The Brookhaven leader., 1891-09-24
WAGNER's opera "Lohcngrin" was


given at Paris on the 10th. There was
a noisy anti-German demonstration out
side, necessitating many arrests. The
German embassy was strongly guarded.
SEVEN business houses at Camargo,
Ill, were destroyed by fire. Loss, S5O,-
900.
CAPT. A. J. SIMPsoS's mill at Layao
creek, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50, 900.
THE Memphis theater, the Oldest play
house in Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
MEXICAN independence day was cele-
brated at Tia Juana by fight between
wild bull and bear tied to a stake.
In their struggles they broke the ropes
and the bear clim bed out of the arena
among the spectators. A panic ensued
and women and children were trampled
on and bruised.
GREAT prairie fires have been sweep
ing through Stutsman and Eddy coun-
ties, n. d.
THE report of the seal experts sent
to Alaska is that the taking of seals on
the open sea must be stopped or tho
bpCCiCo Will DCCOllC CAOihSb
BUSINESS futures (Dun's report) foT
the seven days ended Septemb Der II num-
bered 23O, compared with 214 the pre-
vious week and 100 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE stallion Nelson trotted mile in
2:1O on the track at Grand Rapids, Mich.
A FIRE at 173 and 175 Monroe street,
Chicago destroyed much printing ma
terial of Jameson & Monroe, including
forms of text books to be used by the
schools of Missouri.
ONE of the Dalton boys was over
taken, wounded and captured seventy
five miles west of Muskogee, l. 7.
THE president issued his proclama-
tion opening Indian lands in Oklahoma
on the 18th, setting the time for the
ed. Great excitement occurred on the
border, boomers everywhere preparing
| for the rush.
CHICAGO police believe that Vera Ava
is the notorious Diss Debar.
The tenement house, $40 and 551
Sedgwick street, Chicago, was burned
on the morning of the 10Th. Five lives
were lost.
R. Ii. DUNCAN was executed at Eagle
Pass, Tex, for the murder of the Will
hanson family in San Saba county,
February, 1889.
| BARON NoRDENsKIoLD, of Sweden,
has been arrested for vandalism. He
was given permission to visit the cliff
dwellings on the Ute reservation in
| Colorado on condition that he would
not injure anything, when he started in
work of destruction, gathering up
many boxes of relics which he shipped
to New York
DURING a quarrel over some tres
passing stock near Keystone, Cherokee
strip, Amos Chapman, the Indian scout
of Camp Supply, shot and killed two
wboys, Bert Mason and Short.
| DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state that
Lieut.. Tettenborn and sixty-five sur.
vivors of the Zalewski expedition have
arrived at Bagamoyo.
THE threatened destruction of Thorpe
Wis, was averted. Only the lumber
mill was destroyed.
THE Mexican government has de-
clared the concession granted to Messrs
Ellis and Ferguson for the colonization
of negroes in Mexico forfeited on ac-
count of noncompliance with the con-
| tract
ALBERT MoREA, the negro of Savan-
nah, Ga, who killed his two wives by
cutting their throats with razors, was
hanged
IN the Michigan Methodist confer
ence a vote was taken on the matter
of admitting women as lay delegates.
After full discussion the conference
decided in favor of the ladies by vote
of 40 to "a