The Brookhaven leader., 1890-07-31

Mimi, two lives were lost In a recent
storm.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany has purchased the New Brunswick
line, thus securing a connection to the
Atlantic ocean.
FIRE in Fairvillc, n. Y, destroyed
the opera house and a number OF small
stores The loss was S55, 900; insurance,
s25, 900.
Two men were killed and several
barns and fire alarm boxes and tele-
phones in Sheboygan, Wis, burned by
lightning recently.
SECRETARY HARRIS of the North Da-
kota Railroad Commission, denounces
as false the report that North Dakota
elevators will refuse to store grain this
year.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
purchased Sc $50, 600 per cents at prices
ranging from 122A@124, and S432, SOC
AIS at 1034 4@1O319.
A MYSTERIOUS explosion occurred in
Billiards. boarding house at Savannah,
Ga, the other night The house col
lapsed and three persons were killed
and six injured.
Two men were blown to pieces by an
explosion in the corning mill Of the Laf-
lin & Rand powder works near Paterson,
n. j.
THE Government inspectors have Sc
cured the names of PA persons who
were on board the i'll fated steamer Sea
Wing which was wrecked on Lake
Pepin. The steamer and barge were
allowed by law to carry only 175 persons.
The penalty for violating the law is
severe.
A COMBINE OF all the principal label
printing houses in the country has been
formed and will be controlled by Hynes,
Ketchum e Co, Brooklyn, n. Y.
A SENSATION was created at Butte,
Mont, by the filing of the will of the
late Judge A. J. Davis The document,
which was dated in Iowa in 1856, makes
his brother John Davis sole heir. An
nuitics are also given to two illegitimate
children. The estate is valued at So
600, 600.
A HORRIBLE case of cannibalism is re.
ported from Cairo, Egypt A negrcss
employed as nurse, apparently seized
with a sudden recurrence of savage in
stincts, killed two children of her EN-
ployer and devoured their bodies.
A TERRIFIC thunder storm is reported
from jackson valley, Nevada. Rocks
were upheaved, sand thrown hundred
feet in the air, trees torn up and the
ground rent ten feet deep. Two Pluto
Indians and several animals are re-
ported to have been killed. The thun-
dercloud was about an acre in area.
THE crops throughout France, except
in one section east of the Rhone, have
been destroyed by incessant rains.
Official reports from the great wheat
district of LaBasque state that the crop
is rotting. The losses are estimated at
800. 600, 900 francs.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor0 for
the seven days ended July "a num-
bered 199, compared with 207 the previ-
GUS week and 2l6 the corresponding
week OF last year. Business was re.
ported improving.
IT is officially stated that seventy fatal
cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred
in Baku, Russia, and vicinity. The heat
in the vicinity is intense.
BRAKEMAN WILLIAM HIBLER was
killed near Bloomington. Ind, recently.
Conductor Arnold of the train has been
arrested on charge of having thrown
Hibler from the train.
A BAND of Arnauts recently made a
night attack upon the Montenegrin viii
lage Rogmore, many persons being MUIR
dered. The Arnauts plundered the viii
lage and then left. Aftcrward the band
was attacked by Turkish troops and
sixty Arnauts were killed and many
others wounded.