The Osceola times., 1888-08-04


and labor has reported fivorably the
House bill to create boards o. arbltr-s on
for settling con,roycr.i9, aud difference
between railroad corporations and their
employees.
/ CoRNErIus VANDERBILT and his family,
consisting OF WIFE four s6as and two
ldaaahters, retnrhsl to Now York, from
Europe on the 2Sth.
Tur cenire-helder OF the Worcester
(Mass.) Base Ball Club. wm. r. Hamii.
ton, has been sold - the Kansas c.tys,
and Joined that team on the 3)th-
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,
| OK the 24tl boat Was FOUND, bottom
up, on Csrslina island, near Los Angeles,
Cal, IN which party o. six gentlemen
had embarked some days previously for a
/ trip around the islaal 1t Is believed
that the whole party were drownel- 7
| Ar Hayerhill, Mass, as the body OF the
infant child OF Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Blum was awaiting burial, on the 2ith,
the drapery took fire from candles burn
lug arsuud the .catafaique and the body
was blrned 10 crisp The room took
fire. but the 1anies ware sxtinguished
With small 1855.
NKAg Redding, Cal. on the 2lth, James
Mason. An old stage-driver sat on a fifty
pound box Of giant powder and touched 1t
of Twenty pounds of his body was
picked mp in basket .. a. s. WI.
On the 18th ons Young woman was
killed, and several others severely In.
jured, by the collapse OF IN, floors OF
New York City book -bindery
The damage wrought by the great fire
in Port-au- Prince, Haytl, on the 4th, is
placed at 81 00o,0o Over so buildings
were burned The fire was OF incendiary
origin
Os the 26th company OF militia at
tackled, rotited and captured nineteen OF
band of bold, bad tramps, who, armed
with reyolvers, were making life a burden
to farmers and others IN the neighbor-
hood Of Ashtabula o. They had pre-
viously routed the local police.
NEAR Pre-idio, Cab, Roihblum K Co.'s
beef'packing hodse WAS burned, on ihe
s,th, the large building and plant being
entirely destroyed, and causing loss OF
$4,000.
WHILE playing on some logs in the
LAssomption river, four sons Of Mr..
Vandeyill, of Boston, aged six, eight. ten
and twelve years, respectively, were
drowned at Montreal. Can, on the 9th.
Their bodies were recovered and buried
on the 2Gth.
NEAR Arlington, Va. n sixteen year.
old son OF Mr.. q. l.. Pruden, assistant
secretary to the President, was killed, on
the 2ith, on farm. The lal was riding
or farm wagon, when a sudden JOLT
threw HIM Off The wheels passed over
him aud SO crushed him that he din III pc
short time.
Al Brighton, N. ", on the 2Ith, seri-
ous break occurred in the three-mile
level of the Erie canal. Sevefal boats
were broken in two, AMI all OF the east
bound boats were DELAYED.
OK the night OF q, 25th Dsputy Sheriff
l.. ). Blmer,sot Wahpeton, OAK, was
taken from jail by n inobof angry citizens
aud hanged for the nnprovoked murder
OF Miss Mollie Korbel.
On the night OF tho 26,h Eugene Zen.
zins, a young married man of St Paul,
Ninn., attended prayer meeting in In
dianapolis with his wife, where, after
taking part in the exercises for awhile no
retired to a classroom and took dose Of
carbolic acid, dying in great agony few
minutes later. IIe was out Of employ
ment and despondent
AT Canton, o.. the New York and Chi
cago Limited Express, ea st-bound was
wrecked on the a7th. The locomotive
Jumped the track on a switch crossing,
and was upset A com bination car fol-
lowing was dashed upon the disabled en-
gine and demolished. Engineer Pat Nor.
gan was fatally injured, and several pas
sengers were slightly bruised Travel was
delayed four hours.
At Pittsburgh, Pa, Robert Barnett and
w. J.. Penny, Jr,, charged with swindlin6
VIM. Merit ont OF SO, 900 in bunko game;
were acquitted on the 9th.
Ar Sehnectady. n. Y, the foundry con-
nected with the Edison machine works
was destroyed by fre on the 2sth Loss,
sS2, 600; insurance, S75,0J0. The building
was one oft en- which cover five acres Of
ground.
On the 2Sth Rowell & Co.'s plow. works
at Hartford, Wis. were destroyed by fire.
Loss, s2a,0ool no insurance.
MIsCELLANEOUs.
NEAR Ration, Col. on the 23d, one hun
dred settlers rode TO the rancho of George
Blosser and reinstated him in possession
of his property, which, during the alb
senco of Blosser and family from home,
had been turned over to the representa-.
tives of the Max we'll Grant 81
OK the I'D Chairmen Boae and Murphy
OF the Burlington grievance committees
arrived at Denver, Col, and called a
meeting of the striking engineers and FIRE.
men to discuss the question OF declaring
of the Burlington strike. After an inter-
esting session, lasting several hours, the
strikers unanimously decided to carry on
the fight. .. ..E
IHE Hosiery Company OF New Bruins.
wick, n. j., determined. on the 2Ith, to
close their factory indefinitely or until
the markets will justify a Resumption
This firm in good times employs l,lOO
men.
AT Chester, Pa, the monster steamboat
Puritan, building for the Fall River liue,
was launched on the 25th. She is the
largest vessel of her class in the world,
and will cost. when completed, $1,000 900.
In Southern Russia the crops are being
spoiled by heavy rains.
The story comes from Las Cruces,
Lower California that gold is being found
there in excellent ore bodies.
On the 25th the Secretary OF the Treas
ury accepted only $1,000 four per cent
bonds at sl97%.
1T is reported thatthe object OF the plot
which was recently discovered at Rust.
ehuk, Bulgaria. was to murder Prince
Ferdinand, Two OF the ringleaders,
Boyetoft and Ivanboff, were arrested on
the 2Sth.
OK the Goth the Secretary OF the Treas.
ury accepted s25,0)O ~ per cent. coupon
bonds at l27 2-5.
OK the 25fb the ront,act sor ,,l..i.
natural gas eighteen miles to Peru, Ind,
was let the work 10 be completed In sixty
days over htty miles OF pipe is neces-