The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-21

| ON tho 14th Henry =. DeVol, an in
surance agent, was arrested at Memphis,
Tenn, and taken to Topeka, Kas., where
he is wanted on the charge of embezzle-
| ment
EIGHT THOUSAND tons of steel rails at
SIS per ton, delivered, were sold by an
Eastern Pennsylvania firm, on the 18th,
for spring delivery.
JOSEPH III. BREsNAHAN, a post-office
clerk in New York City was, on the
18TH held in 81, 500 bail for robbing the
mails.
QUEEN AMEIIE of Portugal, daughter
| OF the Count of Paris, was delivered of a
son on the 18TH
Two freight trains on the Virginia
Midland railroad collided at Russian
Branch, opposite Bull Run battlefield,
on the 18th, killing Engineer casters,
of Madison Run, and Fireman James
Murphy, of Springfield, and fatally
wounding Fireman Evans, Of Alexan-
dria.
THE editor of the Magdeburg Tage-
blatt has been sentenced to six weeks
Imprisonment for insulting Prince Bis
marck.
PRIVATE kilograms received in Amer
lea and England, on the 18th, from Rio
Janeiro announce the outbreak of
revolution in Brazil, but give no partic-
ulars.
Ex-ARCHDUKE JOHN of Austria has de-
cided not to take up his residence in
England, as was reported to be his in
ten tion.
TIE Bavarian Government has de-
cided to re-admit the clergy of the Re-
demptorist order to Bavarian territory
and the exercise of their functions under
certain restrictions.
THE consumption of horse flesh in lieu
of beef is daily increasing in Berlin,
and it has become almost impossible for
the butchers to procure sufficient verita-
BILE beef to supply the demands of those
who are able to pay the almost fabulous
prices which the commodity commands.
THE frequent manifestations of dis
content among the gas stokerS and other
employees of the London Gaslight Com
pany of late has led the company to ad
NIT 700 of it's employees to the enjoyment
of a share of the profits OF the company
through the medium of a cooperative
system, the condition imposed upon the
men so benefited being that they shall
agree in writing, in consideration OF
their participation in the profits, that
they will have nothing to do with strikes
or labor organizations.
NJ. CuRISTITICH, formerly Servian Min
lister to Germany, has disappeared from
Belgrade, and the few persons cOmpris-
ing his friends fear that he has COM
mitted suicide, while the many who do
spise him fear that he has not.
THE Sultan of Turkey on the 18th,
issued an trade granting amnesty to all
prisoners in Crete confined for political
or semi-political offenses. This action
is said tS be a result of the recent visit
to the Turkish capital of Emperor Will
lam of Germany.
ANOTHER female writer, Miss Eliza
beth Bisland, started overland for San
Francisco, on the 18th, with the inten-
tion of travelling around the world in an
opposite direction from that taken by
Nelly bly,. She will leave San Francis
co for Yokohama on the 21st, and ex-
poets to reach New York City in seven
ty-tive days.
SPEAKING of the probable result of
the late election on Prohibition in Iowa,
George Dobson, the leading Republican
candidate for Speaker of the House OF
Representatives of that State, says: 81
do not think there is any prospect for
repeal. The Republicans have work
ing majority in the Senate strong
enough, am sure, to avert the disas-
ter. Prohibition is the settled policy OF
the State and of the Republican party"