The Brookhaven leader., 1889-05-30

DICK HAwEs, charged with the murder
Of his wife and child at Birmingham, Ala,
has been sentenced to be hanged July II
CLIFFORD 6 SERMONS shoe factory and
Mowers & Co.'s wholesale creamery sup.
plies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were
destroyed by Ere the other day. Loss,
$50, 600.
FIFTY-NINR miners at Merthyr-T ydvil,
Wales, were entombed by the caving in
Of the roof OF the colliery recently, but
only one was killed.
A PAS-SERvIAS plot has been discov-
cred in Bosnia, and numerous Russian in
triguers have been arrested.
THE women employed in the rice fields
at Medina, Italy, struck recently. They
pillaged a number of baker shops. Troops
were ordered to the scene.
THE Navy Department has completed
and soon will issue advertisements calling
for proposals for the construction of the
new cruisers slightly larger than the
Yorktown, and Of 2. 000 tons burden. The
limit of cost fixed in the appropriation
act is $4,000 for each vessel.
THE Aged Workmen's Insurance bill
has passed the third reading in the Ger
man Reichstag.
The granite works at South Riegate,
VT, have gone into q receivers hands.
The liabilities are SOC, 900 and the assets
$40. 000
The special meeting of the transmits
souri, Association, which had been in ses.
sion in Chicago for two days, resulted in
a disagreement as to what the relative
rates on bullion should be from Colorado
and Wyoming. The matter was referred d
to arbitration.
A MAN and a boy were instantly killed
at Dundee, ILL.,, recently by the collapse of
barn which they were moving.
THE Spanish steamer Emeliano, loaded
with cotton, arrived at Liverpool, Eng,
the other day with her cargo on fire. The
flames were extinguished only after =
hard fight
FRANK L. and Howard G. Loomis, anG
Edwin s. Jewell, officers of the Century
Book and Paper Company, Of Chicago,
have been indicted by the grand jury for
conspiracy to defraud.
The celebrated Twiggs swords which
have been in the custody of the Govern
ment since 1862 have been delivered by
Secretary Window to A. c. Myer. executor
of the Twiggs estate. This is in accord
ance with the provisions of an act passed
by the last Congress and the decision OF
the Court of Claims establishing the
ownership of the swords.
ONE of the Milwaukee Cinnamon &C.
cused of outraging little girls and whose
arrest led to rioting has been found guilty
and will be snt to the penitentiary foI
thirty five years.
GEORGE CUTLER and his team of horses
were killed by lightning near Murdock,
ILL.,, the other day.
THE work of evicting tenants was con-
| tinued on the Olpihert estate Ireland, on
the oath. The evictors met with a desper-
ate resistance, and during the struggle
Inspector Duff was badly wounded.
A SON and daughter of John Bolter, of
Fort Atkinson, Wis, were drowned re-
Gently while returning from a fishing ex-
cursion.
GREAT damage has been done the corn
and potato crops In the vicinity of Wabash,
Ind, by freezing weather.
THE Tanglade stage was robbed of the
United States mails near Shawang, Wis,
recently.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended May 90 numbered 229,
compared with 252 the previous week and
225 the corresponding week of last year.
MOB threatened a serious riot at
Guthrie, l. T., recently because of the
eviction Oh squatter Ill accorudhce WIN
decision of the board of arbitration. The
presence of the military alone saved the
city hall from attack.
THE west bound train on the St Louis &
San Francisco railroad, which left st.
Louis on the night of the 23d, was wrecked
three miles west of Sullivan, No, sixty
eight miles west of st Louis. Not pas
senger escaped unhurt and forty five were
seriously injured, though no deaths were
reported. Investigation showed that the
train had been maliciously wrecked, spikes
and tish-plates being removed from rail.