The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-21

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is being prosecuted for having had pa
triotic French hymns sung In his church.
CHARLES THOMAS, who was serving q
term in the West Virginia pententiary
for murder in Ark nsas, has been pardon
ed by the Presid mt.
TEN sardine factories, two hotels thirty
dwellings, the custon-house, post -office
and a large number of bus ness houses
were destroyed by the fire on the MORN
ing of the 18th at Eastport, Me-, causing
loss of half million dollars and throw
ing two thousand persons out Of employ.
ment.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has accepted an in.
vitation fron the Prince regent of Brus els
to go boar hunting in the Hartz mountains
at the end of this month.
J. B. HILLS, a sewing machine agent OF
e Paso, H.. disappeared a few weeks
ago, and nothing was heard of b i'm until
the 18Th, when relatives of his in o 10
telegrape1 that they woul not offer any
reward, knowing that Hills is alive and
well.
ROBERT JAMESON, a stonemason, about
twenty y-eight years old, was instantly
killed at Detroit, Mich, on the Is h, by
being knocked from a scaf I'D by fall
ing stone at the new engine house on
Russell street. The scafPold was twenty.
five feet above the grounl
EIGHT Polish lanl-owners held meet
ing al Posen on the 18th, aud resolved to
establish a lanl and trust bank with a
capital of 100000 ma'ks to assist the
Poles in resis ing the efforts of the Gov
ernment to Germanize the Polish prov
inces.
THr jury in the case of Janitor Titus for
the mur ler of Tillie NTH at Belvidere,
N. j., rendered a verdict of murder in the
the fist degree on the IS h. Foreman
Lake burst into tears after announcing the
verdict.
The London Post claims authority for
stat ng that althCu h no explicit agree
m ont has cen concluded, England, Aus
ria, Germ nv and It"ly have mutually
determined TO oppose Russian aPgr ssion
in Bulgaria. Sweden has also declared
| Ter disfovor of Russia's course.
1T is undeIst ood that Mr.. Fairchild will
continue as acting Secretary of the Treas
ury for some time, and will do much of
The work on the annual report. Hereafter
Mr.. Manning will usually attend the
Cabinet m eetings, however, and will have
supervisory knowledge of the work of his
| DEPARTMENT.
CAPTAIN BAILEY, a bar pilot at Port
Eads, La, reports that there we're twen-
| ty-six lives lost during the recent storm
on the bay leading from the gulf in the
direction of and back of the quarantine
station.
THE Bulgarian Government will send @
deputation to each of the Powers, includ-
ing Russia, to ask them to name candi-
date for the Bulgarian throne. If the
| Powers do not reply the Government will
act independently and probably appoin'
| Stambuloff regent.
THE gale which visited Buffalo, N. Y,
on the night of the 14th did a vast amount
of damage. For time the wind reached
a velocity of seventy miles an hour. On
the lake front in the vicinity of what is
known as the sea wall, forty small houses
were totally destroyed by wind and water
and their occupants had to fly for their
| lives. Several persons are known to have
| perished.
JUDGE TULEY has dis olved the injunc-
tion which the Chicago milkmen had Sc
cured against Health Commissioner De-
Wolf, who had prohibited the sale of any
milk taken from cows at any of the distil-
| leries where quarantine exists. The
| Judge commented severely Oh the attempt
| Of the milk dealers to traffic in such un-
| wholesome and dan nyerous food and said
that DR.. DeWolf's order should be en-
forced. Some twenty-five milk dealers
are affected.