The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

A DOZEN fremen we're buried under a
falling floor at a fire In Milwaukee, Wis,
on the night Of the 2sth. All were quite
seriously, and two or three fatally, in
jured.
The Opposition press Of Mexico have
ceased their attacks upon the financial
policy Of the government since Senor
Dublan, in whom they have implicit con-
| fdence, has resumed control of fiscal af-
fairs.
1T Is reported that the Gar is scandal
lied by the irregular lives of his brothers,
and has ordered Grand Duke Vladimir to
resign his commandership Of the guards.
The inevitable crank turned up at Wash
inRton, on the 1st, having urgent business
with the President-elect He variously
styled himself General Judge Fl. Davis" F"
''The Great North American Basso Pro-
fundo," "The Welsh Bard" and ''The
Lion Soloist of America"
THE German supplementary army esti-
mate of L, 2,492, ,304 marks will be raised by
loan provided for by bill introduced
in the Bundesrath ON the 1st.
STEINETz, the champion chess player,
played simultaneously against nineteen
persons at Havana, Cuba, on the 2Sth, and
won all the games.
OF the eighteen forts designed to sur
round Bucharest Roumania, eleven are
ready to receive their armament Of Krupp
guns, which are now arriving.
THE family Of Ernest Hudson, consist
ing Of himself, wife and seven children,
were drowned while attempting to ford a
creek near New Earl, Tenn, on the 9th.
Two thousand furnacemen of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company's
furnaces at South Pittsburg, Tenn, struck,
o n the 1st, against reduction Of ten per
cent. in their wages.
IT was reported at st. Petersburg, on the
1st, that the Afghans were advancing upon
the frontier from Herat, and that the Emir
Of Bokhara was preparing to attack them.
Russian new spapers are filed with ar
ticles advising war.
Mr.. w. K. VANDERBILT, Of New York
City, is seeking to lease for the season
the Duke of Sutherland's London resi-
dence.
On the 28th, Hon. John B. Laidly, con-
fined in the Charleston wv. Va.) jail to
re cover from the effects of protracted
spree, cut his throat with piece Of glass
broken from his cell window, inhicting
probably fatal wounds.
JOHN w. LINcK, the Republican men,
Der of the Indiana Legislature, who struck
Mr.. Willard (Dem.) under the impression
that the latter had insulted his colleague,
was, on the 2Sth fined $50 and suspended
for the remainder Of the session.
On the 2Sth two thousand furnace men
in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in
Ohio, accepted ten per cent. reduction
in pay.
AN increase in the public debt, amount
to Sc, 443, 1884 occurred during February.
ON the 2Sth, John Kramer, Of Des
Moines, Ia, suicided with strychnine.
MRS. AsPELMIRE, aged fifty, of Creston
Ia, was frightfully burned, on the 2Sth
while tempting to light a fire in gaso
line stove.
ANTHONY LAREE, who has only been il
| this country four months, fatally stabbed
his nineteen year old wife at Paterson
N. j., on the 1st.
AT the State oratorical contest at Mount
Vernon, Ia. on the 2Sth, o. r. Patrick, oi
Parsons College, won first hOnors; G.
C. Stookey, Of Iowa Agricultural College,
second, and E. s. Ames, of Drake Uni
versity, third. The Interstate contest
will be held at Grinnell, Ia, in May.
''PoP" LLOYD, whose true name was
Thomas Winn, and who was said to have
been a buccaneer in the old days, was
buried from the Jerry McAuley Mission,
New York. on the 2Sth. He was very
wicked man and was converted at the
Mission about four years ago and had
been fixture there ever since.
HENRY ANGLES, the fireman on the st.
Louis express, who was injured in the
wreck at st. George, died at his home in
London, Ont, on the 1st.
II. F. TAYLOR, the attendant who killed
patient in the insane asylum at Pontiac,
Mich, in self f-defense, recently, was ac-
quilted on the 1st.