The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-12

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dynamite exploded prematurely. tearing
the lighter to pieces killing r. T. Moore.
son of the captain, and a colored man
named Powell and seriously in1uring En-
gineer Dunn.
AN explosion occurred in the ironstone
pit of the Maurice Wood colliery at Mid
lothian, Scotland. recently. Sixty miners
were imprisoned. Four dead bodies were
recovered and it was thought the others
were dead
ATTORNEY GENERAL HoGG of Texas
has instituted suit to declare $16 900, 900 of
mortgage bonds issued by the Interna-
tional & Great Northern Railroad Com
pany null and void. 1t was alleged the
mortgaged bonds were really watered
stock and therefore Illegal under the law.
BISHOP MCQUADE has excommunicated
James Kelly and William Dempsey, prom
inent Catholics of Waterloo. N. Y, be-
cause they brought Dr. McGlynn there
| to deliver a lecture upon "Fathef Lam
bert a Priest Who Went to Rome, aud
What He Got There" Both men belonged
to Father Lambert's old parish.
THE employees of the Santa Fe, who
were affected by the 10 per cent. reduc-
tion last spring, have all along been look
ing for a restoration, until the recent
furry created by the resignation of Presi-
dent Strong. 1t has been given out from
official sources that a restoration would
not be made, but on the other hand that a
reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent. is i'm
| mjnent.
THE reunion of the blue and the gray
with Texas pioneers closed at Fort Worth
| on the 9th with a grand ball.
| CAPTAIN WIsSMANN, with 400 men, has
g.. nj II l.,
for killing Officer Nielsen, of the East
Africa Company.
THE British ship Winston, coal laden.
from Sydney to San Francisco, was
wrecked on Starbuck island about July II.
The captain and eight of the crew were
missing, the rest being rescued.
ONLY fourteen of the sixty imprisoned
miners at Midlothian, Scotland, succeeded
in escaping.
THE Douglass (Mass.) Axe Company
| has failed. Affairs were in bad shape
with Dennison Dana, the treasurer, miss
! ing.
The London dock companies on the 9th
agreed to consider proposal for the six
penny rate to commence next January.
| The str kers were advised to accept the
compromise and the trouble was probably
| ended.
AT Rising Fawn (Ga. furnaces recently
three negro convicts were killed by pre-
| mature explosion of dynamite. The acci-
| dent was the result Cf the mems careless
| ness.
FIRE broke out back of J. Forbes saloon
| at Linkville, Ore, recently and in two
hours the whole business part Of the town
| was in ashes. The loss was about $160,
| 600. Ben Monroe was severely burned.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended September 5 numbered
| POI, compared with 2l1 the previous week
and s2i the CORES sponding week of last
| year.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite oc-
Cured in cartridge factory at Antwerp,
Belgium, on the 6'h, resulting in n shock
| ing loss of life and a disastrous confagra
| ton. 1t was estimated that 300 persons
were killed and 1000 wounded.
AT the meeting of the board of directors
of the Santa Fe railroad at Boston on the
9th, William B. Strong handed in his res
ignation as president and director.
Allen Marvel was elected to fill the va
cancy.
The haste of a passenger brakeman at
the switch at Plymouth. o., to get to his
train caused him to turn the switch before
the last sleeper had entirely passed and it
was overturned and five persons were in
j1red.
LETTERS from stockmen in Northern
Wyoming say that the Big Horn mount
aims were ablaze and the loss from the
destruction of TIMBER ranches and other
property would reach $500, 000
CHARLES Mort, who was injured on the
revenue steamer Fessenden during the
sham naval battle at Milwaukee, Wis, is
dead.