The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

adopted a resolution in favor Of the un-
limited coinage Of silver.
HENRY WOLFF, the Dutch aeronaut, who
assembled in a balloon from Antwerp re-
Gently aud was driven out to sea, was
rescued alive by n vessel two days after
ward. His companion, Lieutenant Daniel,
was drowned before the vessel was able to
reach him.
THE British steamer Amor went aground
the other day in the Chesapeake bay near
the entrance to the Craighill channel. She
was bound out
ALL the miners of Merccr County, w.
Va, 1000 in number, went on a strike
recently because of changes in the size Of
cars to be loaded.
THE ice palace at Montreal collapsed
partially on the 18th. The thermometer
was 55 degrees in the shade and there was
no ice on the river.
FATHER HYNEs, OF Pierce City, Mo-, was
suspended for five years by the eccle-
siastical court held at Kansas City on the
18th for dsobedience. Hynes said be
would take no notice of the ruling OF the
court, as he had appealed TO the Pope. He
would not give up his church at Pierce
City.
ENGINEER ED DIETz an old employe Of
the Minneapolis & St Louis railroad, was
| discharged recently for alleged color
blindness, when his fellow employees
threatened to strike.
| THE other night a heavy wind blew q
| freight car from a side track to the main
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul at Sylvania. Wis. Two men were
fatally and another seriously injured.
The German Emperor has ordered the
dismissal of all the Fren ch cooks employed
in the palace. They will be replaced with
Germans.
THE annual boat race between Cam
bridge and Oxford Universities, England,
will take place March 80.
THE Bankruptcy bill has passed the
French Senate. The measure has especial
interest at the present time because 1t en-
ables the Panama Canal Company to con-
vert the old organization into new con-
cern.
A GRAND scheme for conveying the sew
age of Paris to a tract of land in the De-
partment of Seine-et- Disc, for subsequent
use as a fertilizer, has been approved by
the French Senate.
| IT is stated in st. Petersburg tha. Rus
sa will build three large men, of-wa dur.
ing the present year.
| BARNETT & LICHTENsTEIN, the largest
retail mercantile firm in Des Moines Iowa,
have failed with liabilities of $75, 1000.
A BRUSH trust has been formed which
controls with but few exceptions the out
put of all the prisons of the country en-
| gagged in that line of goods.
A YOUNG woman and man from Lyons,
France, were found dead in room at a
hotel at Monte Carlo the other day. In a
letter to a friend they say they had suf-
fered losses at the gaming tables and in
! tended to commit suicide together.
| TWENTY-FIVE miners were killed by an
explosion of fire-damp in the Hyde colliery
near Manchester, Eng, recently.
BUSINESS failures fDun's report) for the
seven days ended January IT, numbered
$50, compared with 3Sl the previous week
and 314 the corresponding week of last
year.
A MADRID corresponds mt says that the
| Spanish Government is trying to set off
| Spanish claims for damages sustained in
the war of secession in the United States
against the Mora compensation claim.
THE work of laying the new cable be-
tween Coatzacoalcoas, Mex, and Calves
ton, Tex, was begun on the 18th by the
steamship Faraday.
THE Board of Trade of Jacksonville,
| Fla, have passed resolutions strongly
urging protection against foreign grown
oranges and calling for a law fixing the
| import duty at 81 a box on oranges and
| lemons.
OVER a thousand cigarmakers of New
York City, mostly Cubans, have struck
against a reduction of - per thousand in
wages. This is the lusiest season and the
men expect to win.