The Osceola times., 1888-12-01
GRIMES AND CAsuALTrEs.


GRIMES AND CAsUALTTEs.
HKSRY JoSEs, OF Petersburg, Va, was
frozen TO death on the night Of the 22d.
He went home at late hour Intoxicated,
and laid down on the porch, where he was
found In the morning by some Of his
neighbors, frozen stif.
AN inmate of the National Soldiers
Home at Hampton, Va, named Simon
birmingham, committed suicide, on the
22d, by cutting an artery and bleeding to
death.
II. H. scorr killed Sidney x. Irwin at
Hinckley, Mich, on the 23l.
FIRE et Daluth, Mimi, on the 23l, de-
stroyed property to the value Of S25,o)o.
on the 23l Philip j. Goss. the New York
policy doaler, in whose place James Il.
Bedell, the forger, lost Si2j0)), pleaded
guilty to felony, and was fined si,0o).
On the e3d, fire in the Crescent Avenue
Presbyterian Church OF Plainheld, N. j.,
caused a loss OF 81. ooo; fully insured.
On the night of the ga nearly all the
business section OF Pocomokc City, Nd,
0 village in the southern part of Wor-
cester County, on the eastern shore OF
Chesapeake Bay, was destroyed by fire.
Or the ga Albert Shnliz, AT Altoona,
Pa, fred gun. which he thought was
not loaded, and killed his eight months
old brother.
NEAR Tralee, County Kerry, an Irish
farmer, recently returned from America.
took !. farm from which former tenant
had been evicted. On the 23i his dead
body was found, pierced with four bull
lets.
ADAM BERKEs. who was whipped. re-
Gently at Sardinia, o.. by White Caps,
has lost his reason, and is now maniac.
Mrs. MARY DoRAN, OF COLUMBUS. Ind,
who murdered her husband by pouring z
carbolic acid into his mouth while asleep.
was, on the 23d, acquitted by jury on
the ground OF insanity.
FIRE destroyed tho extensive works Of
the TT. Wayne Uud) Jepney Electric
Light Company on the 23I. Loss, 5000. 600 /;
insurance, Sl5s, 900. Three hundred en-
ployes are temporarily thrown out Of
work.
AFTER reaching an altitude OF half a
mile the balloon in which Prof. Vandegrift
made an ascension from the Exposition
Park, at Columbus, Ga, on tho I'D, sud-
denly burst and the 1ronaut descending
by n parachute, alighted in the Chatta-
hoochie river, aud was drowned.
OK the 23l Re corder Smythe of New
York City sentenced James Z. Bslell, the
forger, to State prison for twenty five
years and four months
DETECTIVES connected with Philadol-
phia police headquarters captured John
Williams, alias Charles Dunn, fugi(ve
negro murderer, at Avondaic Mills, Pa.
on the cath. y Hs is charged with the kill =
ing OF Benjamin Bachelor, n negro, on
January o. 1887.
GOVERNOR bill of New York hns fixed
a date for hearing on behalf Of Frank
A. Hawkins, the condemned Islip matrl- =
eide. Miss Hattie Schreck, his afilanc ced,
secured the hearing. Hawkins, who vas
brought up IN the Methodist faith, says
he desires the offices Of Roman Catholic
priest.
EMMA ROOM, shot by James Nolan, her
rejected lov,r, died in Bellevue Hospital.
New York, on the 2ith. Nolan.in his fury.
fred Ave shota at the woman, all OF
which took effect
Two MEN were killed and four others
rendered unconscious by an explosion of
dynamite at Thomrson's mills, noar
Schuyiersville, N. Y, on the 4th.
WILLIE DUSpoN, aged ten, while play
Ing with shotgun, at Btnghamton. N. Y,
shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Michael Dundon.
TRE murdered remains OF Bernard Mo-
Lafferty were found at Mahonoy City,
Pa, on tho 25th. His head had been
crushed aud au ear cut of with hatchet
The murder is a mysterious one.
OK the cath the bark Moro Castle went
to pieces on Delaware breaSwater. The
crew was saved.
A wELI-To-Do farmer, naued Frank
Elch, liviag near Royalton, Num-, was
waylaid and murdered on the 2ith.
The wire-works Of Morse Il White, near
Boston, were destroyed by fire OF the
cath. Loss, $4,000; probably fully in
sured.
Ar lie Mars, H., on the eith, John Gay
nor shot and killed Town Marshal G.
Mclaughlin.