The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

been dismissed at her own request. She
was an efficient clerk, and when her re-
quest to be dismissed was refused she alb
sented herself from her desk until the de-
partment was forced to remove her.
JACK KEEF, local sport, was shot and
killed by Morgan Anderson, Of Alliance,
in Wooster, o., on the night of the 10Th.
The shooting was the result of a quarrel
about a woman. Anderson eecaped.
THE special convention at Philadelphia
on the 29th, for the purpose of electing an
assistant Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese of Pennsylvania, chose Rev.
OIL William Whitaker, of Nevada.
THE entire business portion of Alturas,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Loss, 100000, partly insured.
JOHN HARDIN, Of Brazil, Ind, murder
ously assaulted Levi Leash on the 29th
while both were at work at the Central
rolling mills, striking him on the head
with an iron bar eight feet long. Leash's
skull was crushed. He can not recover.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND had, up to June
80, vetoed sixty-eight private pension
bills.
THERE was a narrow escape from an
at Chicago ON the 3Oth.
GEORGE GILL WHITELAw, the Harvard
student who was injured in the recent
fight at the Miller House, Boston, on the
night of June l9 is believed to be out of
| danger
A BALL given 10y Sir Spencer st. John,
/ British Minister to Mexico, on the night of
the 29th, was brilliant affair.
AN explosion of sewer gas in the British
House of Commons on the Both led to sem
sational rumors about Irish plots and dy-
Mantle outrages.
GENERAL JAMES A. BEAVER was nomi-
mated for Governor of Pennsylvania on
the 3Oth by the Republican convention at
Harrisburg.
COLONEL r. NJ. KELLY, recently United
States pension agent at Louisville, KY,
was apparently 1000 short with the Gov
ernment, but has paid up.
GEORGE W. NARNEY, one of the pail
bearers at the funeral OF Mrs. Baker at
Dover, n. H., on the 18th. sank down as
he was elping to carry out the casket and
died instantly of heart disease.
The French Academy of Science has ad.
mitted the first lady professor to their
body. She is Miss Sophie Kowlewska,
and is a professor of mathematics.
The President sent the nominations of
Hugh Smith Thompson, of South Caro-
lima, to the Senate on the 3Oth, to be as
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice
William f. Smith, resigned.
YALE COLLEGE statement for the past
year shows receipts of Sl87,47O, and ex-
penses of @167,23
AT Baltimore, Md, on the 3Oth, occurred
the ceremony of presenting the scarlet
beretta to Cardinal Gibbons.
EIGHT persons were instantly killed on
the 30th by an accident to a mail train
from Belfast to Dublin. The train was
going at a high rate of speed and left the
rails at Knockbridge. Twenty persons
were wounded. The train was completely
smashed.
THE proprietors of five rolling mills at
Youngstown, O., have refused to sign the
iron workers scale, which went into eff
feet on the 1st. Brown, BOnnell & Co.,
who are in the hands of a receiver, agreed
to pay the scale price, though they could
not sign the scale.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent to the col
lector's office on the 30th and paid his dog
license for the present year. This is the
first instance of a President of the United
States buying dog tag in Washington.
THE sash, door and blind factory of
Briggs, Wharton and Beverage, at APP
pleton, Wis, burned on the night of the
29th. Loss, So, goo; insurance, $4,000.
MRS. JOHN SCHICK, aged ffty-five
wears, committed suicide at Davenport,
Ia, on the Both, by severing her jugular
vein an a small artery with small pair
cf sharp pointed scissors. Mental aberra-
tion was the cause.
THE Conservative candidates for East
Toxteth, Everton and West TOxteth di-
visions of Liverpool have been elected
without opposition.
EDWIN BELLOWS shot and fatally
wounded his wife at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the 1st.
Mr.. ALGERNON SULLIVAN SwINBURNE,
the English poet, publishes vigorous I'm
ionist campaign song.
EVERY THING was quiet in the Lake
Shore yards at Chicago on the 1st.
THE st. Louis express on the Erie road
was wrecked by misplaced switch near
Susquehanna, Pa, on the list.
SEYMOUR DARLING was shot and killed
at Circlevlle, o., on the lst, while resist
ing arrest. Several others were wounded.
FIRE destroyed Miller 81 Lawrence's tub
and pail factory at Leominster, Mass, on
the 1st.
THE jury in the case of Schilling, charg-
ed with boycotting at Milwaukee,, disa-
greed and were discharged.
FRANK ii. Brown, a prominent grain
merchant, is under arrest at Boston,
charged with forging bills of Iading.
AUGUST LINDT's residence, at Chicago,
was burned on the night of the 30th and
the sleeping inmates We're saved by dog
barking furiously until they were awak-
ened.
PRESIDENT BATES denies the rumor that
the Baltimore & Ohio and the Western
Union Telegraph companies are about to
consolidate.
|. PETER ZINGERLE, crank who went
from Pittsburgh to Washington for the
avowed purpose of killing the French
Minister, was arrested on the 1st while
prowling around the latter's residence
with loaded revolver.
NEARLY the entire city of independence,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 1st.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE general term decision in the case of
Mrs. Roxanna Druse, who was convicted
of the murder of her husband in Herkimer,
County, N. Y, is adverse to her appeal,
and she will be sentenced to death.
PROF. TIMOTHY DWIGHT was inaugural
ed president of Yale college on the 1st, to
succeed DR.. Porter. The exercises were