The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WHILE carrying a lighted lamp in her
rounds to secure the windows before re-
firing, on the 9th, Mrs. Frederick Spittlc-
house OF Elizabeth, N. j., was seized with
an apoplectic a. aud fell to the door The
lamp exploded, scattering the burning
iuid over her clothing. She was burned
| to death.
on the 10th John Stone, a prominent
citizen Of Gibson County, Ind, and a
member of the gun club, was mortally
wounded by discharge from his gun, he
having dropped the weapon while carry
ing IT,
In livery stable fire in Buffalo, N. Y,
on the nth, forty horses and two men
| were cremated.
CHARLES II. WIGHT, assistant superln-
tendeut in the mailing department OF the
Detroit (Mich.) office, was arrested
by Post-O Office Inspector Smith, on the
I 10th, on the charge of stealing letters,
on the 10th Josiah Wilder, aged sixty
three, dealer In agricultural implements,
at No. 16l West Sixth street, Cincinnati,
committed suicide, by shooting himself
through the temple with a revolver, at his
home in the village of College Hill. He
leaves a widow and six children.
Ar Oakland, |. T., on the 10th, Dick, the
seven year old son OF Jas. Sacre, fell off
fence at his brothers ranch, and broke
his neck.
A STAY of proceedings has been granted
by the Supreme Court of Minnesota in the
case Of Tim and Pete Barrett, sentenced
to hang on the 18th, at St Paul, for the
murder of the street. car driver Toletfson.
On the 18th, Goldenson, the young Cali
fornian who murdered his sweetheart,
furnished long statement to the press,
In which he ascribes his crime to drink.
DURING a gale, on the 12th, large
schooner boat and two large lobster
sloops went ashore and broke upin Salem
Mass harbor.
Ar Ashtabula, O., the Lake Shore round
house was burned on the night of the 18th.
Eight locomotives were totally destroyed.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Ar Alpena, Mich, fourteen blocks were
destroyed by fire, on the 18th, the six
teenth anniversary of the great conhagra-
ton which laid that place in ashes in ls72
NEAR Orange Court House, Va, on the
18th, the south bound express on the Vir-
ginia Midland road ran through trestle,
lIttlpliutlHS lilt u am bt-
low, Il distance Of more than twenty feet,
and killing seven and wounding forty
persons.
ON the 18th the powder mill OF Latin &
Rand, located at Cressona, near Reading,
Pa, blew up, killing three men and
demolishing portion of the works. The
victims were George Belman, Edward
Reed and Henry d. Revich. The explo-
sion shook the buildings for miles around.
ACCORDING to the report of the ooro-
ner's jury the disaster at Orange Court
House, on the Virginia Midland railway,
on the 18th was caused by rotten timbers
in the trestle.
AT Trinidad, Col, Fred Remington, a
young man representing himself as al
artist on Hdrper's Weekly who had
passed some days in sketching mountain
scenery, committed suicide, on the l2th.
THE application OF Mrs. Louis &. Ham,
mersley. now Duchess of Marlborough,
for an allowance of 500 900 for her pres
ent support and maintenance out OF the
income of the estate left by her first hus-
band, was granted by Surrogate Ransom,
of New York, on the 18th.
AT Kimberly, Cape Colony, the fire in
the De Beers diamond mine has been ex-
tinguished, and the exploring party who
descended the nine, on the 18th, report
thattwenty-four whites and 200 natives
had been burned TO death.
On the 18th party OF excursionists
from Baltimore, Nd, to North Point, put
out in row-boat 10 fish. The boat wa,
capsized in the stream, and Joel Lutz
William Tim land Frank Vera were
drowned. Lutz leaves widow and one
child.
WHILE walking on the railroad at New
Holland, Pa, Emma Rhodes, aged four
teen, and Annie Frysinger, seventeen
were run down by passing train, on the
18th. Miss Frysinger was instantly
killed, but Miss Rhodes will recover
| OS the lith Samuel Laughlin, the muir
derer of Brakemen Fred Palmatis, was
arrested at South Norfolk, Conn, and re-
turned the Bridgeport.
| OK the 10th the barrel and pail shops o.
the Erie County On. W penitentiary were
destroyed by fire, throwing the convicts
out OF a job.
MISCELLANEOUS,
THE Agricultural Department reports
that a preliminary investigation of the