The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-02
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana positively
| declined to interfere with the execution of
Bates, the wife murderer, sentenced to be
hanged on the 9th.
THE hernandez islands in the South
Pacific have been taken possession of in
the name of the British crown.
THE funeral of Manager Sam Colviile
occurred in New York on the 25th at the
Little Church Around the Corner" and
was attended by a great crowd, including
all the leading actors and actresses in the
city. A delegation of the order of Elks
from Louisville was present.
A CARRIAGE containing Senator Evarts,
of New York; Charles c. Perkins, of Bos.
ton, and Miss Matthews, daughter of Judge
| Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, was over
turned at Windsor, VT, on the 18th. Mr.
Perkins was instantly killed, and Senator
Evarts and Miss Matthews were severely
| bruised, though not seriously injured.
VICTORIA, Tex, issues a call to the peo-
pie of the country for relief for destitution
caused by the recent storm.
JOHNNIE TowLE, aged fourteen years
! (colored), was arrested at Boston on the
| 25th for attempting to kill his father by
! administering rat poison. Mr.. Towle had
had been in the habit of chewing gum,
and Johnnie took advantage of this to
mix poison with it.
! THE interna tional polo tch between
| the Hurlinham (English) and Westchester
| (American) clubs came off at Newport X.
| L., on the 18th lefore large crowd of
| spectators. The Englishmen won easily
and rapidly by ten goals to four. Perry
| Belmont, of the Americans, subsequently
| dned both clubs.
THE Wisconsin Glass Company of Mil
waukee, assigned on the 25th for the bene-
fit of its creditors. Assets, $12j, 900; liza
bilities unknown. Numerous attachments
recently executed were the immediate
cause of the failure. About one hundred
men are thrown out of work.
A. A. WOLFE was nominated for Cover
nor ly the Pennsy ylvalia Prohibitionists
on the Goth.
HOLLAND has increased the duty on for
| eign raw sugar.
GOVERNOR ABBETT of New Jersey has
| taken me asurcs to prevent the proposed
fight between Hearld and Sullivan
IT is now said that only twenty five per-
sons were drowned by the recent inunda-
ton at Mandalay, Burmah.
AN emigration bureau is to be opened
by the English Government in October.
CYRUS G. LUCE was nominated for Gov
| ernor of Michigan by the State Republican
convention at Grand Rapids on the 2Gth.
TIE longshoremen of New Y ork threaten
to strike if the striking boatmens demands
are not met on or before Tuesday the 31st.
IT is considered now as almost cer-
tainty that Prince Alexander will resume
the throne in Bulgaria.
EUGENE KETTELAs. a wealthy New
Yorker, and brother law of Governor
Wetmore of Rhode Island, died suddenly
on the Goth of heart disease.
THE English committee appointed to in
vestigate Pasteur's hydrophobia cure re-
port favOrably.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says he appoint
cd Matthews Recorder of Deeds for the
District of Columbia because he was the
most fit colored man he knew.
DURING the absence from Washington
of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and
the assistant secretary of the same office,
| Miss Minnie s. Cook is acting as the head
of the Indian office.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has been ordered
by the Gar to sign the abdcation or to be
forwarded to Kisseneff.
NATHANIEL r. BATES, who murdered his
| wife at Hagerstown, Ind, on the 23l of
last March, was executed in the jail-yard
at Richmond, Ind, on the Goth. The exc
cution was witnessed by five hundred per-
sons.
IT is positively stated that Prince Alex
ander on learning of the result of the
| loyalist movement resolved TO return to
Bulgaria. He was expected to arrive at
| Rustchuck on the 9th, whence an army
would conduct him in triumph to Sofia.
THIRTY men convicted of participating
| in the Belfast riots were, on the 96th, SEN
fenced to various terms of Imprisonment.
THERE was recorded in the clerks office
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on the 25th, a
mortgage from the Poughkeepsie Bridge
Company to the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York for S5000,0O0. The
mortgage covers a bridge to be construct
ed over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and
all the real estate approaches and other
property of the company now owned and
hereafter to be acquired by it.
THE dead body of an unknown man was
found on the 10Th in the edge of a grave
half mile from Manly Junction, Worth
! County, Iowa. 1t was covered with blood
| and clubs " ing near were all stained with
gore Three large cuts on the head pene-
trated the skull. The deceased was evil
IDENTIFY German, and, although fOully
murdered, a complete mystery surrounds
the affair.
EX-SENATOR MAHoNE, of Virginia, says
he is not a candidate for Congress.
THE house of A. l.. Kane on Prospect
avenue, fashionable thoroughfare of
Milwaukee, Wis, was entered at an early
hour the morning of the 2Gth and robbed
of $500 worth of jewelry and <ilverware.
COMMISSIONER r. NJ. SQUIRE received
formal notice of his remova by Governor
| Hill on the 10Th, and at once made prepa
rations 30 vacate his office. II was rumored
that his bondsmen had determined to sur
render him, in view of the possible de-
parture of Squire, pending the trial.
SCoTT FRANKLIN, a young attorney of
McLeansboro, H., who had been visiting
relatives in the neghborhood of Fevay,
Ind, for several weeks past, WIS drowned
while bathing in the Ohio river at Vevay
on the Goth. The body was recovered.
CoNRADI, an American, charged with
| spreading heresies, has been ordered to
leave Russia. He was baptising people in
the Lutheran faith.
SEVERAL hundred Englishmen are
thrown out of employment by the burning
of extensive shops of the Great Northern
railway at Boston, Lincoln shire.
SENATOR EvARTs is slowly recovering