The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-03
DYNAMITE magazine on the Wheeling

A DYNAMITE magazine on the Wheeling
& Lake Erie railroad at Mount Pleasant,
o., seventeen miles west of Wheeling, w.
Va, exploded on the 23d, wrecking win
dows and iDjuring buildings. 1t was re-
ported that several persons were killed.
THE boiler of Hastings sawmill. at Gold
Hill, near Boulder, Col, exploded the other
day. Four men were killed.
THREE men named Shaw, Taylor and
Plessner have been arrested in Chicago
charged with swindling. The arrests were
due to admissions made by Lawyer CUT
ting in regard to bonds stolen from Kel-
logg. johnson & Bliss last spring.
AN epizootic was reported spreading
among horses at Columbus. o. The street
car company has forty sick. The disease
is new to the veterinary surgeons. 1t APP
parently affects the glands OF the throat,
causing a swelling which makes breathing
and eating difficult.
The steamer Mendocine, which went
ashore at Eureka, Cal, was total loss.
Little May Brogg, daughter of the engi-
neer, was the only person drowned. The
vessel and cargo were valued at 10000.
CREAM puffs poisoned Mrs. r. Sorenson,
ker three children and her father, Nels
Marcus, recently ut Chicago, three proba-
the tin dish in which they were made.
JOHN FRAME and Nicholas Hammond
nineteen years o!d, were drowned while
skating on the Calumet river, near Ham
mond, Ind, recently.
THE Methodists ministers of Columbus
o., have passed resolut ons deprecating
the proposed pageantry at the Pres dent
ial inauguration, which they condemn as
aping the follies ami pomp of European
monarchies.
Two men were crushed to death under
six hundred tons of hard coal at Cleve-
land, o., recently by the breaking of a
bin.
BECAUSE her husband danced with an
other woman at ball in Duluth, Mimi,
the other night, Mrs. Zeus, aged twenty,
took strychnine.
BAUEREIsEN, the alleged 80" dynamiter,
was convicted at Geneva, ILL.,, on the oath
and sentenced to two years. imprison-
ment.
In the live bird shooting match at
Cincinnati the other day, between Captain
Bogardus and AL Bandle, tho score re-
suited: Baudle, 100; Bogardus, %.
THE overland eastbound Central Pa
cific train was held up by robbers near
Clipper Gap, in the Sierras, on the 18th
and robbed of large amount of money,
said to be $4,000.
FIVE men were killed and two badly
hurt by the falling of earth in an excava-
tion at Denver, Col, on the Goth. The ac-
cident was due to carelessness on the part
of the gas company in laying pipe.
A BROKEN switch at Helena, Mont, on
the 26th, caused the death of fireman
named Moore and serious injury of pas
senger. The engine and one coach were
overturned.
WILLIAM WEsTERNBERGER died of hy-
drophobia at Logan, o., recently. The
night prior to his death the physicians put
him in a straight jacket, which he soon
tore to pieces. 1t took four or five strong
men 10 hold him when attacked by a con-
vulsion.
Ex-JUDGE ROBERT A. JOHNSON commit
ted suicide at Avondale near Cincinnati,
recently. About two mouths ago Mr..
Johnston died, and the Judge was unable
to withstand his grief.
A GROCERY store on South State street,
Chicago, was destroyed by an incsndiary
fire early the other morning, and an un-
known man, supposed to have been a burg
lar, was burned to death. A barrel of oil
exploded during the fire and Frank Polo,
who was standing outside the store, was
fatally burned.