The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

THE long overdue steamship Domi~a
from Glasgow, December 81, for Balti-
more, has reached port after a terrible
experience. One seaman was lost.
A Mrs. DANA, of Tennessee, is the
latest claimant to the millions left by
Thomas L. Bean, the mysterious Texas
cattle magnate. She claims that he
was her brother and his real name was
Sanders.
THE European holders of Peruvian
bonds have decided to accept the Grace
contract recently made by Peru.
AN awful story is reported from Craw-
fordsville, Ark. A young man named
Corvett outraged and murdered young
lady relative and was seized by an in
furiated mob, who chopped him up and
burned the remains.
SAM JONES, the evangelist, it is said,
will locate on the valuable ranch he has
bought for himself in Kentucky, near
Eminence.
w. X. SAUNDERS, a deputy United
States marshal, has been assassinated in
Gadsden County, Fla.
THE Sixth annual convention CT the
Electric Light Association ended at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th. NJ. j..
Perry was elected president.
THE great university at Toronto Ont &,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, S164,OOO.
BROWN BROTHERS e Co., perfumers of
Baltimore, have failed, with 500, 900
liabilities.
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to pieces on Vancouver island b. c., re-
Gently and all the crew were lost.
MILTON E. PAGE, manufacturers of
confections, of Chicago, has failed for
S15O, 900.
APPLICATION has been made by the
Farmers Loan & Trust Company of
New York for the appointment of re-
ceiver for the Missouri Central Railroad
Company.
THE Denver Col police have arrested
two men charged with conspiring to
kidnap ex-senator Tabor and hold him
for $50, 900 ransom.
ROBERT GARRETT, late of the b. & o.,
has been spirited away from his country
seat in charge of two doctors. Relatives
are ignorant of his whereabouts.
THE decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in the celebrated
cattle case of the Rock Island VS.. the
Chicago e Alton was in favor of the
Alton.
TIE engineer and fireman of Monon
passenger train were both killed at
Mitchell, Ind, by collision on the
14th. The mail agent was fatally in
jured. Six or seven others were serious
ly hurt.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended February f3 num-
bered 302, compared with 321 the pre-
vious week and 2S9 the corresponding
week of last year.
AT Pontivy, France, the other day the
vehicle conveying bride and groom
and a number of their friends was upset
and the whole party were precipitated
into the river. The bride and bride
groom and ten others of the party were
drowned.
A YOUNG man named Tom James, for
merly of Kansas City, was killed by an
other young man named Bazina iii a
pugilistic encounter of four rounds
while the Mathematician show was at
Dallas, Tex, recently. James had re-
ceived terrific undercut blow and was
knocked senseless until his death.
A CYCLONE swept over the parish east
of Carroll, La, on the 14th, injuring
property and livestock and hurting a
number of people, but fortunately caus-
ing no loss of life.
EUGENE CALLAHAN, eighteen years
old, at Cheyenne, Wyo., recently un-
successfully attempted the life of his
sixteen-year-old sweetheart and then
shot and killed himself.