The Brookhaven leader., 1890-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ohe other chiefs of the Gladstonian
party will meet in London before the
session of Parliament opens to settle
upon the course to be taken by the party
in Parliament.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has completely re-
covered from his recent illness.
THERE was a slight panic in the Park
Theater, New York City, on the even
ing of the 23d, caused by the noise of
fire engines which had been summoned
for small fire few doors from the
theater. Some one in the gallery
started the trouble by crying ''Fire."
By the judicious efforts of the ushers
and policemen on duty order was re-
stored 50 promptly that no one was in
jured.
THE Yorktown, OF tho United States
squadron of evolution, which was de-
layed by heavy weather, arrived at Lis
bon, on the 23d, and joined the other
vessels of the feet.
THE st. Petersburg Novoe Vremyea
states that Bulgaria has purchased from
Austria 100000 rifles and 100000 900
cartridges.
SIXTEEN miners, nearly all of whom
had families, were killed, on the 22d,
by cavern in the Lane mine, at An
gelas Camp, Calaveras County, Cal.
ST. LOUIS firm of wealthy capital
lists have purchased a large tract of
land near Chesterton, Ind, where they
will establish immense brick-yards for
supplying the st. Louis and Cincinnati
trade. The clay is said to be very
superior and as hard and durable as
marble.
EMMA COLE, aged thirty, of Windfall,
Pa, was arrested by United States Mar
shall McCrea, on tho 23d, for making
and circulating counterfeit money. Miss
Cole says she was taught by friend
how to make the counterfeit money with
plaster of paris moulds, and that she
only made four dollars.
JOHN R. MCLEAN, editor of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, distributed $1,000
among the charitable institutions of
that city on Christmas.
FULTON WRIGHT, the seventeen-year-
old son of Captain ]. +. Wright, prom
nent citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn, was
accidentally shot and instantly killed,
on the 23d, at the hands of Tom Sell
man, companion. Both of the boys
being Of, nraa inent families, the affair
has ca6ye at regret throughout the
city.
Antonio, Tex, charged with the muir
der of James Draper, hacllman, on the
night of November 26, was given to the
jury on the 23d. They found the de-
fendant guilty of murder in the second
degree, and assessed his punishment at
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
A MAJORITY of the striking coal
miners in the Monongahela Valley re-
sumed operations, on the 23d, at half
cent-per- -bushel advance in the mining
rates.
BY a caving of earth at the new New
port News & Mississippi Valley railroad
depot at Memphis, Tenn, Walter Bod
kins and an unknown man were killed,
and John Mclaughlin seriously injured.
RECENTLY several mad dogs have been
killed in the neighborhood of Seymour,
Ind, but not until after they had bitten
one or two children and several valuable
cows and other livestock that have died
or are dying Of hydrophobia.
THIRTY-sEvEN indicted saloon-keepers
were fined costs of prosecution in the
District Court at Keokuk, Ia, on the
23d, and the cases against them dis
missed, with the expressed understand
ing that they were to refrain from vio-
lating the Prohibitory law in the future.
THOMAS EMERY's Sons extensive can
die works at Ivorydale, o., six miles
north of the business part of Cincinnati,
were burned on the night of the Esd.
Loss and damage, 500, 900; no insurance.
THE Russian influenza has arrived in
Duluth, MINI. Physicians report thirty
cases slightly milder than in the East.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL JACK WAL
KER was called from Wichita, Kas., on
the Esd, to Oklahoma to quell the
| rowdyism so prevalent there and which
threatens to develop into reign of
| terror.
THE council of the International Ar
bitration Society will urge Senior Gomez
| to consent to arbitration of the dispute
between Great Britain and Portugal
touching territory in Africa.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided to
name the new coast defense vessel, now
building in San Francisco, the ''Mon-
terey," in commemoration of the great
victory of the American forces in
| Mexico.
]. Fl. MONTGOMERY, aged about fifty
wears, boss machenist in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy shops in Burling-
ton, Ia, was run over by train on the
23d, and instantly killed.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY newsboys
were presented with tickets to Mother
Goose performance by the Pittsburgh
(Pa.) Times, and told to be at the
Times Office Christmas morning at ten
o'clock. When they arrived they were
divided into squads of four, marched to
clothing stores and each one given
warm suit of clothes.
J.L. SMITH, a Johnstown (Pa.) mar
ble-cutter, departed for Philadelphia
on the cath, to purchase three carloads
of marble to make headstones Tor the
unidentified dead and seven carloads ios
the identified dead of the Conemaugh
disaster buried in Grandview Cemetery