The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-16

MRS. PRFSSMAN, Oh fnhadelpnla, IS
charged with forming q conspiracy to
murder her lover.
MARQUIS TsENG says the Russo Chinese
difficulty has vanished.
READrND, Pa, celebrated the one hund-
red and third anniversary of its incOrpor-
alton as a borough on the 10Th.
JACOB REESE, inventor Of the Basic
steel process, has won suit against the
Bessemer Steel Company.
THE work of renovation and reconstruc-
tion is actively progressing a Charleston,
sand the city presents a scene of great ac-
tivity.
MISS LULU BATES, of Cincinnati, made
a balloon ascension at Charlottesville,
Ind, on the 10th, and had a narrow escape
from death, owing to the collapse of the
balloon at height of three hundred feet.
PosTMAsTER-GE GENERAL Villas, who is
spending vacation in Wisconsin, was
rendered a reception at Milwaukee on the
night of the 10Th by the Juneau Demo-
cratic club at their rooms. He will return
to Washington this week.
Mrs. PICKETT, widow of the Confeder-
ate General who made the famous charge
at Gettysburg, has been appointed to a
position in the Interior Department.
HOFFMAN g. Co., fancy dry goods inn
porters, San Francisco, made an assign
ment on the 10th for the benefit of their
creditors. Their liabilities are about $780,
900.
SHAW and Harrison, Pittsburgh police
officers charged witt assault and Ndnap-
ing, have been acquitted.
OK the 10Th the main building of the
Mattoon Furniture Companv's factory at
Sheboygan, Wis, burned. Loss, hetwee n
so, 900 and 10000; insurance between S;ij,-
600 and $4,000. Three hundred and fifty
men are made idle by the fire.
JOHN SHAY, in drunken quarrel with
another man at Lowell, Mass, on the 10th,
threw q brick at him, but hit his own son,
four years old, on the head, crushing the
skull. He was arrested.
JOHN BACHMAN, of Reading, Pa, aged
sixteen, playfulIy pointed a revolver at
his brother Francis, aged eighteen, snap
ping it several times, when a cartridge
was exploded, the ball striking Francis
Just below the eve and inGicting a mortal
wound. He did not know it was loaded.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT BELL granted
n request of the mayor of Charleston that
Inspector Pierce he permitted to remain in
Charleston another week from the 10th to
assist in the work of examining into the
condition of damaged buildings.
The Secretary of State, notwithstand-
ing the release of Cutting, will, it is said,
insist upon the abrogaton of article 1G6 Of
the Mexican penal code, which confers
upon Mexican courts jurisdiction under
certain circumstances over foreigners for
oiTenses committed outside of Mexican ter
ritory.
a COURIER arrived at New Laredo, Mex,
on the 10th, from the frontier with Il re-
port that Ell Coyotes gang was surround
ed by three deta tachmen's of troops, one
regiment of artillery and two of infantr y
from the City of Mexico, and two cavalry
regiments from San Luis Potosi were ex-
pected to arrive in Saltillo within few
days for service ON the frontier.
THE two $1,000 bonds, the bank books
and other papers belonging to the Second
Presbyterian Church, of Newark, N. j.,
which wero stolen from the office of Treas
urer j. G.. Harrison on the 9th, were found
on the 10th. The thief, finding himself un-
able to negotiate the papers, placed them
on a pile of feed bags in Mr.. Harrison's
store.
A PARTY of Southern gentlemen arrived
at Aberdeen, OAK, on the 10th, with the
remains of c. Hooper Phillips, ex mayor
of Nashville, Tenn. He was accidentally
shot by James Rains at Nine-Mile lake,
north of Brittan, Oak, while duck hunt
ing.