The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-28

GENERAL GoURKo, military commander
| at Warsaw, has been summoned to st
Petersburg to receive instructions pre-
paratory to replacing General Kaulbars il
Bulgaria.
THERE were one hundred and eighty
two failures in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 22d.
THE Austrian budget estimates show .
deficit of 16,COO,O 900 forms.
THE Louisville g. Nashville switchmer
at Louisville, KY, are on a strike for more
pay.
GERONIMO and his band started on the
22d from San Antonio for Florida.
THE British dispatch boat, Imogene /:
reported wrecked at Gallipolis in fog.
A BOHEMIAN named Mar tin Soukup kill
ed two women with and axe and burned
the barn and dwelling of his employer
near Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the night of thu
21st.
FIRE destroyed the works of the Canads
Paper Company at Windsor, Ont, on tn,
22d.
Hon. JOSEPH B. CLARK, a prominent
citizen of Manchester, N. H., committed
suicide on the 22d.
THE National Convention of thu
Women's Christian Temperance Union be
gan its sessions at Minneapolis, Mimi, OF
the 22d.
GADBAN EFFENDI's recent note to tn,
Bulgarian ministry is said to have been il
the form of personal advice and was un
official.
IT has been decided to sell the InmaI
Steamship Company's property for tn
benefit of its creditors.
A sc HooLHoUSE in West Clare, Ireland
to which children of boycotted citizen
were, admitted was wrecked on the 22d b,
unknown parties.
FOURTEEN persons died of cholera il
Pesth on the ODD and two in Trieste
Thirty new cases were reported in tn
former city and twenty four in the latter
THE agent of the American Expres
Company at Vermontville, Mich, wa
bound and gagged by robbers on tn
night of the 21st, who secured $500 from
the safe and got away.
IT is thought probable that the Duke o
Connaught will succe ell General McPher
son, deceased, as commander of tn
Madras army.
SCHRIEDT & MILLER's foundry, at Mans
| field, o. burned on the odd. Loss abou
100000; insurance, $4,000.
THE biennial convention of the Pf
Delta college fraternity, which closed il
session in New York on the 22d, has de
cided upon Bloomington, ILL.,, as the plac
of holding the next convention. The gen
eral council will fix the day.
! JAMES CRAFT and Mrs. Elna Brass wer
arrested late in July near Cadillac, Mich
! for the murder of the woman's husband
who disappeared June 19 last. They con
| fessed the murder, and on the 22d plead
ed guilty and were sentenced to Stat
prison for life.
A FRIGHTFUL accident happened nea
Kenton, KY, on the 22d. A steam mil
being operated by Han lily & Moss Hoff
man blew up, killing Handy instan ],
and scalding Hoffman so there is littl
| hope of his recovery. Both were marrie
and had large families.
A SPECIAL from New Iberia, La, of tn
22d says: Information was received her
! to-day that during the storm of the 12t
over a thousand head of cattle wer
drowned and two fishing smacks wer
| driven ashore on the Islands of Chenier
au Tigre and Cheniere a la Croix. n
lives were lost.
WAsHINGToN's National drill is now as
sured beyond any chance of accident. TIL
sum of $42,S0O has been ac ually sub
scribed and $1,000 more is reported as il
sight. At meeting of the committe
S25, 900 was fixed as the amount to be dis
tributed in prizes.