The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ican has been signed.
The Western Nail Association, at its
regular meeting at Cincinnati on the 11th,
ordered that the price Of nails remain un-
changed.
Mr.. MATHEWS, British Home Secretary,
was reelected in Birmingham on the 11th,
Mr.. Cook, Gladstonian, withdra wing a.
the last moment.
THE steam yacht Y Yosemite, built by John
Roach as pleasure boat in 1SS), has been
sold to the Canadian Government.
KgILY has finally been provided with
an Office. He is the American member of
the international court that sits at Cairo,
Egypt, and his salary is $500 year.
j. L. BRADLEY, ex-manager of the Pull
man works at Pullman, Ill, and j. c.
Atcheson, manager Of the Hotel Florence
at the same place, are my seriously miss
ing.
THE Postmaster-G General has issued an
order directing that hereafter all mails for
NJ xico be sent by rail, crossing the bor-
der at FL Paso, Tex.
FIVE local landlords have been de-
nounced by the Longford tIrelandD Board
of Guardians for the heartless eviction of
fifty-sx families.
A DEPUTATIoS of imperial Federalists
waited on Lord Salisbury on the 11th to
urge a closer federation of the states COM
posing the British empire.
SERGEANT WM. THOMA, United States
army, committed suicide at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 11th, by shooting himself.
Two freight trains on the Buffalo, Roch-
ester & Pittsburgh railroad collided near
Falls Creek, Pa, on the llth. Both trains
were badly wrecked, and Engineer Ell
ward Arms was instantly killed. The
conductor and brakeman escaped by
jumping.
AT Conne0ut, O., on the 18th Mrs. Slough,
the wife of a laborer, went to the river to
wash, taking her three children with her.
One of the little ones fell into the water
and in the effort TO rescue it the mother
| and all the children were drowned. The
bodies We're found close together in six
feet of water.
TuREE daguhters of Henry Wvman,
| fisherman of Far Rockaway, N. Y, were
drowned off Breeze Point on tho 11th.
They were Nellie. aged twelve: Lizzie,
aged ten, and Sadie, aged eight.
WEATHERALD 6 WALLS window and
elass factory at Masslllon, o., burned on
the 1lth Loss, $4,000; insured.
VIM. BOYD, an aged millionaire, was
struck by a train on the Pan-IIandle road
at Walkers Mills, Pa, on the night of the
| 1lth and was almost instantly killed.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Communist,
has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment aud to pay a fine of 10of.
GEORGE COLLINS, miner, whose par
en's reside in St. Louis, was accidentally
killed on the 18th while working in a mine
near Chattanooga, Col.
Two hundred ani ten new cases and
ninety-fve deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Italy on the 18th
ACTING-SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has is
sued a call for l0,090,000 of the three per-
cent. loan OF 1882.
EXECUTION of the award has been stayed
in the Field -Bennet libel case at London,
pending Judgment on the appeal.
TIE case of Rollin NJ. Squire AMI Iau
rice B. Flynn has been set for trial at New
York. September ).
THE Irish Times is reliably Informed
that Lord Randolph Churchill is drafting
a bill intended to solve the Irish problem.
MICHAEL METz was hanged at Union
town, Pa, on the 18th, for the murde: of
companion named Cassidente.
AN Orange procession at Londonderry
on the 18th was stoned by a mob. An
Episcopal clergyman and several citizens
wer, wounded.
TIE Bankers convention at Boston
passed resolutions urging suspension OF
the coinage of silver dollars.
ORDERS have been Issued by the Cana
dian Government prohibiting American
vessels from entering the Bay of Chaleau,
ON pain of instant seizure.
THE charges made against the Home
Club are being investigated by committee
Of The knights of Labor.
THE forest fires in Northern Wisconsin
are dying out, material on which to feed
having become exhausted.
THOMAS BRADY, inspector of Irish fisher
les, has been congratulated by the West
port Poor Law guardians on his accession
to the honor of kntghthood.
THE United Ireland, referring to Sails
bury's speech at the recent lord mayors
banquet, says: "Our raceis accustomed to
resist tyranny. War, let it be, in the name
of God" ST. a-
MISS CARRIE, Of. .Ishpeming, Mich,
espousad the Jewish faith and was mar
ried at St. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th, to AL
bert Rullenberg.
FIRE on the 18th at KoscIusko, Mich, de-
stroycd twenty stores ami offices. Loss,
$200GC; insurance light.
MAJOR S. W. CLARK, recorder Of the
General Land Office, declines to resign at
the request of Commissioner Sparks. He
is a Republican, and has held the Office
. twenty years.
WHEN Congress meets in December an
effort will be made to restore the old rule
requiring all the general appropriation
bills to be reported within given period.
ANTI-JEwIsH riots have occurred in the
province of KieR, Russia. The houses OF
many Jews were wrecked. '.
The schooner Orion capsized in Boston
Ia, Dor on the night of the 18th, and four
& the five men composing tao crew were
drowned. .... ... E
CANADIAN artillegymen won both the
Londonderry challenge cup ana the Mar
quis of Lansdowne's p ize in the contest
| at Shoeburyness, England, on the 12th.
DIR. J. H. MCLEAY, OF St. Louis, died on
the 18th at Dansville, n. Y.
Mrs. EMMA FRxNGIs SHAW, while en-
route from San Franci co, committed sui
eide at Pittsburgh Pa, on the 18th, by
taking strychpine. Her husband, Isaac Il.
Shaw, is general manager of the Electric
! Light Company at Williamspoct, Pa.
Domestic trouble is said to have been the
cause of the rash act. M 2. as.s#
MRs. SARAH j. ROBINSON of SomervillA
Mass, has been arrested on charge of
| having caused the death of her son Will
liam by administering poison in his food.