The Brookhaven leader., 1886-11-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Hows from Everywhere.

Eows from Everywhere.
A COMMITTEE Of tho British Cabinet is
preparing land bill for ireland, based
! upon an extension of the Ashbourne act,
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| IT is sail that Postmaster General Villas
in his report will recommend that a vstenl
Of collections be inauyurated by the POST
office Department.
| a MEETING of British Anarchists is to be
| held at Ion lon on the % inst, to protest
| against the conviction OF the Chicago
HaymarEet murderers.
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EXPRESS MESSENGER FoTHERIvGqAM
was called into court in st. Louis on the
10th and pleaded mot guilty" to the in
dictments against him.
THE re renent of General -Kaul bars
from Bulgaria, is spoken OF in ell the
! European capitsl' as the retreat Of Russia
before The united force of Europe.
The Vermont Legislature (both housos)
has passa ID e bill prov iding that all hotels
or restaurants using oleomargarine shall
put up large signs notifying the public OF
the fact.
SroRY's statue Of America for the mon
umont TO the author of the "St1r-Span
eled Banner" which he is making for
California, has been successfully cast il
bronze at Rome. The op eration lasted
three hours.
THE Cook County Qll) grand iury
ignored the ill against the Pnkerton mer
charged Y the coroner's jury with com
plcity in the death Of Terrence Bc2lcy
near the Union Stock y ards after the clost
of the former strike.
THE Vermont Legislature on the 10 /
passed joint resolution expressing sor'
row at the death of "thnt illuslrious ant
eminent son of Vermont, cx-Pres;den
Ches Ell A. Arthur" eulogizing him ant
rendering sympathy to his family.
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THE estimates for the civil establish
ment Of the navy were submitted to The
Treasury Department on tho 10th They
are so, 900, 600 less than last year AMI in
clule $5,0O0,000 for the continuance O
work on the new cruisers already author
lied.
TIE Secretary of War has decided thai
tie soldiers belonging to Captain Law
toms command, who We're provided will
worthless shoes from the military prison
at TT. Leavenworth while in pursuit o
Geronimo's band, shall be fully reim-
Iursed.
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'TTU Cln Ia is NJ a le
n cost, the offer to remain open until De-
cemlerl /. The reason assigned is that the
owner will probably lie unable to give The
required time next summer for the tria
races in the event OF anothet contest fol
the America cup.
COLONEL JOHN MOORE, of tho madica
department of the army, has been APP
pointed Surgeon General by the presi,
dent, to succeed Surgeon General Muir
ray, retired. Colonel Moore, who is il
San Francisco, has been directed to re-
port at Washington Immediately.
SIX American citizens have becn arrest
Ell in Southern Russia for pre- aching il
IN orthodox assembly of Russians. Mr.
L0throp, the Unitol States Minister a
81. Petersburg, has been en- lelvoring &c
induce the authorities to release the pris
oners, but so far has been unSuccc $sful.
TIE overtures made hy the tenants or
Lord Clanrica1e's estates in Ireland, will
a view of a settlement of the rent ques-
ton, have leen rejected. Messrs. Dillor
ami O'Brien spoke on the 18Th at PortumnH
in County Galway, where these estates
are situated. There was much excite
ment.
COMMISSIONER MILLER of the Internal
Revenue Bureau has received several sam.
PIES of the uleomar9 arine recently seized
but no decision has yet been reached al
to the disposition to be made of the seized
| material The decision still awaits tht
investigations of the chemist of tb
lureau. DR.. Starkel.
GovERYoR PIERCE OF Dakota had a Ions
| Interview with tho President on the 18Th
| He again expressed his readiness to re
! linquish the duties OF his o lice which, ht
! sail, was at tAe disposal of the Presden
! at any time. l. is understool that Gov
| ernor Pierce has made arrangement store
| enter the profession OF journalism.
| SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
! decided that a soldier who, after havin
| served for two years or more in the army
| deserted some months after the close o
| the war, but who subsequently receive
! an honorable discharge, is entitled to I
| bounty of fifty doll lrs under the thir
teenth section of the act of July IS, 1865.
| A sTAGE.LOAD of passengers was caugh
| in a snow-slde in the mountains neal
| Aspen, Col. on the 10th, and the entir,
outfit was carrie over two hundred
! foot prec;picc. Arescuing party dug then
out, tnd four of the passengers wer
| found uninjured, but the rest, five in mum
Ter, were seriously, if not fatally injured
The annual meeting of the Western A.
I sociated Press was held at Detroit, Mich.
on the 18th. Tie report of the board o
directors shovel that the business was il
a satisfactory shape. The followins
officers were elected: President, ]. F
Mack, Of the Sandusky Register; vice
president, James Phelan, of the Memphi
Aualaache; secretary, H. E. Baker, o
Detroit.
GENERAL KAULBARs, in his note to tn
| BuIrarian Government announcing hi
departure, says that thu government ha
rejected Russia's counsels, which were in
tended 10 extricate Bulgaria from he
difficulties, and has continued its Violen
attacks upon Russian subjects. Ill
further presence, he adds, is useless, Bui
garia having completely lost confidence il