The Brookhaven leader., 1888-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE roundhouse, machine and black
smith shops of the Northern Pacific
Terminal Company at Albina, Ore, were
burned on the 18th. Loss, $45, 0J0; insur-
ance, $4,000. Seven Oregon Railway and
Navigation locomotives were damaged
and passenger coach burned.
The PeSther LLOYD says that Russia's
candidate for the Bulgarian throne is the
Volvode Maiks Milanoff of Kucsl, lead
ing Montenegrin commander. The paper
considers, however, that he has even less
chance of success than the Prince of Min
grelia-
JAMES GRINDER attacked his wife with
a hatchet, at Rochester, N. Y, on the
18th, inhicting three savage wounds in
her head. Thinking he had killed her, he
ran to the crossing Of the Buffalo, Ruch-
ester & Pittsburgh railway, and threw
himself in front of a rapidly approaching
locomotive. He was instantly killed. He
leaves nine children. Mrs. Grinder may
recover.
JOHN MATHIo, a Frenceman, and Bel
gian named Alix, a foreman at the Stand
ard Plate Glass Works at Butler, Pa,
were almost instantly killed while plac-
ing a sheet of glass in position on the
grinding plate on the 10Th.
EDWARD CoFFEY, the condemned muir
derer who cut his throat in his cell at the
Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail on the 18th,
was still living on the 19th and may re-
cover. His condition is much improved,
but he is not out of danger, and change
may come at any time either for better or
worse.
MISS MARY A. BROWN, a maiden lady,
residing in Norristown, Pa, and pos
sessed of considerable property, has been
swindled out of $4,000 by Philadelphia
woman who made investments for wom-
en-. She conducted "ladies' bank" and
promised large returns for every dollar
invested.
The validity of the Bell telephone pat
ents were established in Mexico on the
10Th by the First District Court of the Re-
public.
The Turner's at Green Bay, Wis, want
all Anarchists expelled from the North
American Turnerbund
GENERAL GRBSsER, prefect of police at
st. Petersb burg, states that the police are
convinced that there has bean no organ
lied plot against the Cars life recently.
But no police in the world, he says, can
prevent attempts of individual desper-
ADDE'S to kill the Gar.
The house of August Wintross was
burned on the 18th, ten miles west of
Duluth, Mimi, and the family were
obliged to trudge nearly mile barefooted
and in the ir night clothes to neighbor's
house. All were badly frozen. Farmer
Wintross will probably lose his feet and
legs. A school teacher living in the house
was also seriously frozen.
GOVERNOR SEMPLE has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the women of Wash
ington Territory.
ROBERT ORME, a farmer of the township
of London, Ont, while returning home
from the city on the night of the 18th,
was waylaid, murdered and robbed
There is no clew to the murderer
BALFoUR was hooted and called a liar
by the populace of Dublin on the 10th.
PUBLIC indignation has been aroused
in the State of Puebla, Mexico, over the
assassination, within a few months, in a
remote part of that State of several Free
Masons whose political and religious ideas
were repugnant to the fantical clerica!s.
WHILE four thousand Chinese workmen
under command of several mandarins
were making breakw to stem Hoang-
Ho floods they were engulfed by sudden
rush of water and only few escaped.
GENERAL BRAGG is in daily consultation
with the principal officials of the State
Department in reference to his duties as
Minister to Mexico. There are now pend
ing a large number of diplomatic ques-
tions between the United States and Mex
leo, which req uire careful treatment.
Among these is the demand recently re-
newed by Secretary Bayard that Mexico
must renounce the claim to extra terrific
rial Jurisdiction which is made in the
Cutting and other cases.
THE National Pure Food convention met
in Washington on the 10th. About one
hundred and twenty-five delegates were
present, representing nearly all of the
leading organizations in the country.
JAMES 4. NowLIN was hanged at CAM
bridge, Mass, on the 20th, for the murder
of Geo. A. Goldman, his employer, Jan.
nary A. 1881.