The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| uuluOlltleS Is TepOTUe1 III progress.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is to inaugurate a
war on the Administration for not en-
forcing the Civil-Service law to suit him.
! BALDWIN GARDINER, president of the
Pacific Stock Board at San Francisco, and
a leading stock broker Of the city, has dis
| appeared. His liabilities are supposed to
be about 5000, 900, mostly to customers.
SUIT has been brought against the Ohio
! State Journal Publishing Company for
! 1900 damages by DR.. c. II. Montgomery,
of st. Louis, for alleged libel.
LETTERS making suggestions rs to a
! more permanent basis for National banks
are being received from all parts of the
| country by the Comptroller of the Treas
ury.
! DATES have been fixed by Indian Com
missioner Atkins for hearing what st.
| Louis, Chicago, Kansas City and New
York have to say regarding the reno va
| of the Indian warehouses from New York
| TO point further west.
! THE Marine Hospital Bureau is officially
advised of the prevalence OF cholera in
Buenos Ayres.
| ITALY desires European concert in main.
tanning peace on the basis of the Berlin
| States.
THE Ghilz,i rebels recently defeated
the Ameer of Afghanistan's troops, and
under the influence of religious fanatics
the rebellion is spreading.
| REV. JOSEPH PARKER, D. D., of London,
strongly opposes the inclusion in the Lib
eral party platform of a plank favoring
church disestablishmen'
SIR CHARLES dixie says he will shortly
! bring another suit to establish his inno-
ccnce in connection with the Crawford
divorce scandal.
| The Comptroller Of the Currency has
| authorized the California National Bank
of San Francisco to commence business
with a capital of S300,00).
APPLICATION for a supersedeas, in the
cases of the convicted Chicago Anarch-
lists, was m ade to Justice Scott, of the H.
lnois Supreme Court, dt Bloomington, H.,
on the % J..
| A SLIGHT fire occurred in the interior of
the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
| World on the 25th
OLE ANDERSON, arrested near Bassett,
Neb., last week for numbering his wife
and throwing the remains in a well, con-
fessed the crime on the 23d. He says he
quarreled with her b ecause she would not
consent TO the sale of stock to pay debts.
LEVI STACKPooL, aged nine years, was
kill ed by calf at Auburn, n. Y, on the
a3i. He was holding the animal by a
rope which, in play, he had tied around
his neck. The calf started off, threw the
boy down ard dragged him until death
| resulted from strangulation.
CLFMENT SNYDER, proprietor OF beer
garden, committed suicide by shooting at
! Tifin, o., oI. the ?jth.
| Two CHILDREN named Meisal We're
caught in the recent blizzard near Man
dan, Oak, and were frozen to death.
ERASTUS BROOKS, the veteran editor,
died at his home on Staten Island, N. V,
| on the 25th.
The forces of the Ameer of Afghanistan
are gradually quelling the revolt of the
! GhilZais.
A SPECIAL train left ST. Louis on the
2Jth loaded with employees of the Gould
system to attend the funeral OF the late H..
NJ. Hoxie at Des Moines, Ia.
A GREAT gale occurred on Lake Michigan
on the 25th, resulting, however, in little
loss to shipping, as the navigation season
| is about over
A SEVEN FOOT vein of coal has been
struck at Omaha, Neb.
FIVE men were instantly killed by the
explosion of the boiler of the tugboat Sun.
beam, at New York, on the 2jth.
| SECRETARY WHITNEY is represented as
being especially we'll pleased with the lids
for the new cruisers.
NEW ORLEANS fire insurance companies
| have formed a combination and ad-
vanced rates from ten to fifteen per cent.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's message is
said to be we'll along toward completion,
the principal portion being now in type.
A MOTION, largely reducing military
pensions, mas been adopted by the French
Chamber of Deputies.
The body of William Gaul, of Indian
apols, Ind, who was lost in the woods
near Ashland, Wis, on the 2ls., was found
on the :5th.
JUDGE TURNER of the Federal Court at
San Antonio, Tex, held court on the s5th
THANKSGIVING Day. and excited much
criticism thereby.
SOME New Orleans people are making a
fight on Consul General Perch at the City
of Mexico, the apparent object being TO
get in man of their own.
IT develops that Iowa opposition to Col
onel James o. Broadhead is at the bottom
of the fight against The bill creating the
new Federal circuit of Missouri and Min
nesoa.
The Governor of Aleppo, in Asiatic
Turkey, recently disarmed and arrested
an Armenian who attempted to assassin
ate him.
| HARRY BURKsHAw, a fireman, was
killed in a ollision on the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh road, twenty -four miles from
Pittsburgh, on the 25th, several other per-
sons being injured at the same time.
THE heirs of the late Baron Rothschld,
of Frankfort, will construct a public m u
scum in which will bs exhibited the
Rothschild art collection, the richest in
the world.
JUDGE NOAH DAVIS, sitting in the Court
of Oyer and Terminer in New Y ork on the
25th, discharged the jury in the case OF
John Lehman, who is charged with hav-
ing killed his wife by throwing her out oi
Of a window, the jurors being unable to
agree. At the last ballot they stood II to
in favor of acquittal.
THE sugar experiments conducted by
the Department of Agriculture at Fort
Scott, Kas., have resulted in great as
appointment to the advocates Of the car
bonatation theory.
COLONEL HUSTON, chairman of the In
diana Republican State central commit
tee, in an Interview at Dallas, claImed
the Legislature of his State for his party
and said that Harrison would be the Sena'
| tor.