The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

Two men we're killed by fire damp in
the Gilbert colliery near Mahanoy, Pa.
CONSUL CALvo, of the Argentine Re-
public, at New York City, ridicules the
statement that dishonest customs off,
cials have robbed that Republic of s1O,.
900, 900 per year.
BY the falling of smokestack at
saw mill at Braddock, Pa, two Greeks
we're fatally and two seriously injured.
THE Pandora levee in Bossier Parish,
La, gave way on the night of the 7th
and a vast amount of country was inun.
dated.
The Government snag boat c. w.
Howell was wrecked at Shreveport La,
recently by striking pier of the rail.
road bridge.
THE drought has occasioned consider.
able distress in Cuba.
THE jury at Bordentown, N. j.,
brought in verdict of guilty against
Mrs. Vandegrift, for killing her son
Frank to obtain his life insurance.
Two girls named Mcdonald, aged
nine and twelve, became frightened at
an approaching train at Portland, Ore,
and jumped into a creek and were
drowned.
Clarence Hickox, aged seventeen, went
to camp out in cave and were buried
alive and smothered near Des Moines,
Iowa.
THE county poor house at Norwich, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire recently. A
number of imbecile women, who had
been locked up as usual for the night,
perished in the flames.
THE Clayton -Breckinridge investiga-
ton ended at Little Rock, Ark, on the
Sth.
O'DoNovAN Rosa, who was recently
convicted of criminal libel at New York,
has been fined 500.
THE lime producers combination in
Maine has expired by Limitation and
prices are now expected to fall nearly
100 per cent.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is reported from Pittsburgh to have its
contribution of S275, 900 to the Chicago
Worlds Fair all ready for delivery.
A SENSATION has been caused in Rus
sian military circles by the discovery
that a large quantity of bombs have
been stolen from the magazines at Sc
bastopol. Evidence is abundant that
the abstr action of munitions has been
systematically carried on and has ex-
tended over several months.
THERE was report that an old charge
was likely to be trumped up against
Lady Cook (Tennie Claflin) in Illinois.
About twenty-six years ago when girl
she was induced by her mother to clair
voyantly treat woman for cancer. The
woman died and charge of manslaugh-
ter was preferred, but was not pushed.
DURING Chinese riot in Los Angeles.
Cal, the other night, one Chinaman was
killed and one seriously wounded. The
Wong Chez society has declared deadly
war on the All Now faction.
THE annual competition for the
Boyleston prizes for Harvard students
in defamation was held in Cambridge,
Mass. The first prizes were won by w.
f. B. Dubois 90 and Ii. Z. Burton go.
Mr. Dubois is negro.
THE miners of Antrim, N. Y, went
on strike recently, making 5000 men
men out of work in that locality.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May s numbered
200, compared with 211 the previous
week. The failures for the correspond
ing week of last year were 2O7.
RACE excitement was reported at
Charlottesville, Ind, over the gradua
tion of four colored pupils from the high
school.
STRIKING factory workers in Bohemia
have broken into several factories, dam
aging the machinery and compelling
those at work to Quit.