The Osceola times., 1888-09-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

abiy iehNe Lusihlu AoI iauia oh tbS iVth
prox.
CRIMES AND cAsUALrns.
on the 2lst three men, suspected of the
assassination of Mrs. Howes. while canoe.
| ing with her husband and family on the
Tobique river, on the 10th, we're captured
and jailed In Andover, N. b.
On the 2lst Daniel Murray and John
Essex, members OF the Tipton County,
Und.) "White Cap" gang, were fined
twenty-four dollars each and costs for
whipping omsr Davis on the night of
June 20.
AT Cincinnati, while preparations were
being made for the nuptials OF the young
est daughter Of Michael Wilson, on the
2ist, the eldest sister went to another part
| Of the house and cut her own throat dy.
ing instantly. Tao wedding was not post
poned.
ON the 21st Daniel Lyon the murderer
OF Athlete Quinn. was hanged In the
Tombs yard, New York City. He met his
fate In Q calm aud collected manner.
AT tho Washington Navy Yard, on
the 22d, three men were moving a carboy
of vitriol, when II fell and the fluid was
scattered over them. J. J. Cooksey was
badly burned about the legs.
BKNo SoHuMAN. a carpenter Of Buffalo
N. Y, suicided with "Itough on Rats" on
the ed
OFF Fort Point, Cal. on the 22d tho
steamer City of Chester was run into and
sunk by the steamer Oceanic. Forty.four
lives we're lost.
ADvIcEs from China say that Spanish
priest was attacked by mob Of natives
at Antique, and that his companion, a
Spaniard, fred upon the would-be assas.
sins and killed fifty OF them.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, Geo. ". Cstee,
book.keeper for Hugh Kirkwood, dealer
In agricultural implements, was arrested
on the 22i on charge Of embezzling
about 5000 from his employer. Mr..
Gates says the alleged dicrepancy Is
simply the result of bad bookkeeping.
Ar Delano. Minn., the ten year -old son
OF Mrs. John Pearson fired upon and
drove of party OF tramps who we're de-
manding money and food Of his mother.
Two Of their number fell before the little
hero's deadly aim.
ON the Gath Miss r. Lucy c. Mosier. OF
Fitchburg, Mass, was found guilty OF
criminal malpractice causing death.
A FEW evenings ago Geo. Lufkin, q
farmer living ten miles west of Tracy,
MIMI, was shot through tho head and
killed by an unknown assassin who fred
through the window OF the dwelling OF
Henry Slever with whom Lufkin was
spending the evening.
In Los Angeles, Cal. Arthur W. Dick
| eus, q novelist was found dead In O
second-rate lodging -house, on the morn.
Ing Of the 23d He left letter assigning
as the cause of suicide wen nesss and
poverty.
A PENNsyLvANIA express train, on the
Hackensack Meadows, near Jersey City,
N. j., ran down party Of four tramps,
on the 25th. One OF them, a colored man,
was killed outright; another was fatally,
and third severely injured. The fourth
escaped unhurt.
ON the Goth destructive and rapidly.
spreading forest Ares were reported as
completely surrounding the village Of
Ishpeming, Mich. One family was mi s..
ing, many buildings were burned and
farmers were losing every thing while a
heavy pail Of smoke hid all things from
sight,
In the West Shore tunnel near New.
burg, N. Y, John McCune, a brickmaker
from Newark, Nj, was killed, on the 25th,
by Saratoga express train.
By the collapse OF the 9th floor of a
building in course of erection in New
York, on the 25th, one workman was in
stantly killed and another seriously In.
jured.
ON the Goth the central span Of the great
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad bridge In
course OF construction over the Ohio
river al Cincinnati, collapsed, under the
immense pressure OF driftwood bea ring
against It. and fell with an awful crash
into the river. The loss, which will fall
on the Keystone Bridge Company Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. Will reach $1,000.
BENJAMIN BERoIS, Of Baltimore, Nd,
charged with forgery, has been brought
back from Canada, on reQuisition.
On the Goth passenger train entering
the city of Rochester, N. ", ran into a
carry-all containing fourteen persons,
throwing them TO the ground. All Of them
miraculously escaped serious injury ex-
cept Joseph Kobler, who lost his left and
part Of his right foot.
OK the 2Jth John Vieatemp, OF Balti.
more, Nd, resident book. keeper for J. F..
& E. c. Swift, Chicago beef firm, was
arrested and locked up on charge Of
embezzlement.
AT Williamson, y. Y, on the Goth, Mrs.
Obione, aged sixty, was killed aud her
eighteen -year.old son was badly injured
by u passing train.
WHILE they were practicing at target.
shooting, on the 25th, Archibald Paddock.
Of Rldgefeld, Conn, accidentally shot
and instantly killed his eighteen. year -old
son Harry, and then in a moment Of tenn.
porary insanity took his own life with the
same weapon.
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