The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ex.SENAToR PLATT's son has entered
General Tracy's law firm in New York
City.
ALDAcE F. WALKER has finally accent
ed the ehairmanship of the Inter State
Commerce Railway Association.
THE Rhode Island Senate passed, on the
18th, the Ballot Reform hill, amended SO
as to take effect June, 1889, instead of
April, 1Ss9.
DR.. KARL PETERS started from Alexau-
dria, Egypt, for Alden, on the lith, on his
way to take charge of the Emin Bey re-
lief expedition,
THE Silesian Diet has voted to appro-
pirate the sum of 200, 900 marks for the pur-
pose OF erecting monument of Emperor
William l. at Breslaus
THR interposition of Ex-King Milan of
Servia prevented duel between NJ.
Mihiokovic, chief-of- staff, and NJ. Bell
markovic, one Of the regents.
GREAT rain-storms have ragged in Cali
fornia recently, the rainfall for twenty
four hours ended at noon on the 18th be-
ing 20 inches, the heaviest ever known
there.
THE issue cf standard silver dollars
frcm the mints for the week ended the 9th
amounted to 81 ,jS7. The issue during
the corresponding week of last year was
89l, Dol.
SCHUYLER MOSES, the oldest Free Ma
Son in the State of New York, and the
oldest pioneer of Rochester, died, on the
18th, aged ninety. He had been a Mason
Bixty-eight years.
QUEEN VIcroEtA will shortly 60 10 San
Sebastian to pay visit to the cemetery
whore lie the British soldiers who fell in
the Peninsular war In the British conques st
Of that place in 1913
THE Amccr of Afghanistan denies that
he has any designs against Russia. He
declares that his eaemics, wishing to en-
broil England, Af%hanistan and Russia,
originated the report.
NEWS has been received from q man
formerly Of Waterbury, Conn, who, for
twenty-one years, has bcaa supposed to
be dead, but who Is now wealthy resi-
dent of Victoria Australia.
NINCEN2O VILETTh, an accomplice OF
"Red Nosed Mike" in the murder of Pay
master Mcclure and Contractor Flanni-
gan, has been captured i'll Italy, and II, 600
of the stolen money recovered.
IT is reported that the secrets Of the
Patriotic League were betrayed to the
French Government b. a leading officer
OF the organiz ltion. The name of the
traitor has not as yet been divulged.
THE Mexican Government has amended
the concession granted to Captain J. B.
Eads for ship railroad, by guaranteeing
earnings to the extent of five per cent. in
terest on sixty million dollars Of stock.
OWING to the illness of Mrs, To#nshend
and her daughter, it was determined to
postpone the taking of the remains of
Representative TOwnshend to Illinois.
His funeral took place in Washington on
the 18th.
LATE Samoan dispatches received at
Auckland, New Zealand, show that there
is no basis for the rumOrs of the naval
battle that was said to have been fought
between the German and American war
vessels.
TRAtN-wRECKERs tore up the track of
the Transcaspian railway in Russia, caus-
ing frightfuI accident to a passenger
train, on the 10th. Fifty persons were
killed and injured. The wreckers were
captured.
LORD LoNsDAtE has arrived at that
point In the Arctic Circle known as the
DO, i,I 10 ha loo 5Nft ba
Hudson Bay Company. He and his party
are reported we'll, and his lordship IS in
fine spirits.
THE schooner Ellen, which recently left
San Diego, Cal, for the new gold fields at
Ensenada, with eight tons of provisions
and seventy-six miners on board went on
the beach few miles north of Ensenada,
and broke up.
LORD COMPTON (Gladstonian) was elect
ed to Parliament from the Barnsley div.
sion of Yorkshire, England, on the 18th,
receiving 6,232 votes against 3,7Sl cast for
d. c. Vernon Wentworth, the Conserv-
ative candidate.
THE Nihilist committee of st. Peters,
burg has issued a secret circular an
nouncing that the apparent inactivity of
the Nihilist leaders is merely blind, in
tended to lull the authorities into a false
sense of security.
MAYOR GRANT of New York will head
the reception committee which will. go
down the bay on tug to meet the
Adriatic, which brings back the Chicago
and Ail-America base ball clubs from
their tour around the world.
ADMIRAL JOHN LEE DAVIS, aged sixty
four, retired naval officer, died at the
Ebbitt House, Washington, on the 18th,
of pneumonia. Admiral Davis entered
the navy in 1871, and was in command of
the Asiatic squadron when he was retired
two years ago.
THE first sign of the inevitable return of
Queen Natalie to Belgrade as the result of
her late husbands desertion of the throne
and her sons accession thereto is visi-
BILE in the report that a meeting is being
arranged between the mother and son
on the frontier.