The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| government $40, 900, 900 in cash.
THE New York Senate railroad commit
tee on the 3lst reported favorably the bill
to repeal the Broadway New York City,
surface railroad franchise bill
The King of Corea has issued an edict
abolishing slavery in his kingdom. 1t is
estimated that over half the population
| Of Corea are slaves.
THREE of the large cigar factories In
Boyertown, Pa, have shut down indefinite
| ly, owing, 1t is said, to the poor state Of
trade and the fact that the cigar makers are
| joining the Knights of Labor, necessitat-
ing the using of the Knights of Labor la :
! bel.
GENERAL FREMONT is at Washington
working on his memoirs.
MRS. THos. A. HENDRIcKs left Ind anap-
oils on the I'd for trip to California.
WoRKMEN in the Mariemont colliery
! Belgium, struck on the 1st.
THE steamship Gulf of Akabo is long
overdue at New York and has been given
up for lost.
The rooms occupied by the Bell Tele
| phone Company at Toronto, Ont, were
burned out on the 1st.
| EDWARD HANLAN has issued from To-
ronto a challenge to Teemer to row him for
| $1,000 in August.
DAVID GRIGsBY and Braden Porter have
been arrested at Keokuk, Ia, on charges
of counterfeiting.
Prince BISMARCK received many con-
| gratulations OH the 1st, it being his seven
| ty-first birthday.
! PASSENGER rates at indianapolis have
been restored to the regular tariff except
through rates to California.
GEORGE HOLLINGsHEAD, reported a few
| days since as having committed suicide at
Terre Haute, Ind, has turned up all right
at Vandalia, Ill.
In San Luis Obispo County, Cal, Eu-
guene Walker and his wife were killed by
Peter Hemmi and his son on the 1st, and
the murderers We're afterward lynched by
mob.
EDWARD H. JOHNSTON, a well known
citizen of Eatontown, n. j., was arrested
on the 1st, charged with completely in the
lynching OF the negro, "Mingo Jack.
Several other arrests are promised.
PRINCE ALEXANDER firmly refuses to
submit to the Powers, and the Bulgarian
papers applaud his attitude.
A LONDON rumor has it that Mr.. Glad
stone.is disposed to retreat from the bolder
outlines of his Irish policy.
WIN. E. ROBERTSON left Readsboro, VT,
for Searsburg on the 1st with six French
logging laborers. While crossing = bridge
it gave way and the men and horses were
preciptated into the river. Mr.. Robert
son and three OF the Frenchmen were
drowned.
THE richest silver ore in large bodies
ever discovered in the United States has
been struck in the Iron Hill mine in Da-
kota. Much of it assays $1,000 ounces to
the ton. A fve-foot breast has been
opened.
THE great strike and shutdown at Bev-
erly, Mass, was ended on the 1st, by an
amicable adjustment of the grievance of
Wallis, Kellham & Bray by the joint
board of arbitration. Most of the factories
have started up.
C. S. SEYToN, formerly a New York
stock broker, was accidentally shot and
killed while examining an electric gun at
London on the 1st.
THE Gar and suite started on the 1st for
the Crmea, and 100000 men guarded the
railway over which the journey was made.
EARLY on the morning of the 1st burg
lars entered the post-office at Center Har-
Dor, N. H., blew open the safe and escaped
with $400 in money, securities amounting
to 1000 and a quantity of stamps.
A SPECIAL meeting of the English Cabi-
net was held on the 1st on account of
threatening news from Bulgaria AMI
Greece.
PHILLIPS, the wife murderer, is to be
executed on the Sh at indianapolis, Ind.
BRAKEMEN on the st. Louis division of
the Louisville g. Nashville road are on a
strike on questions concerning wages.
THERE is great activity in the British
Foreign Office.
ALDERMAN FULLGRAFF, of New York,
has been arrested in connection with the
Broadway franchise fraud.
HEALTHY revival is reported in the
Clyde shipping trade.
Mr.. DAVIES, receiver Of Grant & Ward,
says neither Warner nor his wife can be
found, and they have taken all their money
and valuables with them.
CAPTAIN FARMINGToN POWER was ar
rested at Beatrice, Neb., on the ID, and
will be returned to Illinois ON charge of
forgery.
MRS. NATHAN GRIFFITH, living near
London, Ont, while laboring under re-
ligious excitement on the I'd, cut her hus-
bands throat with a razor.
THE house of Josh Hobel, in Reno,
Mimi, was burned ON the I'd by an incen-
diary, and Hobel's two-y ear-old daughter
was burned to death.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, on the I'd, a mort
gage of S2O,0OO,0OOO was filed from the
Kansas City, st. Louis & Colorado rail
road in favor of the American Loan and
Trust Company, of New York.
FIRE in the Fairbank canning establish
ment at the town of Lake, suburb of
Chicago, on the 2d, caused a loss of $50, 900.
WILLIAM c. AcKERMAN, of Harden
County, Ia, attempted suicide at the
Grand Union Hotel, New York, on the I'd.
1t was thought he would not recover, as he
took what is usually fatal dose of laud-
anum.
THE new tank-house of Swift & Co., at
Chicago, was wrecked on the I'd by an ex-
plosion, and the watcl~an, David Mere
field, was seriously injured.
THE Newhary hominy mills at Terre
Haute, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
ID. Total loss, $4,000; insurance, So, 900,
In Eastern and foreign companies.
AT mass-meeting held at Guild Hall,
London, ON the I'd. presided over by the
Lord Mayor, a resolution was adopted
condemning Gladstone for his Irish poll
icy.
A THREAT is made by the Feeman's
Journal that if the Scotch members help to
eefeat home rule the Parnellites will re-
lentlessly oppose all Scotch measures.
JOHN WHITE, who lived a few miles north