The Brookhaven leader., 1890-11-20
J. g. WALcorT & Co, brokers' New
York, have assigned.

AN epidemic Of typhoid fever is rag.
ing at Clementville, o. There have
been already eighty-nine cases. oI
which twenty-five have been fatal Al
present forty persons arc stricken.
business Is entirely suspended and the
200 people who make up the population
are wild with fear
A DISASTROUS railroad accident oc-
Cured on the Southern Pacific about
five miles from Salem, Orc The end ot
a long trestle gave way under a passen-
ger train and four men were taken out
OF the wreck dead. About twenty per-
sons besides were seriously injured.
THERE was panic in Chicago's Gov
ernment building on the 18th. A re.
port was heard and crack thirty feet
long was seen in the walls.
SECRETARY TRACY has issued an or
der increasing the number OF stars on
the National ensign and Union jack to
forty.three. Five new stars are added,
one each for North Dakota, South Da.
kota, Montana, Washington and Idaho.
The stars are arranged in six rows, the
top row containing eight stars and the
other FIVE rows containing seven stars
zach.
THE Washington Critic publ shes the
statement that the recent furry In
stocks and the temporary panic in tho
money market were due to the with
drawal from circulation by the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company of its $1,000, ,0OI
surplus
THE case OF Rube Smith, cousin of
Rube Burrows, ended at Jackson, Miss,
in vordict Of guilty. The charge was
for robbing the mails at Buckatunna in
September, 1889. Smith is the only
survivor of the notorious Rube Bur.
rows gang Of train robbers.
THE coroner's jury which investigated
the cause of the wreck on the Southern
Pacific, at Salem, Ore, censured the
railway company for allowing a defect
i've trestle to remain in uso. The com.
pany is declared guilty OF criminal
negligence.
BIRCIIALL was executed at Woodstock
Ont, on the 14th for the murder of L.
C. Benwell, whom he had enticed from
England for the pupil farming swindle
in Canada. All the parties were we'll
connected with English families.
Birchall denied the crime of murder,
but admitted the attempt at swindling.
In Brooklyn verdict was rendered
for sc. 500 in favor of ex-Assemblyman
Daniel w. Talmage against the New
York World. Mr.. Talmage sued the
World for $50, 900 for libel in calling him
a corrupt legislator
UNHAPPY differences continue to pro,
vent the Chicago Worlds Fair directors
from accomplishing any thing definite
r. NJ WAIVER & Co, sewing machine
and lamp manufacturers of Hamilton,
Ont, have assigned. The liabilities are
estimated at about 5000, 900. The assets
consist OF real estate, plant and book
debts
THE English syndicate that bought
the Pillsbury-W Wash burn flour mills at
Minneapolis seems to have made a
good thing out OF the transaction. A
dividend of ten pcr cent was declared
for the first year.
GENERAL RUGER, U. S. A., has re.
turned from the Standing Rock agency,
where he has been invest eating the
threatened outbreak Of the Indians in
expectation of their long looked for
Messiah. He says that the excitement
has subsidized and no trouble is antici.
pated.
THE business portion of the town OF
Barton, o, population 1000, has been
destroyed by fire.
In freight collision on the Kansas
City road near Elkton, Mimi, Enginees
Penneham, Head Brakeman Callahan
and Fireman Folfew were instantly
killed. They were all from St Paul.