The Osceola times., 1888-04-14

suit against the perpetrators or the hed-
wood land frauds In California.
On the sth caucus of Democratic Rep
resentatives was held In Washington TO
consider the question of the admission
OF Dakota and other Territories into the
! Union.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS, by advice OF his
physicians, and at the solicitation Of his
| friends. has gone TO Fortress Monroe for
rest aud recuperGtion from his recent i'll
ness.
IN Washington there is said to be do
termined movement on foot to oust Statis-
tician Dodge of the Agricultural Depart
ment for offensive partisanship, COM
mit:ed four Years ago.
THERE is q rumor in Washington that
Minister Phelps viii not return TO his sta
tlon in London.
OK the 7th the Republicans of North
ampton County. Pa, In convention de-
clared ia favor Of the nomination Of Mr.
Blaine for the presidency.
IT is said that James Bailey, n miner, Of
Shamokin, Pa. reduced. with large
family, to the verge of starvation, by par
ticipation in the Philadelphia & Reading
miners strike, has fallen heir to afortunc
Of "a ,G0o, 900.
ON the Ith the funeral services over the
remains Of Jacob Sharpe were conducted
by DR.. Thomas Armitage, In little room
over thevestibule of No. 352 West Twenty
third street, in the presence of members
of the family and friends. Mrs. Sharpe
was not able g. attend. The body was in
TERED nj Greenwood Cemetery.
ON the 81 Miss Annie Pearson, aged
sixteen, of Newton, Mass, was aroused
suddenly from sleep, and becoming badly
frightened. tainted away, remaining in a
comatose state until the 9Th, when she went
into commissions and died.
On the Sth Lillian Olcott. the actress,
died in New York of Inflammation of the
stomach.
On the sth Roscoe Conkling was report
ed better.
On the sth Emperor Frederick attended
divine service in the private chapel at
Charlottenburg.
On the sth Lewis j. Williams, medical
director, Y. s. N, retired, died at Balti-
more, Nd. aged sixty eight.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 81 Patrick Holihan. ex-alder-
man and present chairman Of the Demo-
cratic city committee Of Auburn, N. V,
was arrested and lodged in police head
quarters, HOLMAN went home intoxi-
Gated and brutally beat his wife and chill
dren. He has the reputation OF being "a
chronic wife beater.
lr has been ascertained that the report
that Count Thor karolyi of Austria, was
killed Ia duel is erroneous, On the con-
trary he committed suicide. II IL sup-
posed that he was mentally depressed by
the unfavorable turn of love affair.
In the Delaware lron-W orks, New York,
on the 9TH, seven men were fatally or
severely scalded by molten iron, with
which they were running casting.
In collision on the Chicago & North
western railroad, near marry. Ia, on the
I'd, four men and many head Of stock were
injured, and ten cars and two engines de-
molished.
In various parts Of Tyrol, Austria, AVA
lanches have done much damage to prop
erty within the last few days. A house
was buried at Weissenbach, on the 4th.
and the occupants, four women, were
killed.
AT Shamokin, Pa, on the ith, an explo-
sion Of gas in the Nelson shaft, by which
two men were horribly burned and ots.-
erwise injured; the premature explosion
of a blast at the Garfield colliery, by which
one man was fatally injured. and an ex-
plosion of boilers, with casualties, at the
Cameron colliery were the days Incl
dents.
AT Monte Carlo, Italy, It IL estimated
that the suicides committed there during
the past three months will number fifty
On the 9TH John T. Stone, the indicted
embezzling manager of the Pennsylvania
School Supply Company of Philadelphia,
pleaded guilty AID was sentenced TO two
years in the penitentiary.
On the 9Th Frank Pittman, of New York,
was found guilty of murder in the second
degree, for the murder OF his daughter
Rachael.
AT Southport N. C., on the 9TH the sig
nal corps observer reported the American
schooner Douglas Hoover, with q cargo of
railroad iron, five days from New York, on
Frying-pan shoals. The vessel and cargo
are u total loss.
ON the 9th White and Cross, the Raleigh
IN. CO bank forgers, offered TO return to
Raleigh on the charge of forgery, without
extradiion, but not on the charge Of
carrying stolen money into Canada,
Counsel for the Norfolk Bank refused 10
withdraw this charge,
IL was reported, on the 9Th, that fighting
had occurred between the Spanish garri-
son at Zooloo and the natives OF the Zooloo
Islands, in which the Spaniards lost ten
killed and seventy wounded and the
natives two hundred killed.
lr Is stated that Frank l.. Wilson. n
freight clerk Of the Boston & Providence
Loci al l. u. 1 =. n 4
Is $4,000 or $4,000 short in his accounts.
On the night Of the 9Th Kennedy Porter,
son Of Ex-Governor Porter of Tennessee,
was probably fatally shot at Nashville
| by viii Edmunds, The origin of the diff
hculty is supposed to have been the at
tention of young Porter 10 Edmunds' sis
| ter.
A RICHMOND (Nal book keeper, Captain
Anthony l.. Bargamin, has taken up his
! residence in Canada, with from 5000 TO
4 $4,000 OF his employers money.
| ON the 7th Mrs. John Ritchic, Of Patcr-
son, n. j., accidentally shot and killed her
| husband, while shooting at target in the
garret OF their house.
OS the 7th jackson e. Heaton, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, guardian of Isaac Nc
! Cormick. an insane pensioner, was indict-
ed for Withholding and embezzling the
! pension money of his ward.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OK the @l'a dispatch from Mossowah
! says that Rns Aloula WAS leadinga retreat
Of the Abyssinian army in the direction
of Ghindo and Asmala
THE twenty-ffth anniversary of the or
ganization Of the Flora Horticultural So
] ciety Of Cologne Prussia, will be cele-
| bratcd by an international horticultural
exhibition to be held in that city in August
Of the present year.