The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-01

SAN AUGUSTINE, Tex, dispatch re-
Gently stated that Sim Garrett and Jerry
Teel were lynched for attempting to
poison Colonel John III. Brooks. For
want of something better the mob
hanged the men on meat hooks at the
butcher shop.
JANE ARTHURs was burned to death in
her home at Belleville, Ont, the other
night. Her husband was also burned,
probably fatally.
For three days continuous rain fell
all over Texas. Rivers and bayous were
out of their banks. Bridges we're swept
away and travellers delayed. All stock
in the lowlands and canebrakes were
drowned, but no loss of life was reported.
DURING fire at the Unicorn Silk
Manufacturing Company's works at Cat
asaqua, Pa, an explosion of vitriol took
place. Five men were killed and many
shockingly injured.
THE strike at Means shoe factory,
Brocton, Mass, has ended in com.
promise.
THE employees of Burns shoe factory,
Lynn, Mass, have all struck for better
wages.
THERE was an anti-Semitic riot at
Baila, forty-three miles southwest Of
Cracow, Austria, recently. Many Jewish
shops were sacked. Eleven of the mob
we're killed by troops and many injured.
THE comb factory at Shelton, Conn.,,
and three adjoining tenements have
been destroyed by fire and Mrs. Slicu
lost her life. The loss was $50, 900.
FIVE sisters named Domiveroff com.
mitted suicide together at Moscow, Rus
sia, the other day. The young women
were Nihilists and feared arrest.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred in
the drug store of II. R. Doane, at Della
van, Wis, recently. Doane and another
man perished.
COLONEL ii. BERRY, a large cattle
owner of Southwest New Mexico, has
died from hydrophobia, the effects of
bite from rabid coyote.
PORTUGUESE atSt. Vincent are charged
with refusing aid to shipwrecked British
seamen.
SECRETARY WINDOW has ordered the
return to China of nineteen Cinnamon
now in custody in Washington State.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) fop
the seven days ended April "a mum
bered 21S compared with 214 the
previous week and 213 the correspond
ing week of last year.
CAPTAIN SCHMITs, a Russian officer.
who sold his torpedo plans to the Ger
mans for $1,000, has been ordered to be
shot.
JAMES FALLoN, a pugilist, was killed
in glove fight with another pugilist
named John Murray at the Bay State
Athletic Club rooms, Boston, the other
night.
COLONEL E. w. DAVIS, first deputy
sheriff of Essex County, N. j., is miss
ing and it is stated that his accounts arc
short over $4,000.
JAY GOULD is said to have obtained
control of the Mexican Central.
The Rock Island has arranged for
terminal facilities at Denver, Col.
CONGRESS- has voted S15O,000 for the
relief of the flood victims of the Lower
Mississippi.
FIRE at Duluth Mimi, destroyed
5000, 900 feet of lumber belonging to
Payne g. Co., at North Pacific Junction.
The loss was estimated at 500, 900; in
sured for $4,000.
TWELVE lumbermen while crossing
the rapids on Otter river, Mich, in a
canoe were capsized. Ten reached tho
shore, but Charles Sebault and Louis
Lecendress were drowned.
AN English syndicate has bought the
Western railway of the Argentine Re-
public for Sal, 900, 900. This gives the
Government some cash.
THE big bucket shop of the Doran-
Wright Company, New York, has sus-
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