The Brookhaven leader., 1888-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

A CONCERTED attempt was made to wreck
a %" train at Chicago on the night OF the
ID. A switch was thrown and fifteen cars
dcralud and set on FIRE. The conductor was
found .shottlt after+ ards bruised and in
sensible by the side of the track, and he
reported that three men had beaten him
and wrecked the train.
LATER advices concerning the attack by
natives on the expedition of the German
explorers Kund and Tappenbeck, IN tho in
terror of the Cameroons country, show that
seven members OF the expedition ware
killed and thirty woiinded, The etploters
lost all their journals and collections
GENERAL M4RtIS BEEN shot himself dead
at Stanton, Ee0., recently. His married
life was unhappy and this was assigned as
the cause of the suicide. BEEN was a
well known Chicago lawyer and dis
tnguishcd himself in the late war by strik-
ing acts Of gallantry.
TnE Argentine ainister at Vienna de-
clarcs that the reports of failures in Bueuos
Ayres are greatly exaggerated; that they
are only small local failures in the capital
and the provinces.
Two men, while jumping from an east
bound train at Benicia, Cal, the other
night, fell overheard from the pier in the
dafknesa ahI were drowned The body Of
ouh recovered proved to be that OF Fred
Shaw, of Eureka Springs, ARK ..,,.
A REPORT is current In Vlehna that tile
Austrian Government Is about TO ask the
delegations to grant an extra credit OF $l6,-
OO0,0JO
THE London and Liverpool branches Of
the National League have declared their
confidence in Mr.. Parnell and say they
will disregard the Papal rescript,
THr srprtmC Court 81 Massachusetts haa
confirmed the sentence of Mrs Roblns6n,
the wholesale roisoner.
CHIEF JUSTICE GAIT, at Toronto, Ont,
| recent4, il granting the application for
writ OF haDeas corpus In the case OF Motsei
wanted IN Rochester, N. Y, for attempted
murder, expressed the opinion that telc-
gram from an American officer was not
sufficient authority upon which to arrest
| criminal under the Extradition act.
MAJOR PoPoFr, who was convicted Of
embezzling funds b belonging to the Bull
garian War ofipe, has been sentenced to
| four years penal servtude NJ Boneff aud
the other prisoners Implicated in the defal-
cation were each sentenced to terms of
| Imprisonment varying from five to twelve
months.
BUSINESS failures Duu's reportl for the
seven days ended May numbered for the
| United States, 2GA; Canada, 25; total, 24 ;
compared with 223 the previous week and
1S2 the corresponding week Of last year
A HORRIBLE and mysterious affair was
reported from Arlington, Neb., on the 4th
| A barn on the Frecse farm was destroyed
! by ire and in the ruins were found the
bodies of seven persons. The hired man
was missing and a suspicion existed that
! he had committed a terrible crime.
A CROWD of excited Sotthcthers burned
Senator Ingalls, in effigy at Lebanon, Tenn,
| recently.
| AN explosion of gas occurred recently in
a tunnel in curse of construction near
| Mcssina, Sicily. Six wotkmen were killed
and many more fatally injured, several Of
whom were rescued in dying condition.
At the time of the accident 250 workmen
were IN the tunnel.
A STORM blew down several houses in the
new town of Berring, Iowa, on the Santa
Fe railroad James Myers, of Memphis
! Mo-, was killed in falling building.
| A RAD condition Of affairs exists in
| Lowndes County, Ala, growing out of the
recent lynching of negro murderer by a
white mob. The negroes had been threat
cning vengeance and on the 4th the sheriff
| arrested fifteen of them. On the way back
| to Havuevllle, the county seat, Connlct
ensued and two white men were wounded
aud several negroes killed. Further trou ole
| was feared.
THE cracker factory at Los Angeles, Cal,
and H. Webber's residence were destroyed
| by fire the other night. One man perished.
| Loss, S65, COO; insurance small.
| BY collision near Sorrento, ILL.,, recently
between q passenger and freight tram,
| two men were killed and several badly in
\ iurad