The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-05

Two white men and negro were Killed
and several men wounded by the explosion
ri q boiler in saw mill at COokcVille, Tenn.j
recently.
The house Of Mrs. Peter Bertine, at
Bathurst, n b., took fire recently during
the absence Of the mother, and two girls,
aged thirteen and eleven years, were burned
to death.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in Keith
ferry's No. . mine at Rich Hill, Mo, on
the 2lth. Five men were taken out dead
and fifteen olhefs seriously injured; 1t
was belief ed that others were in ths mime
whose rescue alive was departed OF. The
disaster was the worst of its kind ever
known in the West.
THE striking Burlington engineers and
swtchmen ditched freight train and
created riot at Chicago on the 10Th. The
trainme1 and their Pinkerton guards were
beaten. For a time matters were extremely
threatening, but at nightfall acquired a
more peaceful aspect.
AN engine and seven fat cars went
through n small bridge near Austin, Tex,
the other day, killing w. s. Taylor, brake
man, and injuring six others.
CHARLES f. CRoss, president, and S5ri!.
tel {. White, cashier, Of the Bank Of Raj
cigh, N. c., have been arrested at Toronto,
Ont, on information telegraphcd from Raj
cigh charging them with forgery. Inside
the lining of Cross coat was found 50 4j9
and in Whites SIS, ,255. or this amount
500 was in unsigned currency bills.
ONE child was burned to death and an
other fatally injured while alone in a tene.
ment house in New York City the other
morning,
TtE British steamer Canonburs has been
abandoned off Nantucket, Mass. The crew
were saved, but one died from the expo
sure.
THE five story building at the corner Of
Peoria and Lake streets, Chicago, burned
the other night, causing loss of Sll5, 600;
insurance On the buildings and contents
aggregate S9l,GC0. Davis q Rankin, manu-
faciurCrs Of creamery supplies, occupied
the structure jointly with the Zimmerman
refrigerator factory. Both establishments
were destroyed almost completely.
MRS JOHN GARLICK met a shocking death
at the auction and storage house of Ezekiel
& Burnham, Cincinnati, recently. She at
tempted to step off before the car stopped,
fell, and her head was caught between the
elevator car and the floor. She was horribly
manglcd and was killed instantly
THE failure of Louis +. Serega, broker OF
No Z South William street, has been an
nounccd on the New York Cotton Ex.
change.
A POWDER magazine in the fortress on
the island Of Santa Maura, Greece, ex-
ploded recently causing fire in the for
trcss The loss of life was not known. The
inhabitants Of the island deserted their
homes.
The St Paul &; Milwaukee switchmen
struck again at Chicago on the morning Of
the Both on being asked to repair the dam
age done by dtchlng the eight train the
day before. The Burlington strikers were
accused of iHcendiarism, the round house
at Aurora, H., having mysterlously burned
down, causing a loss of SIS, 900, and car
being set on fire at Downer's Grove.
Two strangers were found dead in a
Reading Pa.) hotel the other day, having
blown out the gas the day before.
TIE sash, door and blind manufacturers
of New England, New York New Jersey
and Pennsylvania have formed a combina-
tion to go into effect in June.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's rcporD for
seven days ended March 20, numbered for
the United States, 119; Canada, 42; total,
224l; compared with 243 the previous week
and 223 for the corresponding week last
year.
IT is reported from Nantucket, Mass,
that the seaman who died there after being
rescued from a wreck recently was vic
tim of cholera. The rest OF the crew were
quarantined.
AUGUST HETzKE, Of Chicago, who whipped
his stepson TO death with strap, has been
sent to the penitentiary for life.
Mr.. GILHooLY, who, on March 10, was
sentenced under the IrIsh Crimes act to
two months Imprisonment, has been SEN
fenced to an additional term of two weeks
for assaulting inspector Hayes.