The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Disc KIRKNIN and wife and Miss Belle
Collins were drowned near Caldwell, O.,
recently by the sudden rising Of creek.
SEVEN aldermen Of Biddeford, Me.
have been arrested for connivance in
violating United States Election laws.
The Adriatic has been swept by
storm. Many vessels and their crews
were lost
A DUEL was fought near Belfort,
France, between Lieutenants Millot and
Barutik. Lieutenant Millot received a
severe slash on the arm. Several large
blood vessels were opened and the
wound will probably prove fatal
IMMENSE imports of certain lines OF
goods continue at New York in antici-
patton of tariff changes.
THE new count of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press building shows no persons living
there. The first, or padded, count
enumerated 110.
DURING the races at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
fire broke out in the grand stand where
5000 people were congregated. The
entire structure was o total ruin. The
loss was $3.50 The occupants of the
obhhu OotapCO AZ
THE population Of Pittsburgh is 23s,-
473, an increase of 81, 0S4, and of ALE.
gheny City 1O4, 967, an increase of 26, 2S5
AN English syndicate is reported to
be seeking to purchase four of the
largest factories in Rhode Island. SEN
ator Brice of Ohio, is said to be inter
ested.
A NUMBER of boys were playing on
the field near Hemmerstein, Prussia
formerly used for military maneuvers
when they found some cartridges and
thrust them into bonfire to hear them
explode. A frightful series of explo-
sions occurred and seven of the boys
were so badly injured by the flying
fragments that they died soon after
ward.
TIE Senate agreed to the conference
report on the resolution to apply the
unexpended balance of $45, 900 from the
Mississippi flood sufferers for relieving
reported destitution in Oklahoma. The
resolution was sent to the President.
THOMAS e. BOYLE, of Allegheny City,
Pa, was drowned in the surf at Atlantic
City, n. j., recently. He was promi-
nent business man, his father being
president of the National Insurance
Company, of Allegheny.
THE leading horticulturists of the
United States, at a meeting in Chicago,
took steps toward appropriate repre-
sentation at the Worlds Fair.
FIFTEEN Cinnamon have arrived by
steamer at Victoria, Il. c., from San
Francisco, where they have been re-
fused landing. They say they will
work their way across the sound into
Washington and thence south to their
original destination in San Francisco.
TIE switchmen's strike at the Chicago
stock yards ended on the goth.
BONES have been exploded in the city
of Trieste, Austria. A boy who tried to
extinguish burning fuse was killed.
BARRUNDIA, the Guatemalan revolu-
zionist, who was on board an American
steamer, was killed recently by officers
Captain Pitts the commander, said he
would give up the refugee, upon which
Barrundia opened fire with his revolver
on the officers and was in turn shot dead.
THE abandonment of the Hot Springs
Ark, military reservation has been
ordered.
THREE cable cars collided in the Wash
ington street tunnel in Chicago early
the other morning and all were badly
wrecked. Frank Metzger an express
agent of st. Paul, was killed.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended August % num-
bered 1S9, compared with 1872 the pre-
vious week and 211 the corresponding
week of last year. Business was re-
ported good, though money continued