The Osceola times., 1888-07-07

1 srrr has been commenced at Chicago oy
i r. Mayo and Franklin Spencer, stock
holders OF the American Exchange Ma
,ional Bank, against David W. Irwin TO
compel him TO refund the bank s'sS,ao.
The suit is an outgrowth OF the celebrated
lime wheat deal in 1881, which wrecked
| the Cincinnati Fidelity Bank and II. L.
/ Harper.
A pIsPArcH from Elma a small station
on the Western New York q Pennsyl-
vania railroad. on the 2>th, states that q
negro farm hand had murdered his vile.
Great excitement prevailed In the neigh
I borhood and there was some talk OF lynch
/ ing.
A NEWPORT (Ky.l inventor claims to
have produced a smelling furnace by
which he can produce from common clay
aluminium ass per cent pure at cost OF
one dollar a pound, while the present cost
OF aluminium is one dollar an ounce.
The new building erected by U. U. Mills
on the grounds OF Bellevue Hospital, New
York, as training school for male
nurses, and presented TO the city by that
gentleman. was accepted by Mayor Hew-
lit on the 18th.
MANUFACTURERS of looking-glass plates
were heard by the Senate committee on
ways and means, on the 2sth, inlopposition
to the proposition to put German looking
glass plates on the free list.
JOCKEY WOODS libel suit against the
Licensed Jictudllers' Gazette, OF London,
was decided on the 29th. Woods sued for
5000 and the jury brought in verdict OF
one farihing.
The Treasury Department has decided
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an islands for immediate slaughter to be
admitted without undergoing quarantine,
in view of the possible profitable trade in
their expectation, and from the fact that
no cattle diseases are known to exist in
the islands.
AT Green's Island, Me-, C. A. Russ &
Co., granite contractors, shut down their
works on the ?slh rather than accede to
the demands OF the workmen for a month
iy pay day and "a new scale Of wages.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the last conference
between the iron manufacturers and the
scale committee OF the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Iron and Steel-workers prior
TO the expiration OF the present scale,
was convened at Up. m. on the 29th.
After br EFF conference, the meeting adj
journed without effecting a settlement Of
the wage question for the next year.
II is reported that Cuba is still over
run with bandits who prey upon rich
planters. At Ahrens, near Cienfuegos,
Daniel Cueto, a rich planter, has been
kidnapped. His family has been advised
that he will be held until $1,000 in gold is
paid FOR his ransom. Marcial Ochanez, a
noted bandit belonging 10 Garcia's band,
has been captured.
Oy the 18th the Sandown Park London
frst summer meeting was held. The
race for the Electric stakes, a plate OF
two hundred sovereigns, for three-year-
olds, was won bv Mr.. X. Beck's bay colt,
Bullion, Hazlehatch second, and Juggler
third.
SERIES of resolutions detailing the
present situation of the land quest on,
and declaring that unless Parliament inn
mediately applies really effective meas
ure ~ protect tenants from oppressive ex-
actions and arbitrary evictions, most dis
astrous consequence to public order and
safety are almost inevitable, have been
published by the Irish Bishops.
OLIVER BROS. 81 PHILLIPS, of Pitts.
burgh, Pa, signed, on the night of the
9th the scale of the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron and Steel-workers.
Or the 3oth. in the case of Mrs. Steele
against the ST Paul City Railway Com-
pany, in which she claimed $50, 900 dam
| ages for injuries sustained in the Shelby
avenue cable-car accident in st. Paul
Mimi, January -, jury awarded her
$1,000.
THE trans continental railroads, on tho
ist, abolished third class immigrant rates
west of the Missouri river. This makes
| the rate from the Missouri river to Pacific
coast points s35 instead OF $50, as hereto
fore.
PRINCE BISMARCK, so asserts the Berlin
Hrsu. ZeitRg. of the lst, has induced
Russia to abandon the idea of an alliance
with France.
AT Casths Garden, New York, on the
lst., four steams hips landed ,506 immi'
grants. The Erturia, from Liverpool
brought over 265; the City Of Richmond
from Liverpool, 6l2; the Polaria, from
Hamburg $40, and the La Gascogne, from
Havre, $40.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, f. 7. Lumwalt, d
lumber broker, was forced to assign. OF
the 10Th, by an attachment for $500, issued
4 by Ashland (Wis.) creditors. Liabilities
SIS, 600; assets, 5000.
AT Plant City, Fla, two mild cases OF
yellow fever were reported, on the lst
They were in charge of the health officer,
and no fears of spread OF the contagion
was felt