The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LIE BrltlSh shlp-bullderS are placed
in a serious position by the rise in the
price of iron and steel. a further ad-
vance is feared, and if It takes place
many firms will lose money on the con-
tracts now under way
THE annual convention Of the knights
of Labor opened at Atlanta, Ca, on the
18th.
THE Blue Book which has just been
issued by the British Government
proves that Greece, early in the month
OF August, was preparing to send an ex-
pedition to Crete, but was restrained
from doing so by tho Powers.
M. FLoQUET was, on the 18th, elected
provisional president of the French
Chamber of Deputies, and NM. Perier
and Deville vice-presidents.
THE National Grange Patrons of Hus-
bandry convened in Sacramento, Cal,
on the 18th, delegates being present
from nearly all the States of the
Union.
IT is estimated that the Egyptian cot
ton crop this year will yield over 3,OOO,-
900 bales.
THE Guatemalan Minister says that
tho draft Of u protocol for the federal
union Of Guatemala, San Salvador, Hon
duras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica has
been already signed, but requires ratifi-
cation by the congresses of the five
countries.
III. III. MILLER, son of Emily Hunt
ington Miller, the authoress, has alb
seconded from Omaha, Neb., leaving
debtsdue the members of Trinity Church
in Kountze Place, amounting to about
81 900.
THE first invoice of 1000 hogsneads of
sugar for Spreckel's Philadelphia sugar
refinery was received on the 18th.
OF 15S persons arrested for taking
part in the Boulangist demonstration in
Paris, on the 18th, ninety-eight were
discharged. The noted Anarchist,
Gonda, is among those still in GUS
tody.
BY the caving in Of q pit in coal
mine at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, on
the 18th, twenty miners were buried.
There is no hope of saving any of them.
THE suit of George Rice, the Marietta
(O.) refiner, against the Standard Oil
trustees to compel the issuance to Rice
of six shares Of Standard Oil Trust stock
now standing in the name of j. B. Nal
laby, was begun in the Supreme Court
of the City of New York Oh the 18th.
Mr.. HENRY NEVILLE GLADSTONE, son
of Rt. Hon. VIM. Z. Gladstone, will
shortly be married to Miss Rendel,
daughter of Mr.. Stuart Rendel, member
of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
Wales.
THE Lager-beer Brewers Association
of New York City, on the 18th, sub
scribed $446, 900 to the Worlds Fair
fund of that city.
THE trial of sixty-fve persons charged
with swindling Austrian and Hungarian
emigrants en- route to America, was be-
gun at Wadowice, Austrian Poland, on
the 14th.
IT is thought that the result of the
late election in Iowa will! eventuate in
the elimination of the temperance queS-
tion from politics.
THE new Government cruiser Balti-
more started from Philadelphia on her
second official trial trip on the 18th.
A BIG deal in the Ohio oil field was
on the 14th, by which j.
c. Mckinney, of Titusville, Pa, and
syndicate of New York and Philadel-
phia capitalists secured twenty thou
sand acres of territory. The company
will erect refineries and operate as an
independent concern. The land is situ-
ated in Findlay and vicinity.
THE Woman's Exchange held its elev-
enth annual meeting in New York City,
on the 18th, sixty-three delegates from
branches in all parts of the country be-
ing present, among whom were Mrs. An
drew Carnegie, Mrs. f. F. Shepard,
Mrs. Judge Dillon and Mrs. Judge
Choate. Encouraging reports were sub
mitted as to the work of the organiza-
ton.
WHILE house was being moved across
the Kendall street bridge at Battle
Creek, Mich, on the 18th, q section of
the bridge gave way, letting the house
and carrying with it James Pot
ter and his son and C. f. Redenberg, all
of whom were seriously injured.
PRESIDENT HARRISON arrived at Chase,
Md, on the 18th, where, as the guest of
the Bengies Point Club, he spent two
days in duck shooting, killing large
number of birds.
THE official count of the vote in Ohio
for Governor shows: Campbell (Dem.),
$40, 424; Foraker (Rep.), 36s, ,551. Camp
BELLS plurality, 10,S73. Helwig (Pro.),
26, ,O40.
THE Paris Precurseur asserts that
France has declared her intention to
from the Latin Union unless
Belgium and Italy recall the excess of
five-franc pieces of their issue now cir
culating in France and Switzerland.
THERE was a terrific explosion in the
pyrotechnic factory Of Mamie & Ro-
maine, at Petersburg, Va, on the 14th.
Six thousand pieces of fireworks were
destroyed, and three Italian workmen
were fatally burned.
AN attempt was made at Galesburg,
ILL.,, on the 14th, to burn the residence
of Attorney G. A. Lawrence. 1t is sup
posed to have been the work of "White
Caps"
AN explosion occurred in the royal
powder factory at Hanau, Germany, on
the 14th, killing eight persons and in
juring twenty-three.
Mrs. .BERTA MILIMAN, wife of w. III.
Millman, commercial editor of the Min
neapolis (Minn.) Tribune, was asphyxi-
ated by gas on the 14th. She was suf-
,fall