The Brookhaven leader., 1890-04-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

The United States steamship ALI
ance at Gibraltar has been ordered TO
convey United States Consul Matthews
to Tangier, Morocco. The cause was
not known.
WILKINSON Bros. & Co. have attached
the postal cards works at Ansonia,
Conn, on a claim of $40, 900 under in
structions from Washington. The Gov
ernment officials have recently found
fault with the cards made by Contract
or A. L. Daggett and he was forced to
procure a new supply.
COLLECTOR PHILLIPS, of San Fran
cisco, has received a dispatch from Sec
retary Window revoking the privilege
of transferring Cinnamon to Panama
steamers allowed by instructions of his
predecessor.
| A FATAL accident occurred the other
day at Bergamo, Italy. The roof Of a
weaving mill, in which 800 girls were at
work, fell in and seventeen of the girls
we're killed.
THE cornerstone of the new Federal
building in Piedras Negras, Tex, was the
other night dislodged from its bed and its
contents consisting of coins, plans and
relics of many kinds were stolen. 1t
was the work of Mexicans.
AFTER stirring discussion the New
England presbytery voted twenty-nine
to eighteen against the revision of the
creed
The Chicago steamer City Of New
York, which was reported to have found.
cred off Manitowec, was stated to be
safe. dispatch having been received
from her captain.
IT was discovered the other morning
at Castle Garden, that of 1, 403 French
and Italian immigrants on board the
steamship Caichemere, the majority
were bound for Pittsburgh, Pa, under
contracts made in Italy.
BY an explosion on the Harmonic es-
tate in Cuba the other day three persons
were killed and fourteen injured.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were said to be
raging on the mountains north of Pine
Grove, Pa, and hundreds of acres of
timber were being destroyed.
MARCUS c. STEARNs, ex-Mayor Har-
rison's father-in-law, of Chicago, who
committed suicide, left an estate of
50, 600, 900 and gave it all to members OF
his family, bequeathing nothing to any
public institution or charity.
A WAGON loaded with nitro-glycerine
shells, used in shooting oil and gas
wells, exploded recently with terrific
force at Cygnet o. Two men who were
on the wagon were blown hundreds of
yards, and nothing was left of them but
few strings of their clothing
AZ ID n, hor ,lyu
Mimi, burned the other morning and
twenty-one imported breeding mares
perished. They were valued at S25, ,000
The barn cost So, 500. There is an in
surance of $10,000
AN American syndicate is reported to
have purchased controlling interest in
all but one binding twine factory in
Canada.
THE schooner Annie May was wrecked
lately off Newfoundland and the captain
and three men drowned.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has refused to
pardon Henry A. Schmidt. of Missouri,
convicted of violating the Alien Contract
Labor law.
THREE men were instantly killed by
the premature explosion of blast
at a cement mill near Sellersburg, Ind,
the other day. All were horribly man
gled.
ABRAHAM BoGARDUs superintendent
of mails in the postotfice at Rochester,
N. Y, has been arrested for robbing let
ters. He was caught by decoy letters.
LEM SING, the Chinaman who was re-
fused entry to Canada or the United
States for forty-eight hours, which he
spent on the Niagara Falls suspension
bridge was allowed to enter Canada