The Brookhaven leader., 1888-01-26

MRS. CRooKE, cousin Of DIR. Cross,
who was executed recently in Ireland,
has been arrested on the charge of starry
ing her husband, a gentleman ofproperty,
aged fifty-seven who died a short time
ago.
"GRANDMA" GARFIELD Is gradually
sinking and it is Thought that she will not
live more than q few days longer. Mrs.
J. A. Garfield, Miss Mollie Garfield ana
one Of the boys are in Europe. "Grand-
ma" Garfield is at Mentor at the old home
stead and is attended by her daughter,
Mrs. Trobridge.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is being
lionized in Russia by the royalty, the
nobility and the aristocracy.
LIEUTENANT THIEs, Quartermaster
Third infantry, died at Fort Shaw, Mont,
on the 2Oth, of erysipel as, after an illness
of but a few days. He entered the service
as private in 1864.
JOHN z. REA, commander.in.c in chief of th o
G. A. r.; Adjutant- General Fish, of Min
neapolis, and Quartermaster-Genera John
Taylor, of Phil adelpha, were rendered a
reception on the night of the 20th by La
feyette Post, G. A. r. in New York.
The day express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck two men in Carnies' tun :
mel near Meensboro, Pa, on the goth, and
killed them instantly. Their remains
were mangled beyond recognition, but it
is supposed they were tramps.
REAR-A DMIRAL LOUIS HUTTON VERSE
TERME, of the British navy, committed sui
eide at Falmouth, on the goth, in hit OF
insanity. He entered the service in 1850
and became a Rear-Admiral in 1885. He
was on the retired list.
Don CARLOS wants Spain to become a
great nation, and says he is willing to fight
to make her such.
JUDGE j. F. KINNEY, agent of the San.
tee Indians in Dakota, arrived at Ne
braska, City, Neb., on the Goth, after be-
ing nine days on the road. He report S
that loss of life by the late storm has
been greatly underestimated, and be-
lieves Dakota's death record will reach
1000.
JAMES G.. Brooks, who has held the
office of chief of the secret service di-
vision of the Treasury Department for so
many years, rendered his resignation
when the present Admins tration came
into power, and it was accepted on the
Goth, to take effect February 10. John S.
Bell, form arly chief OF police of Newark,
N. j., will succeed him.
JOHN PALMER, assistant mllwright at
Oliver Bros. 81 Phillips iron mill, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was dragged into the rolls on
the morning of the Goth, and crushed to
death. Palmer was oiling the pinon
bearings when his feet slipped, and be-
fore he could recover himself he was
caught in the rolls and drawn through
feet foremost.
THE virtual, if not actual, expulsion of
ex-Queen Isabella from Spain is due, it is
ascertaned, to the discovery of a plot to
place her upon the Spanish throne as re-
gent pending the arrival at the age of
majority of her grandson, the baby King
Alfonso XIII.
THE White Caps, an organization of
roughs who have long been the
terror of Crawford County, Ind. =,
have committed another outrage. They
went to the house of Wesley Meeks, a
Baptist minister, dragged him from his
bed and whipped him most unmercifuily.
They told him he was not providing for
his family well enough.
TELEGRAMs from Toulon, France, re
port that the government arsenal there
has suddenly become the scene of great
activity. Every thing is being fastened
to place a squadron of iron -ciads and all
inc dNdlap4e cI ulHeIS III IedulheH> W sail
The men at the dock-yards are working
extra time.
HATTIE OLNEY, of Vanderbilt Mich.
threw her six-year- child from a
Michigan Central train, near Lapere, on
the night of the 10Th. The child was found
cut in two The woman, who is a cripple
and uses a crutch, was arrested shortly
after the arrival of the train at Bay City.
She claims that the child was dropped
accident ally.