The Osceola times., 1888-12-22

| On the 18th Henry George arrived on
the Etruria, at New York from Liverpool
He reports the single-tax idea rapidly
growing in favor in England.
HENNIKER HEAToy, Member OF Parlia-
mont, will come 10 America early next
year TO explain his cheap ocean postage
project to Congress.
OK the 18th Lord :ackville left London
for Paris. He intends to spend the winter
on ths Continent. He did not call ut the
American Legation while In London.
DR.. CHARcor, OF Paris, II Is said, Is going
to St. Petersburg TO attend the Czarina.
DR. TANNER, the forty days faster, has
been in Paris some weeks. IL is rumered
that he is engaged 10 the daughter Of tho
celebrated millionaire, Boursier.
THE cable announces that Sir Arthur
Sullivan is in Berlin arranging the trans
lation for the production of the "Yco-
man of the Guard" in that city.
IT is said that Maxine Outrey, former
ly Minister of France to the United States,
has retired to his villa at Cannes. with
Nine. Outrey, who is an American.
Mns. MAckAf, wife Of the American
millionaire, is in London.
COLONEL JAMES Il. CASEY, who married
wife, was reported dying, on the night OF
the 10Th, ut his home in Georgetown, ID. G.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the lith Joe Ivy was killed in Sumter
County, 4. c., by Bgdd Cato, who objected
10 Ivy's attentions to his sister.
On tho 1ith ID. II. Baldwin & Co.'s music
store in Memphis, Tom, was totally
destroyed by fire. loss, $4,000.
Or the 10th, in an engagement between
the Maryland State steamer Governor Nc
Lane and the fleet of dredgers in the
Chester river, two of the dredgers' boats
were sunk and number Of others were
taken. One OF the crew on the steamer
Governor McLane was shot.
AT Young gstown, o., the patients OF Mrs.
Dr. Moyer's hospital had a narrow escape
from death by fire in the burning OF the
institution on the 18th.
FRANK BAEn, a prominent miller in
Southwestern Pennsylvania, has been ar
rested at Greensbnrg charged with arson
In burning the mills of two rival firms,
causing a total loss OF $4,000. A dis
pute over the amount he was to pay his
four accomplices led to the discovery of
| the crime.
WHILE crossing a long, high trestle,
near Alexander, N. c., on the llth, Miss
Bynum, twenty year-old school teacher,
and Miss Lewis, aged eighteen, were
struck by d railroad train and instantly
killed.
On the 18th Eber Durham, aged thirty
Ave, of Salisburyvillc, Chester County,
Pa, was found dead at Leaman place,
near Lancaster. The night previous he
built a fire and lay beside tree. The
tree was burned down and fell upon him,
crushing him to death.
ON the 18th Sheriff Smith OF jefferson
County, Ala, wGs again arrested at Bir-
mingham, Ala, on "A new charge OF MR.
der. The law breakers seem determined
to make 1t warm for him.
SEVERAL OF the crew Of the oyster sloop
Mahoney, sunk in Chesapeake bay in the
recent engagement with the State steamer
McLane, were drowned. Statements as to
the actual number vary from two or three
10 nine.
On the llth the murdered body Of United
States Deputy Marshal Goodson, who left
Elizabethton. Tenn, November 30, to serve
pspers on a gang of desperate moonshin-
ers, was found in laurel thicket at the
foot of Roam mountain.
IT is reported that six gypsics were
frozen TO death, recently, in Boskowitz,
Austria.
On the lith an explosion in shaft No.
of the Garfield coal mine at Canyon City,
Col, killed Henry Wallace, the mine
foreman, and Peter Galloway, n miner.
About dozen others were seriously hurt.
The mine had been on fire for several
days, and the men had gone down TO try
TO oxtinguish the flames when the explo-
sion occurred.
lr is reported that during target prnc-
tice on board French iron-clad in the
Gulf of Juan, recently, n gua exploded
and killed an officer and five men.
On the evening of the 18th the jewelry
store of Smith French, at Wabash, Ind,
was burglarizcd TO the extent OF $500
while tho proprietor was absent taking
tea.
OK the nth the jury in the case Of James
Stone, the negro jockey, on trial in Brook
lyn for the murder OF Coney Island bar
tender, named Henry Miller, in a bar
room fight last summer, failed 20 agree
upon verdict.
OK the lith the trestle work on the In
siAe of the stand-pipe being erected IN
connection with the water works at Ste
vens' Point, Wis, fell, killing four mer
and severely wounding two others.
On the night of the 18th an erlant
train was wrecked near Encinitas thirty
miles north of San Diego, Cal, by tn,
spreading OF the rails. Every car but thu
sleeper left the track and rolled Gown
steep embankment. All hands escape,
injury except Express Messenger White
head, who had one OF his ribs broken.
On the night OF the 18th Mrs. Hall, o
| Rockport, n. Y, was suTocated by smok,
from Are which originated in a saloot
in the building In which She was n tenant
OK the morning OF the 18th the foundry
and engine house of the Moorchead Manu-
featuring Company, on Second avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire
Loss, $4,000; fully insured. The fse il
supposed 10 have been caused by a nat
ural- gas leak.
Or the night OF the 18th daring train
rob6esy occurred near Duck Hill, Miss
Two masked robbers held up an Illinois
| Ceatral train, and secured 5000 from the
express ear. A passenger named Charlie.
| Hughes, OF jackson, Tenn, who attacked
the robbers with Winche ter rife, was
sho, by them and killed.
ADvIcEs from South Africa say that the
King OF Swaziland recently caused the
massacre Of his Premier and six chiefs
and their people. They were supposed to
be concerned in plot 90 dethrone him in
favor OF his brother.
STORMS ragged, between the 18th and
17th, in the Department of Pyrenees-
orientales, France, flooding villages and
causing wrecks and loss Of life.
OK the 18th, two boys, aged eleven and
fifteen, sons Of Mr.. Herbert, a storekeeper