The Osceola times., 1888-02-25

TIE report is denied BY Hon =. W
Dawson, Of the Charleston Netes on1
Courier that he has sued Mr.. Dana OF the
New York Sun, and says that he has NJ
intention of doing so
In the Iowa Legislature the COMMITTEES
on the suppression OF intemperancs havs
practically agreed upon pharmacy bill,
under which sales Of liquor are hedRed
about with close restrictions, and penal
ties for violations are very severe
On the 18th 'njamin n. Hopkins. late
cashier Of the Fidelity Bank Of Cincin'
natl, was refused a new trial. He will
be sentenced as soon as he is able 70 Ap
pear In oesrt. He ia very sick, and sx-
poets to leave his cell only for the GENE
tory.
ON the 18th Collector Mseone Of the
New York custom house promised TO take
action In Q few days against local ring
Of opium smuselers, whose operations,
covering . period Of years, will cause the
recent seizures Of opium on the Canadian
frontier TO pale into insignificanca
ON the 18th, during the Congre ssional
inquiry into the eau 80 aud condu OF the
Reading strikes, John Norris, OF the Phil.
adelphia Recovyi, a statistician OF some
note, showed from the books OF the Read.
ing company that instead Of losing $12,
900, 900 on mining operations since 1910,
the company has cleared $29, 0O0, 900.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the l4th John Calm aud Ed. McCon.
Vile were held for further hearing, on 4
charge of having thrown Henry Brandt
from . thrd.story window at No. AS WeAt
Tn irtieth street, New York, On the 18th.
Brandt was killed BY the fall.
ON the llth nipe pers ons were injured In
the wreck of a passenger train on the
Manitoba railroad.
AT Quebec, Can, siX persons have been
arrested In connection with the murder Of
young Pousant, who was stabbed through
tho lungs, on the 18th. The murder WAS
PROMPTED by jealousy
on the 10Th William Patterson, coiorsd,
who is confined In the louisville (Ky.l
Jail under sentence of death. for the
murder OF Jennie Bowman, was again re-
splted by Governor Buckner=this time
for ninety days
On the 18th forty persons were killed
in a mine explosion in the Krenzgra ban
coal mine. near Kaiserlantern, Bavaria.
On the i1th the mulatto Cardonna, who
killed Byrnes and Teehan in New FORK
tenement house ms the result Of quarrel
between his white wife aud her neighbors,
was acquitted on the Indictment for the
murder of Byrnes. IL has not yet been
ecded to try him for the murder OF Tee
han.
On the 18th Mrs. Joseph Franklin, OF
Pa, was seriously burned, and
otherwise injured by natural gas ex'
plosion, which wrecked .he house. A sick
son was considerably burned on one
hand, but the other members Of tho fam.
ly escaped W thout injury.
On the morning Of the 18th The wooden
mill owned by Il L. Robertson, at Malli-
son Falls, South windham, Me-, was
burned to the ground. The loss was GOV.
'red by an insurance of S33 900.
On tho morning OF the 18th one OF bs
greatest fires that ever visited Westerly,
l., ragged for three hours destroying
several business buildings and causing a
oss of about 100000.
AT Detroit Mich, Annie Hedtke, an
orphan Polish girl, died recently from
he effects Of brutal assault by a negro.
The fact was kept a secret by the family
Until the nth. --..
Ok the 18th Richard Cassibone was
tent TO the Ohio State penitentiary for
six years, on a thirty two-year old sen.
ence, for manslaughter, received In Mus.
singum County in 1859. He broke Jail
after sentence was passed, and was not
discovered until two months ago, liv-
ng At Chillcothe under an assumed
lame.
AT Chicago the young man captured by
he police as an accomplice In the murder
" Millionaire Smell is nam ID VIM. b. Tas-
lott The police are con iident of his con.
Tiction.
On the nth three rollicking railr lroaders
who had been making night Of it among
the sporting houses at Columbus, O.,
called at late hour at a doctors office in
! drunken and demoralized condition,
and exhibited bleeding wounds Of the re-
ceiving Of which they could give no &C.
,ounA One of them win die.
ON the 18th an effort was made to blow
mp an Irish inspect or Of police.
On the evening Of the 10Th the beautiful
city Of Mount Vernon. ILL.,. was almost
literally wiped out OF existence by a ter.
rife cyclone, which demolished the great
Or aud better part Of tn, town. followed
by fire which spread with wonderful
rapid ity, and completed the work Of de-
struction. A loss Of fifty lives was re.
ported, while hundreds were injured by
falling buildings and flying timbers.
Evan sville, Ind, aud other adjacent
towns were prompt in responding to the
calls for fire apparatus and medical and
other assistance. A meeting of the City
Council was immed ately called for the
following morning to devise means Of re.
lief.
On the 18th thirteen prisoners escaped
rom the Newark (0) jail.
On the 18th Adam Writ killed three
two of them by burning, in
Jackson township la.
On the 18th Joseph Row, of Des Moines.
Ia, was found guilty manslaughter for
he killing of Constable Logan, while at.
to arrest him for violating the
laws.
on the 18th the second brother, Peter
Barrett, was found guilty of murder in
he first degree, at Minneapolis, MIMI,
for the killing of the car.drvsr, Tallacon,
several months ago.
AT New Orleans an employe OF the Cot
ton Exchange robbed the treasury of $40.
3)0 in securities, which he hypothecated
and spent the proceeds in gambling.
When all was lost he and an accomplice
fed the country. The theft was discov-
cred on the 18th.
On the light Of the 18th a battle be.
tween the police boat Folly and private
oyster dredgers in Chesapeake bay re-
suited in the death of Captain William
Frank White. of Baltimore, in command
Of the oyster schooner Nickel.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 10Th the molders employed BY
the Plymouth Foundry Company, of
Plymouth, Mass, struck, owing to a dis.