The Brookhaven leader., 1886-07-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the 2lst the acceptance of the res gnation
of himself and ministers.
THE President, accompanied by Secre-
taries Bayard and Whitney and private
secretary Lamont, left Washington on the
21st for Albany.
WILLIAM PIERCE, Of Glpversvise, ". Y,
sentenced for horsc-S'enlirg, and John
Kochiser, Of Boonvillc, for forgery, escap-
ed from the jail in Rome, N. V, on the
night of the 10Th, 10y cutting bar out of a
window grating in the corridor.
GLADSTONE advises Parnell against pur-
suing an obstruction policy in the coming
| parliament
SHERIFF BERGIN of Adams County,
Iowa, on the 21st, caused the arrest in
Omaha of Reuben Bissett and w. II. Viers
for manning and disfiguring young man
| in "A horrible and barbarOus manner last
March near Corning. AS a Consequence
their victim is manned for life.
| JoHN VETS saw mill. at Westport,
| Ore, on the Lower Columbia, sixty miles
below Portland, was destroyed by fire on
| the night OF the 10Th, together with the
steamer Westport, lying at the mill. Loss
| $4,000 to $4,000; no insurance. Origin,
sparks from the smoke stack.
THE main building of the Indiana State
| Soldiers Orphans Home, situated at
! Knghtstown, was destroyed by fire on
| the 2lst. The fire is suppose to have orig
mated from defective 1ue, and occurred
az time when a ma ajority of the inmates
were at pl Y in the grounds. The loss is
! about S9O,O0O on which there is $4,000 in
surance.
The Vermont Prohjbitionist State Con-
vention on the 21st put in nomination a
| full ticket, with Prof. II. NJ. Seeley at the
head for Governor.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is getting much
stronger, and his condition generally is
more encouraging than at any time since
he left New York.
THE trial of strikers who participated in
riots in Charleroi, Belgium, in March is in
pro4ress. Two have already been con-
viCted and sentenced to ten year. servi-
tude, and two more to twelve years.
FURTHER sensational developments were
made in the Anarchist trials at Chicago
on the 22d.
IT is thought probable now that Com
gress will adjourn on the - of August.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was present at
the Albany bi-ceutcnnial celebration on
the 22d, and made "A short speech.
Mr. MATTHEWS, of cOunsel for the petit
toner in the Dixie Crawford divorce case,
scored Sir Charles Dixie numerically in
his address t. the jury on the 22d.
SAMUEL &. SMELLING, treasurer of the
Lowell (Mass.) Bleachery corporation, is
a dofauter to an amount ran ging from
$500, 900 to $5O0,0OJ.
JUDGE w. J. Hayes has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats Of the
Second Iowa district.
FAK1Rs connected with a circus, which
exhibited at Washington, Ind, on the 22f,
beat John Doane, an old and weil-tO- do
farmer of Barr township, out of 5000 at
thimhle-rig. Other parties lost smaller
sums at the same came.
NINE. PATTI NICoLINI will sail for the
United : tates to begin her American tour
on November I.
JONATHAN II. REDD and W. 7. Titerick,
farmers, living near Cambridge, Guern-
sey County, Ohio, quarre He'd on the 22d
over a dollar. Titerick struck Rcdd over
the head with II shot gun, crushing his
skull Redd cannot recover and Titerick
is in jail.
A LAPORTE Und.) dispatch reports the
drowning in Pine lake on the 22d, by the
capsizing of their boat, of Frank Molloy
and Mrs. Rose Stern. Young Molloy was
the son of Mrs. Emma Molloy, the temper
ance evangelist. Mrs. Stern was the
daughter of Jacob Vile, of Laporte.
THE Colorado Supreme Court has re-
fused to stay the execution of Andrew
Green, the murderer of John c.. Whitnay,
the street-car driver, and there is no
doubt that the execution will take place
on the 9th, according to programme.
AT Baldwin, Col, on the 2lst., four coal
miners, got into a fight with knives, and
Lew Collins, one of them, was stabbed to
death, and the others We're more or less
injured. The three assailants were ar
rested.
FIRE destroyed the Champion ice-works
at Covington, Ky, on the 23d.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's next move is said to
be in the direction of an attack on the Es-
tahlshel church.
SENATOR VEST gives up all hopes of be-
ing abb to get the 81. Louis bridge bill
through the Senate this session.
IT is reported at Chicago that Captain
B. B. Rullwinkle, protector Of the police
patrol, was killed by Indians near Flag
staff, Ariz.
THE greetings between Bismarck and
Count Kalnoky on he'latter's arrival at
Kssingen were very cordial.
IT is stated that the English Liberal
Unionists positively object to coalition
with the Conservatives in the way of a
new administration.
THE minister and forty others who ate
ice-cream at a supper at the North Baptist
Church at Eastport, Ne, on the evening
of the 23d, We're taken violently i'll with
symptoms of poisoning.
COLONEL DEXTER RUSSELL WRIGHT,
one of the best known lawyers of Connec-
ticut, died at his residence in New Haven
on the 23d.
GUIssEPINA MORLACCHI, the famous pre-
miere danseuse, died on the 23d at her
residence at East BiIlerica, Mass, at the
age of forty two years and nine months.
She was the wife of the noted Texas Jack
A MOVEMENT has. heen inaugurated to
establish cotton market at Bremen.
HOG cholera is raging to an alarming
extent in BotetOurt AMI several other
counties in Virginia. Some cases have been
reported of farmers losing one hundred
head in a week.
THE dead body of B. G. Plummer, a
prominent and wealthy lumber man Of
Wausau, Wis, was found in his room on
the 23d. He had blown the top of his head
off with a shotgun. Heavy losses by re-
cent lumber fires are thought to have been
the cause of the tragedy. Deceased was
fifty years of age and unmarried.