The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

SNOW storms ana icy rams pIeFaH
throughout Switzerland and the streams
nre beyond their banks.
KANSAS CITY won ball game at Balti-
more on the lst
The Chicago worlds fair committee
held a meeting recently and elected
Mayor Cregier president. Two hundred
representative men were present and an
executive committee was appointed.
The Bethlehem pa Iron Company has
voluntarily increased the wages OF its
puddlers fifty five cents a day.
THE treasure, footing up about 500, 900,
lost on the steamer Granada off the west
ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered.
IT isreported that cattle are dying at
the rate Of forty or fifty a day from
splenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle.
w. J. JOHNSON & Co, leather dealers of
Boston. have assigned with $j5 OoO direct
and $40, coo contingent liabilities. The
assets are said to be ample.
ABRAHAM FINKBoNE, aged twenty-six,
accused Of arson, hanged himself in the
Jail at Reading, Pa, the other night.
The latest effort of Ives and Staynor,
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road manipulators, to secure release from
the New York Jail has failed.
| ELEVEN business houses in Fennville,
Mich, were destroyed by fire the other
night, causing S35, 900 loss. A tramp's
| carelessness was the cause.
Two cases Of giant powder exploded in
| pit No. at Marquette, Mich, recently.
| Two men and three boys were killed.
WoRKMEN succeeded in opening the gate
| of the Feltville dam near Plainfield N. j.,
which had been closed for years with
weeds, etc, and the threatened danger OF
a break of the embankment was passed
A PASSENGER train left the rails on the
South Park (CoL) railroad and fell down
an embankment. The engineer was killed
and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
A cLoUDBURsT on the 1st did consider
able damage at Watkins Glen. N. Y.
| A RAILROAD deal was reported by the
Chicago Times by which the Chicago &
Alton would purchase or lease the old
Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. Itwas
not thought likely, however, by the gen.
eral public that the Union Pacific would
lose control of its terminal at Kansas
City.
MANDAN, OAK, was devastated by fire
on the afternoon of the 2L
TREASURER COLEMAN, recently default
ing in Warren Cpunty, o., is S63, 600 short
REV. SAM SHARPE, a colored preacher,
of Lebanon, KY, has been killed for liv-
| ing with another mans wife.
| A QUARREL over q hog worth So ha:
caused an armed feud between the Smith:
and Slushers near Pineville, Ky.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven DAYS ended August mum bered 210
compared with PIG the previous week and
2iG the corresponding week of last year.
ABOUT a third of the coke workers o.
the Connellsvilie reg ion in Pennsylvania
are on strike for higher wages.
THE miners of Durham, Eng, have
voted by a majority of one to accept th'
| 10 per cent. advance offered by the mine
owners.
NEWS from Gunnison, Col, recently wa
that the Utes were off their reservation
and were intimidating settlers
THE price of The Angelus"-5S0, ,65
francs-has been paid to the French Min
ister of Fine Arts, and Mile's picture
will soon he brought to America. Severa
| European artists expressed the opinion
that the picture was any thing but thu
grand work of art as generally thought.
A SOUTH BOUND train on the Delaware
& Hudson went through an open switcl
at Kenwood Junction, N. Y, recently
| lnOnaS COnnlH, passenger, WAS hlIle'
and five persons were more or less injured
SOLICITOR SCOTT, of the Pennsylvani
road, denies that the company has insti
tuted pI Ioceedings against the South Forl
| Fishing C.uh, of Pittsburgh. for damage
caused by the Conemaugh foods.
c. NJ HULL, editor of the Bolivar Coun
ty Democrat at Rosedale Miss, was killeo
the other day by L. A. Weissiuger, editor
| Of RaViaw
place. The Review was lately established
and the two editors had engaged in bit
ter personal warfare in their respectiv
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