The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-07
A STOCK company proposes to complete

A STOCK company proposes to complete
the old st. Louis & Western railroad.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
at Charleston on the 1st.
TRADE in Russia is said to be paralyzed
owing to the Bulgarian crisis.
SPRoULE, the American under sentence
of death in British Columbia has been re-
spited to October %.
GENERAL BULwER is to be mt to Ulster
with powers similar to those given General
Sir Redvers Butler in County Kerry.
SECRETARY MANNING is to resume, for a
while at least, the duties of his office at
Washington. He will not return to his
post, however, before the 10th.
The Congo Free State has refused a
railway con cession TO a firm of English
men because they were too exacting.
THE London Times says England has
reason TO be satisfied with the statements
made by the Austrian Premier.
THE hearing of the motion for now
trial in the Chicago Anarchists cases was
commenced on the 1st
CHARLES EDWARDS, alias Charles Cor
ham, colored, who murdered his mistress
in Algiers, La. on June 20, was executed
on the 1st.
SHANKLING & KEARNs' store, at Bring
hurst, Ind, was wrecked on the 1st. A
clerk was weighing out powder as he
smoked a cigar. He was badly burned
and nearly killed.
S. S. HAMILTON, n prominent citizen
and pork packer at Louisville, KY, fell
down the stairway of his off ce on the 1st
and broke his neck He died almost in
stantly.
THE extension of the special delivery
| system of the Post Office Depart tment to
all post offices and to all classes of mat
| ter went into effect on the 1st.
| FIVE bows were out in the harbor al
| Lynn, Mass, on the 1st, in a small boat
when the wind capsized the boat and
three of them, Henry Sears, Michael
| O'Neal and Darby Green, were drowned.
| LAND offices have been established al
Chadwin and Sidney, Neb. The land Of
flee at Bayfield,, Wis, has been removed
| to Ashland.
The Roman Catholic clergy in Canada
have been forbidden by Cardinal Tasch-
ereau from taking any part or exer.
| cising any influence over their parishion-
ers during the coming elections.
| A GREAT lockout of packing house EN-.
| ployes is threatened at the Union Stocl
Yards, Chicago, in order to settle the
| Eight Hour question.
The effect in Bulgaria of Premier Tisza's
| speech, it is thought, will be to encourage
| the government to resist Russia.
A STARTLING story is given to the
world by st. Paul, (Minn.) paper to the
effect that the late Z mory A. Storrs was
| poisoned with digitalis to prevent hin
! telling the secrets of the Chicago gang
which he had obtained as Mackin's at
| torney.
EDWARD SOLOMON, the husband o.
Lillian Russell, charged with bigamy, has
been remanded by the London magis
rates pending the arrival of witnesses
from the United States.
SENATORS SALISBURY, Edmunds and
Frye of the Senate fishery committee ar
rived at Provin ceton, Mass, on the 1st, or
the revenue cutter Gallatn, and took testi-
mony regar ding the effects of reciprocity
| in fish in Cape Gods interests.
A COMMITTEE of the Union Veterans
Union called upon the Public Printer or
| the 1st, in behalf of their comrades who
udu Jeen ClscnaTSeu IRON tne GOVern'
ment printing office. Mr.. Benedict as.
sured them that the Union soldiers in his
office need not fear discharge if compe.
tent and attentive to duty.
DAVID NJ. CHADWICK, aged sixty five
years, was caught by secret-service Off
GERS and local det ectives at Albany. N. Y.
on the 1st, manufacturing counterfeit
coin, large quantities of which have been
| shipped to New York and other cities.