The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

in receiving by Mrs. Ingalls, and half
score Of pretty young girls, among them
Miss Endicott Miss Bayard and Miss
Villas.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Ox the morning OF the 9Th a fire broke
ont AT the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in the
NAVIGATION building. itwasa a three-s;ory
and attic brick structure, and WAS occu-
nied Inv the navigation, construction and
equipment bureaus. and also for storage
PURPOSES. The building was completely
eutted. the sals alone being left stand
Inc The total loss will be about 5000, 900
OK the night of the 9th Mrs. Stack, an
ayed lady of Cumberland Mills, Me-, was
killed by burglar after desperate
struggle.
On the 9th the Union depot in Atchson,
Kas. was totally destroyed by fire, in
tluding the hotel contained in the build
| ing.
Tur body of the editor Of the London
SportsmdA, Archie Mcneil, has been
found near Boulogne, France. He bad
been murdered aud robbed.
Ar Allentown, Pa, on the 9th, a verdict
of ''not guilty" was rendered in the case
against Annie Bruckner, charged with
the murder of her husband on October q
last.
NEAR Glenwood Springs, Col, on the
9th, John Neville and companion were
caught in snow-slide and carried
down the mountain side several hundred
feet. Neville was killed, but his COM
panion escaped with slight injuries.
AT Oakland, Cal, on the 9th, Nathan b.
Sutton was hanged for the murder Of
Alexander Martin, a ranchman, In Sep
| tember 1886. Strenuous efforts were
| made in Sutton's behalf for ommutation
of sentence, but Governor Waterman re-
fused TO interfere
In the storm of the 2d B. +. Hellan, Of
Bachelor Grove, OAK, was frozen to
death. He had gone to Louisiana, two
miles distant, to procure medicine for his
sick wife, and was lost when returning on
foot.
On the evening OF tn, 9th William Well
KEEL, OF Vincsnnes. Ind, shot himself
| through the body, and when the doctor
relieved him of the bullet he stated that
he wanted to die; that he had lived long
enough. Welkel Is "A young man lately
employed by the electric light company,
and was married to widow recently.
They did not live happily. He will die.
On the 9th, while the west bound ex-
press on the Lake Shore railroad was run
ming at a high rate of speed about twenty.
| five miles east of Erie. n boy who started
| TO 20 from tho sleeper to the dining car
was blown from the platform by the gale
then prevailing. The trai in was stopped
and the boy was picked up, but he had
been so in jured that he died before Erie
was reached. The unfortunate youth was
the son of DR.. b. NJ. Gassoway, of Port.
| land Me-, a surgeon Of the United States
navy.
on the night of the 7th Thomas Briarly,
an Englshman, was dragged aud robbed d
of 81, 300 in Jersey City, N. J. He was
found in a dazed condition in a vacant
lot by the police.
| On the the sth a freight train ran into
the rear end OF another, which had broken
in two, at Hamilton Hills, above Trenton,
N. j., on tho Pennsylvania railroad, de-
molishng the cars aud obstructing travel.
Conductor Roberts was fatally injured.
| Or the evening of the Sth the Detroit
! Mich Light Infantry armory was par
TALLY destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000
fully covered by Insurance. A large and
handsome collection OF trophies won by
Detroit Commandery M. l, Knights
Templar, was also burned.
on the morning of the 7th the Cross
Pulp mills at Franklin Falls, N. H., owned
| by the Winnipesogee Paper Company
were burned, Loss, S75, 900, not including
loss on stock of pulp
OY the night of the 9th two elevators
owned by the Northern Pacific aus
Christian a. Co. respectively, were burned
at New Rockford, OAK, with 5000 bush
els Of wheat
OK the Tth, while laboring under a tenn.
porary ct OF insanity, q. NJ. ID. Davis, one
of the leading real estate men OF Hold
rege, Neb., shot himself through the heart
with a shotgun. lie had wife and thre,
children.
AN the 7th II. b. Kenerfon a prominent
merchant of Boston, was robbed of large
sum in the Maverick National Bank by
two professional sneak. .thieyes--a mar
and a woman-who played the "drol
game" on him.
ON the Ith three men were killed In tn,
Champion mine, near Marquette, Mich.
by the accid entail dumping of the skiff IN
which they were riding 70 the surface
Their names wero John asey, Carl John
Sun anu W. 'taihpNNs iWo nioH cS
capped by jumping.
On the 9TH Jack Donovan, twenty-five
years Old, leaned from Utica Street
bridge at Oswego, n. Y, into 0swego
river, seventy.hvo feet, and was imme'
diately carried under the ice and drowned
1t is thought he was insane. The body
was carried out into the lake.
Oh the Tth Annie Buncher, young lad
living with her parents in Pittsburgh, Pa.
went into the cellar with a lighted lamp
An explosion of natural gas followed,
which party wrecked the house ant
damaged number of wellings in th'
vicinity. Miss Bueeher was thrown TO tn,
ground and fatally burned.