The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Chicago on the 18th for Boston via the
Chicago g. Grand Trunk road.
The British are establishing a coaling
station on the island Of Thaso, in the
Egean sea, and are giving other indica-
tions Gan intention to govern the island.
THE committee authorized by the recent
meeting of citizens Of Washington TO ar
range for the proposed National drill to
be held there next May, held its first
meeting on the night Of the 18th. 1t was
decided to offer cash prizes of $4,000. A
number of militia companies have ex-
pressed a desire to participate.
OK the 18th tho British steamer Strath-
nairn was sunk in a collision on the Clyde.
THE probate of the will of Samuel j.
Tilden, which was set for the 18th, was ad-
iourued for a week in consequence of the
absence of Mrs. Carolina b. Whittlesey,
who resides in Wisconsin. She is one of
the heirs and must be present or repre-
sented by counsel
TIE boiler at the Philadelphia & Read
ing Coal & Iron Company's Merriam
breaker at Mt Carmel, Pa, exploded on
the 18th, wreclling four other boilers,
greatly damaging the boler-house and
seriously iniuring Jacob Shut, John
Crow and Michael Patrick. Five hundred
miners will be idle for a week in con-
sequence of the explosion.
The icehouses and outbuildings of the
Lakeview brewery in Buffalo, n. Y, were
burned on the 18th. The loss is covered
by insurance to the amount of $4,000
About $500 barrels of beer were ruined.
in lJyt n ia II fr
of a floor, but not seriously.
SPARKS from a passing locomotive set
fire to the grain elevator of |. J. Holmes &
Son at Brooklyn, Ia, on the morning of
the 18th, and a disastrous ConlaGration
ensucd, resulting in the destruction of the
greater portion of the business part of the
city, involving a loss of upward of $780,
0O0, with insurance of about one-half that
amount.
THE colored men Of New England be-
gan conference in Boston on the 18th to
protest against Determinations against
the race in society, business, politics, etc.
James NJ. Trotter, of Hyde Park, presi ded
and addressed the meeting. "These con-
ferences and conventions" lie said, "have
ceased to do any good toward ameliorat-
;
upon the sentiment of the white people of
the country"
The Pennsylvania State Greenback-
Labor convention met at Harris burg on
the 10Th.
THE German Reichstag was opened on
the 18th.
THE first National convention of the
anti-liquor Republicans met at Chicago
on the 10th.
THE corporation of Dublin voted against
presenting an address to the new Lord
Lieutenant.
ANOTHER victim, Henry HouclS, has
been added the list of deaths from the Sill
yer Creek (Pa.) railway disaster. This
makes eighteen deaths thus far reported
CARDINAL JACOBINI, pontitical Secre-
tary of State, is seriously i'll.
A LARGE saw mill at Chippewa Falls,
Wis, was destroyed by lightning on the
16th, with a loss of S250,00).
AT an informal meeting of the Parnell
ties on the 10th it was agreed to abate
their obstruction tactics in the House of
Commons.
AN Illinois Central freight train plung-
ed through an open draw of the Dubuque
Qa.) and Dunlieth bridge into twenty feet
of water, on the 10th. The engineer was
seriously injured.
MISS CHARLESWO whose enlistment
in the Salvation Army created a sensa
tion in London, has married General
Booths son.
In jackson County, West Virginia, a
large rock rolled down mountain, on
the 10th, crushing the residence of Leslie
Cummins and killing two men.
THE storm of the 10th was quite general
and severe, and considerable damage to
property is reported from several points
in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and else
where.
RUSSIA has demanded of the Corean
Government the harbor Of Kankyek for a
naval station.
AN address to the Car, praying for his
protection over the independence and lib
erty y'of Bulgaria, was adopted by the So
branje on the 10th.
A RESOLUTION favoring the encourage
ment of German emigration to South Bra
iii and South Australia was passed by the
German Colonial congress.
A FREIGHT train was thrown from the
track 10y train wreckers near South Lyon,
Mich, on the 10TH causing the instant
death of the fireman and fatally injuring
two other train hands.
In an interview with Bismarck on the
10th, NJ. De Giers, Russian Foreign Minis
ter, distinctly promised that Russia would
not occupy Bulgaria.
THE Pope's course in favoring the
Jesuits has caused general dismay in
Italy. 1t is proposed to hold public meet
ings in Rome and other towns to urge the
government to inexorably enforce the
laws against the Jesuits.
The st. James Hotel and five store
rooms adjoining at Rochester, Pa, were
destroyed by fire at midnight of the 10Th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The guests
escaped from the burning hotel without
injury.
A CARRIAGE containing VIM. Lewis, Jo-
seph Mullen and man named Carpenter,
was struck by train on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad at
Chester, Pa, on the night of the 10 tn, and
Lewis was killed and the other two so
badly injured that their lives were de-
SPARED of.
THE Portland (Me.) Savings Bank has
begun suit in the Federal Court, at In
dianapolis, against the city of Evansvill Q
for 100000. The suit grew out of the re-
pudiated bonds of 1859.
THE schooner f. j. King, of Morristown,
N. ", laden with iron ore from Escanaba
to Chicago, sprung a leak and sunk in
twenty-five fathoms of water about six
miles off Cano island, Lake Superior, on
the morning of the 10th. The crew reached
shore in the yawl. The vessel and cargo
are a total loss.