The Osceola times., 1888-09-22

by the President
GENERAL JOHN q. PARKHuRsr. Of Michi-
gan, II is said, will be nominated % Min :
ister to Brussels, to succeed Mr.. Lambert
Tree, who has been transferred to 81.
Petersburg. The appointment will be
made at the request OF Postmaster Gen.
eral Dickinson.
PHYSICIANS say that senator b ,ck's i'll.
ness was caused by overwork, and that
now since he is resting he will rapidly
recuperate.
On the IL tn the birthday anniversary OF
President Diaz OF Mexico was generally
observed in the City of Aexioo.- Bush.
ness was suspended and all military or.
ganizations and civic societies sent rep
resentatives TO congratulate the Presi.
dent
THE King aud q ueen OF Rounania cor
daily received Queea Natalie OF Servia,
At Sinaia. on the 18th She afterwards
proceeded to Jassy.
On the 10Th II monster meeting was
held In Dublin, 10 protest against the
further imprisonment of John Moroney
sentenced TO kilmainham jail for con-
tempt OF court In refusing TO testify, la
January. 1887.
LETTER has been written by Presi :
dent Cleveland to Hon. G. n. Black.
pre- esident Of the National Associ alton of
Democratic Clubs, heartily indorsing the
scope aud objects OF the association.
CRIMES AND 0xsuALfns.
The man who was run over and killed
by Rapid Transit train on the Long
Island road was identified, on the 18th, rs
John Ogden. a retired hotel keeper of
Norristown, Pa Engineer Edward Locke
has been held on o charge Of homicide
NEAR Tigerton, Wis, on the 18th pas
senger train On the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore q Western railroad was wrecked
by a broken wheel. "
MAR Wichita. Kas., the body Of J. C..
Treboul. who disappeared two months
ago, was found In . thicket, on the 13th.
With bullet -hole In the head. 1t Is
thought that Trebonl was murdered, as he
was known to have money whom last seen,
and none was found on the body.
IHE losses sustained by the recent
cyclone in Cuba foot up fully SIC, 900, 900.
Eight hundred lives we're lost, and 10, 900
people are left homeless. 81 ~i-s
FINE destroysd the et James Hotel at
Point Pleasant N. J., on the 18th The
wife Of Rev. H X. Nye is supposed TO
have perished in the 1aInsa Many guests
narrowly escaped with their lives. S
FtRE destroyed two hundred buildlngs
u Washburn, Wis, On the lath. X Ia
PETER RAMENsoS, Of Rscine, Wis, beat
his daughter so badly, on the 18th, that 1t
was thought she would not recover.
rFoR attempting TO blaokmail Rev.
Dominick Skunk, a Catholic priest at San
Pierre, Ind, Harry Golden, alias Louis
r. Meyers, an ex convict vas sentenced.
on the 18th, to three years In the peniten-
tiary.
AT Fort Wayne, Iud., Charles Klein
attempted, on the 14th, to shoot his wife,
and failing in this, beat her head into O
jelly with the butt end Of his revolver.
He then went into the yard and shot hi M
self through the temple,
Ex-TELLER CHARLES A. PITCHER of the
Union Bank OF Providence, R. l., was
convicted at Montreal, on the l4th, on q
charge OF taking stolen goods into Can
ada. -
AT Dubuque, Ia, ]. Below and l.. Mar
tin, eighteen and twenty-five years of
age, respectively. were arraigned, on the
18th, before the United States Commits
sioner for robbiug the post-otflce at
Hazleton. They were unable to furnish
bail, sud were committed to Jail. Below
claims to be the son of Colorado ju dge.
NEAR Hastings, N. Y, on the 13,h, Ave
persons were drowned In the Hudson
river, while out in asail-boat which was
swamped half mile from shore.
A PARTY of four, composed Of young
men and women, were carried over Fair
mount dam in the Schuylkill river, a
Philadelphia, on the night Of the l3th, ant
two of them, Frank Caffrey and Minnie
Luffty, were drowned
On the 14th one of the two men struck
by a Lackawanna train in Buffalo, on the
9th, recovered consciousness and gave his
name as Thomas Hughes, and said tina
his companion, who was killed outright
was Charles Tully, OF Providence, X. |.
On the l4th Alex. }. Goldensen, tn,
young murderer of his betrothed, wa
hanged in San Francisco. He was TO,
drunk to know what was going on ut tn
time, -v -
DURISd Q fit Of insanity caused b,
Business troubles, John Spleniek, u tailo
of Omaha Neb., on the 10th, shot hi
wife three times and then turned tn
weapon on himself Spleniek was deat
al last accounts, but the woman was still
alive. x5
7. A DRsrRucrIv . torn visited the City o
w Washington on the 10th. Several house
we're blown down and many roofs lifted
besides other damage done. 81 Ate
BETWEEN Akron and New Portage. o.
on the 18th, an engineer vas killed and
brakeman and tramp badly injured IL ,
collision on the New York, Pennsylvania
a. Ohio railroad. ~
a II HrsCEI.LANEOus. ~
Ii is said that leading Canadian in
| porters are forestallug the Presidency
threatened retaliation by arranging .,
receive their goods over the Inter- OceNni
| (Canadianl railway, instead of the New
York and Boston roads.
THE thirty anniversary OF the admis
sion Of California into the linton wa
generally celebrated In the Senate on III,
10th. -a...s..
THR steamship Alaska took the passen
gers of the disabled steamship Nevada
from New York for Europe on the nth.
TnE Portuguese gun boat Beugo is al
Tangier, TO support Portugars claims
against the Sultan of Morocco.
Iy Spain several rivers have over
flowed their banks and inundated the ad
jacent country, causing great destruction
OF property. Many persons have beer
drowned, and the psnic-stricken inhabit
ants have taken refuge in the mountains s
| UPON reflection and council Of mutua
friends, the heated, unparliamentary anl
| personal expressions used in debate by
Senators Morgan and Mitchell. on Tia,
10th, have been stricken from the Record
CONGRESS has been asked by the actini
| Secretary OF War TO appropriate S3i 90