The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


has made a written confession of the Had
dock murder at Sioux City, la.
THE Secretary of War has ordered that
Geronimo and thirteen bucks of his band
be sent to Ft. Pickens, Fla, to be kept in
close confinement, the balance of the band
to be sent to Ft. Marion, Fla.
TELEGRAMs from Biloxi, Miss, on the
Goth, reported the sick as all doing well.
There had been no new cases and no
serious or alarming cases under treat
| ment.
THE South Carolina people tried very
| hard to persude the President to extend
his trip from Richmond to Charleston, but
the latest advices indicated there was no
probability whatever of his comply ing
with their desires.
FIFTEEN persons died on the 20th from
cholera in Pesth and two in Trieste, Hun
| gary, and thirty two new cases were re-
| ported in the former place and nine in the
latter.
NAVAL officers in Washington are quite
indignant over the seizure at Newport of
goods alleged to have been smuggled by
naval officers. They claim that it is only
the old dispute as to what goods naval
officer is entitled to bring home with him.
THE Western Union directors at their
meeting in New York on the Goth re-
elected the old officers and executive COM
mittee, but the vacancy caused by the
death of Harrison Durkes, the second vice.
| president, remains untitled.
| A PARIS newspaper in a violent article
addressed to General Boulanger says it is
high time that France was prepared to re-
conquer her lost provinces.
A FAMILY at Saco, Me-, was poisoned by
drinking new cider from a cask which
formerly contained embalming fluid
ARoUT dozen National banks have n oti-
fed the Comptroller of the Treasury that
their inability to replace the three per
cent. bonds called in with more expensive
| bonds would compel them to Withdrew
from the National banking system.
The annual encampment of the Com
mandery in Chief ofth military order of
the Loyal Legion commenced at Philadel-
phia on tho Goth, exPreSident Ruther-
ford B. Hayes presiding. 1t devolves
upon this session to elect a successor of
! General Hancock.
THE Government revenues up to the 2lst
of this month had averaged over 100000
a day.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND contributed one
hundred dollars for the relief of the Sabine
Pass sufferers.
A WOMAN died in Roosevelt hospital,
New York. on the 21st, from ether admin
istered for purposes of an operation.
THE trial of ex- Alderman McCabe was
commenced at New Y ork on the 2lst and
a plea of insanity was entered.
NEJr NJ tO Rprl i'm n
the 2lst.
THE Johur ordeal has again been put
into practice in Bengal village.
UNITED IRELAND urges tenants to Or
ganize and by combined action resist the
collection of rents.
THE propeller w. L. Brown sank in sew
enty-six feet of water off Peshtigo, on
Lake Michigan. The crew escaped.
JOHN BRIGHT has declined an invitation
to attend the presentation to Mr.. Schnad-
horst at birmingham, England.
A ST.. LOUIS syndicate is going to try to
resuscita'e the st. Louis, Springfield &
Jerseyville railroad.
THE Protestant Episcopal convention at
Chicago voted against eliminating the
words protestant Episcopal" from the
praye book.
| COMMISSIONER SPARKS reports extensive
depredations of Government timber along
the Northern Pacific, and recommends
prosecutions.
PRELIMINARY steps have been taken to
form q syndicate of window glass manu-
facturers, the object being to advance and
maintain prices.
NJ. WADDINGToN, French ambassador at
London, has protested on leaalf of France
against British occupation of Egypt.
INSTRUCTIONS have been sent to papal
nuncios urging them to cultivate good re-
lations with the different government
A PERPETUAL injunction was issued by
Justice Porter at New York on the 2lst re-
straining the Musical Union from punish
ing its members for playing in company
with nom unionists.
WHILE firing the twelve-inch mortar at
Sandy Hook n. j., on the 2lst a shell eX-
ploded, killing a soldier named James
King and First Lieutenant Metcalte, SUI
| pprintendent of the work. Several others
were injured.
JUDGE DURHAM, First Comptroller of
the Treasury, in his annual report to the
Secretary of the Treasury, makes an
| earnest recommendation for a revision of
the law in reference to the compensation
| of United States commissioners.
GEORGE T. SETTER, late clerk of the de-
funct Cincinnati Board of Public Works,
gave bond in the sum of $500 on the
21st in answer to charge of making out
false vouchers 10 the extent of 81, 200. He
is under bail for a similar oHense.
BITTER feeling has been created in the
British garrison at Halifax, N. S., owing
to the refusal of the Catholic chaplain to
read the services of the church over SOL
dier who died while drunk.
! A SPECIAL from Green Bay Wis, states
that the propeller w. L. Brown with a full
cargo of coal for Depree, sprung a leak
and sunk in seventy-six feet of water off
Peshtigo. The crew escaped in a small
boat. She was valued atS33,000. Chicago
agents hold insurance on the hull and
cargo.
TIE Journal de 50. PetersbOurg says all
the Powers recogniz Russia's rights in
Bulgaria, and that the peace will not be
disturbed.
THE propeller Orcela, of the Red Line,
Lake Superior, running between Duluth
and Buffalo, caught fire on the 2lst at Du-
luth, and had to b, scuttled. She was
partially loaded with railroad iron and
lime. Loss on boat, $1j, 900 to $4,000; loss
on cargo, $4,000.
WHILE David Evans, aged fifty years,
and his son William, aged fourteen, OF
| Millport, Pa, employed at the Sterling
slate quarry near Slatingtou, were cross
ing tunnel on tde 2ist it cavei in, carry