
of John Mccullough.
KING CHARLES OF WURTENBURG is lying
dangerously i'll of spinal complaint at
Nice.
Or the sth the President vetoed two PEN
sion bills, while number OF others becc me
operative without his approval, the con-
stitutional limit having expired without
his having approved or vetoed them.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Washington
on the sth ON Mr.. VIM. Woodward's steam
yacht Wanda FOR trip to Representative
W. L. Scott's stock farm, on the shore OF
Chesapeake Bay. He expected TO return
to the capital on the 10th.
THE date for the creation as cardinals Of
the Archbishops of Rennes, Rheims, Sens,
Baltimore and Quebec has been fixed for
June 10.
PETER GossEr, manager Of the Jersey
tEngland) Bank, which failed under sus-
picious circumstances, has been sentenced
TO five years penal servitude for embezzle-
ment of sls5,00o.
OK the sth Peter Knichrebn, a German.
who had previously rendered himself con-
spicuous as an Anarchist agitator, was ar
rested at Davenport, Ia, while addressing
an Anarchist meeting.
IT is confidently asserted, notwithstand-
ing his published denial, that should Glad
stones Home Rule measure for Ireland be
enacted into law Lord wolseley will re-
sign his command in the British army and
head the men Of Ulster in armed opposi-