The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-05
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.


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THE appointment of Henry Mathews to
be Home Secretary is the sensation Of the
new British Cabinet.
FURTHER large discrepancies have been
found in the accounts of Colonel Bolton,
the Chicago post office defaulter.
THE President has referred the Oleo-
margarine bill to the Attorney General
for an opinion as to its constitutionality
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The Crofters of Three, Scotland, have
resolved to offer no resistance to the force
of marines sent to restore order in that
island.
THE trial of the men charged with
wrecking a Missouri Pacific train near
Wyandotta, Kas., was commenced at Wy
andotte on the 29th.
NJ. DELEssEPs presented a voluminous
and highly favorable report at meeting
of the shareholders of the Panama canal
at Paris OH the 20ih.
JOSEPH H. REALL, president of the
American Agricultural and Dairy Asso-
citation, has made an appeal to President
Cleveland III behalf of the OleomaTgarine
bill.
STATES ATTORNEY GRINNELL an
nounced on the 29th that all the testimony
for the State in the trial of the Chicago
Anarchists would be in by the following
evening.
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various items in the appropriations Con-
gress will not be able to adjourn as early
as expected.
TIE office Of burgomas;cr of Stras sbourg,
which has been vacant since 1873, has
been filled by the appointment thereto Of
Herr Bach, president of the district OF
Lower Alsace.
A LARGE meeting of the Conservative
party, held at the Carleton Club buildin 9,
London, on the 9th, was addressed by
Lord Salisbury, the new Premier, who
congratulated them on their success in the
recent elections.
THE jubilee of the heidelberg Ger.
many) Univ ersity on the occasion of the
FIVE hundredth anniversary of its founda'
ton was celebrated with great eclat on
the Goth. Numerous disting guished foreign
visitors were present.
COLONEL D. S. LAMONT left Washington
on the 9th for his home in Courtland
County, New York, for few days. 1t is
believed he has gone to make arrange
ments for the Presidents summer vaca-
ton in the Adirondacks.
INFORMATION has been received at tn E
Treasury Department Of the death al
Cambridge, Mass, on the night of the 27th
of Charles f. Conant, who was assistant
Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary
Bristow from 1874 to 1877.
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TIE announcement is made that ames
Baillie Hamilton of Worcester, Mass, is
about to we'd Lady Evelyn Campbell.
fourth daughter of the IDuke of Argyle
and sister-in law of Princess Louise, in
August, at Westminster Abbey.
Four hundred masons and bricklayers,
who struck at Milwaukee two weeks pre-
viou ,ly, causing an entire suspension OF
building operations in the city, returned
to work On the Goth. They will work but
eight hours q day, for the present, a
leust
LEE CuUCK, Chinese highbinder, shot
and killed Suen Yuen, another Chinese
hichbinder Of a rival organization, at San
Francisco on the 9Sth. On being searched
at the city prison four revolvers were
found on the prisoner. His body was en-
cased in steel chain armor.
II. l. II. PRINCE FUsHIMI, of Japan and
suite, who are travelling in this country
on their way home from Europe, arrived
in Washington on the 21th, and were the
guests of the japanese Minister durin G
their stay. The Prince was formally pre-
sented to the President on the 2Sth.
Mr.. THOMAS ELLISON, one of the editors
of the Liverpool Post, and known in COM
mercial circles in Europe AMI Am erica as
the great cotton statstician, is in Wash
ington. He called on the President on the
9th, in company with Colonel Switzler,
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics.
THE delay of the Mexican Federal Gov
ernment in delivering up Cutting is said
TO be due to the fear on their part that in
case they interfere the Governor of Chi
huahua will also rebel, thus making a
general insurrection all along the border
at once, that would not be easily qualled.
THE President on the Goth returned to
the Department of Justice the papers in
the case of VIM. Watts, the captain of a
Maine vessel, undergoing Imprisonment at
San Francisco for ill-treating his crew.
In an accompanying letter the President
intimates that it is not case for the ex :
ercise of clemency.
On application of the Governor of Mis-
souri,, who furnished evidence that no dis
case prevailed among live stock in that
State, Governor Warren of Wyoming, on
the 9th, issued a proclamation reliev ing
live stock from Missouri from the provi-
sons of and the restriction of the quaran-
tine in force at Cheyenne.
THE chimney and pressed glass factory
at Philadelphia, Pa, which has been
closed down since July for the usual
summer suspension, will resume opera
tions August ?. The prospects are un-
usually bright, and it is predicted that
the output of the coming year will be the
largest in the history of the trade.
A MYSTERIOUS epidemic prevails among
the Glasg ow Iron Company's employees al
Pottstown, Pa. The cases on the 2Sth
numbered seventy-five. Krider Marger
aged min neteen, died on that day, and Au-
eus;us Friedeck, Charles Trace and Jere-
miah T. Rayer viii not recover. The sich
men all have symptoms of typhoid fever