The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

uEhMAN1 ~ BetJlnR mllder weather
with rain.
CAPTAIN JOHN MAxEY, of Charleston.
S. C., was waylaid and murdered by
two negroes.
WHTECAPs who visited the house of
Richard Brown, colored, near Little
Rock, Ark, were fred on by him and
James Huntley was killed and another
man wounded.
PRESIDENT EeAN and Passenger Agent
Holdredge, of the Chicago. st. Paul &
Kansas City, have been indicted by the
Federal grand jury at St Paul for IL
legal manipulation of rates.
THE Eastern States were visited by
serious transforms on the ed Whole
sale destruction of bridges and dams
occurred. The Wyoming valley in
Pennsylvania was flooded, causing the
gravest fears.
A MOB recently evicted the Chinese
from Milton, Ore.
The oatmeal mill and elevator at
Mazeppa, Mimi, belonging to E. NJ.
johnson, of Minneapolis, were burned
the other night The loss on the build
ing is $780, ,OO0 and $4,000 bushels of
grain were destroyed.
The laborers employed upon the
works at Hare Island and Skibbereen,
Ireland, commenced by the Govern
ment for the relief of the distress ex-
isting among the poor classes of those
neighborhoods, have struck for an in
crease of wages.
A TRAIN on the National railway of
Mexico was wrecked recently at Acam-
baro, some one having loosened the
rails by drawing the spikes. Twelve
persons were injured,
THE Taubeneck investigation ended
in his vindication. Taubeneck was an
Independent member of the Illinois
Legislature and talk was out that he
had once been in the ''pen" for counter
feiting.
THE Pension Office from January to
Is issued 10,377 pension certificates, the
greater portion of them being granted
under the dependent pension law. This
is said to be the largest number ever
issued during like period.
The new Warner Bros. building at
Buffalo, n. Y, was destroyed by fire on
the 23d. The loss was $4,000 Two
firemen were killed by falling walls.
A RECENT agrarian outrage in County
Clare, Ireland, was the skinning of
COW alive.
HARLEY Mccoy, slayer of Police In
spector Hawley, of Denver, has asked
for change of venue. After the kill
ing Mccoy was taken to Pueblo to avoid
a lynching.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January % num-
bered $50, compared with All the pre-
vious week and 33S the corresponding
week of last year.
News has been received of serious
collision between two freight trains at
Artemisal, near Cardenas, Cuba. The
cars were badly wrecked, four persons
were killed and four others were moro
or less seriously injured.
Bob FORD, the slayer of Jesse James,
has been in another shooting scrape,
this time at Walsenberg, Col.
AN avalanche in Quebec filled Cham
plain street with snow to the depth of
twenty feet. House fronts were broken
in, but no person was killed.
To prevent an expected Anarchistic
outbreak the Paris police arrested all
suspicious characters lettering in the
Place de POpera.
The Latin & Rand powder mills ex-
ploded at Cresson, Pa. Loss, $4,000.
No one injured.
GEORGE KENDALL, the young English
farm hand of Arlington, N. j., who was
bitten in the lip by pet skye terrier
two months ago, died at Chambers
Street Hospital, New York, victim of
hydrophobia in its most horrible form.