The Brookhaven leader., 1890-08-28

THE potato disease is spreading with
| alarming rapidity in the southern por-
tion OF County Down, ireland. In all
parts of Armagh the blight has assumed
serious proportions.
A DISPATCH from Erzeroum to the
London Daily News says the Turkish
Government is supplying the Kurds
| with Martini rifles Tho Christians
have cut the telegraph wires Four
Armenians who had made themselves
Objectionable to the authorities were
strangled in prison
A TOOL called track jack was the
cause Of the recent accident on the Old
Colony road. Tho man working it was
unaware OF the approach Of the ill-fated
train.
JERRY CLEVELAND was murdered near
Hayward, Wis, recently. He was worth
about $40, 900 and was killed for his
money.
DURING storm at Philadelphia the
walls of the street car stables of the
Twelfth Street Passenger Railway Com
pany fell in. Five men and twenty
horses were killed. Several persons
were also seriously hurt
AT Whitestone, near New York,
boating party of three men and three
women was upset Only one woman
was rescued.
A TORNADO went through Mason
County, Tex, recently, demolishing
buildings and killing cattle. No per-
sons were killed.
BARNUM e BAILEY's circus train was
wrecked at Shelbyville, on the Grand
Rapids e Indiana railway, by the break
ing of drawbar. Martin Foley, of St
Louis, was killed and two others badly
hurt
TIE "Bluc Grass Palace" was opened
at Creston Iowa, on the 21st by Gov
ernor Boies.
THE engineers, firemen and brakcmen
at the Union stock yards, Ch .cago.
struck for higher wages on the 2?d
Much inconvenience was caused to the
packing houses, etc.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on the
gravity railway at Reading, Pa, on the
ED. After car containing eighteen
passengers had been pulled to the top
it suddenly started down, going at
eighty miles an hour and dashing over
an embankment -Four persons were
killed and the rest were seriously in.
jured.
IN the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,
recently, cyclone occasioned great
damage and the loss of $50 lives.
GEORGE EARLY and Bird Woods, two
of the four negroes accused of setting
fire to Rocky Mount, Va, were executed
in that town on the 22d. The other two,
Annie Woods and William Brown, will
be hanged September 9.
JUDGE BEACH has entered an order in
tho Supreme Court at New York discon-
tinuing the action brought by Colonel
William Dudley to recover damages
from George Jones, treasurer of the
Times Publishing Company, for alleged
libel in publishing tho alleged "blocks
of five" letter, The order was entered
by consent of counsel.
The mountain desperate, Joe Dana
ron, a ringleader in the French Ever
sole war of Kentucky, has been captured
and is in the Perry County jail.
CHOLERA is spreading in Valencia and
Toledo There are several suspicious
cases in Madrid.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reporD for
the seven days ended August q num-
bered 102, compared with 191 the previ
Gus week and 2O6 the corresponding
week of last year, General business
was good withstanding the press
ure in money at New York.
Mr.. WEBB refused the offer of the
State Board of Arbitration to consider
the New York Central strike. Powderly
accepted it on behalf of the strikers.
PAIo ALTO trotted mile at Chicago
Oh the 22l in 2:13.