The Osceola times., 1888-08-11
CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.

OK the Ist Alex. Wood. colored, who re-
Gently escaped from Jail at Blackfoot
Idaho. where he was to have been hanged
for wife-murder on July %, was recapt-
ured and returned to Idaho. He Will be
hanged on August IL.
FIRE nearly destroyed the entire busi-
ness porli5n OF the city OF Suffolk, Va,
ON the lst-
AFTER cllnging to the wreck, which was
most of the time under water, all Night
Captain Rickaby, hi, SON and two sailors
Of the schooner-yacht Rambler. whien
was capsized la storm about hfteen
miles out from Chicago, on the I'd, were
picked up and saved next morning
AT Dudley, Mass, a tramp calling him.
self Michael keenan,. but who is believed
10 be John T. Shevlin, was arrested, on
the Sd, tor the murder, seven years ago.
in q Pennsylvania town, OF man who
was acting as peace-maker between
Shevlin and man with whom he was
fighting.
on the "a, in the Criminal Court In Chi.
cago, before Judge Hawes, the cases
against the alleged dynamiters, Seyic,
Hronek, Chapex and Chleboun, were con-
tinued, by agreement Of counsel, until the
September term.
| AT Stockton, Cal, on the 2d, Prot. +. A.
Parker, principal Of the high school OF
Dubuque, H., one Of the party OF teach
ers visiting the Yosemite valley, shot
himself, while suffering from an attack OF
intermittent fever. His remains were
sent East.
On the % Captain Wagner and crew OF
the ship Don Leon, which feundered In
the South Pacific last May, arrived at
| @ a. r.L han 1u
escaped, but endured great hardships.
Ar an early hour on the morning OF the
Sd the paper mill owned by George
Friend at Lockland, o., was totally de.
stroyed by fire. Loss, 10000. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
TERRIBLE forest fires were raging in the
country about Ottawa, Ont, on the 81,
which Il was impossible TO check owing to
the dryness of every thing combustible.
Villages and farm property in the vicinity
were in imminent danger Of destruction.
On the Sd a quarrel between the fami-
| lies OF Thomas Mcnamara, a Cincinnati
tea merchant and William ProuL u livery
stable keeper, terminated in the death,
by shooting, of Prout.
On the night OF the I'd Policeman Hans
Hanson, of st. Paul, Mimi, was shot and
killed by parties unknown. 1t is sup
posed he was taken for "foot. pad" as
his uniform was concealed by a rubber
coat.
On the 81 an explosion In an English
fireworks manufacturing establishment
at Wandsworth partly destroyed the
structure, and killed several female en-
ployes.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the 81, Mrs.
Junkins was found guilty Of the murder
Of her sisters daughter, Hattie Debaun.
Her son Is under indictment as an &C.
cessory.
THE only causes assigned for this sui
eide of Walter Bradshaw, of Washington.
on the I'd, are liquor and quarrel with
his father.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL MCDONALD, on
the arrival OF the steamer Bothnia In
Boston, on the 5tn, arrested Felix Bruno,
n passenger, for robbing the Hamburg
Germany post.office OF 50, 900 ON July 90.
AT 1920, on the evening of the 9th,
General Philip II. Sheridan died suddenly
of heart failure, at Nonquitt, Mass.
AT North Brookfeld. Mass, Walter NJ.
Leeds, alias John Bonney, one Of old
''Shang" Draper's Boston gang Of safe
blowers, was arrested, on the 4th, for a
safe robbery.
On the night OF the 4th the schooner
Queddy, coal-laden, from Lubec for Bos-
ton, went on Handkerchief shoals III q
gale. The crew were rescued.
NEAR Birmingham, Conn.,, on the 9th,
John Boy ylan, aged fifty-six, was drowned
while attempting to swim across the
Housatonic river
lNarock cut near Birmingham Conn.,, on
the 5th, a twenty-five pound can OF blast.
ing powder exploded in tho arms OF An
tonic Devilts. Dennis Sullivan was blown
down an embankment fifty feet high,
landing on broken rocks at the bottom.
His eyes were blown out, and his throat
was so burned by inhaling the fire that
he could scarcely breathe.
GENERAL EUDFs, formerly prominent
member OF the French Commune, wnile
| addressing a meeting OF strikers in Paris,
on the 5th, was stricken with apoplexy,
and died almost instantly.
AT Baltimore, Nd, on the 25th, John
Schemmel, German tailor, aged fifty
| FIVE, jumped into jones' Falls, with
suicidal intent, and firmly imbedded his
head and shoulders in the mud at the bot
tom OF the stream
AT Omaha, Neb., on the 4th, soldier
named Hanson committed suicide because
OF unrequitted love. Just before taking
the fatal dose he attempted to shoot q
young woman who had broken an engage.
ment with him.
| NEAR Omaha, Neb., Olaf Preis, owner
of a summer resort called Preis' Lake,
was shot and dangerously wounded by his
brother Fritz, who was cleaning rife
that he suppose to be empty, on the 9th
MIsCELLANEOUs.
AT Toronto, o., typhoid fever is cpl.
demic. Forty cases OF the most malig-
nant type had been reported up to the
Slst. Seven deaths took place on the Goth,
and five on the 30th.
On the I'd, in his testimony before the
Senate Indian leadership committee, Ex-
Governor Pound OF Wisconsin said
thera was not enough land in the Caur
O'Reille reservation to give all the In.
dians their allotments In severalty.
FEW days ago Fred. W. Wright, aged
seventeen, and Ida May Griffith, aged
fifteen. were married at Halifax, n. s..
The license was obtained by the groom
representing himself to be twenty lone
and the girl eighteen.
AN ordinance was passed by the Board
of Aldermen of New York City, on the
Both, prohibiting the Twenty third Street
Surface Railroad Company from operat.
ing any cars upon any portion of its road
without a conductor a. well as a driver,
and making any violation Of the ordi.
nance misdemeanor punishable by a
fine Of $50.
AT Marlborough, Mass, on the SOth, the
wrestling match between II. NJ Dufur