The Osceola times., 1888-02-18

AT the anniversary celebration OF the
birth Of Abraham Lincoln, by the Repub-
lican National League at Washington, on
the 18th, Senator Coliom was the pr incipal
speaker. Fred Douglass, Simon Wolf and
Captain OFcrrall also spoke.
THE Governor OF Pennsylvania has been
asked by officials of the Rcading railsoad
to call out the militia in the event OF tbs
coal and iron police being unable to pro-
tect such persons as desire to resume
work.
OF Princeton College, preached in Mar
quand Chapel, Princeton, N. j. Ths SER
mon was a strong defense OF faith
against materiaiism. No allu'ion was
made to his election. except In PRAYER
asking guidance in the decision Of the
momentous question OF the present hour.
The chapel was crowded.
AT Gilmore's Madison Square Garden,
New York, last week, James Alhegt beat
the record for siI-days' go-as-you- please
pedestrianism with the remarkable score
OF 62i 1-2 miles.
GRIMES AND CAsUALTrEs.
OK the 7th James podson, q notorious
counterfeiter, was arrested in Csmbsr-
land County, Tenn, and committed to
jail. The evidence agairDt him b very
strong.
AT Woodbury., N. j., George Dunham,
who was convicted on the 9th. of the
murder Of his mother-in-law, Barbara
Kandle, has been sentenced to be hanged
ON Thursday, March 20.
IT Is learned from later news Of the
wreck OF the Abercorn near the mouth Of
on the night Of the 6h, the number OF the
lost Is placed at twenty-five.
A FEW days ago Charles Stewart, alias
Tate, q Kentucky murderer, was sent to
the penitentiary from Owsnsboro. KY,
for stealing hogs.
ON the 9th John Hopp, his daus shter,
aged fifteen, and son aged nine years,
were burned to death In the destruction
of their homo at Kutztown, Pa.
On the 9th the wife OF Clarence 3. ID.
Bowers worthless character livin z
near Greenfield, N. H., died Of starvation
and exposure. On hearing OF the death
Of his wife, Bowers went of and hanged
himself
ON the 10th Morris B. Congden was con.
victed OF manslaughter at Courtland, N.
Y, for killing his daughters child.
On April 8 next Edward A. Dencons will
be hang for the murder ofMrs. Ada A.
Stone, at Rochester, NY, last August.
ON the 10th the north bound freight
from Evansville, Ind. picked up an un-
known man near St. James. He was
senseless when found aud was taken to
Evansville, where his injuries were pro-
nounced fatal The cause Of his injur les
is unknown. 1t is supposed, however,
that he fell off the midnight train.
ON the 10th tho powder mills at Wap.
wallopen, q few miles from Wilkesbarre
Pa, blew up with terrible force, killing
| four persons and injuring forty others,
many Of whom will die. The conclusion
was felt for forty miles.
OK the 18th the body Of Russian
named Lorenzo, was found two miles
north Of Huntington, Ind, with bullet.
hole In the back of his head. The pocket.
of the dead man had been rhed Of valua
ables. Jacob Knllenlack was placed
under arrest on suspicion Of having com
mittod the murder.
On the 18th twenty eight men were ar
rested in New York on charges Of main.
tainlng and running bucket shops, and
were arranged at he jefferson Market po
lice court on the 12th. All but Arthur
Coleman and Andrew r. Hammond
waived examination aud were held each
In $500 bail.
On the Ilth, at Vincennes, Ind, Larry
McCaffrey was shot and killed BY Georg q
Hartman. The men quarreled over dice
and women. McCaffrey insulted Hartman
and drew a knife, when the latter fired
three shots, instantly killing McCaffrey
Hartman fed aud has not yet beea ar.
rested.
AT Boston, on the 18th, Mrs. Sarah J.
Robinson, charged with tho poisoning OF
her brother-in-law, Prince A. Freeman,
was found guilty Of murder in the first
degree. She is supposed to have poi soned
seven persons, all relatives, for their life
ins surance.
WHILE conscious that she was dying
from the effects OF kicks and blows ad.
ministered by her husband, Mrs Stella
Fay, Of No. 4I3 East Fifteenth street, New
York, refused, on the llth, to make an
ante mortem shtement duplicating the
brute.
ON the night OF the 1lth several persons
were injured, one fatally, by Jumping
from the windows OF a burning BROOKLYN
boarding-house.