The Brookhaven leader., 1888-01-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE American Pol and China Swine Rec.
ord Association held its annual meeting
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 18th.
THE Italian Government has contract
cd with a Philadelphia firm for a number
of dynamite guns to use in its Abyssinian
war.
THE Secretary of State has received the
resignation of Mr.. Frederick Ellison, of
Indiana, as United States Consul at st.
Helena.
A BILL has been introduced In the Ken.
tucky Legislature practically prohibiting
marriage with any man whose morals are
not of the purest.
SECRETARY Villas has relieved Assis-
tant Secretary Muldrow of the care Of
land decisions, and has taken this class
of work under his own supervision.
1T is rumored that Austria is to stand
oy Ferdinand as Prince of Bulgaria, and
:hat in such event Russia will make a
fight, If necessary, to keep him Off the
throne.
Mr.. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, editor of United
Ireland, was released from Tullamore
prison on the Goth. A number Of other
similar offenders were sent to Jail during
the day.
THE Government of Portugal has noti-
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dounced the protectorate over Dahomey,
which it assumed by a treaty concluded
in 1886.
THE 50. James Gazette announces the
resignation of Lord Charles Bere sford, a
junior lord of the British Admiralty, and
says that other changes in the Admiralty
Office are probable.
Mr.. w. j. LANE, member of Parli ment
for the Eastern division of Cork County,
Ireland, has been sentenced to a months
Imprisonment without labor for melting
tenants to resist bailiffs.
THE charges made by Irish leaders
against Mr.. Balfour, that he wanted half
n dozen of the most prominent and
physically weakest to die in prison, is to
be brought to the attention of Parliament
A
EDWARD E. LEWIS and VIM. H. Hunt,
of Pittsfield, Mass, have succeeded in
producing copper by treating iron with
certain acids. Lewis was badly burned
by an explosion in their laboratory on the
18th.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the order of the
Servan Government for the manufact.
ure and delivery of 160, 900 rifles comes
the verified report that 10000 similar
weapons have been contracted for by the
Hungarians.
POLISH land owners are in despair over
the rapid depreciation in the value Of
their estates. They complain that the
government avoids buying army supplies
in Poland, preferring to buy elsewhere at
enhanced prices.
THE Mexican Government has for
warded to Washington papers requesting
the extradition of Mayer, alias Bourton,
the Patti concert ticket swindler. There
is great anxiety to have Bourton brought
to answer for his stupendous fraud.
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REPRESENTATIVE O'DoNNELL- of Michi-
gan, has prepared for introduction in the
House bill providing that after July /,
system of free delivery is estabis he'd,
shall be fixed at one cent per ounce or
fraction thereof.
FORT KEoGH, Mont, has the honor of
having the widest range of temperature
of any place on earth. During a recent
storm the thermometer marked 65 deg.
below, while last summer it ranged from
i20 to 130 degrees above, total range for
year of 1876 degrees.
Mr.. HOWARD DOUGLASS, supreme
chancellor of the world, Knights of
Pythias, states that the necessary funds
have been secured for the entertainments
of the mem bers of the grand lodge of the
United States, and that their next meet
ing will be held in Cincinnati.
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The President, on behalf of himself and
Mrs. Cleveland, has accepted ex Govern
or CornelPs invitation to attend the
twelfth annual commencement of Cornell
University at Ithica, N. Y, next June,
conditioned upon the possible emergen-
cies of official duties at that time.
JACOB SHARP swore on the 18th that he
expects to die soon, and that he wants to
settle up all his earthly affairs without
delay, in order that he may die in peace.
The suit in which he made this melancholy
affidavit is one brought against him TO re-
cover an unpaid bill for wire fence.
A CONVOY of prisoners, while being
taken from South Russia to the Caucasus,
mutinied and attacked the engine driver.
The train was stopped and a desperate
fight ensued, in which eight soldiers, two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
killed. Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
THE full Corean legation called at the
State Department at Washington on the
18th, and then proceeded to the White
House, accompanied by Secretary Bayard
and Chief Clerk Brown. They were in
troducei individually to the President,
who welcomed them to the United States.
THE general passenger agents of the
trunk lines decided, at meeting in New
York, on the 18th, that on and after
January 20 all the free passenger bag
gage--150 pounds to each passenger-will
be checked through to Pacific coast
points. All excess baggage will have to
be rechecked at the Missouri river.
AMONG the petitions presented in the
Senate, on the 10Th, was one asking for
change in the postal laws so that "paper-
back novels, Observation-Disclosures stories"
shall not be sent through the mails as
second class matter, paying one cent per
pound, while school, law, scientific and
a. fnrht .tu