The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A LETTER addressed by henry NJ. stan
ley to Tippoo Tib has been received in
Brussels. 1t was dated August II last.
The explorer had seen Emin Bey and was
in good health the expedition having lost
only two men by drowning and one by de-
sertion.
GOVERNOR FLEMING, of Florida, has is
sued proclamation convening the Florida
Legislature in special session ON February
5 next to pass bill providing for State
Board of Health. and also for county
boards of health in all counties where it
may be necessary.
The President on the 10Th vetoed three
pension bills and a bill to pay $4S to
Michael Pigo:t, postmaster at Quincy, ILL.,,
for the use of a telephone.
LYMAN U. HUMPHREY, the new Governor
of Kansas, sent his first message to the
Legislature on the 16 h. The message
covered many subjects. Executive super
vision of State institutions was wanted,
Prohibition was advocated and changes
were desired in the death penalty. Rail-
roads, banks, alien ownership, public debts,
labor legislation, trusts, education, appor-
tonment, length of SESSION and other
matters were also ventilated and improve
ments suggested.
THE Board of Indian Commissioners at
its recent annual meeting in Washington
passed resolutions urging the extension
of the civil system to the Indian
service aud opposing the removal of tribes
from reservations where they are doing
well.
GENERAL w. d. WAsHBURN has been
selected by the Republicans of Minnesota
to succeed Senator Sabin.
DR.. FRIEDBERG has resigned the Office of
Prussian Minister of Justice because of the
publication of the Geffecken Indictment
THE nomination Of Walter H. Bragg to
succeed himself as Inter- State Commits
sioner has been favorably reported in the
Senate.
RETURNS from the English County Coun-
Gil elections show majority for the Lib
erals.
NINE lima DI MURSKA, the singer, died
at Munich on the 18th in extreme poverty.
Her daughter, who was heart broken at
the loss of her mother, committed suicide
by taking poison. .....
ONE of the messengers sent from Suakim
to Khartoum early in November brings
back letter from a European which says
that Lupton Bey died on May s, 1t was
reported that the equatorial provinces had
Welded to the Mahdi. Nothing was known
of Emin Pasha. Slatin Bey and the other
Europeans were well.
PERRY S. WEsTFALL, editor and pro-
prietor of the Saturday Evening Mail
Terre Haute, Ind, died recently, aged
fifty-five.
HUGO GoLLMER, secretary of the execu-
tive committee of the North American
Turner Bund and one of the oldest men,
bers of that society, died in st. Louis re-
Gently, aged fifty-nine.
The majority Of the Ford Committee on
immigration proposes five-dollar tax on
immigrants.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been NOM
mated as arbitrator between Nicaragua
and Costa Rica in dispute about the pro-
posed Nicaraguan canal
EDITOR SHUMAN, connected with the
Chicago Evening Journal for thirty three
years, has retired from his post on account
of ill-health.
THEJapanese Government has abolished
the export duty on drugs, woven goods,
timber, timber cereals, spirits, beasts and
fuel.
! THE President vetoed three private PEN
sion bills on the 18th.
THOMAS A. STEVENS, who proposes to go
into Central Africa in search of Henry NJ.
Stanley, left London for Zanzibar ON the
-1Sth.R -
The elections for the new county
councils in London recently showed a
good majority for the Liberals and Rad
icas.
In the rseent election for the Govan di-
gisien of G.aagow, Scotland, the Glad
stonian candidate defeated the Unionist,
reversing the preceding election, when the
late Mr.. PeaEce was elected