The Osceola times., 1888-02-11

cruelty.
The safety and success Of Lieutenant
j. w. Graydon's invention FOR charging
shells with dynamite has been attested by
the official report OF the board conducting
the Sandy Hook experiments.
| Ar the opening Of the House Of Com
mons on the 9th, Mr.. Gladstone will be IN
/ his seat.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 3Oth Jacob and David Campbell,
father and son, of Jersey City, n j.,
while engaged shovelng snow for the
Erie railway at Hampton, N. j., were
struck by an express train. David was
instantly killed aud his father shockingly
and fatally injured.
AT Urbana, o., on the 3lst, the limited
express, west bound on the Pam Handle
ra lrosd ran into an open switch and coll
lided with IA switch engine. Both engines
were badly wrecked. Frank Brown, en-
gineer, and Charles NJ. Alhand of the pas.
senger locomotive were fatally injured,
and Frank Shade, roadmaster, was killed.
The passengers all escaped.
AT Richmond the buildings Of the Vir-
ginia penitentiary, leased by the Davis
Shoe Company of Boston, and operated
as q shoe factory, were discovered on fire
on the morning OF the 3lst. The flames
spread rapidly, and despite the efforts Of
the fire department the buildings occu.
pied by the shoe company were totally
destroyed, together with the valuable
machinery and stock; loss. 100000.
In connection with a recent bank break,
a number Of Toronto (Ont.) bankers have
been arrested on charges Of felony.
On the 1st fire destroyed the mammoth
dry goods establishment OF Barnes, Hen.
gerer & Co. .at Buffalo, N. V, and serious
ly damaged adjoining property, the loss
being placed at 81, 100000
On the night of the 3lst Pat Burke sen
fenced for a term of three years for grand
larceny, from Sioux City. hung himself
In his cell at the Anamosa Ua.) peni-
tentiary. He used his suspenders for q
moose.
On the I'd two men were killed and sew
eral injured by n boiler explosion in
portable saw-mill at Barnesville O.
OK the ID two miners were overcome by
gas while descending the Germania shaft
at Hurley, Wis, and fell to the bottom.
They were instantly killed.
AT London, on the I'd. the five Ameri-
cans recently arrested for attempting a
big forgery scheme on the Bank Of En-
gland. were examined and remanded for
trial.
ON the I'd Robert C. Howell, general
superintendent of the general delivery
department of the Philadelphia post-ofilce,
was takon into custody on warrant
charging him with embezzement in taxi
ing necktie 'from package before the
same was delivered to parties to whom il
was addressed"
NEAR Cleveland, o., a powder-mill was
blown TO atoms on the 3D.. nothing bein Z
left but big hole in the ground.
On the 3d eight persons were found
dead in house at Manchester, England
1t is believed they were poisoned.
On the evening Of the 3D. serious riotin &
was reported from Shenandoah, Pa,
started by an attack of mob of men
and boys on the non-union miners as they
were leaving their work. Several persons
were wounded, and more trouble was ex-
pected.
On the ID farmer from near Dixon,
ILL.,, d led from drinking a liquid com.
pound from fusi oil and alcohol, which
was sold to him as whisky by Chicago
drummer.
AT Titusville, Pa, the Elm Street
schoolhouse, the largest in the city, built
in 1878, was completely gutted by fire on
the morning of the 81. The loss is
about $4,000, mostly covered by insur-
ance
On the 81 Judge Woods, In the Federal
Court at indianapolis, Ind, overruled the
motion for new trial in the case OF Coy
and Bernhamer, the convicted tally-sheet
conspirators. Coy was then sentenced
to the penitentiary for eighteen months
and 10 pay a fine Of 500. Bernhamer to
one year and TO pay fine of $1,000
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, female child, about
one week old, was found dead in an out
house of the st. Louis Fuelling bottling
works. by some employees of the house.
Bruises on the child's head and body show
that il was murdered.
| AT Nanticoke, Pa, four men were fa-
tally burned in a mine explosion, on the
4th.
In railroad accident at Stanbury sta.
tion, on the New York, Pennsylvania q
Ohio railroad on the 9th, two persons $
were killed aud several ser ously injured.
On the 4th seven men were killed by n
boiler explosion at Belmont q.
| On the 4th Benjamin II. Hopkins, OF
the Fidelity Bank Of Cincinnati, was
convicted. Motions for a new trial and
in arrest OF judgment were made
On the 4th the steamer Lee Howell
sunk in mid.stream near Helena, Ark. No
lives lost.