The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

The Reading raHway srike Is aireacy
producing coal famine in Pennsylvania
| "A CALL for its sixth annual meeting
| has been issued by the United States Law
and Order League, ~ be held in Philadsl'
phia on February 81 and 22 next.
OVER the refusal of the turf dealers to
furnish the police with supplies, trouble
has been caused at Kildysart, County
Clare, Ireland. The police, on being re-
fused, forcibly seized what they needed.
ADvIcEs have been received from Mas
sowah, so says a dispatch from Rome, to
the effect that Ras Alula has offered to
join the Ital ians with 10000 followers on
condition that he be created King of
Abyssinia in tho event of the defeat OF
King John. ~
OS the tight OF the 4th Fam Fike, tho
city dog catcher at Albuqaerque. Il. NJ,
died In frghtful agonv from hydropho'
ba. He was bitten few weeks ago, and
became so bad on New Years day that II
was fonnd necessary to incarcerate him
in cell In the county jail to prevent him
from doing bodily injury to those around
him. u.
IS the river coal mines in Pennsylva-
MA general resumption OF work will
probably take place this week at the ad.
vance in wages demanded by the miners.
The resumption will give employment TO
nearly five thousand men.
Iv the south OF France a swine plague
prevails, and thirty thousand animals
have died in tho Marseilles district with.
In month.
THE owner of the RUNAWAY" New
Brunswick timber raft, which recently
created a ''reign Of terrorn on the high
will ha m mn tipllar
RATS OF tbaf kind built.
ON the 9Th the hands in one small cigar
factory in New York struck on account OF
reduction of wages. The reduction is
| general and other strikes are expected.
1t is thought not improbable that three
thousand hands will be out within few
days
ONE Of the most widely known grain
merchants in Buffalo, n. y, r.. y. Wilbur,
has gone to Canada. Tuscott & Heath
field arc out $1,000, and s. s. McCrea,
freight agent of the Grand Trunk, is a
| loser to the amount of $780, and mum
ber of others are said 10 be out various
amounts.
FLORA SAMUELs n dealer in groceries
and jewery. is missing from her home in
| Utica, N. Y. ShB is supposed to he in
Canada, and is wanted forgery. Mrs.
Samuels has also left debts behind her
amounting to about 5000. She Is the
mother of a large family.
A TELEGRAM OF the Gsh from the Russian
frontier statos that eight Nhiists, includ.
| ing the Cossack Tschernof, condemned d
to death for making an attempt upon the
| life OF the Car daring his visit to the
Don Cossack country, were hanged at St.
| Peters burg.
| ON the 9th three Reading collieries,
with capacity of $50 cars per day, were
at work. They can employ 1,2O0 hands.
II is not believed that any considerable
portion of the miners employed by indi.
vidual operators at the advance will re-
fuse to cut coal II handled by nom union
railroaders.
On the 7th the Mex international
railroad was completed to Lerdo.
On the evening of the Tth the first OBJ.
servation through the Lick telescope at
San Jose, Cal, was made. The sky was
clear and the weather cool.
On the 9TH the stock holders of the
Washington Fire aud Marine Insurance
Company of Boston voted to go out OF
business, all risks to be insured in other
companies.
AT Buffalo, N. ", about three hundred
stone-cutters are on strika. The EN-
| ployers had notified them that during the
winter months they must work ten hours
per day, and the strike is thu result.
THE opinion is gaining entertainers at
Berlin that Russia is using strategy in
peace profe 'sions TO gain time to be thor
oughly prepared for war, which is looked
for next summer.
In the Upper Michigan peninsula thu
snowfall for the forty eight hours ended
the night Of the 9Th was unprecedented
Up TO that time two feet had fallen on a
level, and the storm still continued. All
trains were delayed, and general block
ade seemed probable.
THE recent heavy rainfall has caused
the head tributaries of the Susquehanna
river TO overflow their banks. Booms and
beams have given way and millions Of
feet OF lumber and logs have broken loose,
The loss TO lumbermen will be great.
In accordance with an opinion given by
the Solicitor Of the Treasury, Surgeon.
General Hamilton has issued circular
authorizing the admission to the Marine
Hospital, free of charge, of seamen en-
ployed by the Mississippi River Commis
sion. This is on the ground that these
men are entitled to the benefits of the