The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-21

RUMoPs ORIGINATING in the United States
Of the assassination of General Gonzales,
on President of the Republic of Mexico
and now Governor Of the State of GUIANA
tuato, prove to be entirely without foun-
dation.
THE recent Treesurv order reducing the
rte o. dra whack on dried refined su~-r.
does not affect The existinT rate Of four
cents per rallou logs ten Me- cent. for sir
urs resul'in~ from the refining Of import
cd raw SUGAR.
TH~l lusirnss Fni'ures occu RING THROUGH
GU tIe country du"ing the seven dave
ende Tho 18Th rumbered for the United
S'otes 100, AMI for Canoda 10. total Of
179 ms comrarea with total Of 100 for
the previous like period.
THE report of the Egyptian Cotton As
socintion shows that the crop is fullv m
TO tie avera"e. The worms have disap-
raored. The vinld is estimated Mt 3.1Ao.-
OOO can'ers nn1 arrivols at Alexandria
show it to he Of superior quality.
TuF director Of the French Catholic mis-.
sions hns heon informed that saven hun
Dire Christians have been massncre1 In
Tanho. Tonquin: also that thirty VILLAGES
in that district have been hurne1 and nine
thousand inhabitants are starving.
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THE town % Sabine Pass. Tex, was
totollv des'rovel hv the water Of the
Sabine river on the night Of the 10Th.
Sixtv-fv lives are k7own to have been
lost. A hotel wi fifteen or twenty guests
was swept out into the bay and all were
lost.
TUE State Depart-nent hns received a
brief dispatch from the American Consul
Gen raj Mt Halifax c0nfrmatorv of the
reports touching the recent seizure by
C'nadian customs officers of the Am ori-
can schooner Marion Grimes at Shelburne,
N. s.
AMONG the persons who graSped the
band of the President on the 11th, at the
public reception, were several twp cal
Ep"lishm m. who seemed hi ghlv delirht ed
to meet Mr.. Cleveland, and who created
some merriment by their peculiar actions
AMI m nners.
THF German Government has received
q long dispatch from Herr Thilmann. the
German AGENT Mt Sofia. He describes the
position Of affairs as extremely critical.
l. is reported that Russia has notified the
Powers Of the necessity for the immediate
occupation of Bulgaria.
THE biennial session Of the Supreme
Council of the Thirtv-thir1 D,gres Ma
sons for the southern iuris liction of the
Uni ed States will begin in Washin gton
ho 10 fbo
Council of the Scottish Rite, of which
General Albert Pike is Grand Command
er.
SAMUEL FIELDEN, one of the condemned
Chicago Anarchists, sends n letter to the
papers in which he speaks of the assault
ma le on the informer Waller in a Chicago
drinkn" saloon, AMI intimates that the
as ault was arranged by the police to
make certain the doom of the cond emned
men.
THE second COMPTROLLER of the Teasurv
has decided that where claim agains t
the government once decided has been
reopened and reheard, second rehearing
should not be granted, except upon the
strongest evidence of irregularity in the
former proceeding or new discoveries of
essential fact.
THE coal mine owners Of Fifeshire,
Scotland, refuse to concede the demand
o. the miners for an increase of ten per
cent. in wages. The masters throughout
Scotland are in favor Of a general lockout
unless the men ahate their demand.
Thrty-fiv THOUSAND miners would be in
volved in such lockout.
THE negotiations between the Standard
Oil Company and the proprietors of the
Empire and American oil refneries were
concluded on the 14th by the former pay
ing the latter 81, %, 900 for their plants.
The purchase includes the indep ndent
pipe lines running from the Butler and
Washin ton (Pa.) oil fields.
REAR-ADMIRAL EDWARD T. NICHOLS
diel at Pomfret, Conn, on the 18th, after
shor illness. Admiral Nichols had been
spending the summer at Pomfre, and had
been in usual health. He was founl on the
morning of the 9th suffering from an ap-
opletic fit, and was unconscious until his
death. He was sixty -four years old.
LIEUTENANT-GENERA SHERIDAN had a
conference with the President on the 18Th
OH the Geronimo matter, and at the con-
clusion he said he was unable to tell how
soon there would be any action on the
subject. Every thing that he had seen
published about the Miles report he char
acterized as speculation of rather wild
description.
A COMMUNICATION from Minister West
has been transmitted by the Department
| of State to the War Department. calling
attention to the threatening state of af-
fairs on the boundary line between Mon
tana and the British possessions, and sug-
gesting the adoption of measures calcu-
lated to prevent raiding across the line by
hostile Blood and Piegan Indians.
SECRETARY MANNING visited the Treas
ury Department about noon on the 18th,
and remained there for two hours. He
had conferences with Assistant Secretaries
Fairchild and Thompson and few other
officials in regard to the affairs OF the de-
par ment. He denied himself to general
callers, and gave particular instructions
| against The admission Of Office seekery.