The Osceola times., 1888-04-07

his protection in the future, ana deciarcu
that an indignity to the great doctor would
be taken as an insult to himself.
OS the 29th Governor johnson OF Nary
land pardoned the seven judges and clerks
of election who were found guilty OF
frauds at the polls two years ago, and
sentenced in June last.
OK the lst Hon. David N. White, for
merly editor of the Pittsburgh Gazettc,
and the founder OF the Republican party,
died at his home at Sewickley, Pa. He
was eighty-three years of age.
oS The lst Nm. Floquet, De Freycinet
and Gobelet held a conference, and ar
ranged the principal points of the pro-
gramme OF the new Cabinet. NJ. DE Frey
cinet declined the Ministry of War, and
will take that of Foreign Affairs.
\ on the Sist the funeral of ex-Lieutenant-
Governor Dorsheimer of New York took
place In Grace Church, New York City.
President Cleveland and many other
notables attended the ceremonies.
AN application fora divorce has been
made by Fanny Davenport, and it is ru-
mored that IL the decree Is obtained, she
will marry Melville Mcdowell, her leading
man.
on the 1st the New York papers pub
lished Jay Gould's letter attacking Mr..
Bennett of the Herald, without comment.
Or the 3lst another piece of diseased
cartilage was removed from the larynx OF
the Emperor Of Germany, with excellent
results.
OK the lst the Emperor and Empress Of
Germany dined in Berlin.
on the 1st Prince Bismarck received a
large number of callers. 1t was the
seventy third anniversary Of his birth.
THE hackers of John l.. Sullivan, J ack
Barrett and Harry Phillips, sailed for
America on the LIST.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 22d it was stated that the short
age Of State Treasurer Tato OF Kentucky
would amount TO s2j0,000.
IT is reported that one OF the robbers
who murdered Mine Manager Gribbel of
the Phoenix (Ariz.) silver mine was over
taken by the pursuing posse and killed.
The Honan foods in China are over,
leaving two million people destitute. The
starving hordes are invading the surround-
ing towns and devouring every fling like
locusts, causing great distress to the poor
inhabitants. E
On the 2sth the sugar laden steamer
.
the "Old Man." off Nantucket, Mass, but
the crew of twenty three men were gall
lantly landed through a perilous surf
by the Life-Saving crew, amid the
applause of a large concourse OF people on
the shore.
Ir Is reported that losses from recent
foods in Germany are enormous, aggre-
eating Sj0,000,0o0.
OK the 2sth three men were MANNED for
life by powder explosion in an ore mine
at Rittenhouse Gap, Pa. Several other
workmen were seriously injured.
On the 29th Thomas II. Skillman, Of
Plainville, N. j., cut his throat in the pres
ence of his parents and other relatives and
instantly expired, He had been driven in
sane by the report that he was suspected
OF murder.
liz Kikinda, Austria, more than two hun
dred houses were destroyed by fire, on the
/ Ar Detroit, Mich. ON the 29th. Simon
O'Neill, an old soldier, who entered the
army in ls67,I and served through the civil
and three Indian wars, suicided by hang
ing
On the 20th NJ. II. Sidebottom. of Somer-
set, KY, was arrested and confessed to
the murder and robbery, on the 2sth, Of
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier, who had
gone to that place TO collect proof to aid
him In getting apension.
AT Montreal Cam detective was, on
the Goth, sentenced to fourteen years I'M
prisonment in the penitentiary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad Offices.
An aristocratic young counterfeiter of
New York City, Jas. T. Walker, was, on
the Goth, sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary with hard labor.
OK the Goth the jury in the famous Pat
terson murder case at Cheyenne, w. T.,
was discharged after being out eighty -one
hours without coming to an agreement,
On the 30th Albert Murrish, an insur-
ance agent living in Center Township,
Neb., shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded the hired man, because he sus-
pected them of undue intimacy.
OS the S0th John Il. Decamp, vice-presi-
dent OF the defunct Metropolitan Bank,
was rearrestcd in Cincinnati, having been
surrendered by his bondsmen.
Oh the 29th Mrs. John Garlich, OF Gin
cinnati, was instantly killed by an ele-
vator, while trying to step off before ithad
stopped. a.
OK the Goth the bill granting the st.
Louis 4 San Francisco railroad the right
of way through the Indian Territory passed
the Senate. ~
DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR TAYLOR,
of Raleigh, N. c., reported, on the Goth, the
capture of an Illicit still in Chatham
County, N. G.
In Prussia, by the ovcrflowing of the
Mopan river, fifty villages were complete
ly submerged.
On the 30th Harry Lovett, of Philadel-
phia, was killed at Lynn, Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting III an
electric company's works.
OK the 3oth o. J. Coughlin, publisher OF
| the Binghamton (N. Ys) Dispatch, was ar
rested ON charge Of criminal libel in al
leging that Police Officer Donely had led
girls astray.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, the second fire
within the last thirty days destroyed four
teen buildings, on the list, causing loss
of $4,000,
OS the LIST the residence of Congressman
VIM. Walter Phelps, two miles from En-
glewood, N. j., was burned. The fire was
caused by an explosion of gas in tho art
gallery. The house was of stone, and one
Of tho finest ia the country.
On application Judge Sage. Of Cincin-
natl, postponed the joint trial OF VIM.
Means and John Il. DeCamp, defaulting
Metropolitan Bank officials, from April 10
to some time in May. Mr.. Means health
is too preoarious to go into the trial.
| On the 3lst the district attorney and
chief OF police of Raleigh, n. c., passed
through Washington, on their way TO To-
ronto, Ont, To apprehend the defaulting
president and cashier of the Raleigh Bank.
On the 3lst Z. A. Paul, principal of the
Washington High School. while riding his