The Osceola times., 1888-01-07
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! on the 9th John s. Swift, OF Hartford,
Conn, who was recently found guilty Of
the murder OF his wife, was sentenced by
Judge Sanford to be hanged on April .,
1883.
ON the morning Of the 9th a dozen per
sons were injured and two passenger cars
were wrecked by collision between two
passenger trains on the Long Island rail.
road In Brooklyn.
OK the night OF the 26th the residence
of +. l. GUY, a Canadian Pacific CON
ductor, at Winnipeg, Man, was burned
and Guy was cremated in his bed. His
W fe was absent from the city and Guy
was living alone.
OK the 2Slh Paul Boaen, OF San Fran
cisco, who was convicted OF smuggling
| $500 worth # amond jswolry and
4 fancy gowns, was sentenced in New York
TO years imprisonment.
| ON the night Of the 9th the post-otllce
at Masslon. o., was burglarized. -Four
| bags of mail from Cleveland and Pitts.
burgh were cut open and rihed, A small
amount of stamps and money were taken.
FRANK FULLER, the slayer Of Arch.
bishop Seghers, was found guilty OF man.
slaughter, and sentenced to McNeilPs
| island for ten years, and TO pay fine Of
: 900. The deed was committed on the
| Yukon river in Alaska last December.
OK the 2Sth Major a. NJ. Way, ind cted
| for the ombezzement OF $4,000 from the
| Empire Building and Loan Company Of
| New Brunswick, n. j., was arranged for
trial. He pleaded non vuit contsndre.
and. was remauded for sentence The
whole amount stolen by Way in eleven
years was SlS,70l from the Empire Asso-
citation and 800 from the Union Building
and Loan Company.
| Oy the Goth the steamer Newcastle City,
| from Newcastle, England, was wrecked on
the Nantucket shoals, Off the coast Of Mas.
| sachusetts.
UNDER charge OF murderous cruelty to
members OF their crow during recent
/ trip from San Francisco Captain Paynter
and Mate Fischer Of the bark Embleton
are in prison at Sunderland, England.
ON the afternoon Of the Goth the North
western elevator at Ada, Mimi, caught
| fire and was destroyed, together with
/ 30, 900 bushels of wheat Loss about s2,-
| 600
AT Fergus Falls, Minn,, tho High school
| building, with all its contents, was
/ burned on the morning Of the 90. Loss,
/ $4,000; Insurance., x2O 600. Tho mercury
was 30 degrees below zero during the dre.
Two OF tho four train robbers, l. U.
| King and J. |. Matthews. who went
through Denver s. Rio Grands passenger
train near Grand Junction. Utah, last
| October, were arrested at Nernal, u. IT,,
on the Goth.
| OK tho Goth Mrs. Kate Warman, wife Of
| Henry Warman, Of Cincinnati, ignited
her clothing at tho stove while about her
work, and was burned to death.
On the Goth John North, OF Philadel-
! phia, went home drunk, picked quarrel
with his wife, who was nursing three
months-old child, and, aiming fearful
blow at her, struck the child ON the head,
| killing IL Instantly.
! AT an early hour on the morning OF the
29th, an unknown man entered the store
of tho Eau Claire Meat Company at Wash.
burn, Wis, under preteuse OF getting a
| five dollar bill changed. just as Mr..
| Bonesvaid, the senior member of the
company, had opened the safe he was
felled to the floor by blow on the head
by the stranger, who secured $500 in gold
and silver and made his escape.
On the 30th Gus Edmonson was hanged
at Decatur, Ala, for the murder OF his
| wife in May, 1851
On the 3O,h Joseph 2sigler, an Evans.
Vile (lnd.) policeman, by mistake, killed
Abraham Smock, n comrade, who was
| out on "lark."
On the 3)th, at Harrisonburgh, Va,
William Finchum was hanged for the
murder of his brother.
ONE of the cabin passengers, named
/ lp % La orb -
| the White Star Line steamer Adriatic,
which arrived at Queenstown on the SJth,
| committed suicide
AT Mariana, Ark, on the 30th, Albert
| Peters was legally executed for the mur.
| dor, in April, 1885, of William johnson
near Trenton.
On the night on Goth John 4. fullen, IA
mechanic, attempted to walk out from
| Chicago 10 his home in Lake View, dur.
ing the hli22grd; he was frozen stiT.
On the evening Of the 3oth, during the
performance in the theater at Carthagena,
Spain, a broker occupying one OF the stalls
committed ~uicide bv exploding dyna-
mite cartridge. Tho conclusion extin-
guished all the lights in the house, and the
audience, becoming pauic-strickeu, fed
from the building. During the excitement
over one hundred persons were more or
less injured.
On the 3Oth young man, handsomely
dressed, and Of prepo,sessing appearance,
shot himself in the right temple while be.
ing driven across tho Brooklyn Bridge IN
a cab The wound is mortal. There Is no
clew TO his identity except a letter which
was found in his uocket addressed to "E.
{. Baldwin, No. l7o Clinton street"