The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
CHICAGO brickmaksrs have inaugurated

L NhhCAVO nave
a strike for eight hours.
Young CASSIDY. who fred the Catholic
Protectory at White Plains, N. Y, has
been sentenced for ten years.
In sympathy with unfavorable reports
from Havre and Hamburg coffee dropped
between forty and fifty points at New
York on the goth. In the closing hour
there was a reaction, the market closing
with decline of about fifteen points on
sales Of 100000 bags.
The seamen's strike at Liverpool has
collapsed.
PAPERS and wreckage picked up off
Massachusetts lead to the belief that q
| collision has taken place between ocean
steamers. Bills of lading of two steamers
were found dated Fiume, October 20, 1888.
1t was thought that the steamer Haytien
Republic had collided with the steamer
Vic oria Of the Anchor line.
The semi-annual meeting of the South
Dakota Farmers Alliance was held in
Huron on the Goth. The grangers declared
themselves in their platform as resolved
TO have hand in the government of the
State. They also asked for the adoption
Of the Australian system of voting. A
free trade resolution was voted down.
SIOUX City, Iowa, and surrounding
region were visited by a damaging rain
and wind storm on the Goth. The pontoon
bridge across the Missouri river was blown
10 pieces and sixty boats were swept down
stream.
SECRETARY TRACY has ordered a court
of inquiry to investigate the circumstances
connected with the grounding of the Con-
stellation. The court will meet at the
Norfolk navy yard.
FRED ROCHE, the foreman of the sewer
gang, who found DIR. Cronin's body in the
catch basin, has not been paid the reward
of g, 0)0 promised him by the committee
of DR.. Cronin's friends. Roche says that
the committee told him he would receive
the 5000, hut payment has not been
made.
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured by an explosion of fireworks at
Heyer Bros establishment, Boston, on
the 21st. The damage amounted to $I00, 900
THE village of Quijotoa, ninety miles
west of Tucson, Ariz., has been destroyed
by fire.
BUSINESS failures CDun's report) for the
seven days ended June 20 numbered 220
compared with 250 the previous week and
2O4 the corresponding week of last year.
WILLIAM E. HOWARD, the Electric sugar
fraud worker has been sentenced at New
York to nine yearSand eight months i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing.
Much damage was done by a terrific
thunderstorm which passed over Scranton,
Pa. on the 21st, Several houses were
struck by lightning and set on fire. Henry
Somers, aged eight years, while lying on
a couch at home was struck by lightning
and killed George Somers, the boys
father, was seriously injured.
MISS JENNIE ELMBLAD and Miss Hilda
Carlson were boating in the Desplanes
river at Desplaines, ILL.,, the other day
with three friends, when the boat capszed
near the dam and the two young ladies
sank almost instantly. The others were
rescued.
BENJAMIN KLINGER and Robert Howick,
two prominent citizens of Mercer County,
o., were killed by lightning recently, just
as they stepped into q stable to escape a
passing shower.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Goshen and
Pond Eddy, N. Y. Schools have been
closed.
A STRIKE or lockout seems inevitable at
tho great Homestead steel plant of Carne-
gle & Co. 1t is stated upon the authority
of the firm that no agreement could be
reached with the workmen's conference
cOmWlIlee on tne wages question:, anu Indt
they will quit work.
THE striking miners at Kladnc, Bohemia,
engaged in riot recently. The gend-
armes fred on the rioters and killed two
of them and wounded twelve. Later the
riots were renewed, the mob wrecking the
residence of the director OF the mines.
NEAR Clinton, Ark, the other night
during a fearful rainstorm a farmer
named Emerson lost his wife and seven
children. He succeeded in eaving two of
his children and himself, standing in the
water several hours before Lelp arrived.