The Osceola times., 1888-05-12


noon reception OF the season took place.
II was very brilliant and very largely
attended. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted
in receiving by Mrs. Ingalls, and half
score of pretty young girls, among them
Miss Endcott, Miss Bayard and MISS
Villas.
CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs-
OK the morning of the 9th fire broke
out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard In the
navigation building. II was three-story
and attic brick structure. and was occu-
pied by the nav vigation, construction and
equipment bureaus. aud also for storage
purposes. The building was completely
Quilted, the walls alone being left stand
ing. The total loss will be about 500, 900.
OK the night Of the 9th Mrs. Stack, an
aged lady of Cumberland Mills, Me-, was
Killed by burglar after a desperate
struggle.
ON the 9th the Union depot in Atchison,
Kas., was totally destroyed by fire, in
cluding the hotel contained in the build
ing.
The body Of the editor OF the London
Sportsman, Archie Mcneil, has been
found near Bouogne. France. He had
Dttfl fnUIufitu iuh iNbb'a.
AT Allentown, Pa, ON the 9th, verdict
of "not guilty" was rendered in the case
against Annie Bruckner, charged with
the murder of her husband on October Y
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
panon escaped with slight injuries.
Ar Oakland, Cal, on the 9th, Nathan b.
Sutton was hanged for the murder Of
Alexander Martin, "a ranchman, in sep
tember, 1856. Strenuous efforts were
made in Sutton's behalf for comm utation
of sentence, but Governor Waterman re-
fused to interfere
In the storm Of the 2d b. \. Hellan, of
Bachelor Grove, OAK, was frozsn TO
death. He had gono to Louisiana, two
miles distant, to procure medicine for his
sick wife, and was lost when returning on
foot.
On the evening of the 9th William Wei.
kel, OF Vincennes, Ind, shot himself
through the body, and when tho 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 a widow recently.
They did not live happily. He will die.
SDN the 9Th, while the west bound ex.
fkess on the Lake Shore railroad was run.
ming at high rate of speed about twenty
five miles east of Erie. boy who started
to go from the sleeper to the dining .car
was blown from the platform by the gale
then prevailing. The ira in was stopped
and the boy was picked up, but he had
been so injured that he died before Erie
was reached. The unfortunate youth was
the son of DIR. b. NJ. Gassoway, OF Port.
land, Me-, surgeon Of the United States
navy.
On the night OF the 7th Thomas Briarly,
an Englishman, was dragged and robbed d
of $500 in Jersey City, N. j. He was
lot by the police.
On the the Sth freight train ran into
the rear end of another, which had brok en-
in two, at Hamilton Hills, above Trenton,
N. j., on the Pennsylvania railroad, de-
molishlng the ears aud obstructing travel
Conductor Roberts was fatally injured.
On the evening of the sth the Detroit
(Mich.) Light Infantry armory was par.
tally destroyed by tire. Loss, $4,000,
fully covered by insurance. A large and
handsome collection OF trophies won by
Detroit Commandary No. !, Kni ghts
Tomplar, was also burned.
OK the morning of the 7th the Cross
Pulp mills at Franklin Falls, N. H., owned
by the Winniposogee Paper Company,
were burned. Loss, $4,000, not including
loss on stock of pulp.
On the night of the 9th two elevators,
owned by the Northern Pacific aud
Christian & Co. respectively, were burned
at New Rockford, Dak., with 5000 bush
els Of whcat.
On the 7th, while laboring under tenn
porary fit 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. He had a wife and three
children.
AN the Tth r. b. Kenerfon, prominent
merchant of Boston, was robbed of large
sum in the Maverick National Bank by
two professional sneak thieves-a man
and a woman-who played the drop
game" on him.
On the lth three men were killed In the
Champion mine, near Marquette, Mich,
by the accidental dumping OF the skiF in
which they wesc riding to the surface.
Their names were John Casey, Carl John.
son and w. p. CsaddocS. Two men es-
capped by jumping.
OS the Ith Jack Donovan, twenty-five
years old, leapel from Utica Street
bridge at osweso, n. V, into Oswego
river, seventy-iive feet, and was imms-
diately carried under the ice and drowned
1t is thought he was insane. The body
was carried out into the lake,
On the 7th Annie Buncher, Young lady
living with her parents In Pittsburgh, Pa,
went into the cellar with ligh ted lamp.
An explosion Of natural gas followed.
which party wrecked the house and
damaged a number of wellings in the
vicinity. Miss Buecher was thrown to the
ground and fatally burned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE flint-glass workers. strike has ex.
tended from the Western manufacturers
TO the Eastern factories, and the men who
left work in the fifteen factories in Brook.
lyn, Philadelphia, New Bedford, Boston
and Corning. n. ". failed to return to
work on the 81, with few exceptions In
the East and West about 1900 men are
now out.
REPORT is that the treasurer OF Logan
County, la, is betw ween so 900 and 81, 600
short in his accounts.
The Newark IN. J.) Shoemaker Union,
numbering several hundred members, has
decided to withdraw from the Knights Of
Labor. The reason assigned is bad man :
agement on the part of the National and
ipcai iaadors