The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-11-18
woRK has been suspended in all the cigar

WORK has been suspended in all the cigar
manufactures of Cuba:
| The Chicago packers, on the 10th, re-
scinded their former resolution not to en-
ploy union men. The strike continued
with undated vigor.
! a YOUNG American woman, who refused
to divulge her name, recently entered upon
thirty days fast in Paris, under the sur
veillance of a committee.
THE strikers at the hog abbatoir on
Hackensack meadows, n. j., all went
back to work on the 1lth at an increase of
wages. The company refused to dismiss
the two foremen as the strikers demanded,
and also refused to treat with committee
! from the Knights of Labor.
PEOPLE from Bald Knob recently raided
Chadwick, Christian County, Mo, for the
purpose of breaking up the saloons. The
people of Chadwick. however, opened fire
on them and one man was seriously
wounded.
The hrakemen on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad at Wheeling, W. Va, left
their trains on the llth The men refused
to give any reason for their act.
The building known as Moodv's Church,
La Sale street, Chicago, was destroyed by
| fire early on the morning of the 18th.
| The New York Board of Health has con-
demned $3.50 gallons of wine in that city
which had been made by W. j. Booream
! out of dried fruits, such as currantS, rails
ins aud peaches of low grade, macerated
with water, mixed with percentage of
sugar and fermented.
| FITCHs. boot and shoe manufacturers, Of
Worcester, Mass, have assigned. Liabili-
ties about 500, 900; assets not known.
THE Violet Cameron troupe, Lord Ions
dale, manager, ended in failure. The en-
gagements in American cities have been
cancelled and the troupe ordered home.
TIE village of Townshend, Vt, was re-
ported on fire on the night of the 18th.
ST PETERS Catholic Church, Allegheny
City, Pa, was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, 100000.
The Ghilza rebels in Afghanistan have
been attacked by the Afghan General sent
to subdue them and badly defeated. The
General sent to Cabul ten cart loads of
heads of rebels killed in battle as token
of the victory his forces had won.
TIE Harding Casino in Berlin, Germany,
took fire the other night while a ball was
in progress. Four persons were killed and
a large number injured
INFORMATION has been received that
much alarm exists i'll Madrid in conse-
quence of the report of a threatened out
break against the Government, and that
extensive military precautions are being
taken. News from Catalonia show that a
hard state of feeling prevails among the
people and rising is feared.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt i'll the
province of Beira, Portugal, on the 18th.
Much alarm was felt in Lisbon:
lT is denied that champion prize fight
took place in England as alleged, and that
a noted pugilist was killed.
| CHARLES J. BYLEs, agent of the Missouri
Pacific freight department at Leaven'
worth, Kan, was mysteriously missing on
the 12th.
SOLICITOR GENERAL JENKS SAYS there
is no intention to abandon the Bell tele-
phone case.
| A DIsPATCH from South of Franco says
that foods have caused enormous damage
in that region. The railway at Nentimig-
liza appears to have suffered severely. 1t
will require a months labor to reopen the
road
WILLIAM KENNEDY, aged thirty. fell into
tub of boiling lime water at Newark, o.
reeenty, and was horribly scalded.
TIE Duffy Malt Whisky Company, Of
New York, has been placed in the hands of
Henry Stockbridge, as receiver.
TIE Director of the Mint, Dr.. KiInball,
announces that the supply of nickels and
pennies in the country is insufficient. The
director attributed the great demand, in
part, to the tendency in minor coin to un
equal circulation through want of accept
ability, especially at banks