The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-16

The strike OF the workmen In the Alle-
gheny Bessertjer s;oel works at Duquesne,
Pa, has resulted in the virtual defeat OF
the men, every department being FLIED BY
non-union men.
A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ara, says:
Deputy Sheriff Oliver I. Bentley, Thomas
c. Hoovey, Charles Ward. Fred Gurter,
John Heard, Thomas and William Wells
have been brought in under arrest from
Morrilton. They are charged with impli-
cation in the ballot box robbery at Plum
merellle on the night Of November 0. The
arrests created something OF a sensation.
ALMOST every business house in the vii.
lago of Shrub Oak. Westchester Count v.
n. Y, was destroyed by fire the Other
night Loss $4,000
AT Kaska William colliery, near Mid.
dlcport, Pa, recently n cage containing
ten miners was wrecked by = car being
pushed over the top cf the shaft by two
Hungarian laborers. The shaft was SOC
feet deep and all the men were killed, be-
ing horribly crushed and manglel
THERE is complaint from all quarters
that lake business is dull beyond every
expectation.
Two women wers killed and several
workmen injured by the ccllapsing of al
old house In Boston recently.
TUE commander of tho British cruiser
Rapid has hoisted the British flag over he
Suwarr6w islands, in the Southern Pacific
Oe an.
IT has been decided to hold the next con-
venton of the Y. NJ. c. A. a Kansas City,
Mo.
THE games of the international chess
rasnlfo1 fnllnNGc. Mason
beat Black burn; Delmar beat Judd; Del.
mar beat Mason LipschutZ beat Taubsn.
haus; Burn beat Burrille; Showalter beat
Gossip; Martinez beat Pollock; j. w
Baird drew with Hanham. Drawn game;
only were played.
GREAT damage was done to fruits, gar
den truck and fl overs about Belvidere
ILL.,, the other night by q fierce hail anG
rain storm.
THE condemned Bald Knobbers, John
Matthews, Dave Walker and Bill Walker
were executed at Ozark, Mo-, on the 10th,
under distressing circumstances, the ap'
paratus not being properly adjusted, ne
cessitatiug the dropping of Bill Walker @
second time
DURING a conflict at Bochum, West
phalia, between military and striking
miners, the other day, two men were
killed and many wounded. In another
conflict at Bracket three men were killed
by the troops.
THE lake steamer Chemung, OF the same
line as the Owego, has made the trip from
Buffalo to Chicago in iifty-four hours
beating the Owego's record.
A STORM passed over Pennsylvania anC
parts of New York on the afternoon of th'
10 h, causing wholesale destruction o
buildings and serious inj ury to persons
The lightning caused the death of miner
at Mahanoy City, also Of William CIapper
at Gulf Summit Panies occurred In 6
silk mill at Pottsville, also in Barnum's
circus while performing at Wiiliamsport
JUDGE BARRETT, in the New York Su
preme Court gave judgment dissolvine
the Electric Sugar Refining Company
Alex Cameron, representing the corpora
tion, cousenting thereto. r. Burnhau
Motfett was appointed receiver and di'
rected to furnish a bond of $40 900.
NEAR Wirgate, N. NJ, on the Atlantic
& Pacific, quarrel arose between fou
Zuni Indians and four cowboys, but TO
the time being nothing serious happened
Later on the quarrel was renewed wher
pistols were drawn and a pitched battl,
ensued resulting in the killing OF all foul
Indians and the serious wounding of one
cowboy. The whites were arrested.
The Window Glass Workers Associa-
tion has issued an order boycotting and
blacklisting oil foreign glass workers who
come TO this country hereafter.
The Whitecap warning received by
Schweinfurth, the Beekmanite leader, o.
Rockford, l l., has resulted in the insur-
ance companies canceling all policies Oh
his home known as Heaven" and the
structure is now at the mercy of the
Whitecaps and the elements.
The net earnings of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad durin2
the year 1888 were $I7l,4