The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE Sui an of Turkey, in a telegram to
Queen Victoria, pleads i'll health as an ex-
cuse for not showing greater attention to
the Duke of linburgh on his recent visit.
AT Byron, Mich, on the 18th, Sam Had
den, a crippled soldier, quarreled ed with his
father. The son, who is a hot tempered
fellow, went to the house, secured a re-
volver and returned to the scene Of the
quarrel. Aiming at his father he shot him
five times, every shot striking in q vital
spot.
THE elections in Bulgaria for members
of the great Sobranjs have resulted in the
return of 4S0 Government can lIdateS, of
26 members of the Zankof party and of -
adherents of NJ. Karaveloff.
REV. AUGUSTUS SroPFo D BROOKE, the
eminent Unitarian preacher, is confined
in an insane asylum In Ireland.
"MIcKEY FREE" the celebrated Apache
Indian scout who has done such good
service TO Generals Crook and Miles dur
ing the tedious and hard working cam
paigns those gallant officers have made
in clearing Arizona of the pestiferous
wretches, has been rewarded by being or
dered to a station. This will give him
rest.
Ix the Surrogate's Court at White
Plains, n. Y, on the 13th. the Tilden will
case was again adjourned for one week,
when Mrs. Whittlessev, the absent niece,
must be presen' to offer objections, il she
has any, or the will must be admitted 10
probate. The delay so far he's heen on
her account. She resides in Wisconsin,
and has declined to acknowledge service
of citation.
THE town of Eastport, Me-, was visited
by disastrous conflagration on the IA; h.
1T seems to have been virtually decided
to send Geronimo to Fort Marion, Fla.
THE late Chief Justice Ch se's remains
arrive at Cincinnati on the 14th, and
were received with due honors.
IT is reported that the King of Abvs-
sinia has ordered bis vassals to prepare
tor war.
GENERAL KAULBARs left Varna sud-
denly on the 14th on special train for
Rustchuk, but was recalled by dispatches
from st. Petersburg.
The steam barge S lah Chamberlain
sank in collision with the John Pridgeon,
Jr., off SheboyGan, Wis, on the 14th.
THE Journal de ST. Pete prsb0urg de-
nounces the manner in which the Bull
garian elections were held.
LEWIS WEBSTER, twice convicted of the
murderer of Perry Harrington at Geneva,
o., has been acquitted on third trial.
ABeAM s. HEw TT has agreed to accept
Tammany's nomination for Mayor Of
New York provided the balance of the
ticket is satisfactory to him.
AUSTRIAN official journals warn Bull
garia agains electing a Prince until the
Powers have agreed upon a suitable per-
son.
BAYARD PUTNAM, chief of the United
States Typographical Survey, committed
suicide near North Adams, Mass, on the
14th, by hanging.
The German Ambassador to Russia has
been summoned to Varzin, where Prince
Bismarck is staying.
AN interview took place at London on
the 14th between the British Foreign Sec
retary ami the Russian ambassador to
Great Britain.
Two men entered Wilmarth's Bank at
Ashland, Wis, on the 14th, compelled the
manager to go into the vault and then
robbed the bank of $1,000.
THE report that Prince Alexander had
stated his intention of returning to Bull
garia is reelected is said to have been a
pure invention.
JACOB WELLER & Co., wholesale peanut
and pickle dealers, and Staats, lwards
& Co., both of Cincinnati, have failed on
account of the defalcatiOn and flight of
r. NJ. Doll, confidential clerk of the former
firm.
THE Cabinet meeting on the 14th was at
tended by all the members except Secre-
tary Manning. The Treasury Department
WAS represented by Acting Secretary Fair
chill |. The Miles Geronimo complication
was again under consideration.
JAMES S. COOLEY, for many years a
book keeper for the Republic Iron Works
at Pittsburgh, Pa, died of consumption
on the 18th while officers were on guard
over the house in which he lay. His ac-
counts were $4,000 short.
THE south wing of the German Orphan
Asylum at indianapolis, Ind, took fire at
one O'Clock on the morning of the 14th.
Damages about $4,000. All the children
were safely removed except one, Albert
Voght, aged nine years, who was suffo-
Gated.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND went to Wood
mont, Md, on the 10Th on fishing excur-
sion.
MAJOR W. POWELL, director of the Geo
logical Survey, has informed the Interior
Department that for 1867 work under
him is contemplated in no less than sew
enteen States AMI two Territories. Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas are included
among the States.
CANON BIANCHINI, while leaving ST.
Marks cathedral at Vienna on the 14th,
was stabbed to the heart by a man who
cried, "Behold thy vicrimW The assassin
was arrested and proved to be Sig. Wan
elli formerly a deacon, who's conversion
to Professionalism caused a flutter among
Catholics few years ago.
Two weeks ago Nicholas Schumacher,
living east of He sey, Mich, disappeared,
and search for his boly was without sue
cess until the 13 b, when two boys, while
fishing, came across his body in a creek.
A post-mortem examination indicated
that death resulted from being hit on the
head several times by some blunt in
strument. The whole affair is a mystery.
LATEST reports indicate that fully ninety
lives were lost by the terrible food at
Sabine Pass, Tex, and that every house
in the place was demolished except two.
The condition of the survivors, is pitiable
in the extreme, calling for prompt efforts
to afford them re ie.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt at
Charleston on the 18th.
GERMAN exports to America for the last
fiscal wear amounted to SO OOO. 600 more