The Osceola times., 1888-11-10

TO the President 1t was announced In
London that urgent private business"
necsssitated Lord Saokville's departure
from Washington.
II. p. STONE has been appointed second
vice-president Of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy system. K. p. Ridley succeeds
Mr.. Stone as general manager Of the Chi
cago, Burlington q Quincy east of the Mis-
souri, river. The changes took effect On
the 1st.
THE condition Of the King OF the Neither
lands has grown worse, and is declared to
be critical.
THE demonstration OF university stu
dents at Berlin In honor of Drs. Bergman
and Gerhardt was held on the I'd. The
medical students absented themselves,
and only 200 Of the others out Of total Of
5000 took part in the procession.
DISPATCH from St. Paul de Loanda
says that the first section Of the Trans
African railway from St Paul de Loanda
| to Ambaca has been inaugurated.
NEWS has been received lately Of
the Stanley expedition in Africa. The
expedition had suffered considerably while
crossing morass. Forty men were
drowned while crossing great river fow-
ing east and west. One white man had
died.
THE imprisoned whalers In the Arctic
sea are reported all safe, a timely gale
having dispersed the ice.
The Fremdenbi0a, of Vienna, says the
Vatican fully approves the Emperor's
censure of Bishop Strossmayer, whose
letter to Mgr. Rampolla, Papal Secretary
of State, has not removed the painful i'm
preston experienced by the Vatican re-
| IL
the Bishop sent to Kieif.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November / numbered
275, as compared with 254 the previous
week and 2i5 the corresponding week last
year.
DURING a torchlight procession at Bel
grade recently stones were thrown at the
Austrian Legation and several windows
were broken. A number of arrests were
made. The authorities made apologies to
the Austrian Minister for the outrage
The steam barge Sampson and the
schooner Zach Chandler have not been
heard from since the recent storm in
Saginaw bay.
AT New Brunswick customs office re-
Gently duty was collected on coffin con-
tanning q body sent from Boston to Can
ada for Burial.
The Norwegian bari, Nor, Captain
| Bjonnes, from New York, October 2 for
Stettin collided with and sank the
steamer Saxmundham of Cowes, England,
the other day. Twenty-Five persons were
missing and were supposed to have been
drowned.
| BERLIN journals deny the existence Of a
concerted plan to misTepresent Emperor
/ lEillto bot ba i.i,, al
authorities have no influence over tho
press They express regret that the
Kaiser did not distinctly specify the often
sive articles in his remarks to the munici-
pal delegation.
THE German Government proposes to
resume the building of large ironclads,
which was stopped after the wreck of the
Grosser Kurfurst A bill providing a
credit for the building of eight will be sent
to the Reichstag.
| A TERRIBLE explosion occurred recently
in the Champagne coal pit in the depart-
ment Of Aveyron, France. Eighty miners
were killed.
WooDoocK and Hendry, tho American
/ favorites of the King Of Wurtemburg, left
Nice suddenly on the 81. The King loca-
ted them in pretty villa opposite his ho-
tel Woodstock, who was seen by re-
porter before his departure, refused to
deny the charges against him.
THREE children of DR.. +. s. N. Reid wero
playing on the banks of the Grand river
at Gait. Ont, recently when one Of them
fell into the water. The others in trying
to rescue their companion also fell in, and
before assistance could reach them two Of
them, girls, were drowned.
A BLUE BOOK" on the Minister Sack
vile affair is being prepared for the Brit
| ish Parliament.
THE Roman Catholics OF Australia and
India have sent the Pope 81 900, 900 in pres
ents in the past year.
THE affairs of the American Exchange
in Paris have been ordered wound up un-
der the supervision of the courts.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
November showed an average decrease
of 81, compared with the corresponding
week Of last year. In New York the de-
crease was 40
Mr.. McMEcHAN, United States Consul
at Portsmouth, England, died at that place
recently.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent says
that the Car blames himself mainly foi
the recent railroad accident, he having orr
dered increased speed to mako up for pre-
vous delay.