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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
aDn1TIoN.I DISPATCHES

A VERY earnest effort is making in Crit
tenden county, Ark, to secure the build
ing of the levees, of which that county
stands so much in need.
WHEN workmen got in behind the fire in
the Pratt mines on the 4th, they found the
dead body of George Scott, an old negro
convict, who had been smothered to death
by the flames.
WHILE excavating at Louisville, KY, on
the 4th, a workman dug up tooth OF
mastodon. 1t is fourteen inches i'll cir
cumference and five and five-eighths inches
from the crown to the broken end of the
root.
GREAT damage was done to crops in
YaIobusha county, Miss, by the recent
heavy rains. Small creeks and little rivu-
lets never before known to be injurious to
the growing crops became raging torrents,
and their waters extended from hill to hill.
THE President ON the Sd appointed the
following postmasters: Rollin A. Edger'
ton, Little Rock, Ark; William w. MIS-
bett, Jonesboro, Ark; James c. Russell
Camden, Ark; James X. Barnes, Fort
Smith, Ark; Miss Clara c. Matthews,
Hazlehurst, Miss; Mrs. Mary N. Parish,
Greenw ood, Miss.
| EDWARD PURCHASE, ten years old
hanged himself in his fathers barn at Clay
| Center, Kansas, on the Sd. He was exper
imenting to see how it would feel to bt
swung up by the neck and his death wa:
really accidental
THE United States Fish Commission has
two of its cars employed in the distribu
ton of the indigenous fisheries of the Mis-
sissippi Valley.
A ROW between poundcatchers ant
police of New Orleans on one side, anC
dairvmen who have allowed their cattle Il
pasture on the suburbs on the other, re
suited in the death of Steve Springer
who was assisting the cattlemen.
ED LEE, of New Albany, Miss, a you'll
seventeen years OF age, on the 4th, in al
alteration, shot and instantly killed
Harris Davis.
| FRANK MARTIN, an employe of the Kansa
City Dessicaling and Refining Company
fell into vat of boiling grease on the 4th
and was boiled to death.
| A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that there was net dc
! crease of S459, ,1l3 in the circulation during
the month of July ard net decrease o
S69,Sl4 on moneys and bullion in tn
Treasury during the same time.
The President has rendered the collec
torship of the port of New Orleans to ex
Gov. II. {. Yarmouth.
The corn crop of West Tennessee is as
sured, and is better than for many years
II is predicted that corn will sell as low a
35 cents per bushsl. The outlook for bi
cotton crop is lester than since 1885.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
AN OPEN SWITCH.
Wreck With Serious Consequences Near
Albany, n. Y.

Wreck With Serious Consequences Near
Albany, n. Y.
ALBANY N. Y, Aug "A south bound
Delaware & Hudson through train in
charge of Conductor Acker, ran through
an open switch at the Kenwood Junction
near here. about 4:20 yesterday afternoon,
aad into the north bound West Shore
train, due here at 4:30. The drawing
room car Argyle" and two passen-
ger coaches of the Delaware & Hudson
train were thrown from the track. Thomas
Commit, a passenger on the West Shore
train, residing in Albany, was killed, and
several others were more or less seriously
injured. There were about thirty passen-
gers on the Delaware & Hudson train and
their escape from death was marvellous, as
two cars turned completely over on their
sides and the inmates had to be taken out
through the windows. The names of the
seriously injured are: James E. Pittman,
of Troy injured about the back and head;
Mrs. Henderson, of West Troy, cut on the
head and injured internally not serious.
Joseph Perkins, of Binghamton engineer
| of the Delaware s. Hudson train, leg in
| jured by jumping; Mrs. Bart, of Coey-
mans junction, badly bruised; William
| Mould, Saugerties, back hurt; H. I. Finch
and wife, Brooklyn, internal injuries;
Mrs. Kate Powers Catskill arm injured;
C. J. Wright. Peekskill, arm sprained; r.
J. Kepple, Utica, arm sprained; w. I.
Burnside, New York, arm lacerated; g. c.
Morris, 1856 South Fourth street, Phila-
delphia, badly shaken up; J. P. Foster,
badly hurt; Engineer Perkins arm was
broken; Matthew Turner, fireman of the
Delaware & Hudson train, slightly in
jured about the arms by jumping; he re-
sides on Quaker street. The tracks were
blocked until late hour.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
How a Convict Was Pardoned.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. "a convict in
San Quentin prison serving seven years
was pardOned this week by Governor
Waterman. He had been convicted of
forgery committed while intoxicated.
Soon after President Harrison's nomina-
tion he wrote a poem entitled "The Old
Soldiers" which was published in an
evening paper. The poem, which de-
scribed General Harrison's bravery
at the battle of Resaca, was
copied widely on this coast, and
soon after Harrison's election one
of the prisoners friends sent it to Mrs.
Harrison, with brief account of the
convict-author's good life in prison. She
took an interest in him and he has been
pardoned The released convict ex-
pressed great gratitude to Mrs. Harrison
and declares that her sympathy has
made a man of him. His name is with
held as he has the promise of a good
place,
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
The Pilgrim Memorial.

PLYMOUTH. Mass, Aug. 2.-This old town
yesterday was gay with decorations and
filed with visitors to the dedication of the
national memorial to commemorate the
landing of the Pilgrims. All historic spots
are marked by inscriptions and decora-
tions. The celebration has included the
ringing of bells, the firing of salutes and
the dedication of the monument with inn
posing ceremonies, after which there was
a parade to the dinner tent, where an ora
tion was delivered by William c. p.
Breckinridge, of Kentucky, aud poem
was read by John Boyle O'Reilly fol-
lowed by speeches from other distin-
guished guests. Concerts were given in
the afternoon aud the celebration closed
at night with fireworks and ball.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
Crawford's Big Fee.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug 3-The Ga
zette's Muskogee, L T., correspondent
wires as follows: "The evidence taken in
the investigation of the misrepresentation
of money by the Creek delegates was
filed yesterday by Agent Gardner. The
taking of testimony abruptly closed Thurs
day after the delegates testified that
they paid ex-Governor Crawford the
S22S, 900 alleged to be unaccounted for.
Agent Gardner expresses the opinion that
Ex-Governor Crawford will be indicted
by the grand jury. The delegates are
only responsible to their constituency,
many of whom boldly assert that the
enormous fee claimed to have been paid
the attorney is a ruse to shift the burden
on Governor Crawford who in some way
will exonerate himself"
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
The TRUST CRAZE.
An American Consul Thinks Germany u
beriousiy Troubled With the Incorpora-
tion Fever.

An American Consul Thinks Germany u
BeriousIy Troubled With the Incorpora-
tion Fever.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-Jacob Muller,
Consul General of the United States at
Frankfort on the Main, under date of May
% sends to the State Department report
on the formation Of stock companies or
trusts in Germany which he calls the s'in-
corporation fever" He says that heshas
always looked distrustfully on existing
affairs there. The present events, the
gigantic strikes by which Germany Is vis-
tied, seem to him to prove that the social
conditions are fraught with danger. The
strikes are not revolutionary but are the
outgrowth of unbearable conditions. In
Rheinish Westpbalia, on a territory of not
more. than twenty square miles, S1OOO
people revolted at starvation prices.
When the mining companies were realiz-
ing better prices for Goals than for many
years past the miners were receiving
S125 to $1s5 per year. just now Mr..
Muller says Germany is showing
symptoms of business fever
sim lar in many respects to that which
terminated in the crash of 1873 1t Is TAX
ing the form of the creation of Industrial
enterprises or the changing of private un-
dertak ings into stock companies. In 1884
a law was enacted for the regulation OF
stock companies. 1t required more
definite statement of affairs in the or
ganization of the stock company, but it
made the stockholders much less respon-
sible than the members of a private firm.
The winnings" as he calls the earnings
Of these companies, will, he says, be
larger and spread out among a greater
number of persons, but the people of linn
tied means can not participate as the law
has fixed the inimum price of a share at
1000 marks. Mr.. Muller believes that the
separation of employer and employed
which must result from these changes in
business conditions will result in the
union of workingmen and a permanent
war between them and their employers.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
collisions caused BY Fog.

New YoRK. Aug. 3-There were sew
eral collisions in the bay and river dur
ing the fog yesterday. The Clyde line
steamer Yemasse from Charleston had in
tow the fishing schooner Melinda Wood.
of Nyack. The sehooner's foremast was
cut away, the mast was broken and a
large hole cut in her starboard bow.
When the collision oceurred the steamer
was running at half speed on account OF
the fog. The schooner j. p. Pharo, of
Providence, was towed up the bay by the
tug Robert Robinson aud bsached on the
Jersey fia.s. 1t was run into by the brig
C.,ana curing the fog last night The
schooner was almost a total wreck. Three
persons were rescued by the pilot beat.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THERE were two peculiar runaway
weddings celebrated at Chattanooga,
Tenn. the other day. One of them
was the marriage of William Lecroix,
aged seventy-six years, and Louisa
Bluck, only fourteen years old. In
the other case the couple were jackson
Slevins. aged sixty-fve, and Emma
Haynes. sixteen years of age. They
had never met until the day previous.
All the parties were members of well
known and highly respected families.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THE State Department is in receipt
of an exhaustive report on Russian
agriculture and the cereal trade from
Charlton H. Way, United States Con-
sul-General at st. Petersburg. He
says the export OF cereals from Russia
in the past two years shows an alb
normal increase, due to three causes
first, the enormous crop gathered from
both the black lands and arabic
prairies; second. the depreciation OF
the paper rouble; and, third, the
foolish practice Of systems of "cor-
ners" in the United States.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

CONSUL-GENERAL CARDwELL, of
Cairo, Egypt, warns the State Depart
ment that an extensive trade in Egyp-
tian rags with the United States is
rendered particularly dangerous by
the prevalence of smallpox in Lower
EpyDt
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THE British Columbia River Gold
Dredging Company has been registered
in London with a capital of f40,000 in
order to purchase Gibson's right to
dredge for gold in forty-fve miles of
Frazer river.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

SENECA SEvALIN. who caused Mrs.
Clara Belle McDonald's divorce from
her husband, the son of the president
of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco,
and then robbed her of $40. has
been sent to the California peniten-
tiary for ten years.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

The report that Queen Victoria was
considering trip to America has
neither been denied nor affirmed. The
fact that the Queen now is inclined
toward visiting Ireland and that the
rumored trip to America has not been
denied. is creating much talk through
out the Kingdom. However, nothing
has been vet announced.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

The Bancroft mills at Media, Pa,
whose product was handled by Lewis
Bros. & Co., the bankrupt dry goods
merchants of Philadelphia, have been
seized by the sheriff and advertised to
be sold at auction.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THE customs authorities at Mont
real, Can, have placed seizure on
the painting, Jerusalem on the Day
of the Crucifxion." on exhibition at
the Cyclorama. The picture is valued
at $25. 600.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THE work of tearing down the old
State House at New Haven, Conn.
commenced recently. About 5000 per-
sons witnessed the demolition, many
of whom expressed regrets at the dis
appearance of SO interesting a land
mark
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

AN American company is preparing
to open extensive iron mines in the
island of Cuba and is certain that they
will be a grand success. The scheme
includes a harbor and a breakwater
near the mines.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

IT is reported that syndicate OF
wealthy men, most of them Chicago
ans, are making preparations to pipe
natural gas from Indiana, where they
have secured 10000 acres of land, to
Chicarn
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

AN order has been issued making
men forty years old ineligible as letter
carriers in non-civil-service towns.
This limit does not apply to war
veterans.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

THE President has turned over the
papers applying for a pardon for E. L.
Harper, who wrecked the Fidelity
Bank, of Cincinnati, to the Attorney
General for examination.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

The Royal Grants bill has passed
the committee stage in the British
House of Commons, all amendments
being rejected by large maiorities.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

Two children belonging to the wife
of one of the locked-out miners died
at Spring Valley, ILL.,, the other day.
The physician who attended them pro-
nounced it clear case of starvation.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

The lead mines in Nuevo Leon,
Mexico, are shutting down, owing to
the imposition by the United States
Government of duties on lead ores.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

JAY EYE SEE. the phenomenal little
gelding owned by J. l. Case. of Racine.
Wis. has gone lame and will not be
trotted in any race this season. The
lameness is the result of an accident
at Lexington, KY, five years ago. Jay
Eye Saa's lowest record is 2:l0
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

ARTICLES of incorporation for new
air line road from Fort Wayne, Ind,
to Chicago have been filed with the
Indianapolis Secretary of State.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

FROST visited the low grounds about
Galena, ILL.,, on the morning of the 1st
and damaged growing vegetation.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

KING HUMBERT suddenly closed the
Italian Chamber on the I'd. This act
was believed to be the prelude to a
general election.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

INFORMATION from Vienna is to the
effect that a secret treaty has been
agreed to between Russia and Den
mark.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

1T is reported from Berne, Switzer~
land, that Germany has revoked the
recognition OF Swiss neutrality.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

COP is the first great principle. He is the
under power, the abiding base ana back
ground of our human life.-Phillips Brooks
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08

WHILE you have time amass for yourself
incorruptible riches-Thomas Kempia
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11
DOUSED WITH VITRIOL.
A SwindIer Disfigures a Former
Friend,

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-JameS Ducker
suddenly jumped into the room of E. S.
Sutherland tonight and dashed at Suth-
erland cup of nitric acid. The recip-
lent of the vitrol screamed in agony,
while Ducker hurried out and ran down
State street into Chinese opium den,
where he was captured a moment later
by police In pursuit. Ducker and
Sutherland were former comrades in
the United States army, serving until
recently as privates at Fort Leaven-
worth. The reason for the assault
lay in the fact that Ducker,
on coming to Chicago engaged i'm
the business of offering to mail
valuable watches at ridiculously low
figures on receipt of cash in advance.
he was getting great quantity of reg
istered mail, and, 1t is alleged, sending
no watches. While intoxicated last
night he told Sutherland the scheme.
Sutherland at once informed the au-
tborities, and to-day an attempt
was made to arrest Quicker, an
appointment with Sutherland being
used as decoy. Dncker asked
to have the warrant read, and watching
his chance jumped through window
and escaped. Nothing was then seen of
MIN until his attempt at revenge with
vitriol. A newspaper Sutherland was
reading caught most of the acid and
saved his face from destruction, but
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11

merOus bills have been introduced with
the emergency clause, but as these bills
may not receive two-thirds vote, and
if they do not there will be question as
to whether they will be constitutional
and can go into effect at all. Williams
introduced a resolution embOdying the
Illinois bill, providing that bill
CONTAINING THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE
and which does not receive two-thirds
vote shall stand as bill recOnsidered
and may be passed without the emerg-
ency clause. This Will save what prom
ised to be general invalidation of the
most important laws to be enacted, Inc
cluding the law for the enforcement of
prohibition. The judiciary committee
reported back the LutZ bill for licensing
lawyers. with the recommendation that
it do not pass. A bill of interest
throughout the nation is that attaching
all of the Sioux reservation lying in
North Dakota to Morton county for
judicial purposes. This is vast tract
of land in the judicial government of
which the government, the Indians and
the soldiers and officers of the United
States are interested. Another of gen.
eral interest is that introduced by Mr..
thinner, asking for the reduction OF the
area of land to be exempt under the
law one-half and limiting the value to
$1,000. The governor to-day approved
the bill appropriating $4,000 for legis-
lative expenses. Mr.. Walsh, of Grand
Forks. introduced bill providing for
the school of mines at Grand Forks.
This bill is considered necessary i'll
order to gain possession of the 10000
acres of land granted to the institution
by Congress. The bill appropriates
$4,000 for the construction of the insti-
tutions and approprlates the proceeds
arising from the lands for the retire
ment of the bonds.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11
TO RELIEVE THE WIDOW.
The Davis Land Company Plan
Will Be Carried Ont.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. lO.-The plan
formulated for the relief of Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis and family is embodied in an
address to the governors of the various
states, signed by Charles +. Fenuer,
chairman, and thirty-SiX others, COM
mittee, and recommending the carrying
out of the Davis Land company plan.
1t is stated that the nearest friends
of Mrs. Davis consider this the most
deli cate and practicable method of real
izing the desired benefits. The plan
also has the advantage of having Deen
sanctioned by Mr.. Davis during his life
time. A corporation was organized by
prominent citizens of Mississippi to
raise, by subscriptions to its stock, $780,
600. every cent of which was to be paid
to Mr.. Davis i'm purchase of 500 acres
of land in Arkansas belonging TO him.
The land is valuable, and SO situated
that its development will doubtless fully
BILE time. The treasurer of the
organization is 5. s. Carter,
president of the First National
Bank of Jackson. Miss. The Louisiana
National bank, of this city. will act as
fiscal agent to receive subscriptions and
distribute the certificates of stock. The
governors OF the states are urged to
help carry out this plan, and to divert
into this one channel all the funds that
may have been projected. The shares
in the company are SO each.
MoNTG oMERY, Ala. Dec. 10.-A COM
mittee of prominent citizens left to-
night for New Orleans. Cows. Gordon.
Fowle and Richardson also passed.
through the city. -Four companies "
militia also left tonight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11
TO CoLONIZE THE CONGO.
Senator Morgan Wants American
Negroes to Emigrate.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10.-Sena-
tor Morgan, of Alabama. a member of
the committee on foreign relations, was
asked to-day by an Associated Press re-
porter the purport of the resolution
offered by him yesterday. 1t "instructs
the committee on foreign relations to
inquire and report as to the best method
of increasing trade and commerce be-
tween the people of the new state of
Congo and the people of the United
States, and as to what impediments, if
any, exist in our diplomatic relations
with the Free State of Congo and other
powers, standing in the way of such
trade, commerce and intercourse" The
senator said:
When the convention Of twenty-one powers
met in Berlin to fix the status of the Congo
state, the United States did not accept the
conclusions of the convention, and, there
fore, has no political rights in that country.
l do not think that has ever been brought to
the attention of Mr.. Blaine, but am anxious
that it should be, and that the United States
should secure its just political power in
Congo. Ny reason for desiring this is that
it may be able to encourage negroes of this
country who have wealth and enterprise,
but have not standing and never will have
here to engage in trade in that country.
Ultimately, have in view general emf
grafton of negroes from the United States to
Congo They came from that country, and
should return Here their civilization is
wasted: there, it might be developed 10 the
building up of a government, and country
that shall be credit to them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11
AN ANNUAL DEPART
URE.

Every Holiday season we
make a departure from our
usual stock and lay in an
assortment of goods partic-
ularly suitable for accepta-
BILE Christmas Presents for
Husbands, Brothers and Lovers.
Women will now find here
in great variety just such
useful and sensible articles
of dress as all men WM ap-
Precfote for a gift.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-11
GREAT SIN OF THIS AGE.
Senator Turpie Jumps on Trusts
With Both Feet,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-In the senate
to-day DIR. Morrill, reported adversely
the bill to provide for the organization
of national banks with a capital less
than $4,000. and it was indefinitely
postponed. MIR. Turpie called up his
resolution of yesterday in relation to
trust penalties. and addressed the SEN
ate at some length on that subject. He;
contrOverted the assertion that trusts
were beneficial to the pubic, and said
that no trust was ever formed with a
view to public interest. He claimed that
the modern trust consolidated the three
legal offences of forestalling, engrossing
and monopoly into one. In providing
for their suppresstiOn congress would
besonly following the Roman and English
codes. Trusts were the gigantic sin of
this age. They were an iniquitous
system that honeycOmbed the whole
world of domestic commerce with
fraud. He favored the legislation pro-
posed by the bills introduced by Messrs.
Sherman and George, in conjunction
with his own proposition for confiscat-
ing trust goods. The senate then pro-
ceeded to the consideration of executive
business and at :35 adjourned until
tomorrow. Among the bills introduced
in the senate to-day were the follow
ing:
By Mr.. Spooner-Making it the duty OF the
proper officers Of the treasury and interior
departments to adjust and settle the claims
of any state against the Uuited States for all
lands disposed of by the United States that
were included in any grant of swamp or over
flowed lands to such state. The state is to
be paid for the lands at the rate of which
they were sold by the United States.
By Mr.. Hawley-For the selection from the
National guard and from the military schools
Of civilians to be appointed second lieuten-
ants In the regular army.
~ MI; squiremf9,r tns eTecion oa OF public