The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

TWENTY FIVE per cent OF lhe coke ovens
Of the Connellsvlle Pa) region were shut
down recently for the purpose Of restrict
ing producu'b.
a NUMBER Of boomers were recently
elected from the Oklahoma Territory by
colored troops. Some were held at Fort
Reno, the others being discharged.
Az EXPLOSION which Occurred IN ths
Kruczgerben coal mine near Kaiserslan-
tern, Bavaria, killed forty persons. Thirty
SIX men were rescued.
SIX loaded cars Of a fire. ght train broke
through a new bridge near Galena, Ill, re.
Gently aud were destroyed. A brakeman
was killed
A FREIGHT train came into collision with
a north bound express tram on the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg railroad at
Canton, n. Y. recently. The express Car
was thrown from the track and one pas
senger coach was badly damaged u. +
Hitler, of Syracuse, was killed and one
woman was hurt.
FOUR men recently raided the bank at
Cisco Tex, and after imprisoning the
cashier and two athers decamped with
S6,OlU
w. J. ROBERTs. dealer in stone at A.
Broadway, New York has had his assets
placed in the hands of a receiver, judg-
ments for about $25 900 having been en-
tered against bin, He had no rating at
BrddsrettS, although Id August last his
statement claimed that he was worth $780,
0OO
News has been received in London Of the
wreck ng off Of one of the Azore Islands
of a vessel with all on board.
The police of San Francisco have closed
up the American lottery, run by Chinese,
which did business OF between 5000 and
$50 900 year
THE nail manufacturers OF New England
have formed close corporation Tor the
purpose of raising prices.
The murderer OF Millionaire Smell at
. Chicago turned out to be William b. Tas-
colt, the scapegrace son of Colonel James
b. Tascott, head of the Tascott Manufact-
uring Company. The boy had served a
term in the Kentucky per,tentiary. Young
1ascott's whereabouts We're unknown on
the 18th, but the police were confident OF
his speedy capture,
MEssRs. FAzENDE and Seixas, Of New
Orleans, bondholdng creditors OF the city
Of Houston Tex, have petitioned Circuit
Judge Hardee, OF the Federal Court to ap-
point receiver TOR the city.
AUGUST HETsKE, OF Chicago, has been
found guilty of murder in the first degree
for beating his little stepson to death with
strap.
FIVE men were killed in quarry at Car
narvonshire, Wales, the other day by the
falling Of bridge,
DEAF BULL. a Grow Indian, in the military
prison al Fort Smelling, recently attacked
two other Indians with knife, laying open
their throats. He then stabbed himself
and broke his arm while resisting the
manacles. The injured Indians, it was
thought, would die.
The Reading railroad miners strike
ended on the 17th in an agreement to arbi-
trate the wages question.
GIDEON BoRDEAU, Queens Printer for
Manitoba and a favOrite of exPremier
Norquay, has skipped to the United States,
leaving shortage of over $1,000.
MARTIN L. SCOTT was hanged at Deer
Lodge, Mont, recently for the murder of
his wife in a fit of drunken jealousy.
By boiler explosion near Bastrop, La,
recently two white aud Two colored men
were killed and four others badly scalded.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended February l6 numbered for the Uni
ted States, 236; for Canada, 81; total, 273;
as compared with 2S9 the previous week
and 261 the corresponding week Of last
year.
The steamship City of Pekin which
reached San Francisco from China on the
18th had several cases Of smallpox on
board and was quarantned.
DULUTH real estate sharpers have sold
many lots away back in the hills to Buffalo
parties at fancy prices.
FIRE ravaged Westerly, r. l., recently,
destroying $3.50, 900 worth of property.