The Brookhaven leader., 1889-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Governor of Michigan has issued a
proclamation quarantlnlng against
Southern cattle until November.
The grand council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church met at Boston on the
22d
THE Indians held big council at Stand
ing Rock, OAK, recently and all agreed
not to sign the treaty unless paid S1l 00O,
900 for their land.
THE annual examination Of the Govern
ment Indian School at Carlisle, Pa, took
place on the 22d. The graduating class
consisted of fourteen Indian pupils. Secre-
tary Noble Senator Colquitt and Governor
Beaver spoke and Secretary Noble pre-
sented the diplomas.
A WRECK occurred on the Missouri, Kan
sas g. Texas the other night eight miles
north of Temple, Tex. The engineer,
whose name was Davis, from Denison,
was killed and two brakemen were fatally
wounded. Seventeen cars were piled in a
mass. No cause was known for the wreck.
YELLOW fever has broken out with ter
rible virulence in Vera Cruz, Mexico
A COLLISION occurred on the river near
Montreal recently between the royal mail
steamer Polynesian of the Allan line and
the steamer Cynthia of the Donaldson
line, resulting in the sinking of the latter
vessel and the loss of eight of her crew.
A GENERAL reduction of ten per cent in
wages has been made by the Shenaugo
valley (Pa.) furnace operators. The cut
affects ., 600 men.
GREAT damage was done in Harrison
County, W. Va, the other day by terrific
hailstorm.
THE body of DIR. Cronin. whose sensa-
tional disappearance at Chicago was at
tended with so much mystery, has been
found in a sewer at Lakeview. The head
showed terrible wounds and the body was
naked with the exception of a religious
charm hanging to his neck.
YOKOHAMA papers give an account of
the severe punishment of two Japanese
journalists who published with a sketch
of the new liberal constitution picture Of
a skeleton on the Emperor's throne. One
was sentenced to three years imprison-
ment and fined, while the other receive
one year in prison and was fined.
THE train conveying the Empress of
Austria from Weisbaden to Vienna met
with an accident the other day. While
the train was being shunted at frankfort
the last car left the rails and three of them
were upset. The Empress and suite were
shaken, but nobody was injured but o
footman.
JOHN NEAL was instantly killed and
Timothy Reardon fatally injured in a
stone quarry near She!byville, Ind. the
other evening. In drilling holes for blast
the men struck an unexploded dynamite
cartridge.
FOREST fires are doing considerable
damage among the fine timber about
Plaquemine, La.
THE Chicago & Alton road, through
Manager ChappelL has given notice to
Chairman Walker, of the Interstate Rail-
way Association, that it must have more
equitable proportion of the livestock and
grain traffic from the Missouri river to
Chicago or it will at once take the matter
into its own hands and drop rates low
enough to secure business.
The United States cruiser Boston has
been ordered to Hayti on a secret mission.
THE trial of Baussere, the chemist, for
poisoning fourteen persons, was begun at
Havre, France. on the 23d.
The ex-convicts who arrived at New
York recently from England, and claimed
that they had been assisted out by
the Prisoners Aid Society, of London.
were sent back by the order Of Collector
Erhardt.
The residence of Rev. #. c. Clarke, near
Virginia Beach, in Princess Ammo County,
Va, was burned the other night and he.
his two daughters next to the oldest son
and niece visiting him were consumed
by the flames. His wife, Miss Ella Bid
good, the governess, aud two young chill
dren escaped.
THE centennial celebration of the estab-
lishment of the Catholic Church Of the
United States was begun on the 23d in the
Carroll memorial church at Hyattsville,
Prince Georges County. Nd, by memo
rial mass in honor of Arch bishop Carroll,
the first Roman Catholic prelate OF the
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