The Brookhaven leader., 1890-03-06

THE Lincoln National Bank, OF Ian
caster, Pa, reopened its doors for busi-
ness on the 27th, the stockholders hav-
ing made good the loss occasioned by
the defalcation Of Cashier Bard.
THE President has appointed Judge
Henry c. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to be
United States Circuit Judge for the
Eighth Circuit, vice David J. Brewer,
resigned to accept appointment to the
United States Supreme bench.
IT was reported on the 27th that the
condition Of James Russell Lowell, who
had beef suffering from cold, was such
as to cause considerable concern among
his friends.
COMMODORE GEO. B. WHITE, Chief of
the Bureau Of Yards and Docks, Navy
Department, died at his residence in
Washington, on the 27th, from an at
tack Of apoplexy.
WM. SCHUYLER MALCOLM, a grandson
of General Philip Schuyler, of Revolu-
tionary fame, and one of Oswego's On.
W pioneers, is dead, aged eighty years.
For many years he sailed the lakes as
captain.
THE United States steamship Enter
prise, from the European station, ar
rived at New York on the 27th. The
Enterprise brought the body OF Hon.
George III. Pendleton, late United States
Minister at Berlin.
INFORMATION was received at the Office
of the Railway Mail Service on the
27th that the mail storage car on train
| No. Al, west-bound (the fast mail, was
burned, on the morning of the 27th, at
Blue Creek, Utah, the car and contents
being totally destroyed.
SLCoTT, the absconding defaulter of
the sergea nt-at-arms' Office, was arrest
ed at Toledo, Ore, on the 2Sth. He was
acting as railroad engineer at the
time of his arrest
Mrs. SARAH LATnRoP AMEs, aged
seventy-seven years, widow of the late
Oliver Ames, OF North Easton, Mass,
died, on the night of the 2sth, from the
effects of an apoplectic stroke.
Dom PEDRO, exEmperor of Brazil, has
accepted the invitation of Emperor
| Francis Joseph to spend next summer
at the castle of HeinStsendorf.
THE estimated reduction of the pub
lie debt during February was S5,0OO0 0oO
The subcommittee of the House
committee on the Worlds Fair has held
several informal conferences, but no
definite conclusions have been reached.
CHARLES TUFTS, aged eighty-tive
years, who had accumulated about $50,
900 worth OF property by working all his
life as a shoemaker, paper-carrler and
maker of oe-blacking, died in his
filthy den at No. rs Boylstou street,
Boston, on the 2Sth.
THE German chess player, Lasker, de-
feated the English chess champion.
Bird, in London on the 2Sth.
THE winter crops in the south OF Rus
sia have BEEN ruined by severe weather.
FRANCE will follow the initiative OF
England in the Berlin labor conference.
On the 2Sth Richard r. Hawes was
hanged at Birmi ngham, Ala. On De-
cember 4, 1888, Hawes killed his wife
and two children, and their bodies were
found in a lake near Birmingham. He
married a young woman at Columbia,
Miss, and was passing through Bir-
mingham on his wedding tour when ar
rested. A mob attempted to take him
from the Jail and lynch him, but the
sheriff's posse fired into the crowd, caus-
ing the loss of ten lives. Including his
own, his crimes cost fourteen lives.
SURPRISE was caused at st. John, n.
B., on the 2Sth, by the release of Fred.
A. Walton, the Pacific Express embez-
zler who absconded with $3.50 from
Dallas, Tex. 1t seems that the express
company compl omised on recovering all
of the stolen money but $4,000, and
further proceedings were abandoned.