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

CATHOLIC workmen have been driven off
Queens iSland, at Belfast, and have also
been forced to quit work in many large
establishments.
MRs. CLEVELAND is to start the machin-
cry in the Minneapolis Exposition by
touching a wire to be run into the Presi-
dents cottage in the Adrondacks.
SAMUEL WooD, of New Y ork, died, leav-
ing bequest of 5000, ,0OJ to found an insti-
tute, but the will has been pronounced in
valid, and the heirs get the estate.
Six elevators and their contents were
turned at Ida Grove, Ia, on the night of
the 18th. The loss is $4,000; insurance,
$1,000. Origin of fire unknown.
COLONEL DAVID HENDERSON, Repub-
lican representative in Congress for the
Third district of Iowa, was renominated
by acclamation on the 18th.
PATRICK H. MCCARRoN, a Providence
Or. I.) barber, while insane, on the 18th,
cut the throat of James Crosby while
shaving him. Crosby went out in the
street but died on the sidewalk.
WASHINGTON puts up $4,000 for prizes
at National competitive drill to be held
next May.
AN attempt was recently made to assas-
sinate the President of Uruguay, and the
would-be assassin was SO terribly mall
treated that he died soon afterwards.
A HOUSE in course of construction coll
| lapsed at Carls uhe, Germany, on the 18th,
killing eight workmen and injurng sew
eraI others. The architect of the building
| has been arrested
SAMUEL R. PAYsoN, of Boston, has made
an assignment to Samuel Johnson, of
| Hoovey s. Co. The announcement of this
assignment caused great surprise, as Pay
son had been considered as one of the
| wealthiest men in the city.
CHARLES E. BISHOP, of Portland, Me-.
is backed by DR.. J. H. Hamilton, of Rich
mond, Me-, for $1,000 to excel young
Brodie's feat in jumping off the Brooklyn
| bridge.
THERE is quite futter in society cir
cles at Steubenville, O., over the mysteri-
Gus disappearance of Miss Edith Camp
bell, a society young lady Of hitherto un-
blemshed reputation. who left her faith
er's residence by means of window.
JOHN W. LACY, Chief Justice of Wyo-
ming Territory, has resigned.
JAMES ONEILL, who came to Boston
| from Ireland only week ago, fatally
| stabbed his wife and his mother-in-law,
| in Cambridge, on the 18th. He followed
them across the ocean to commit the deed.
TIE Queens speech at the opening of
Parliament on the 10Th was remarkable
| for it's brevity.
WIN. ANDERSON, of Keokuk, Ia, died of
| poison on the 10Th, and his wife and moth
| er-in-la law have been arrested on charge of
! administering it.
j. O'KELLY gave notice in the British
House of Commons on the 10Th that he
| would introduce a bill for the better gov
ernment of Belfast
WIN. WATKINS killed Louis Hilbert at
Aurora, Ind, on the 19th, and was prompt
ly lynched by the people.
A ROYAL commission is to be appointed
to inquire into the working of the existing
land system in Ireland.
At KEOKUK, Ia, the Missouri, Iowa &
Nebraska road was sold by the Master in
Chancery on the 10Th, under orders of the
Federal court.
GLADSTONE says nothing has occurred
to change his convictions regarding the
Irish policy of the late government.
F. w. SHAFER is under arrest at Keo-
kuk, Ia, on charge of incendarism.
A SPECIAL military officer is to be sent
to County Kerry, Ireland, with such
power as will enable him to restore order.
THOMAS r. LYONS shingle- mill at Lud-
ington, Mich, burned on the night of the
18th. The mill was built few years ago
at an expense of $50, 900. 1t is total loss,
together with 500, 900 shingles. No insur-
ance.
e.,
boundary commission leaves the scenes of
its labors in September it will probably
be snow bound all winter.
H. TANNER has just been arrested at
Teton Basin, Idaho, for killing II. Weller,
Gus Hnmlin and H. Eiggerman, his asso-
sociates in working a placer bar near
Jackson Lake, July 16. He confesses,
claiming it was in sef-defense.
THE fight between the Government and
the steamship lines over rates for ocean
pos tai service has ended in favor of the
Government.
LORD GRANVILLE asked the Govern
ment for a clear statement of their Irish
policy, but Lord Salisbury declined to
furnish it.
AT rth Bloomfield, O., on the 10th,
Holmer Quaile fatally stabbed Allie Parks,
lad eighteen years of age. Quaile, who
was intoxicated, quarreled with a cousin
of Parks, and the latter interfered to pre-
vent bloodshed. This 50 enraged Quaile
that he drew long jack knife and stabbed
Parks to the heart. Quaile was arrested.
LARGE quantity of dynamite has been
stolen from mine near Hanover and it is
feared it has been taken to Eng gland by
Anarchists. A miner has been arrested on
suspicion.
NEWS was received on the 10th that the
town of Saric, in Sonora, had been en-
tirely swept away by fioo Is. The place
had population of 700. Not house was
left standing. Grain fields were fattened
to the ground. No estimate of the damage
or loss of life was given.
SPIES, Parsons, Fielden, Schwab, Fisch-
e., Lingg and Engel, the Chicago Anarch
ists, were found guilty and punishable by
death; Neebe gets fifteen years imprison-
ment.
JUDGE FITZGERALD, of Nebraska, was
elected president of the Irish National
League at the Chicago convention ON the
10Th.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL says the
government has concluded that the adop-
tion of coercive measures for Irel nd would
bs unwise.
MRS. NANCY RICE, the oldest person in
Plymouth County, Massachusetts, died re-
Gently, aged one hundred and one years,
nine months and twenty-seven days. She
was one of a choir that sang at m mori-
al service when Washington died.
THE United States steamer Mobican has