The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mall
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has received a report from Malachi Krebs,
a special agent of the Interior Depart
ment to allot lands in severalty to the In
dians upon the DEVILS lake reservation in
Northern Dakota, announcing the refusal
of the Indians to receive the allotments
as contemplat ated in the General Allotment
act of 1887.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of ST. Louis, re-
Gently denied emphatically that he went
to New York for the purpose OF selling
the Merchants bridge TO Jay GoulA.
THE President has designated General
McFeely to act as Secretary of War dur
ing the absence of Secretary Proctor.
GENERAL ScHoFIELD has directed the
commander of the division of the Pacific
to take such action as may be necessary
to protect settlers near Calispeld, Wash
ington Territory, from the Indian out
break threatened there.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
has honored the requisition OF the Gov
ernor of South Carolina for Rev. Z. F,
Flemon, the co!ored preacher accused of q
murder in 1884.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was arrested al
New York on the 31st on a requisition
from the Governor of Mississippi, APP
proved by the Governor of New York
SECRETARY TRACY has cabled Admiral
Gherardi at st. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, tC
rescue three American sailors left on ar
uninhabited guano island called Arenas
Key.
CAPTAIN L. DUvARGE, who shot Con
sular Agent " F. NJ. Stanwood at Ana
kade, Madagascar, last November, ha'
| been found guilty of manslaughter ant
sentenced to ten years. Imprisonment.
THE remains of General Lazare Carnot
grandfather of the President of thu
| French Republic, have been exhumed a
Magdeburg, Germany, where they wer'
| buried. They will be reinterred in tht
Paris Pantheon. The body was found ii
| a wonderful state of preservation.
THE United States Senate Committee OIL
Irrigation of Arid Lands in the Wes
| commenced it's labors at st. Paul, MINI.
on the 1st. Those present were Senator!
| Stewart of Nevada, and Reagan, O.
| Texas; Colonel Hinton, of the geological
survey, and Major Powell.
EvARIsro CARAzo, President of Mica
| ragua, is dead.
THE island of Crete is reported to be il
| a state of anarchy as the result OF th
present uprising.
THE Emperor of Germany arrived q
| Dover, England, on the 1st.
LIEUTENANT TAPPENBECK, the African
| explorer, has fallen a victim to fever.
In the Washington Territory Constitu
| tional convention the clause forbiddint
| counties to grant subsidies for any pur
pos, whatever was adopted.
THE Shah of Persia visited Buffalo BilP
Wild West show in Paris and was mucl
| interested in the performance
| COLONEL CANADAY, sergeant-nt-ar o
| the United States Senate, who had bee,
in Alaska with Senate committee, is ly
| ing quite i'll in Montana.
| THE President returned to Washington
| on the 1st.
| THE Puyallup Indians, of Washington
| Territory, q tribe well advanced in educa
tion and intelligence, have senta memoria
| to the Senate Committee on Indian Affair
| asking for severalty.
In ukase the Car of Russia has ap
proved the late Count Tolstois reform
policy.
ENGLAND has annexed the Union ant
| Phoenix groups of islands in the Pacif
| ocean.