The Brookhaven leader., 1890-01-02

MEssRs. HAMILTON and Mediation,
the contesting judges in Silver Bow
County, Mont, have placed their resig-
nations in the hands of the Governor.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has con-
tracted with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for flfty-fve heavy freight en-
gines, which will soon be finished. The
railroad company received twenty two
locomotives from the Baldwin works
last month. The freight traffic of the
road is very large and is increasing
daily.
ALL hope of rescuing the sixteen
miners caught by the cavern in the
Lane mine near San Andreas, Cal, has
been abandoned.
FIVE convicts who were making
Christmas pudding in the penitentiary
at Kingston, Ont, on the night of the
oath, overpowered three officials in the
bake-shop, scaled the walls and escaped.
Had they desired, they could have Sc
cured the keys, which were on the per-
son of Keeper Brennan, and let 500 des-
peradoes loose.
TIE United States war-ship Enter
prise arrived at Gibraltar on the Goth.
Several of her officers and crew were
suffering from influenza, and the ship
was consequently quarantined, where
upon she proceeded westward.
THE influenza, which is almost epi-
demic in Paris, is assuming more seri-
Gus type than that which characterized
it at the outset Many cases have de-
veloped into pneumonia with fatal re-
suits.
THE Provincial, Government of Para,
Brazil, has established in it's own inter
est monopoly of the India rubber trade
against which many exporting houses in
Para, chiefly American and French,
have emphatically protested.
THE Russian influenza has reached
the Rocky mountains. Three-fourths
of the citizens of Denver are suffering
from it. Reports from Cheyenne are to
the effect that that city is similarly af-
| fected.
THE United States cruiser Charleston
went into commission, on the Goth, at
San Francisco, Captain George c. Remy
| taking command. Commodore Benham
and his officers and many citizens wit
messed the hoisting of the flags, and the
| band played Tho Star Spangled Ban
| ner." The Charleston will probably
not be ready for sea until February.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake oc-
Cured at Acireale, Sicily, on the Goth,
| throwing down several houses and bury
ing their occupants beneath the ruins.
TIE city solicitor of Philadelphia has
decided that the Eight-Hour law is ap-
plicable to the departments under con-
troll of the city government. The law
was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature twenty-one years ago, but has re-
mained dead letter until attention was
recently called to it by the United
Labor League.
LATE reports from the scene of the
rioting at Jessup, Ga, place the num-
Der killed at ten.
THREE workmen were injured, one of
them fatally, by the falling of scaffold
at the new building of the Thompson
Houston Electric Light Company at
Omaha, Neb., on the Goth.
ZAALBERG's immense carpet manu-
featuring works at Leyden, Holland,
were destroyed by fire on the Goth. The
loss is very heavy and large number of
operatives are thrown out of work.
DURING the temporary absence Of
Mrs. Lena Schip from her home in
Omaha, on the Goth, the house caught
fire and her three children, a boy of
seven, a girl of tour and six-months-
old baby boy, who were locked in the
house, were burned TO death. A hun
dred people witnessed the casualty, but
children.