The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-17

JuDok bAaRKTT, Of the New York Su-
prerne Court, has decided that the North
River Rsanina Company has forfeited Its
charter by joining the sugar trust.
BIT the explosion OF a tank Of gas at the
Citizens Gas Company's works, Smith
and Fifth streets, Brooklyn; N. T., re-
Gently, the Navy Yard barracks H6rs PER-
TALLY shattered, and the ruins caught fire
and wefo destroyed.
MATrHEw FEENEv, an Irish boy who
came to this country a shctt titoe ago,
pleaded guilty at Chicago recently to q
charge of burglary.
THE suit of A. Howard Hinkle, the Gin
cnnati music dealer, against Mrs. jean
nette NJ. Thurber, OF American opera fame,
for Sts 0dJ Blamed the Americah Opera
Company IN 1886 has been dismissed In
New York.
The Illinois Federation OF Labor has ap:
pointed committee st three to eali Oh
Governor Fifer and ask him to pardon the
imprisoned Anarchists.
THE British steamer Macedonia, .Balti:
more for Hull after sinking the Boston
schooner Lavina Campbell, the other
night, near Bodkin Point, in the Ches-
apeake, went ashore.
MRS. LOUISE HANCOCK, aged eighty
years. was fatally burned at Faris, fe4.,
the other day, the result of the explosion
of some cartridges she was removing from
the mantelpiece.
1t is reported at Needles, Cal, that out
Of party OF seven prospedtofs who left
that place recently in a small boat for new
gold fields, fotir were drowned by the cap.
sizing OF the boat while going Through the
rapids of the river below.
THE United States steamer Yantic, from
Port au Prince. Hayti, January /, has ar
rived at quarantine at New York. JAM
iary Corporal Rowe died of yellow
fever.
j. j. WEST. proprietor, and ]. N. Dunlop,
city editor of the Chicago Times, and Jens
Christianson, editor of the Chicago Ar
better Zeitung, waived examination on the
charge of crimlnally libelling police off,
cials Bonfeld and Schaak, and were bound
over TO the criminal court.
THE suspension bridge destroyed by the
disastrous storm OF the 9th was the car.
riage bridge between Niagara Falls village
and the Clifton House. 1t was built In
1870. It's original cost was $500, 200 and
fully half as much more has been ex-
pended since in improvement. 1t was
considered one of the strongest structures
of its kind ID the world.
WILLIAM r. FOSTER the father of the
William r. Foster, Jr., who recently
robbed the New York Produce Exchange
gratuity fund of $19s, 900 and then de-
camped, has sent check for $50, 900 for
the benefit of the gratuity fund.
THE next convention of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association has
been set for New York, February 10.
FIFTEEN business houses in Leland,
Miss, were destroyed by fire recently.
BY the explosion of boiler in a mill at
Pelleton, Wis, the other day three men
were killed.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 10, numbered
3Sl, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 279 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE "plan" agreed upon by Western
railroad magnates at New York on the
10th, it was thought, would prevent rate
cutting. Railroad men, in interviews,
expressed favorable opinion of it.
CORRECTED lists showed eighteen lives
were lost by the destruction of the silk
mill in the recent storm at Reading, Pa,
| and about ninety injured, some fatally.
At the paint shop five lives were lost.
About twenty deaths were the result OF
the storm at Pittsburgh, with about as
many injured. 1t will be seen that the ia
talities were far less at Reading and con-
siderably greater at Pittsburgh than ac-
cording to first reports.
MRS. OLIVE FREUND has brought suit al
Ann Arhor, Mich, for $40. 0OJ damage
against President Cotterill and Nelson
Sutherland, the officer who attached her
property at Milan, on account of the al
legged electric sugar frauds.