The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-22


suspension. The pecuniary effect was
loss of half pay, or about 81, 400 year.
POISONED sausage caused the death Of
Mrs. Glenn Ehlcrs, of Ivanhoe, o. Two
of her children are seriously ill.
TIE case against James Campbell,
president of the Window Glass Union,
for importing English workmen in vio-
lation Of the Alien Contract law resulted
in an acquittal.
The immense flour mill of the Winona
Mimi Company was burned recently.
The loss was 1866, 900.
TIE striking miners at Bilbao, Spain,
INDUCED in another riot on the 18th.
C. NJ. WHITAKER and J. NJ. Stubbs
wero crushed to death under huge
piece of granite near Monrovia, CAL, by
the breaking of a derrick.
FIRE in San Bernardina, Cal, de-
stroyed the West Coast Lumber Com
pany's mill and lumber, causing 500, ,OOo
loss.
THE typographical Unions of Mime.
apolis and st. Paul have demanded ten
hours pay for nine hours work, which
has been refused.
CAsTAwAY H., rank outsider, won
the Brooklyn handicap on the 18th.
A CAVE in occurred in mine No. 8 at
Ashley, Pa, on the 18th. A number OF
miners were entombed with no hopes OF
their recovery alive as choke damp ac-
cumulatcd.
THE wife and daughter OF President
G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University,
were found dead in their bed at Worces.
ter, Mass, recently, accidentally suffo-
Gated by illuminating gas
THREE children playing in an excava-
ton for a cellar at Seventh avenue and
Fifteenth street, Brooklyn, were killed
by falling earth recently.
THE French Board of Trade returns
for April show an increase in imports Of
moro than million dollars and an in.
crease in exports of more than fouI
millions
Two river drivers near Moose river,
Maine, were recently killed and three
others were terribly injured by the ex-
plosion of a keg of powder in an old
cabin in which they had taken refuge
from a storm and built a fire.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May Is numbered
212. compared with 200 the previous
week and 242 the corresponding week
of last year.
TIE report concerning three actors of
the Nat Goodwin Company being killed
in a railroad wreck in Montana proved
unfounded. A member of the company,
Miss May Duffee. had died and this had
delayed the company, causing the false
report.
ToMsKT, in Western Siberia, has beer
almost destroyed by flood and fire.
CUBA is troubled with drought.
On the river Oder, near Ratisbon, ST.
lesia, a ferryboat loaded with passen-
gers was crossing, when it suddenly
capsized and thirty-six of the people
were drowned before assistance could
reach them. All the passengers we're
children who we're returning home from
a confirmation service.
THREE men were drowned near York
vile, Pa, while fishing from boat.
By a collision between a pay-car
special and the rear end of an accom-
mediation train at Tuscola, ILL.,, lady
was fatally and other persons slightly
hurt.
ALPHEUs BULL, President of the
Gould & Curry mine, was drowned near
San Francisco recently
The union stonemasons and bricklay.
ers of Joliet, ILL.,, have struck for eight
hours and increased wages.
THE Berlin Tageblatt says it Is sig
nificant fact that visits of foreign news
paper writer's and other recognized Wis
itors to Friederichsrue have been very
frequent of late.