The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-18

The committee Of Irishmen collecting
money for Parnells litigation with the
London Tlmes have secured $4,000 so far.
but need much more and appeal especially
to Americans.
JUDGE SAWYER, OF the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco has issued
two writs of habeas corpus designed to
test some of the questions to be raised over
the right to land of Chinese arriving here
after the Exclusion act went into effect
One writ was for a Chinaman arriving by
the steamship Belgic who had return
certificate and the question raised Is
whether Congress can constitutionally
deprive Chinese holding custom house
certificates of the right tc return.
A MOTION was made in the Supreme
Court at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 11th for a
commission to take the testimony of
President Cler Gland in a suit of Rev. Dr.
George II. Ball against the New York
ErcHing Post for libel. The motion was
denied. The suit grows out of Rev. Ball's
scandal charges in the last Presidential
election.
a stRt Vrhich broke out on the steamer
Harris at GreenpOint, l.. l., the other
morning spread to adjoining vessels and
to the Standard Oil shipping department,
causing a loss Of S2OO,OOO. Five hremen
were severely burned.
n NORTHBOUND passenger train on the
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling road and
freight train collided near Massillon, o.,
OH the 18th, and both engines, two psssen.
ger coaches and several freight cars were
completely wrecked. : brakemdu and a
passenger were fatally injured and anoth
er man had both legs broken. Loss, $780,
UUU.
c. c. DEAN, private secretary of Major
John A. Adams, of Little Rock, Ark, has
gone to Canada because of defalcations for
an unknown amount. lie recently failed
in en- stter'r't 70 kill hir.sCh.
TIiE bottom of the Robert B. Carson, an
Ohio river cattle steamboat, collapsed the
other night and the vessel sank near
Evansville, Ind. The crew escaped.
ONE hundred persons were killed in re-
cent disorders at Port au Prince, Hayti.
A MADRID dispatch says there has been
q renewal of tha conflicts between Morocco
and the United States The latter de-
mands that the authorities at Fez be pun
! shcd for The arrest u tie ameraa
! Consul's prOtege and that indemnity be
paid
! THE Vandaia freight depot at East st.
! Louis, H., was burned the other night.
! Loss, $4,000.
THE President has vetoed a Senate bill
granting restoration Of pension to Sarah
! A. Woodbridge on the grounds that the
/ pteUedent ought not n bc established Of
] granting a pension to a soldiers widow
| after remerriage, when the second hus-
band sti.i survived.
Two men gagged the night Clerk ir charge
of the post-office at Houston, Tex, on the
morning Of the 18th and robbed the mail
pouches, of how much was unknown.
AN oil well has been struck near Find.
lay. O., which eclipses any thing in the
history of the Ohio field. 1t is estimated
! to flow 5000 barrels per day.
| Iowa had two bank failures on the 11th
! The Boyer Valley Benk, Of WoCdbine, and
the Caldwell Bank, at Logan, closed theiI
doors.
AT the intersection of the Walnut Hills
cable road and the Park avenue line OF
! horse cars, Cincinnati, recently, collision
occurred between cable car 133 and PJrk
avenue car No. 10, caused by the inability
TO work the track brake on the cable car.
There were about l20 passengers on both
cars, but no one was seriously injured.
Two bogus notes, one for $1,000 and an
other for $4,000, issued hv ahscondirg
! treasurer Bosworth, of the Stafford mills
at Fall River, Mass, have been found,
bringing up his defalcation to $45, 000
A REPORT of yellow fever at Green Cove
! Springs, Fla, has been received at the
Marine Hospital Bureau.
THE President has vetoed the bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to set
tie the claim of James NJ. Wilbur for ex-
ira work in laying the tiling in the New
York poSt-oflice building in 1874. The
claim amounted to about ~, 900.