The Osceola times., 1888-12-29

Congo, and not at Boualya, on the Aru-
| wimi, as reported"
on the night of the 2ad Colonel James r..
Casey, Mrs. Grants brother in law, died
in Washington.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ALEXANDER McPHETERs, rich farmer
of vigo County, Ind, recognized in the
photographs Of Henry Rice and Charles
| Watson, under arrest at Detroit, Mich,
for confidence work, the men who swindled
him out Of - 900 a year ago last October.
| An indictment has been found against
them in Indiana, and the Governor has
issued requisition on the Governor of
Michigan for the men.
On the 18th John Myers Doremus was
hanged in the Jail at Hackcnsack, N. j.,
for the murder of his nineteen-year-ol
| son. while the latter was defending his
mother from the abuse of the murderer.
1T is reported that six farmers, together
| with the wives Of two and a son each of
the other four, comprising party en-
route from Boucherville to Montreal, Can,
with loaded teams of Christmas supplies,
were lost in the breaking up Of the ice in
the river on the 18th.
On the 18th nine workmen were carried
down with falling bridge spanning the
Merrimac river at Hookset, N. III. Three
of them were drowned, and the remaining
six were rescued in an injured condition,
but none were hurt fatally.
on the night of the 18th, during heavy
squall. the oyster schooner Charles Ow-
ems, Of Portsmouth, Va, capsized in the
James river, of White Shoal Light house,
and Captain Henry Bcaman and the
cook, colored boy, named Ridley, were
drowned.
IT was reported on the 10Th that Ticket
Agent Harris, at the Grand Central Depot,
New York, for the New York, New Haven
e. Hartford railroad, was an absconder.
The amount Of his defalcation had not
been ascertained.
On the 10th Edward Meredith, who
planned the ''badger game" in which Phil
DAILY was murderously assaulted in a
New York City fiat, recently, pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to eight years
and ten months In State prison. Henry
, Hermann, HIS accomplice, got six years
and eleven months.
TIE Warren House at Yarrenshnrgh,
N. Y, wcll-known summer resort, was
destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss,
5000. 1t was erected about century
ago.
/ TIVE tohiiitu III tnt ioit
Townsend (W. IT, Jail, on the Goth, over
, powered Thos. Huller, the jailer, gagged
him, took his keys and pistol, opened the
doors and fed. They left Huller and one
trusty prisoner tied in cell. The escaped
men are murderers and h.ghwaymen.
OK the Goth two elegantly dressed
ladies "lifted" a diamond bracelet, valued
at 800, from Buffalo IN. W jewelry
! store. Parties answering to their de-
scription were afterward arrested at
Cleveland, o.
THE propeller Lake Ontario, recently
purchased by O'Malley, of Windsor, Ont,
was burned at Charlotte, N. Y, on the
2lst. The fire originated from stove in
the cabin. Loss, ~ 600; no insurance.
. OK the night of the Goth Captain wishart,
special agent of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Law
and Order Society, was assaulted on the
trcetand knocked down by al unknown
rufiian.
THE Scranton (Pa.) Match Factory, es.
tablishcd about year ago, was burned on
the 2ist. Loss. 700; partly insured
Scventy-fvo hands are thrown out Of en-
: ployment.
OK the 2lst Ave white men and two ne.
: groes were arrested in HARRISON County
Ca, for the murder OF Adam Golden,
colored man who was Drained with a fence
rail while defending u helpless woman
from a Eiob.
, BETWEEN the 10th and goth six men were
killed by locomotives in and near Wheel
ing, W. Va.
On the 23d Henry ID. Sohoonmaker, age,
twenty-thrce years, a salesman, shot an'
fatally wounded his wife Elith, age,
twenty-two, and then shot himself dead
at their residence in Brooklyn.
oS the I'D Ezra Teetzel, of vass ar
Mitch, was shot and instantly killed a
West Bay City by a negro named Petei
Saunders, with whom he had difficulty
: Saunders was stabbed and otherwise in
jured. The murderer escaped, but wa
arrested later in the day.
a OK the night of the 22d Mrs. John Stone
!. residing near Albion, Ia, who had he
q husband arrested on the Goth for beatin,
J, her and then sued him for divorce
3 drowned herself in the river. She wa
the mother of six children.
a OK the I'D, at Cucharas, Col, on Tn
o Denver & Rio Grand railroad, Conducto
VIM. l.. Comstock and Brakeman Henr
Q Borst were turning brake when tn
chain broke and both men were throw
Il under the cars and instantly killed.
FIVE Columbia College students wer
arrested for creating n disturbance at tn
u Bijou New York city Theater on tn
I'D, and were subsequently, fined $40 each
THE magnificent Lower Mississippi
steamer Kate Adams, plying between
!, Memphis, Tenn, and Arkansas City, Ark
was burned on the morning OF the .3d nea
Commerce, Miss. Thirty-two people los
. their lives.
MISCELLANEOUS.
! THE storm that recently prevailed alonJ
, the Pacific coast from Cape Mendicino {,
| Cape Flattery is reported by captains o.
coasters to have been terrific.