The Osceola times., 1888-03-24

rns Illinois Supreme Court on the 10Th
in the case OF Edward Mcdonald, one oi
the Cook County. (Ill.) boodlers, who wa'
tried with McGarigle, granted . super
sedeas. suspending the execution OF thu
three years. sentence until arguments for
a new trial can be heard. Bail was re-
fused.
on the 10th the Chinese immigration
treaty was laid before the Senate. II
excludes all Chinese laborers from our
shores except those now here, and makes
4 exceptions OF certain privileged classsa
On the 18th a bill was introduced in ths
Senate to provide for the admission OF
Utah into the Union.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND, on the
10th, sent to the House Of Representa-.
tives an answer TO resolution calling
for information as TO the amount Of money
expended for the apprehension OF Illicit
distillers and vioiaters Of the internal
revenue laws fIe said that these ex
pen ditures were in payment Of local dep.
utios employed as guides to officers In
in making arrests, but failed to state the
amount paid out.
ON the 10th the passage OF bill TO pre-
vent food ad ul teration was urged before
the House committee on commerce by Mr..
Emory, Of Philadelphia, president OF the
Society for the Prevention OF the Adulter.
alton Of Food, and Mr.. Z. b. Thurber.
ON the i1,h Hon. E-astus Wihsn ad-
dressed a large meeting at Winnipeg,
Man, on the subject OF commercial
Union," showing the advantages that
would accrue to both Canada and the
United States by the oh iteration OF Gus.
toms barriers.
On the nth orders were issued by
General Manager Goddard OF the Santa
| Fe railroad to suspend all employees ex-
cept such as were necessary for the pro-
lection Of the company's property. The
order affects 1000 men.
| On the 18th, at Alameda, Cal, OCon.
nor, Of Canada, defeated Peterson, OF Cal.
ifornin, by four boat lengths Time, 20
minutes and 23 seconds.
CHAIRMAN CoSRoy received official no
tics from Chief Arthur, on the 18th, TO re-
quest the men on the Santa Fs system
TO return to work.
ON the 17,h ex- -Covernor Fairbanks Of
Vermont died OF pneumonia at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 18th Gilbert Burrows, Of Day.
ton, o., was shocked into insensibiity
from the phone of a telephone which he
had taken hold Of TO answer ring at the
instrument Investigation showed that
the telephone wire was crossed with
large incandescent light wires. "a
ON the 14th an Italian named Onarto
was instantly killed and two others were
seriously hurt by the explosion Of dyn-
amite blast In cut near Burgettstown,
Pa. A number of others received slight
injuries ttf
ON the 10Th the steam tug Mary Clinton
sprung leak of the Battery, In New
York harbor, and went to the bottom. Her
crew escaped In q small boat, and were
afterward picked up.
On the 10Th two engineers and con-
ductor were killed ard nine other persons
were injured on the Lehigh railroad near
Pennington, N. j., by derailed and collld.
ing locomotives employed In forcing o
passenger train through the snow.
On the 18th Frederick Carolin, a carpen'
ter, murdered his mist 'ess in most bru'
tai manner with hatchet, in New YORK.
The woman's name is unknown, but she
was widow with three children.
On the morning Of the 10Th Daniel
Bowman, wealthy farmer, Of Allen
County, O., was found in his corn field,
with deep cut in his forehead. He is
supposed to have been murdered.
On the 10Th an immense natural-gas
explosion occurred at Toledo, o., entail.
ing a loss of several thousand dollars. A
travelling man named fireman was fatal.
y burned.
On the 18th, az Belleville, o., John Dean,
a farmer, aged seventy years, attacked
his wife with knife and then went to an
outhouse, where he cut his own throat
Mrs. Dean will probably not recover. 1t
Is thought that Dean committed the crime
while temporarily insane.
On the 18th sixteen persons were
drowned off Bari, Naples, by the capsiz.
ing of Trieste pleasure boat.
On the 10th, while James Scarlett was on
trial at Bonham, Tex, for the murder Of
Andy Lacsaeld, in 1885 the latter came
into court and protested that he was not
a corpse.
ON the 10th A. ID. Rather and r. Mundy,
of Temple, Tex, were held up and robbed
near the Santa Fe railroad bridge on Red
river, nine miles from Gainesville. e. Rather
gave up $500 and a gold watch, and Mundy
contributed the modest sum OF fifteen dol.
lars.
ON the 17th frightful accident occurred
near Blackshear, Ga, caused by the Cuban
| fast mail train on the Savannah, Florida
& Western railroad going through a
trestle forty feet high. The ears were
piled up in n heap, and nearly a score OF
persons were killed and good many in
| jured
AT Cusihuiriachi, Mexico, Larry She.
| han, Dick johnson and Dick Hart. three
of the STEMS Pass IN. ny train robbers.
were run down by a party Of Mexican
troops, and in the fight which ensued
| were all killed.
On the night of the 18th William Race.
| the wealthy proprietor OF the Belle Mead
Farm, near Round Brook, N j., was mur.
dered by unknown parties in his own
| barn.
1T is said that the terrible accident on
| the Savannah. Florida & Western rail-
road on, the l7th, was caused by the break.
ing down Of the forward truck Of the
baggage-car.
On the 18th Samuel Wilson, his wife
and four children were poisoned on meat
doctored for wolves, at their home in the
Green River Bottom, Ind, near Calhoun,
Ky. All were dead ins ide OF twenty Y. four
hours.
0S the 18th VIM. Nsus, alias Newell,
| and Louis Eddy, alias Three.Fingered
Jack, two noted crooks. were arrested at
Utica, N. Y, on suspicion. A large guam.
tity OF valuable and ancient coins of dif-
fereut co mtries. ..seals and jewelry was
found in their poss ss ion.
On the 18th Eng ineer Fessenden died
from injuries received in the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad collision in
Meadville, Pa, on the 18th.
On the 18th Louis Reeves, Treasury