The Brookhaven leader., 1891-09-10

MRS. LAURA MoTr, Of South Hero,
Vt, has given $50, 900 for 9 home for
destitute children
THE three Illinois monuments on tho
field Of Gettysburg were dedicated on
the Sd, in the presence Of Gov. Fifer,
ex-Gov. Beveridge and other notables
from Illinois.
A REPORT is current that the Bandue
dc Paris has offered Russia q loan Of
R12, 0oo, 900 at per cent
M. H. COLEMAN, of Halifax county,
Va, a negro, has resigned from the
postal service because Of threatening
letters sent him, supposed by white
employees.
THERE is little probability that the
Tennessee legislature will repeal the
convict lease law. On the contrary,
the house has decided to investigate the
labor commissioner, Ford, for agitating
the miners.
THE b V. Page Co, OF Chicago, oil
and lard refiners, has assigned. Liza
bilities, 500, 0O0
ALL the coal miners about Briceville,
Ill, have struck for weekly pay in ac-
cordance with the new law.
A LARGE majority of the Roman
Catholic cardinals are said to be in
favor of electing only an italian pope.
THE execution of Louis Bulling, the
st. Joseph wife murderer, at Savannah,
Mo-, was attended by a sensational in
cident While the minister was pray.
ing by his side in the cell, Bulling drew
a revolver, which he had obtained in
some manner. and shot himself. The
wound, however, was only slight and
did not prevent his being dragged
shrieking to the gallows.
A VIENNA dispatch says that the
Russian villages near the Russo Austrian
frontier are thronged with soldiers
The guards, who used to be merely
gendarmes to prevent smuggling, have
given place to whole regiments per.
manently quartered at every available
point
HARMON MURRAY, the notorious negro
desperado, was killed recently near
Archer, Fla, by colored lad whom ho
was coercing into crime. The boy,
watching an opportunity, shot Murray
dead He will get 81, 500 in rewards
THE amount secured by the train rob,
bers at Samuels, Tex. is said to reach
$15,O ,OOO
RECENT cold weather is said to have
destroyed the corn crop in parts of Wis
consin and Minnesota
The trades unions of Great Britain
have been formally invited to partici-
pate in the International congress in
Chicago in 1898.
THE story of a dynamite explosion at
White Pigeon, Mich, in which it was
stated that sixteen lives had been lost
is declared fake pure and simple.
THE Georgia senate has passed the
house bill disqualifying physicians adj
dicted to drink from the practice of
their profession. Gov. Northen will, it
is said, sign the bill.
LONDON cable advices report the total
destruction by fire of the British steel
ship Carrick, owned in Glasgow and
bound from Dundee to San Francisco
with $500 tons of Scottish splint coal
Four soldiers, j. O'Keefe, Corporal
Offerson, J. Brown and Patrick Hogan,
belonging to company II, Fourth United
States infantry, were out on Lake C9ur
dAlene in large sail boat when they
were thrown into the water. OKeefe,
Offerson and Brown were drowned
A NEW steamship line from Baltimore
to London is to be started by the Balti-
more Storage & Lighterage Co.
JUDGE SMITH, of Manchester, N. Ii.
has decided that the Granite State
Provident association is solvent and in
legal business.
The steam yacht Albatross, valued at
800. 900, has been wrecked near New
foundland. The only son of DIR. j. b.
Eggleston, the owner, was drowned.