The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE National Bankers Association met
in annual convention at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 25th.
THE fast mail train on the Mobile &
Ohio road was held up the other morning
by robbers at Buckatunna, Wayne County,
Miss, and the mail car rifled.
LEWIS Bros. & Co., the dry goods COM
mission merchants of New York, have
made their formal offer to their creditors
TO compromise at 579a cents on the dollar.
This is Ia cents more than they and the
assignee thought they could pay when
their schedules were filed.
ELIZA Cook, the English poetess, died
on the 25th. She was born in 1918
THE men employed in ParnelPs quarry,
Ireland, threatened to strike recently be-
cause of an obnoxious foreman.
THE boiler at the sawmill of Prtz Bros,
Berlin, Pa, exploded recently. John
Pritz, Edward Pritz. Oliver Ross, David
Ross and David Baker were instantly
killed. Two brothers named Brant were
badly injured.
Sol PURNELL, negro. was hanged re-
Gently by a mob at Winona, Miss He had
assaulted white girl.
THE jury in the Ives case at New York
disagreed, standing ten for conviction
to the Tombs ior a new trial.
1T is reported that Christians in Crete
are being fiogged and tortured and wom-
en- subjected to gross indignities. A
Greek gunboat has been dispatched to
Crete to put a stop to outrages.
A RACINE, Wis, special says: Rev. A.
F. Packepe, a Lutheran minister who
came here twa years ago, has absconded
with a portion of the money raised to
build new church. He caused split in
the congregation shortly after his arrival.
ALONG the line of the Mississippi Gen.
trail the whites are organizing in oppo-
sition to the blacks, already organized. A
grave state of affairs exists
A MISS GLEASON was killed and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their
carriage being struck by a freight train
recently at Hardin, near Greeley, Col.
THE schooner Alpha, of Port Townsend,
Wash, is thought to have been lost at
sea.
FIVE hundred men working or the Bay
de Chaleurs railway, in Canada, have
struck for several months back pay,
amounting to $4,000
BLISS & Co.'s syrup factory at Kansas
CITY, Mo-, was burned out early on the
morning of the 9th. Loss, 800 900. In
,urance on contents, $4,000.
A BRISK snow storm prevailed on the
Goth in Northern and Western Wisconsin.
Two miners were killed by back damp
in an abandoned shaft near Pottsville, Pa,
recently.
EMERY's large soap factory, Ivorydale,
O., was DESTROYED by fire the other night
causing S125. 900 damage.
The Temple of Heaven at Pekin, China,
containing the great throne of the sacred
dragon, has been des 'royed by fire.
THE NJ. Latin and Rand powder mill at
Cressona, Pa, blew up recently. The ex-
plosion was terrific in force. William
Schropp,, Samuel Stotsf and Henry Reid
were killed and number of other work
men injured.
BY the collapse of an unfinished house
in Milan, Italy, five persons were killed
and twenty injured.
THE first convention of the Union Pro-
bibitory League of Pennsylvania a non-
partisan scheme, having for its purpose
The suppression of the saloon outside OF
nartv lines. was held at Harrisburg, Pa,
on the Goth, with about 100 delegates in
attendance.
THE fifth annual convention OF the Ger
man. American technicker verein was in
session in Washin gton.
AT the business meeting of the society
Of the Army of the Tennessee he d at Gin
cIupa,i on the 26lh. officers were elected
as follows: President General w. i.
Sberman; recording secretary, Colonel l.
M. Dayton; treasurer, General Force ;
corresponding secretary, General A. Hick-
| enlooper.
The fourteenth annual convention OF
the American Bankers Association ad
iourned at Kansas City, MO-, on tns Zo's.
IT, tolIoving officers were elected {:
| Charles Parsons, of St. Louis. president;
Merton McMichaels, of Philadelphia, first
rrcsident; George F. Baker, OF New
YORK, treasurer. William b. Greene OF
New York, was elected secretary; u.
V. Reigsr. Of Kansas City. was made vice.
/ nrss,dept for Missouri and J. X. Mulvane'
| Of Topeka, vice. president for Kansas