The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-16

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United States Express has acquired an ex-
elusive express contract for long term Of
years with tho Chattanooga, Rome & CO.
mmbus railroad. The acquisition opens
TO the company an extremely valuable
territory from Chattanooga to Tallahassee,
Fla.
THE two iron mills of Graf, Bennett &
| Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa, have been sold at
auction at S72O, 900 to satisfy two mortgages
one for SG25, 900, held by the New York
Life Insurance Company, and the other
for 100000, held by local parties. The
property was bought in by syndicate Of
creditors.
THE Locomotive Brotherhood met at st.
Louis on the 9Th to consider the Burlington
strike.
By a collision between two trains at
Darling, o., on the 9th, one engine and
several cars were ruined, but no one was
hurt.
THE President on the 9th vetoed five
more private pension bills.
THE cattle south of Decatur, H., have
| been quarantined because of an outbreak
| Of Texas fever.
THE Anchor line steamer Alexandra,
which sailed recently for Mediterranean
points, had hardly left her dock in Brook
| lyn when an alteration took place between
two Italian passengers and one of her
crew, during which the seaman was
stabbed in the breast and died in less than
| two minutes.
JEALOUSY caused Shelby F. Parke, a
wealthy citizen of Perryville, Ind, to shoot
and kill DIR. H. II. Peyton recently.
THE Michigan Assembly of the Knights
of Labor have declared strongly for Henry
Georges land tax theory.
THOMAS HAINEs, defaulting cashier OF
the Atlantic & North Carolina railway, has
been arrested in Chicago. The amount of
| his theft is not known.
THE Volunteer won the race at the annu-
al regatta of the New York Yacht Club on
the 10th.
AT least fourteen lives have been lost as
a result of the foods in Germany.
| THE strike Of the navvies in Paris has
ended, the men accepting the terms offered
by their employers.
YELLOW fever has caused a stampede
of the citizens of Jacksonville and other
cities in Florida.
| THREE dead bodies were taken out OF
the ruins of the recent fire at Chattanooga,
| Tenn.
| MAXWELL, alias Brooks, was executed
at st. Louis on the. 10th for the murder OF
| c. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel, April
6, 1850 On the same scaffold with Max
we'll Henry Landgraf perished for the
murder of his sweetheart, Annie Fisch
March 5, 1885.
THE Tennessee brewery at Memphis was
reported on fire on the 10th. Loss, $125,.
| 000.
A BRAKEMAN named Jones was seriously
maltreated by a number Of Italians who
insisted ON riding in the ladies' coach re.
Gently on the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic railroad near Marquette, Mich.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August numbered fol
the United States, 205; Canada, IS; total
$685. compared with 216 the previous weeh
and $50 the corresponding week Of last
year.
THE steamer Northern Belle, from Oden
Mich, reports that small sail boat, three
coats, hats and photographers outfit were
| found on the shore at Burt Lake.
| CHARLES HENRY RIEDEL was hanged al
New Castle, Del, recently, for the murder
of his wife and child on the night of Sep
tember IS, 1887.
THE roads interested in Iowa traffic
have agreed to adopt a new distance tariff
| lot tHdI oLdtS. Inc IdteS are COhsiueI dpI y
reduced by the new schedule, the object
of the reduction being to harmonize rate;
within the State with those on Inter State
| traffic.
JAMES l. STADE, a wealthy merchant
and manager Of the Tiffany Glass Com.
pany, was found dead in his apartments
at the Florence fats, in Eighteenth street
New York, the other morning. His throat
| was cut VariOus rumorS were aHOat. an
attempt being made to hush the matter up,