The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| tempt to defraud the State of $1,000 for a
| bogus hospital at Connellsville, was sen
fenced at Harrisburg on the 22d to pay a
| fine of $500, costs of prosecution, and be
imprisoned in the county Jail for sixty
| days.
BRICKMAKERs to the number Of one hun
dred from different places met in Cincin-
natl ON the 22d and formed National as
| sociation for mutual benefit, and elected
James Bailey, of Cincinnati, as President.
THE President and his wife, accom-
panied by Mrs. Folsom and Colonel and
Mrs. Lamont, returned to Washington on
the night Of the 22d. A crowd of men,
women and children assembled to see the
Presidential party and welcome them
home.
A FREIGHT train on the Buffalo, New
York & Philadelphia railroad was thrown
Off the track at Holland. n. Y, on the 22d
by broken wheel. Thirty-fve coal and
oil cars took fire, making terrific blaze.
The cars and their contents are total
loss.
THE military governor of Madrid has
forbidden the press TO publish reports of
the judicial proceedings arising out of the
tive to military discipline or public order.
THE Moscow Gazette urges Russia to APP
point a dictatorial commission for Sofia.
England would protest." says the
Gazette, against the appointment of such
commission, but only on paper"
GENERAL BULLER is organizing a sys-
tenn under which the houses of suspected
moonlighters in Kerry will be carefully
watched, in order that night absentees
may be discovered and the arrest OF
culprits thereby facilitated.
JAMES HOWE, founder of the New Y ork
Spirit Of The Tunes, now Wilkes Spirit Of
The Times, died at Lafayette, Ind, on the
22d, in his eightieth year. Horace Greeley
was employed by him on this paper as
printer and there formed an intimate ac-
quaintance which continued until Greeley
death.
The French military critic connected
with the Repubique Francdlse, who wit
messed the late German maneuvers, writes
that he thought the cavalry simply splen-
did. The infantry and artillery, he says,
do not excel the same branches of the
French service.
Two German American citizens vlsitin e
their old homes in Kiehl have been or
dered to leave the empire.
EDWARD SOLOMON, the American COM
poser and husband of Lillian Russell, has
been arrested in London on a charge of
bigamy at the instance of former W ife.
BISHOP WooDLoCK, of the diocese of
Ardagh, Ir roland, in an address to his dio-
cese, deplores the present conditions of
~ 81 no
Revolutionary principles of secret So
cieties."
HERR KRocHER, Socialist deputy in the
German Reichstag, has been fined 1,5O1
marks for accepting pay from his party.
ONEHUNDRED pounds OF gun cotton and
nitro glycerine exploded at the Giant
Powder works near West Burkley, Cal, on
the 23d. Two Cinnamon were killed and
the property was slightly damaged.
The Knights Templar parade in st.
Louis, deferred on account of the rain on
the 21st, was held on the 23d. 1t was a
magnificent spectacle, though on much
smaller scale than had the original pro-
gramme been practicable.
A TERRIFIC thunder storm with hail ac-
compartment, swept over Milwaukee,
of the storm the heavens were almost as
dark as night. The house of Robert j.
Arthur, on the West Side, was badly
wrecked by a thunderbolt, and Mrs Ar
thur was dang erously injured.
ROBERT LAW, general superintendent of
the st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern and
the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City
roads, has resigned.
THE Grand Encampment of Knights
Templar, in session at st. Louis on the
23d, elected the following officers: Charles
Roome, New York, grand commander;
John P. S. Goblin, Lebanon, Pa, deputy
grand master; Hugh McCurdy, Corunna,
Mich, grand generalissimo; Warren La
Rue Thomas, Louisville, KY, grand cap
tain general; George c. Perkins San
Francisco, Cal, grand senior warden; K.
H. Lloyd, San Francisco, grand junior
warden; H. Wales Lines, Meriden, Conn.,,
grand treasurer; w. b. Isaacs, Richmond.
Va, grand recorder.
AT Wa hoo, Neb., on the 22d, three men
claiming to be agents OF mutual benev-
olent insurance association, were detected
in attempting to dispose of several forged
notes signed with names of we'll ll-known
farmer. Two of them escaped. The one
who was captured refuses to talk.
ALFRED D. RoNCERAY, twenty five
wears of age, son of former United States
Consul at Porto Rico, committed suicide
at Washington on the 23d, by shooting
himself through the head. He recently
lost his position in the Post Office Depart
ment, and took his life while desponden t.
THE steerage-rate war between the ATT
lantic steamship companies is about to be
brought to a close, the lines participat I'M
having arranged basis of agreement.
THE leader of company of German
swindlers has been captured in Hambur g
by London detectives. The sums realized
by the swindling operations of the gang
are said to amount to 100000 francs.
MRS. ALICE TITooMB died at Omaha
Neb., on the Esd, from the effects Of being
burned by a lamp explosion. A gentle
man caller and her brother, in attempting
to extinguish the flames, were severely
burned. She was visiting friends in Oma-
ha. Her husband is chief engineer OF Cape
Cod canal.
JULES GAUvREAU, Belonging to one oi
the best famil les in Lower St.-Lawrence,
has confessed to shortage of s., 900 in his
accounts. He was employed by A, Gold
stein & Sons, tobacconists, of Montreal.
The Sultan gave audience to the Dukt
of Edinburgh and Prince George Of Vale:
on the 23d. He received his visitors most
cordially, and conferred upon both the
decoration of the Imperial Order of Os'
mamie. 1t is reported that the Czarewitch
| is about TO visit the Sultan.
CHOLERA has broken out among the sol