The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-02

THE Grant Monument Committee has
adopted the draft of circular TO he sent
TO all architects and sculptOrs who may
desire TO compete for the honor OF design
ing the memorial to General Grant The
estimated cost is s5OO,OOO instead Of $780,
0OO, the original figure
HENRY GRoFREL 4 Co, merchants Of
New Orleans, have assigned with $4,000
liabilities and SlOo 900 assets.
JUDsE GRESHAM. Of the United States
Circuit Court. sitting in Chicago, has de-
cided that rebates granted by railroads 10
shippers are contrary TO statute and COM
mon law.
The assets Of the broken Ozaukee Coun-
ty Bank, Of Wisconsin, are placed at $l34,
6S2 and the liabilities $40, T1S.
SEVERAL overdue vessels arrived at New
York from Europe on the 26th after stoI my
passages.
The passenger depot of the New YorE
Central railroad at Niagara Falls, n. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently. Lofs, So,
Co.,
BIsHoP IRELAND, of st. Paul, de,ared in
Washington the other evening that the cor
ner stone of the new Catholic University
would be laid in three months.
HERR BLEICHRoDER, the gr,at German
tinancier, has arranged to take G3, 900 OF
the new Mexican loan, payj.g Sl4, ,OOO,OOO
for them.
QUITE a lively riot was cat sed in st. Paul
the other night by an attempt of young
men to break up an American Gospel Army
meeting. The ringleaders were arrested.
Four hundred miners about Ironwood,
Mich, have struck for three months back
| pay.
tnI
james Barrows in Alabama, whom they
claim was the leader in the late tram rob
berries in Texas. Two or three other ar
rests were made in Erath County, Texas,
about the same time, and hopes were enter
tanned that the gang had been effectually
broken up.
ARECE1vER has been appointed for the
Excelsior Electric Company of New York.
Liabilities about $4,000.
BUSINESS failures CDun's report) for the
seven days ended January 26 numbered fol
the United States, 26S; Canada 40; total
81, compared with 314 the previous week
and 27l for the corresponding week of last
! year
! TIE Secretary OF the Treasury has in
! formed customs officers that he has official
" determined that the importation of nea
| cattle from Great Britain and Ireland under
certain prescribed conditions will not tenc
| to the introduction or spread of Infection:
! or contagious diseases among the cattle Of
the United States.
THE House Committee on Commerce has
ordered favorable reports on the bill t.
bridge the Missouri river at ST. Charlie:
| and at Jefferson City, Mo.
THE Sioux Indians have elected twelve
| delegates to represent the Nation at Wash
ington on the proposition to open the reser
walton.
ONE man was killed and four badly in
jured by an explosion of gas in mine neal
Wikesb barre Pa, on the 9th.
TIE opening of the st. Anthony Hill
Cable line at St. Paul, Mimi, was signal
! lied bv fatal accident on the 9th. The
! grip failed to catch the cable, when the
passenger car dashed down the incline
overturning and killing Merville L. Saum
ers, assistant treasurer OF the Northwest
ern Fuel Company About twelve othel
De rsOns were seriously injured.
THE balance of trade with the world fol
| the year 1887 was in ''faVOrh Of the UnlteC
| States to the amount of ST, ,5l3,647.
| REPORTS from Berks, Lebanon, Schuyl
kill and Lehigh Counties, Pa, say the snow
had drifted so that the public roads were
abandoned. The farmers were turning ou'
in bands of from fifty to ono hundred II
open the roads.
The Federal Bank Of Toronto, Ont, ha:
decided to wind up its affairs.
ONE man was killed and two Others
fatally injured in Jersey City, n. j., re
Gently by collision between coal cars IL
| the Lackawanna yards.
MAIL train dashed into number o
men clearing the track of snow near Holy
oke Mass, on the 27th, killing three anc
fatally wounding another.