The Brookhaven leader., 1888-05-17

| THE House Committee on Appropriations
| has resolved to report a bill appropriatlng
| So 900 10 meet deficiencies In the ap-
| preparation for the payment of army pen
sons during the remainder Of the present
| fiscal year.
! In the British House Of Commons re-
| Gently Sir John Gorst, Under Secretary for
! India, announced that the Government of
I India admitted the authenticity OF the
circular OF the Commander in. Chief, direct
| ing that regimental baEaars have SUM-
| cent number Of women. The statement
| created great sensation,
| NATURAL gas caused the destruction of
| St Paurs Cathedral, Buffalo, n Y, on the
4 m, rning of the 10th. The building was an
/ imposing ne and was valued at S25O0J0.
| a CYCLONE struck the village of Peca-
/ tonica, ILL.,, on the night OF the 10th, wreck
! ing several houses and innumerable out
/ buildings. One woman and thre3 children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying
/ timbcrS.
SINCE January thirty-two corporations
| OF Fall River, Mass, with an aggregate
capital of 81, rs 900, have made dividends
of more than 4 $40 per cent for the fraC-
tion of the year, The divi lends range
/ from | to 10 for the months already gone,
ard indicate that the dividends for the year
will average 12 per cent
AT the annual meeting of the American
Bible Society in New York the receipts
were reported as S55T, $40 aud the disburse-
ments as $5O6 453.
! THE Turkish Cabinet has approved the
| Anglo French Suez canal conventions aban.
doning its claim to preside over the asso-
cation and being given the right to use the
! canal.
! W. - IAVt- h1c ctr 10 ct DOR
| to death at a Georgia country church be-
cause he wore billed shirt and was to
have been hanged has been respited by
/ Governor Gordon.
! REV. GEORGE MCDUFFIE,a negro preacher,
was hanged recently at Atlanta, Ga, for
the murder of William Cheney, another
negro. Illic love on the part OF McDufie
led him to commit the crime.
! A. j. BRYANT, wealthy resident OF San
! Francisco, who was mayor from 1873 TO
! 1879 fell from a ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in l-health
| for some time, and it il supposed had an
attack of vertigo
NEARLY two blocks of the business part
! of Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by
/ fire on the night Of the 11th The fire
broke out III the Excelsior laundry and the
damage amounted TO slb),OO).
THE Raj WY Conductors Association, in
scs ion at Toronto, Ont, recently passed
resolution cond inning the strike of the en-
/ ginecrs on the o. system.
LUMBERMEN say there is an over supply
! of logs in the Mississippi this season. There
/ are more logs III the streams than the Min
neapalis mills can possibly saw, and there
are no storage booms and no market for
the logs. a Generalization of the lumber
market is threatened.
THE offer of $4,000 reward for the cap
turc of Tascott, the murderer Of millionaire
/ Smell, of Chicago has expired by limita-
ton. Notwithstanding the dozens of ar
rests made all over the country the real
! Tascott is still at large.
IT is rcror;ed that at a recent parade of
] Russian troops a cavalry Lieutenant named
/ Tmorercf was about TO fire at the Car with
u revolver when another officer sezed him
| 10y the arm and the weapon being dis
! charged the bullet entered the ground.
/ Timoferef, who was at once arrested, ap-
! pearcd to be insane
THE body OF j. II. Kiel, prominent citi-
zen of Oshkosh, Wis, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting a
bridge and it was first thought had been
/ drowned, but an examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river
ADvICEs from Afghanistan say that the
Heratic regiment hat fight recently with
the Demshed tribe, which had petitiOncd
for Russian protection. Many were killed
| on each side.
THE Southern Baptist convention met ia
annual session at Rich mond, Va, on the
! llth and was called to order by Prof. Lewis
! B. Ely, of Missouri, frst-vice president.
| Rev. DIR. p. Ii. Nell, the president having
] died since the last convention.