The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-09
THERE was a shortage In the supply oi

THERE was a shortage In the supply OF
natural gas on the south side of Pitts
! burgh, Pa, on the ID. and several fac
tories suspended operations. Some people
! attribute the decrease in the flow to the
earthquake, and officials of the companies
are investigating.
AN official of the coust survey has been
sent TO Charleston to make souudings OF
the harbor and adjacent coast in order TO
see whether any remarkable depressions
or elevations of the bottom of the ocean
have been caused by the earthquake.
MINISTER RoYERo denies that Mexico
wants to sell any of her territory.
SEVEN TIungarians were burned to death
in shanty near Sonestown, Pa, on the
nj hit Of the ID.
4 COLLISION on the New York Central
/ railroad at Marccllus N. Y, OH the Sd,
caused a loss of SllO, 900.
IT is reported that the Cars reply to
Prince Alexander has paralvzed the move
ment in favor of the latter in Bulgaria.
AT Washington the authorities discredit
the story telegraphed from Arizona of
Geronimo's escape and a collision with
Mexican troops.
PRINCE ALFEANDER's letter to the Czar
is generally conceded t. be q mistake, and
the opinion is expressed that his abdica.
tion must follow.
RoBERT A. ToDD, of Milwaukee. wis,
was viciously, and it is thought fatally,
assaulted on the Sd by. his son Robert, who
is insane.
WILLIAM r. KuEPP, of Kansas City, Mo-,
has sued Colonel Z. II. Phelps for So, ,00C
damages for alleged defamation of char
acter,
LEXINGTON, Mo-, is making great prep
| arations for the coming celebration Of the
| twenty fifth anniversary of the battle
there.
THE will of the late Joseph T. Temple,
! Of Philadelphia, probated on the 3d. be-
queaths over 100000 to public institu-
! tions.
THE Standard Oil Company will build a
! large refinery at Lima, o., where it has
! struck both oil and Eas. The works will
be the line o. the New York, Lake Erie
! & Western railway.
! FIRE destroyed twelve houses at Mount
| Carmel, Pa, on the 81. One woman and
II child are thought to have been burned.
A SoUrH BEND Qnd.) disaatch of the Sc
! says Mrs. Emma MOlloy attempted to com
nit suicide at that place by drowning.
Mrs. ELIZABETH BUNNELL, of Pitts.
| burgh, Pa, was arrested ON the Sd on q
! charge of administering poison to Edward
| S. Shaw, nephew of Mr.. Shaw, the rail-
| road magnate. Mrs. Bunnell strongly
| protests her innocence
GENERAL B. F. CHEATHAM, the famous
| Confederate general and postmaster,
| died at Nashville, Tenn, on the Sd. He
was appointed postmaster at Nashville by
President Cleveland and had been con-
| firmed by the Senate.
john WALSH, aged seventeen, was in.
| stantlY killed in the Union Foundry and
Machine Com pany's works, Allegheny,
Pa, shortly before noon on the ID. He was
caught in the betting and his body was
terribly mangled, nearly every bone being
broken.
AN agreement was reached at Whining.
ton, Del, on the 81, by which the striking
morocco workers formerly in the employ
| of w. j, McClary will. be taken back as
they are needed, at an advance of about
fifty cents per week in wages. The aver
age advance struck for was about thirty
four per cent.
THERE is trouble threatened among the
Baltimore e Ohio miners. The difficulty
is that there is no uniformity in the wages
paid, each operator fixing a scale for him
self. Secret meetings were in progress on
the Sd, and arrangements making for o
mass convention. They will probably in
sist on the Columbus scale.