The Brookhaven leader., 1891-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

legged extravaganza Of the last con-
cress as a menace to the nation.
RIAz PAsHA, president of the Egypt
ian council of ministers, and at the
same time president of the ministry of
finance, has resigned.
In the elections held in Spain for
members of the councils-general, the
rcpublicans were successful in over
f9-ty leading towns, including Madr d.
THE National Press, of Dublin. says
that Lord Wolseley sees no danger in
home rule.
THE Prince of Wales is suffering
from influenza.
THE Belgian government has threat
encd to expel Gen. Boulanger from the
country unless he is silent on political
matters.
PRESIDENT HIPPoLYTE, of Hayti,
while in company with a few officers
was fred upon by concealed assassins
near Jacmel. Two of his companions
were killed, but the president escaped.
So did the assassins.
AREvoLT Is reported in Dutch Guiana
GEN. LEMUEL ToDD, a noted lawyer
and pioneer republican of Carlisle,
Pa, is dead.
SENATOR ARTHUR p. M. GoRMAN,
Maryand's senior representative in the
upper house of congress, has been pre-
sented with superb silver service of
sixty pieces in honor of his efforts in
the defeat of the elections bill.
IT is said the assassins of Minister
Beltcheff, of Bulgaria, have been
captured in Roumania.
w. j. BENDALL, governor of the col
ony of Barbadoes, has addressed a let
ter to Lord Knutsford, secretary of
state for the colonies, in London, in
which he urges the establishment of
reciprocity treaty between Barbadoes
and the United States.
JUSTICE BREWER, of the United States
supreme court, has allowed writ of
error to issue in the case of the contest
cd governorship of Nebraska
THE Fanfulla of Rome violently de-
nounces the Louisiana authorities and
condemns the New Orleans grand jury's
reply to Consul Corte's letter.
BALMACEDA's troops have been de-
fcated again by the congress forces in
Chilli and the commander put to death.
THE mikado's physician reports that
the czarewitch's wound is trifiing.
The President returned to Washing
ton exactly on schedule time from his
southern and western trip on the 18th.
He had made 139 speeches since he left
the capital April IA and took an oppor-
tunity to make an even 40 as he
reached home.
GREEN B. RAUM, Jr., has resigned
his position in the pension bureau.
WHILE the kaiser was driving to
Potsdam in the carriage presented to
him by the czar, the horses balked and
the carriage collided with tree. The
kaiser was falling out when his adju-
tant caught him in his arms and saved
him from injury.
REV. THOMAS f. GAYLoR, chancellor
of the University of the South, has been
elected Episcopal bishop of Georgia
BULGARIA denies that any peaceful
Russians have been expelled.
EIGHTY-FOUR members of the British
parliament are suffering from la grippe.
JOHN YOUNG Brown, ex-congressman,
has been nominated by the Kentucky
democrats for governor.
GEN. WELLS LEGGET, the noted pat
ent lawyer and once president of the
Brush Electric Light Co., is dead.
AS result of the investigation made
into the anti Hebrew troubles at Corfu,
the governor of that island and the
mayor of Corfu, its capital, have been
dismissed. Greek warships having in
fantry on board have been sent to Corfu.
MIsCELLANEoUs.
AN anti-European riot occurred at
Woo Hoo, China. The Catholic mission
and several houses were burned
A GENERAL strike of ironworkers has
been ordered throughout Belgium.
SECRETARY FOSTER has decided to re-
duce the forces employed in collecting
the customs so as to avoid deficiency.
Boston will first feel the cut
The last of the troops gathered at
the time of the Sioux outbreak have
been ordered to return to their former
posts.
THERE was an unconfrmed report
on the 18th that the Charleston had met
and sunk the Itata.
THREE men and boy were killed by
boiler explosion at Wilson's sawmill
near Germania, w. Va
INFORMATION has reached Rome that
during the progress of a fierce storm
which recently visited Massowah, a
building used as a barracks and con-
tanning number of soldiers, collapsed.
Six men were killed and ten seriously
injured. sr -
JEWISH refugees in Austria showed
no sign of grief on hearing of the czare-
wltch's misfortune in Japan.
FINANCIAL matters were reported
more quiet at Lisbon.
GOVERNMENT magazine In County
Down, Ireland. was exploded by dy-
Mantle recently. The authorities were
looking for suspected American.
K. C. DUNCAN, of Washington, aged
", was recently detected in the act OF
numbering his wife on Mount Snowden.
In Wales. The woman was unconscious.
her head being badly fractured. Dun
can was said to be well connected in
Washington.
The United States legation in London
ofticially states that there are in the
Bank of England no large sums OF
money awaiting claimants. The total
amount in chanccry belonging to un-
known persons is less than 5000, 600.
1T is learned that two more jews
nave been murdered at Corfu and that
bodies of several Jews who died at that
place from starvation lie unburied. IL
Is also learned that the troops continue