The Brookhaven leader., 1889-02-21
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collidsd with freight Express Nessen-
ger whiiiiu. 6f ChIcagd was Instantly
Killed and the conductor Of the freight was
badly hurt; Also brakeman. The others
escaped.
A JOINT meeting OF Union and Confed-
erate veterans engaged in the battle of
Chickamauga was held recently in WASH
ington to take steps to preserve the bat
tlefeld and mark the positions of the
forces. An association similar to that OF
Getty sburg was decided on.
THE Washburn e. Moen Barbed Wire
Company, which controls all the patents
in this country, claim that the Janen
patent in France does not cover the Gid.
den patent.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road directors have declared a dividend of
one per cent
The boiler makers in the employ of the
Risdon iron works at San Francisco have
struck on the ground that certain iron
plates being used in the repair of the
boilers Of the steamship Australia were
made abroad. The strikers contend that
they will not work in any shop which pro-
cures any portion of the boilers in the East
or In foreign countries; that every thing
must be made on the Pacific coast.
REV. FATHER DANIEL DoUGHERTY, some
years ago Catholic priest in Kansas
City, has begun the practice of medicine
in Chicago, having renounced the priest
hood.
A LIVELY war on freight rates is brew
ing among the Atlantic steamship lines.
The White Star Company has cut rates
from Europe fifty per cent and the other
lines are ready to follow suit.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted at Lake
Stanberg, Bavaria, recently when two per-
sons drowned themselves in its waters.
Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven
persons have drowned themselves in the
lake.
THE official trial of the new gunboat
Yorktown was made in Delaware bay re-
Gently and was pronounced a success.
THE stock barn of d. Henry Reman near
Emmettsburg, Md, in which were several
valuable horses and great quantity of
produce, was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, $4,000; cause, incendiarism.
THREE buildings in Gluckman & Heller's
block, at Chippewa Falls, Wis, were de-
stroyed by fire the other morning. The
loss on the buildings and stock was about
$40 900. Partly insured
THE Bartholomay, Genesee, Rochester
and possibly the Miller breweres, the four
largest in Rochester, N Y, have, it is
said, passed into the hands of the
great English syndicate said to have $125-
900, 0O0 capital.
THERE is some anxiety among farmers
and III iners in California on account of the
absence of rain in the valleys and snow
in the mountains.
BUSINESS ia lures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February IA numbered
2S9, compared with 1903 The previous week
and 2T3 the corresponding week of last
year.
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria,
MINI, recently for killing his rival in
love affair in cold blood after a spree.
John Moe, his partner in crime, was
granted a communication at the last moment.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a loco
motive at Norristown, Pa, recently the
engineer and fireman were killed.
FOUR ladies were severely hurt In
Chester, Pa, recently by n collision be-
tween a railway train and street car.
THE Opera House block in Cape Vincent,
N. Y, and the bank in which were 7SC
pounds of opium recently seized have been
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
MONROE WILKERSoN, a colored nur-
derer condemned to be hanged at Scotts-
Vile, KY, March %, made desperate at
tempt to escape the other night but was
recaptured and chained to the Jail floor
JOHN GRAY. prominent citizen of Pitts
ton, Pa, was found murdered on by
street recently. Italian robbers were sus-
pected.
THE committee appointed at the recent
meeting of the American Shipping and
Industrial League have presented to Gem
eral Harrison the resolutions adopted by
the league