The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-15
MISCFLIANEOUS.

THE steamship Montreal, of the Do
minion line, from Montreal to Liverpool,
was wrecked recently on Belle isle. The
passengers aLl crew were saved
The arbitration committee of business
men, to whom was referred the wage dis
pute in the Streator Ill.) coal fields, rem
dered a decision, fixing the price to be
paid workmen at 721a cents a ton. The
demand of the miners was for so cents.
The prisoners confined in Fort San Juan
De Ulloa at Vera Cruz, Mexico, recently
revolted against the officials. The troops
on duty at the fort shot twenty of the
prisoners and queled the uprising.
THE Galveston News has published the
last OF it's crop reports. The reports were
almost unanimous in chronIclng the best
corn crop for years, while the yield for
other grain was fully up to an average.
The cotton crop was splendid one.
The report of Captain Shepard, COM
manding the revenue steamer Rush, in re-
gard to the British sealer Black Diamond,
which was mailed at San Francisco, has
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment Acting Secretary Batcheler re-
fused positively to give it to the press,
but admitted that it confirmed substan-
italy the newspaper reports concerning
the seizure.
A DISPATCH has been received at New
York police headquarters from Detective
Phil Reilly, dated Panama, announcing
that he had given up all hope of recaptur-
ing Bushnell, the defaulter, and that he
was on his way home alone.
A LOSS of about $3.50, 900 was caused by a
fire which started the other night in A. C.
Trentman's building, ON Calhoun street.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
On the night of the 9th the Rio Grande
Western train No. 3, known as the Modoc,
was held up near Thompson's Springs by
train robbers. Efforts to break into the ex-
press car failed. and they secured only
about $1,000 and some jewelrY from the
passengers.
The committee to report on the books of
e. H. Stedman, county treasurer. of Des
Moines, Iowa, report deficit of $11, 800.
The wreck of the steamer Montreal in
the straits of Belle Isle was due to an ics-
berg, which forced the steamer aground.
THE finding of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones. his wife and two other persons was
reported from Corvallis, a small
town in Butterrot valley, in Western
Montana. A young girl, who had been
shot in the hip. was also found on Big
Hole mountain. All OF them had been
shot in the back.
EBEN s. ALLEN president Of the Forty
second Street Car Company, New York,
has been arrested for forging certificates
of stock for about 700 shares. The amount
Of his defalcation is stated to be Sl25, 900
or $4,000 The money was probably
sunk in a worthless fire escape patent
A DETERMINED effort is being made in
Chicago to abolish the illustrated police
newspapers.
BENJAMIN F. SPANDAUER, who was the
principal witness against Mrs. Surrat,
hanged at Washington in 1866 on the
;harge of conniving at the assassin alton
of President Lincoln, died recently in the
Maryland penitentiary.
THE annual convention of the American
Catholic Total Abstinence Society closed
at Cleveland, o., on the Sth. Rev. j. NJ.
Cleary, Of Wisconsin. was elected presi-
dent.
The Columbus Iron Company, of Lam
caster, Pa, recently posted a notica of
an increase from $3.50 to So IS for pudding
and other wages in proportion, thus keep
ing the promise made four months ago
that when trade grew better they would
advance wages to the old standard.