The Osceola times., 1888-11-17
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


NEWS has been received from Calcutta
Of the sinking Of ferry-boat in coll
lision. Sixty persons were drowned.
ON the 7th the fishing schooner Gold
smith Maid, with 3l00) pounds OF fresh
nsh. was run into and sunk In Boston
harbor. Peter Landry and Howard Mon
roe, of Shelburpe. Nova Scotia, who were
asleep in the forecastle, won't dowG with
her. The rest OF the crew escaped.
OK the 7th reports were received at St
Petersburg Of q terrible railway accident
on the Southern Russia line near koveL
II Is stated that many were killed.
OS the 7th reservoir at Montreaux, on
the Lake OF Geneva, used to work an
| electric railway, burst destroying nu.
merous houses and drowning many per.
sons. Seven bodies have been recovered.
AS A result OF the election excitement,
n serious riot occurred, on the 9Th, be-
tween the negroes and whites at Ports.
mouth, Va Several persons we're wound :
ed and much bad blood engendered.
A MAN named Jules Lsese and an un-
known boy were crushed to death by a
fall OF slate at the willow Grove Coal
Mines, near McDonalds, Pa, on the 9th.
ON the sth, In freight collision on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad little west
OF GAINESVILLE, o., Engineer Dennison Of
tho west. t.bound train was killed, and the
engineer Of the east bound train Is re-
ported fatally injured. One fireman was
also badly injured. The loss to the com-
pany Is heavy.
NEAR white Bear, Minn., on the 9th, q
south-bound St Paul Il Duluth freight
train broke In two. and the rear section
crashed into the forward portion. The
shock overturned the caboose stove, and
the car caught Are. Conductor Burke, Of
| Minneapolis. was pinned in the wreck,
and burned t. death.
The recent accident TO the Caar's tr ain,
Il Is stated was tho work Of Nihilists In
| an attempt to assassinate their ruler. The
many arrests which have taken place
since discredit the carefully promulgat
! ed theory of accident
A srEERAaE passenger named Caroline
Rose, on the National Line steamer
Egypt committed suicide by jumping
overheard at sea on the 9th ult
ON the 9th an unknown man jumped
into the river from Prospect Park at
Niagara Falls, aud was carried over the
falls and lost
FouR men were thrown to the ground,
two being killed and the others severely
injured, by the falling OF mason's scat.
fold In the weod building at Stamford,
Conn, on the 9th.
ON the 9th Michael Klonn, tho second
victim Of the recent boiler explosion at
the Lancaster tPa) Chemical Works,
died from his injuries.
On the night Of the sth another atrocious
woman murder with the usual disgusting
butchery Of the remains, was perpotrated
In Spitalfelds, London. As before the
police are impotent.
A FIRE, with loss Of life which may
reach between Atty and sixty, occurred
in the Rochester IN. W Steam Guage and
Lantern Works on the 9th.
EARLY on the evening OF the 9th, young
ewede Of New Britain, Conn.,, Gustav
Erickson, was met by man who was la
boring under great excitement and who
told him he had lost 81, 900 on the election.
An hour later the body Of the same man
was found alongside tho New England
railroad track, just west Of the city
There is no clew to the mans identity.
SEVENTY THOUSAND followers OF the
Mahdi attacked the town of Wadai, ives t
of Darfoor. The garrison repulsed the
ssailants and killed 1900, but the Nah.
dists reattscked and captured the town
The Sultan of Wadai fed to 1hiri
ON the 10th Joseph Fowle, the colored
candy king OF Boston, was arraigned on
y charge Of cheating Lawyer John b. APP
pleton, and larceny from the Collateral
Loan Company, and committed to Jail.
A PASSENGER train on the Illinois Gen.
trai railroad collided with freight train
near Waterloo Ia, on the 10th. VIM.
Leighton, of Galena H., q passenger In
the freight caboose, was fatally injured.
WILLIAM BucKroS, a wire worker, en-
ployed by the Bromwell Manufacturing
Company, fatally stabbed Gustav Wiehe,
q grocer Of Cincinnati, on the lith.
MARTIN /. NEWMAN, who was arrested
In Washington. on the Oh, tor obtain ing
money on promise Of marriage from Kate
Smith, department clerk, finally offered
10 marry the girl, and she bsgged for his
release, but as the police had found in his
room evidence that he had wife In
Tennessee. he was held for trial.
McCuEs' carriage factory, Pringlers'
shoe factory and Fink & Schindlers' fur
niture factory at San Francisco, were
burned on tho night OF the 11th Total
loss about 500, 900; insurance, $50, 900.