The Brookhaven leader., 1891-05-21
Two men were killed near Florissans
Col, by being struck by train while
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riding on a hand car. s.-ss.-----.-
GREEKS in the island of Corfu con-
tinue excesses against the Jews
A DISPATCH from Punxsutawney, Pa, =,
says that sixty miles of forest land
were on fire.
DESPITE all the efforts of the govern
ment to stamp out the disease, trichi-
nosis continues to exist in some parts
of Germany. Six persons have recently
died from the malady in Meiningen and
fourteen more are suffering from its at
tacks.
THE strike of machinists at the Ma
tional tube works, Pittsburgh, Pa,
after fifteen weeks ended in favor of
the men.
THE switchmen on the Chicago &
Northwestern were paid off and sud-
denly discharged on the morning of the
14th. The company had been prepar-
ing for a step of the kind for some
time. Announcement was made that
discrimination would be made in re-cn-
gagement
The influenza epidemic is seriously
increased in the south of Russia. In
Russian Poland the disease has deci-
mated the population of many villages
THE combine has decided to restrict
the production of anthracite coal and
advance prices 81 ton October 1.
ALGERIA is again devastated by
locusts A caravan from Morocco
traversed through swarms of locusts
for thirty-two days.
ONE school boy was fatally injured
and four badly hurt in Birmingham,
Ala, by the fall of lot of bricks from
building next to the school.
D., has returned five indictments for
murder against the assailants of Few
Tails, friendly Indian, and his band,
killed last winter by cowboys when on
hunting expedition. --es-.- -rsa,s,-
SECRETARY FOSTER has notified the
collector of customs at Philadelphia to
dispense with ten of his weighers and
has also directed the appraiser to re-
duce his force.
By an explosion in the Moss colliery
at Ashton-under-Lyne England, one
workman was killed and a number seri-
ously injured.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May IA num-
bered 237, compared with 242 the previ-
GUS week and 212 the corresponding
week of last year.
SIX men were severely burned by an
explosion of gas in a sewer in New
York City.
On the Dneiper river in Russia a fat
boat containing number of working
men collided with a steamer bound up
the stream and sank almost immediate
ly, drowning nineteen of its occupants.
The captain of the steamer is blamed
for the accident.
ALL the drivers and handlers of the
Adams Co. at Louisville. KY, have
struck. This was the result of the re-
cent order requesting their employees to
furnish bond. The strike was likely to
spread over the country.
VANISHING day in the Paris salon
success. The crowd was enormous.
RUFUS MOORE was publicly hanged
before 5000 people at Trenton, Ga, for
the murder of rival in love.
SEVERAL lively battles between work
men and police occurred in Brussels.
Many men were arrested
A TOBACCO smuggler near the frontier
at Gibraltar was shot dead by the
guards. The inhabitants of the neigh
boring villages, who are in sympathy
with the smugglers, attacked the
guards, wounding two of them. The
officials returned the fire, killing two
villagers and wounding many others.
The guards were in the employ of the
tobacco company.