The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-24

Il AuaFcnlsts IN Walunelm cemetery, CHI
cago, on the 18th.
Two ladies of Frankfort Ind, were
struck by train at a crossing the other
day and fatally injured.
The five Apache Indians who were tried
and convicted at Florence, Ariz., for MUIR
der have been sentenced to be hanged.
Three were charged with the murder OF
Diehl two years ago and two with the
murder Of Jones.
ONE man was killed and three fatally
| injured by the fall OF a scaffolding at the
new water works at Bethlehem, Pa, re-
Gently.
Ex-MAYoR LEWIS, Of New Haven,
Conn.,, proposes as a Worlds Fair feature
to recognize the 400th anniversary of the
discovery Of America by lighting great
bonfires simultaneously on the hilltops all
over the country.
HENRY WIGFALI, a barber of Atlanta,
Ga, swallowed fish bone recently and
died soon after in great agony from
strangulation.
THE factory and stock of the Pine Door
& Lumber Company of Grants Pass, Ore 4,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
The loss was $4,000.
THE marine conference at Washington
is devoted to the discussion of technical
matters.
WASHINGTON is beginning to boom its
Worlds Fair project.
THE American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions in session in New
York elected officers as follows: Presi-
| dent II. s. Storrs, ID. D.; vice. president,
L. w. Latchford; recording secretary,
| Henry A. Stimso1; assistant recording
| secretary, E. N. Packard; treasurer,
Langdon S. Ward.
| AT the meeting of the railway brake
men in Minneapolis Hon. l. S. Coffin, Of
Iowa, advised them to urge Congress to
take action in the matter of safety appli-
ances.
JOSEPH PAUL, a Chicago boy, met TN
awful death recently. He was caught
between an immense fywheel and the
betting.
IT is estimated that 26,000 900 persons
will have visited the Paris Exposition
when it closes
| JOHN LEWIS, Jerome Race and Thomas
Cooney, three youths of eighteen, were
instantly killed on the Hudson River
rack near Hudson. n. Y, recently. They
stepped from one track to another TO avoid
a train when locomotive struck them.
THE Emperor of China has authorized
the building of a railroad between Pekin
and Hankow.
The cotton oil trust has filed application
to increase its capital stock to so 900. 600
and form a corporation, thus avoiding the
egal penalties to which it was liable in
| New York.
CHILL mas abolished many import duties
on tools aud ma terial used in agriculture
| and the building of railroads, etc.
Al l.
burg Germany geological gardens was
killed recently by a jaguar which man.
aged to seize her through the bars of ais
cage.
SECRETARY WINDOW has announced that
he will retain the old rules governing tho
Importation of Mexican lead ores.
BUSINESS ia lures (Dun's reporD for the
seven days ended October II numbered
223, compared with 224 the corresponding
week of last year. The figures include
| Canada.
MUCH destitution is reported among the
foreign laborers at Lynch's canning
works, Kent County. Md. The manager
had departed leaving the men with checks
which the stores refused to honor.
AN immense prairie fire was reported
raging a Few miles from Bismarck, N. D.,
on t'H 18th. The village of Monokin was
entirely swept away.
The inquiry at the Jefferson barracks
St Louis, has ended. The depositions
make 800 pages.
AT Millsport, Lamar County, Ala, a
few days ago, William Abercrombie.
white, of Birmingham, Ala, held up the
express agent and secured Sc, 900, received
by him that night.
THE Western whisky trust is said TO be
scheming to break up the outside distil-
leries. Half a million dollars will bo
spent if necessary.