The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-30


has been closed by the United States Mar
shall on attachments for $1,000. 1t is
thought depositors will not suffer.
SIXTEEN new cases of yellow fever were
reported at jacksonville, Fla, on the 23d.
some men recently arrested at Denver,
Col, as gold coin counterfeiters turned out
to be only confidence men, who used trick
box in casting money.
ONE thousand houses have been burned
at Orenburg, Russia, Ten thousand factory
operatives were made homeless by the
fire,
Two dynamite bombs were exploded in
Paris on the 23d. Much alarm was created
but no damege was done.
THE Berlin police broke up meeting Of
tailors recently because Of the adoption of
socialistic resolutions.
ADvICEs from Standing Rock give in
formation that the Sioux Commission is
meeting with marked success in getting
Indian signatures to the bill to open the
Sioux reservation for settlement.
THE Northern Pacific recently completed
a sale Of $5,000,0O0 bonds to a European
syndicate.
GENERAL MANAGER STONE, Of the Bur-
lington railroad, denies the report that he
Is to be deposed and his place taken by
Holdredge.
NICoLo FEMMENETTA was hanged legally
at Buena Vista, Col, recently for the MUIR
der of Michael Casey at Granite, in March
last.
A DISPATCH from India says that Is, 900
Thibetans are marching upon Sikkim.
THE agitation of the Workmen in Central
Belgium has become general. A strike is
expected.
DUCATRL, the workingtnan who enabled
the troops to capture Paris from the Com
munists, has become insane and has been
put in an asylum.
An explosion of twenty thousand pounds
of black powder OCCURRED iu the drying
house of the Giant Powder Company, near
West Berkeley, Cal, the other day. Two
white men and three Cinnamon We're
killed.
CHOLERA broke out on the Portuguese
transport India while bound from Macao
to Mozambique, and within forty EIGHT
hours there were thirty y-eigbt cases,
twenty four of which proved fatal.
ALL efforts so far made to bring about
the end of the dressed beef war on Eastern
roads have failed, the roundabout lines in
sisting on differential rates.
RE ECENTLv while Rev J. b. Wilson, of
Philadelphia, and his family were driving
from Brant Lake to Lake George, near
Saratoga, n. Y, the horse ran away and
Mrs. Wilson was thrown out and killed.
Mr.. Wilson was hedly hurt ana the driver,
Clark Bartlett, perhaps fatally injured.
The children escaped.
r. J. CREIGHTON, agent for the New Zea-
land Government, has received cable dis
patch from Sir Harry Atkinson, Postmaster
IF inn hat bn
colony weuld atCept the ofter of Postmas-
ter-General Dickinson of the United States
to pay $4,000 yearly toward the Austria
lian mail service. The contract has been
extended until November, 1889.
BLACK measles of a most virulent char
acter has broken out among the segroes MI
their plantations on the Santee river, S. c.
Many deaths have already occurred and
the disease has become epidemic. 1t has
created a panic.
THREE unmarried men, Jacob Hubinge,
Henry Schmidt and Louis Weerne, were
drowned recently while crossing Saginaw
river, near Bay City, Mich, by the eapsiz-
ing OF boat.
NEARLY a block of business houses in
Clinton, Ind, burned recently, causing
heavy loss.
THE hotel at Bon Aqua Springs, Tenn,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
The guests all escaped. Loss, so, 900.
THREE boys We're shot and seriously in
jured near kenosha, Wis, by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 90 numbered for
the United States. 49,; Canada, 21; total,
PA; compared with 2l9 the previous week
and lS5 the corresponding week of last