The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Journeymen Plumbers. Gas and
Steam Filters Laborers' Union has de-
cided to sever its connection with the
Knights of Labor. This means the deser-
tion of about Is, 900 men from the ranks of
that organization.
A DOUBLE execution took place at Louis
willie, KY, on the 31st. Charles Dilger
was hanged for the murder of two police
men and Harry Smart for the murder of
man and woman while going down the
river in boat. Dilger's execution was
bungled, the moose slipping, necessitating
his being dropped twice through the trap.
SEVEN shipwrecked Norwegian sailors
have been picked up by the steamer Mag
ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
THE Cincinnati Ham ltol & D"y,on
passenger train was wrecked at Oxford,
O., on the night of the 3lst Twelve or
fourteen persons were killed and injured.
The Spanish Government has advised
the Pope that in case he finds it necessary
| to leave Rome he should find asylum in
Portugal. 1t is understood that the same
advice has been given to the Pope by
Austria.
A HARMLESS earthquake shock was felt
in California on the morning of the 3lst
DR. g. NJ. CANTRELL, physician of the
Arkansas penitentiary, asserts that jim
Burrows, the Genoa train robber, died in
the prison hospital October 8, 1855, of
ty pho -malarial fever.
LACK of water caused a boiler explosion
| east of Fairfield, ILL.,, the other day. One
| man was killed and two fatally injured.
The National Bureau of Engraving"
of Philadelphia, a large photographic
printing establishment is hopelessly in
yolved, Its material has been ordered
for sale.
THE Sierras and Milton stage was
stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper
| oils, CAL Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe was
blown open, but found to contain nothing.
| Seventy five dollars taken from the pas
sengers was all the robbers secured.
THE memorial commemorating the land
| ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass, on the 1st.
The July sanitary reports to the Marine
Hospital Service from Philadelphia and
| Chicago show that the latter leads the
former in population and is the second
| city in the Union. The population is
placed as follows: Chicago, 1,100. 900;
Philadelphia, 1,040 245.
THE Richmond (Va.) railroad stables
were struck by lightning the other day
and burned Sixty mules and horses and
| seven street cars were consumed
The New York Graphic is again in
| trouble. Reporters and clerks are clamor-
| ing for salaries. A syndicate, headed by
Steve B Elkins, was supposed to own it.
The public debt statement, issued
| August /, showed an increase during July
| of S1,017, 3l3 81. The cause of the increase
was due principally to pension payments.
THERE was a cloudburst at Watkins
| Glen, N. Y, on the 1st.
THE Algerian, a merchant vessel. sunk
| at Aultsville, Ont, the other day. The
| crew and passengers were saved.
THE rainfall in the Pennsylvania Goa
| regions was very heavy recently and q
| number of collieries were compelled tc
| shut down. The streams were greatly
| swollen and the majority OF the collieries
| in the Mahoning valley were drowned out
FIVE hundred striking Italian railroad
laborers near Pittsburgh, Pa, recently
! engaged in riot. Two were killed.