The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-06

ern Florida and Southern Alabama
The dismasted vessel Amanda Morrison
has been towed into Provincetown, Mass,
and run aground on the flats. The body OF
a man about sixty years Of age has been
taken from the wreck, and has been
identified as Captain Daniel Morrison, OF
Jordan's Ferry, Nova Scotia
MARY CoNNELL, aged forty-two, fell or
was thrown from FIRE escape OF the tshe'
ment house, 101 Greenwich street, New
York, and was instantly killed during d
general fight which followed Thanksgiv=
ing orgie among a number Of her relatives
and friends at that place.
AT recent council meeting of the Brits
ish Medical Society resolution was passed
dcprecating the publication of the details
of the late Emperor Frederick's sickness
as violation of professional confidence.
In consequence of this resolution Sir
Morell Mackenzie sent in his resignation
THE French steamship Panama reports
an unknown vessel lost one hundred miles
off the Delaware coast during the recent
gales.
THE insurance suit against General
Daniel Z. Sickles by a widow named Cave
was tried in New York on the 2Sth. The
jury found that under the contract the
widow was entitled to S2.269 more than
had been paid her, which verdict Sickles
was willing to accept.
THE prescription ware and flint bottle
manufacturers are working to get up a
syndicate or pool similar to that of the
window glass manufacturers.
THIRTY FIVE foreign Jews who failed to
leave Kieff, Russia, after the general edict
of expulsion, have been arrested. The
charge against them was that they demor=
allied the townspeople.
JAY GOULD recently endeavored to in
duce President Cable, of the Rock Island,
to enter the railroad trust which he was
forming. Mr.. Cable said he was afraid
the trust would fail of the object intended
and possibly might provoke another out
burst Of animosity against the roads. He,
however, promised to give the matter
further consideration.
JOHN HENRY MEYER, who robbed and
killed Ranchman John Lowell last March,
was hanged at Placerville, CAL, on the
Both.
A DRUNKEN man recently fired a shot at
the pugilists Kilrain and Mitchell while
they were attending Kiernan's Theater,
Washington. No one was hurt. His OBJ
ject could not be ascertained.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November % numbered
232 compared with 296 the previous week
and pa the corresponding week last year.
GOVERNOR LEE of Virginia has issued a
proclamation offering $1,000 for the arrest
of the masked men who rescued Wayman
Sutton, the condemned murderer, from the
Wytheville Jail the other night.
THE coal mines along the Mononga hela
river in Pennsylvania were shut down for
an indefinite period on the 1st.
THE Dayton (O.) Plow Company has as
signed with 10000 assets and unknown
| liabilities.
SELLINGER & Co., dealers in glassware
and owners of the Mutual Glass Company
of New York and Pittsburgh, have been
closed up. Their liabilities are said to be
$150000.
AUGUST LINKE and John Albin, miners,
were crushed to death in a mine at Olney,
ILL.,, recently by a cave-in.
ONE man was fatally aud another badly
burned and the business portion of the
village of Larabelle, ILL.,, destroyed by
fire recently. Loss $4,000; insurance
small.
A CARELESS boy caused an explosion O.
natural gas in Wabash, Ind, recently
and was badly hurt. The mains were in
| jured and great excitement created in the
| town.
ANOTHER disastrous fire broke out in the
Calumet and Hecla mine, Michigan, on the
| morning of the 30th. Eight miners were
in the part reported on fire, of whose es-
cape no hope existed.
SIX men were buried in q trench while
working on a sewer recently in Philadel-
phia. One was killed and another fatally
| injured. The rest escaped.