The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-26

ANOTHER bond call was issued by Act
ing Secretary Fairchild on the 10th. II
was for Slj,0oO,G 600, to mature October 1
| next.
BELFAST PHotestants are irritated over
Lord Randolph Churchill's defense of the
police.
Henry WOLFE and his housekeeper,
Mrs. Starchman, committed suicide near
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the goth.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES was
| banquetel by the Philometic Society at
Liverpool on the Goth.
A BOY named Hardy, near Albion, Neb.,
has been held for the supposed murder Of
Ralph Crowley.
QUEEN MARGHARITA is said to be using
her influence to bring about a reconcilia-
tion between Italy and the Vatican.
Mr.. SEDGwICK, the agent sent by Mr..
Bayard TO investigate the Cutting case,
arrived at Ell Paso on the Goth.
A NUMBER of columns belonging to a
period before the Persian wars have been
unearthed in the Acropolis at Athens.
Some miscreant poisoned a spring at
Marshfield, Mass, with paris green, and
several victims are ill from the effects.
In speech in the House of Commons,
on the 20th, Thomas Power O'Connor
maintained that Lord Randolph Church =
| ills speeches were the original cause of
the Belfast riots.
OWING to a divergence Of of opinions be-
tween Bulgaria and Russia, the sittings
of the Turkish Bulgarian Commission
! have been temporarily suspended.
! FRED PIPENHEIMgR of New York, a
tobacco buyer, committed suicide at
Louisville, Ky.,on the 20th, by shooting
himself through the head.
SECRETARY BAYARD says he has not,
and never had any doubt that Cutting
was convicted for an offense committed
entirely within the jurisdiction of the
! United States.
THE Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed John G.. Walker, of the DstI let of
| Columbia, and Rolf S. Sanders, of New
York, as special agents, to make an allot-
ment of land in severalty to the Crow In
dians of Montana under the General De-
! ficiencv act of Congress.
OUT of the $15,000,00O bonds called by the
| Treasury Department on the 10th S1l ,0S5 =
100 are bonds now on deposit to secure
bank circulation and S435, 800 are bonds de-
posted to secure bank deposits, covering
a total of 100 banks scattered all over the
| country.
| JOHN L. LEE was arrested at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 10th, for a bogus
marriage with Miss Della Haynes, q
much respected young lady of that city,
ON July :. He had wife and family in
one part of the city while he lived at times
with Miss Haynes, explaining his alb
sence to his wife by saying that he had
business out of town.
Four masked men entered the house Of
Farmer William Manning, in Shenango
| township, Pa, on the Goth, and, at the
point of the revolver, compelled the old
man to give up $1,000 which he had col
| lected the day before.
| THE British steamer Aberdeen, from
Hankow for London, with 300 tons OF
tea, foundered while leaving the China
sea. The fate of the crew is unknown.
| ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY members Of
the House of Commons have signed the
memorial asking the government to ap-
! point a commission to inquire into the cur
rency question.
TIE American Bar Association met at
| Saratoga on the 20th and elected the fol-
| lowing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
| ident, Thomas j. Semmes, of Louisiana :;
secretary, Edward Otis Hinckley, of Mary
land; treasurer, Francis Rawle, of Phila-
delphia. Executive committee, Luke 7.
Poland, of Vermont; c. c. Bonne, of Chi
cago, and Simon E. Baldwin, of New Ha-
ven.