The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-23

Mrs. DELLA PARNELL sailed from New
York for Queenst own on the 18th in the
steamer Celtic.
CONSUL STEVENS at Victoria, British
Colum bia, in a report to the Department
of State, calls attention to the fact that
merchandise in considerable quantity
from San Francisco, destined for Chicago
and New York, is being shipped over the
Canadian Pacific railway.
CARL Won WELLER, a bogus Austrian
count, has been arrested at Jacksonville,
Fla, charged with larceny.
A GRANT of 900 for the purchase OF
Prince Alexander's property has been
voted by the Bulgarian Sobranje.
Ell CoYoTE's band was surprised by
Mexican cavalry on the 18th, and the Lead
er and seven others were butcherel.
TWELVE carloads of Apache Indians
passed through st. Louis on the Eth, on
the way to Florida, under escort Of United
States troops.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Bucharest on the 18th to assassinate NJ.
Bratiano, Roumanian Prime Minister.
A FARMER named Upsolp, living six
miles from Chetek, Wis, cut his wife's
throat from ear to ear on the 18th, and
then hung himself with a bed-cord. Do
mestic infelicity was the cause.
THERE were six deaths from chole
during the twenty-four hours ending the
18th in laramie, and sixteen new cases.
In all the other infected districts of Italy
there were thirty -seven new cases and flf-
teen deaths.
A DvZ I~s,-
twice attempted suicide in Clinton on the
18th by taking laudanum, and to prevent
any further attempt to take his life he was
placed in jail. All efforts to learn his
name were unsuccessful.
Rev. JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged
in Butler, Ga, on the 18th for the murder
of his wife last April. The crowd at tile
execution was estimated at eight thou.
sand. Cook made a full confession.
IT has been found that James l.. Litton
the Englshman who was sent to the
Charles street jail in Boston a few days
ago for attempting to defraud the pro-
pretors of the Revere House, is Stewart
Letablere Litton, the son of the late
Right Hon. Edward Litton.
The Porte has renewed the entente cor
date with England, and now sanction:
the formation of an extensive English
! coaling station on the Island of Thaso
concerning which there have been reports
of much ill-feeling on the part of Turkey
HENRY ROGERS, keeper ofthe toll bridge
at Saratoga Lake, N. Y, was accidentally
shot and killed on the 18th by his nephew,
Allison b. Petit, of New York. The lad
had a shotgun and was loading it when
it was discharged in some way and the
load entered Rogers stomach. He died
almost instantly.
THE lace manufacturers of Nottingham
England, have combined in proposition
to reduce the wages of their lace -makers
fifty per cent. The employees, it is be-
lieved, will resist the reduction, and q
lock- -out is considered imminent.
MRS. MARIE GODFREY, wife of Rufus
Godfrey, wealthy farmer of Girard
township, Pa, left her husbands side or
the night of the 18th, and on the 18th was
found at the bottom of the Nickel Plate
bridge, near by. The unfortunate woman
had thrown herself over the precipice, g
distance of $50 feet and was dashed tc
death.
PETER B. LEE, a tramp printer known
all over the u Mon, died suddenly of heart
disease at Lincoln, Neb., on the Nth
"Pete" began the business in 1919, and
has been tramping for the last thirty four
years.
THE business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended the 18th numbered for the United
States 152, and for Canada 33, or total OF
1S5, as compared with a total Of 17S the
preceding week, and 100 the week previous