The Brookhaven leader., 1886-11-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

/ near LltClUell, Ill, on the ltJD.
! TIE Railway Passenger and Freight
| Conductors Mutual Aid and Benefit Asso-
! citation of the United States and Canada
met in convention in Chicago on the I7th.
! There were 125 delegates in attendance.
| THOMAS WILSON, superintendent Of the
! Fox Hill granite quarries, at Reading,
I Pa, went to Wilmington, Del, about the
/ 18th aud drew 5000, with which 10 pay
| tIe employees, and up TO the 18th he had
not been heard of.
| WM. PORE, colorcd, was convicted at
| Wash ngton on the 18th of an attempt to
murder General c. c. Anger. The General
! objected to Pope acting in noisy manner
| in front of the formers resid nee and
! struck the prisoner, who in turn inflicted
| feur pistol bullet wounds in the Generals
! legs.
! Gro. J. WEST, counsel for Levi Wilson,
/ concluded his argument in the wilson
! Moen case at Boston, on the 18th, and
the case was given to the jury, who
bought in a verdict in favor OF Moen, the
defendant, for $9i513, being the amount of
| Wilson's notes for 5000 hell by Moen,
with nteres'.
LOUISE MgCnrL, the French Anarchist
| has leen officially pardoned, the uncx-
pired portion OF her term of sentence Le-
/ ing Cancelled.
| CdFSrER BELLOWS was ConviCtel | on
the 17th of murder at Charles City, Ia,
| and sentenced to death for the killing Of
his niece last July because she refused to
marry him. If hanged he viii lie the
second to be hanged in Iowa in twenty
! year,.
| A TRAIN with one hundred passengers
| CT board was reported on the 1Ith as
showed in eleven miles west of Canton,
| Oak. The possen gers We're being fed from
a small station near by. The Milwaukee
railway was lined with dead engines III
| drift.
| MHCENAs f. BENTON is again United
States district attorney for the Western
district of Missouri. The President re-
voked his order of suspension on the l7th
and this restores Mr.. Benton to his office
without any further action.
! AREPoRT of the Ontario Bureau of In
dustry shows that the wheat yield of the
province of Ontario for the past season
was 800, 900 bushels less than the average
of the past five years; barley, $1,000
bushels less; oats, $500 ,0J0 more; pease,
|
IT is reported in labor circles that
Henry George is going to Ireland in a
short time to speak in behalf of home
iulc.
EX-PRESIDENT CHESTER A. ARTHUR
died at his residence il New Y York on the
morning of the 18th as the result of a
stroke of apoplexy caused by bursting
blood vessel
CLEVELAND, o., is threatened with a
coal famine as the result of lack of trans
portation facilities, presumably brought
about by monopolis tic combination.
LIE insurance company for horses
has been organized at New York
| THE Inliann o ID Fellows will erect
statue an monument to Schuyler Cofax
at indianapolis.
| MANY buildings were wreckel AMI one
man WIS kille By cyclone in the Wyo-
ming valley, Pennsylvania, on the 1SSh.
| A PARIS workman createl a sensation
on the lS.h by firing five shots at the en-
trance to the Chamber os Deputies.
| Hon. ALONzD HAwLEY, of Hinsdale, Y.
| Y, formerly IL member of the New Y Yorll
Legislature, died at Chiliicothe, No, on
the 1851.
TIE prosecution of the con5tables,
charged with murder in connection with
the Bel'ast riots, has been abandoned.
TIE Greek Legislative Assembly was
d solved on the 18th.
TIE vitriol works of the John L. Thomp-
son Chemical Company near West Troy,
n. V, were destroyed by cyclone on the
lSth.
THE British Government has refuse the
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itarv be withdrawn from Skye.
Til; residence of James johnson at
Landesvlle, Ind, was burned on the
morning of the is and his two daugh-
toys, Ella anil Minnie, persisted in the
flames.
PATaICK GRAVES, charged with the mur-
| der of Jane Wheeler, at Cleveland, o.,
prove an alibi, and was discharged from
! custody.
THREE trackmen were struck by a snow
plow on the Fonda Narrow-gaug ge branch
of the Wabash road in Iowa on the 18th,
| two of whom have died from their in
jurics.
II was reported that Lord Salisbury
| would remain in London on the 2lst TO
receive tho deputation Of unemployed
| workmen.
A PET parrot attacked James Lawson's
babe, six weeks OF age, in its cradle, at
| Marion, Ind, on the 18th, AMI p:cIel a
hole through its skull, through which the
brain oozel. The injuries are probably
fatal.
Two persons were fatally injured and
several seriously by Ian l-slida which
struck the limtel express on the Pam
handle road at Jones' Ferry, Pa, on the
| 18th.
AN eviction process in County Kerry,
Ireland, on the 1St2, was resisted by mob
of several hundred persons, number of
whom were wounded.
In the Haddock murder case at Sioux
City, Ia, the grand jury returned an in
dictment for murder against John Arens-
dorff, and for conspiracy against ten
other persons.
BURGLARS effected an entrance into the
residence of Matthew McKeever in Oak
land township, Pa.f AMI carried off a
lucket containing $4,000
| HUGH DEyLIN, a member of Company T.,
| Second infantry, was found frozen to
death near the guard house at Fort
Omaha, Neb, on the 1S5h. He was under
the infiuen nee of liquor.
GENERAL KAULBARs has been instruct
ell by the Car to leave Bulgaria at once
if his demand for the dismissal ofthe COM
mandant at Phillppopolis is not compiled
with.
STRONG efforts are being made to have
District Attorney Stone, of Philadelphia,
who was removed at the same time as
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