The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
CLEANED by Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND poIJr,c.,

EkSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SAMUEL H. PATRICK, of .Kansas, has
Desh appointed agent at the Sac and Fox
lndian agency in the Indian Territory.
LIE fatrlotic Order of the Sons of Amer
ica met In convention at Washington on
Ine lo.n, Anarchists and the Clan.na-
GaeI were denounced.
ALBERT I. WYATT, president Of the
I standard Cattle Company and of the Wv.
oming Stock Growers Association, died al
Cheyenne recently.
uoVERNoR FORAKER, of Ohio, denies
positively that he will be a candi date for
ahother term and declares he will not take
the nomination il it be offered him.
WALKER BLAINE, First Assistant Secre-
tary OF State. denies that an agreement
mas Deep reached between Great Britain
and TIE United States that no vessel shall
% seized in Behring sea.
A REVOLUTIONARY manifesto from Servia
has been circulated in Bosnia and Herze-
govina announcing that Austria intended
TO annex these territories. The populace
was greatly excited.
The Sultan of Turkey sent donation of
200 Turkish pounds for the Conemaugh
sufferers.
GENERAL A. G. MYERS, Quartermaster-
General of the Confederate army, died at
Washington on the Goth. He was a native
o. South Carolina and graduated at West
Point in 1888.
CARDINAL PECCI the Pope's brother,
was reported dying at Rome.
The French Admiralty Is about to ask
for an immense credit to build the greatest
navy in the world.
The Emperor of Austria joined the Cor
pus Christi procession at Vienna on the
Goth. He and all the Princes walked bare
headed.
Ex-Governor Hartranft, of Pennsyl-
vania, has been appointed member of
the Cherokee Commission and has signified
his intention of accepting the office. This
fills the Commission.
GENERAL HIRAM F. DEvoL has been ap-
pointed collector of the Sixth district of
Missouri, vice C.. E. Hasbrook.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON was stricken
with paralysis at Lancaster, Pa, on the
20th. 1t was not thought he could recover
his great age (ninety years. precluding
much hope.
THE voting in Rhode Island on the goth
went in favor of repeating the Prohibition
amendment.
OFFICIAL returns put the majority
against the Prohibition amendment in
Pennsylvania at 1S5, ,173.
THE Connecticut Legislature has passed
the Secret Ballot bill.
FURTHER news from Hayti report Hip
polyte's continuous success over Legitime.
The latter was about used up.
PROF E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, of Cornell
University, formerly of Brown alumnus,
has been unanimously elected president
of Brown University at Providence, r. l.,
vice DR.. E G. Robinson, resigned.
THE Patriotic Order Sons of America has
elected the following officers: President,
George p. Smith, of Illinois; vice-pres-
dent, Napoleon Underwood, of Lou siana;
master of forms and ceremonies, w. j.
Stoner, of Pennsylvania, vice A. A. Hob
son; secretary DIR. +. w. Hendley. of
Obio; treasurer, A. B. Philips, of Colorado.
The next pace of meeting will be Boston,
October. 1SGJ.
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Ohio has formally expelled j. Dowdall,
of Columbus who prepared a minority re-
port on the expenses of the last campaign,
inferentially charging Chairman Town
send with embezzling $40, 900 of the cam
paign fund.
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH LOISINGER, brother
in-law of Prince Alexander, of Batten-
berg, is about to marry Louise Kopek,
daughter of the head gamekeeper of the
Dagnaiska forest in Hungary, thus allying
The English royal family with a game
keeper.
A CIRCULAR issued by the Servian Gov
ernment denies the truth of recent alarm.
ist rumors concerning that country, and
states that the foreign policy of Servia is
unchanged.
MRS Lucy HAYES, wife of the ex-Presi-
dent, was stricken with paralysis at Fre-
mont O., on the 21st. Her entire right
side was affected and she was unconscious.
General Hayes was in Columbus but re-
turned home Immediately.
In the Spanish Cortes Senior Becerrera,
Minister of the Colonies, reaffirmed that
the United States Government had made
no proposition relative to the purchase of
Cuba. He added that no proposition look
ing to the sale of the island would be en-
tertained by the Spanish Government.
The rule of the d Dlctator, GuZman Blanco,
in Venezuela is reported to have ended
by a peaceful revolution.
GENERAL w. N TAFT. ex-postmaster of
Charleston, S. G., Republican leader, is
dead.
STATE TREASURER ISAAC S. BAABERG, of
South Carolina. fell dead at his home in
Columbia recently.