The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

MARDI GRAs at New Orleans was cred
tied with being a brilliant success
THE arrest of J. B. Kelley at St.
Louis for supposed connection with the
Cronin murder at Chicago turned out
to be case of mistaken identity.
THE Navassa rioters" were SEN
fenced at Baltimore, Md, on the Goth.
George S. Key Henry Jeffrey and Ed
ward Smith, convicted of murder, were
sentenced to be hanged March 2s. The
fourteen men tried upon charges Of
manslaughter we're sentenced to terms
in the Albany, N. Y, penitentiary rang
ing from two to ten years.
ATTORNEY GENERAL STAPP has written
an official letter to Bank Examiner
Kenyon in which he says the facts
in the report of the latter in regard to
the American Building & Loan Associa-
tion of Minnesota do not constitute
sufficient grounds for proceedings
against the association.
No more four per cent. bonds will be
purchased by the Treasury Department
until further notice.
LETTERS from the City of Mexico re-
port terrible ravages by influenza.
JACOB SCHooP and Thomas J. Cole
were hanged at Philadelphia on the Goth.
Schoop was baker and killed his en-
ploye for the poor mans savings, leav-
ing his body in Fairmount Park. Cole
killed companion while drunk.
WILLIAM S. HOPKINS was hanged at
Bellefonte, Pa, on the 20th. He was
given two drops, the rope breaking at
the first fall.
THREE miners were instantly killed
at Aspen, Col, recently, two by scaffold-
ing giving way and one by a fall of rock.
ST. JoHN's Roman Catholic Church at
Greenbush n Y, was destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
S42, ,OOO
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended February 20 num-
bered 271. For the corresponding week
of last year the figures were 270.
The retiring State Treasurer of Missis-
sippi, Colonel w. S. Hemingway, was
reported $3.50, 900 short. 1t was said,
however, that every thing could be ex-
planned.
ONE thousand miners of the Central
Coal Company, of Springfield, Ill, re-
Gently quit work because not paid the
wages due them.
THREE thousand aborigines and many
French convicts in New Caledonia have
been attacked with leprosy. The dis
ease is spreading at an alarming rate.
Louise Michel talks of going to their
succor.
THERE was serious fire in Toledo,
o., on the morning of the 2lst breaking
out in Breckinridges fruit can factory.
Loss. S150, 900; insurance, one-half
TIE Toledo CO., Pump Companys
works have been seized by the sheriff.
The failure is total.
The Gebhard Paper Company, of Buff
falo and Detroit, has assigned; assets
and liabilities unknown.
THE jury in Bishop Dub's case at
Cleveland, o., returned verdict OF
guilty. He was suspended from office
until the meeting of the general confer
ence in September, 1891, when the case
will be reopened.
THERE have been two bad accidents
with engines and snow plows in Cali
fornia. Near Sisson there was col
lision of the engines caused by coup
were killed. At Cape Point mills five
locomotives were wrecked. Two men
were killed and two injured.
CHARGES have been made of cutting
on the new Missouri river rates and an
uncomfortable feeling exists among
freight men.
TRAFFIC MANAGER SARGENT, of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
road, pronounces the Atoms Federal
railroad control scheme nonsensicaL