The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

leo, out of the original claim of $S,637 for
depredations committed by Indians in
1851.
All that was mortal Of Bishop Shana
han was laid in the tomb on the Goth, at
Harrisburg, Pa, after ceremonies at the
cathedral of the most solemn nature.
Archbishop Ryan celebrated the requiem
mass and Bishop O'Hara of Scranton de-
livered the eulogy.
TIE safe Of the post.offlce In the New
York Produce Exchange building wa
opened the night of the 2sth by some per-
son who knew the combination and s., 200
in cash stolen from it.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
versed the decision of Commissioner Black
on the claim of Lila May Pavy, widow of
DIR. Octave Pavy, under contract with the
i Greedy expedition, who died of starvation
at Cape Sabine about June 6, 1891. She is
| granted seventeen dollars per month.
A FIRE occurred in a planning mill at
WIngleton, Mich, on the night of the 2Sth,
supposed to have been caused by spark
from the furnace. The planning mill, dry
kiln and several thousand feet of lumber
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at
$4,000; insurance, about 5000.
THE coal agents of the nnsylvania
railroad coal companies have advanced
the selling price of coal on an average
about fifteen cents per ton. The dem and
for the company's coal is extremely heavy
and exceeds the transportation facilities.
THREE miners were buried under a mass
of falling rock at Winthrop mine, near
Ishpeming, Mich, on the 29th, and in
stantly killed. Their bodies were recov-
cred during the day. Their names are
Mauritz Shellman, Paul Brazzo and Peter
Poppa. Two of the men were married
and leave families.
THE Salvation Army festival, in con :
nection with General Booths visit at
Toronto, Ont, was continued on the Goth.
grand street parade was held, in which
$500 officers and soldiers took part. This
was followed by banquet at the temple.
GEORGE AxETLL, who on May 30, 1888,
shot and killed at Deposit, N. Y, Elias
Freeman, Freeman French and VIM. b.
Berry, and who was in jail at Bingham
ton under sentence to be hanged, was
found on the 29th lying in his cell in an
unconscious condition and breathing
heavily. The murderer died within an
hour.
REV. j. Fl. d. WINGFIELD, missionary
bishop of Northern California, has been
elected Bishop of the diocese of Easton,
Mo-, to succeed the late Bishop Lay. DIR.
WIngfied is the fifth selection, the others
having declined.
Ex-SENAToR WITHERs, who presided at
the conclave at st. Louis, is now at Lynch
burg, Va, on a visit to his daughter, Mrs.
G. w. Smith. Colonel Withers is reported
in poor health at present, owing to the
fatigue of his long journey from Hong
Kong to St. Louis.
THE yacht Mayfower has gone out of
commission, and the race with the Gala
tea is off. Cause, no wind.
MILITARY pickets have again been
placed on duty at Belfast
THE Illinois Supreme Court has denied
the release of Joe Mackin on a writ of
habeas corpus.
DIssENsION has broken out between the
only two German Anarchist clubs in Lon
don.
THE firm of A. s. Gage & Co., wholesale
millinery and fancy goods, Chicago, has
failed for $750,000.
THE visit of the King of the Belgians to
Emperor William has caused much COM
| ment at Paris.
THE Nebraska Republican State conven-
ton at Lincoln nominated General John
| NJ. Thayer for Governor.
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY SEVEN lives have been saved by
the German Lifeboat Association during
the past twenty years.
E. f. HENRY, druggist at o mro, Wis. -,
| ltd fha Affao otu Nfo Il
of carbolc acid, taken by mistake for bee
| extract.
The Bulgarian Government has decide d
to postpone their reply to Russia's de-
mands pending negotiations with G eneral
Kaulbars for some other method of settle-
ment.
In the lower house of the Hungarian
Diet, Oh thu 30th, Prime Minister Tisza
said that Austro- Hungary intended to
prevent any single power from establish
ing protectorate over Bulgaria.
DEPUTATIoN composed of ia promi-
nent and influential Bulgarians called on
General Kaulbars to endeavor to induce
him to withdraw or modify his circular,
but their mission was fruitless.
| DIPLoMATEs at Vienna believe that Aus
tria's attitude against Russia's occupation
of Bulgaria is more pronounced since the
return of Count Kalnoky, Austrian Min =
lister of Foreign Affairs.
GENERAL MILES, in his report to the
| War Department, acknow lodges that the
hostile Apaches surrendered conditonally
and that he promised them they should
not be turned over to the civil authorities
of Arizona.
JoHN H. c. BOWEN was convicted at
Romney, w. Va, on the 3Oth of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to impris-
Heatwole on April 30 last
The Massachusetts, Democratic State
convention nominated John f. Andrew,
of Boston, for Governor by acclamation.
AN explosion at the Bay Chester IN.
W powder works on the 30th killed four
| men, demolished the buildings, and
scared the people for miles around.
THE Virginia Supreme Court has denied
a rehearing to T. j. Cluverius, convicted
of having murdered his cousin, Fanny
Lillian Madison, at Richmond.
BY the caving- in of an icehouse in the
levee at Omaha, Neb., on the 30th, three
workmen were injured, one of them fatal
ly, whose name was Mr.. Yeakley, from
Illinois. He died on the way to the hos
pital.
THERE was a snow storm at Marquette,
Mich, and vicinity on the 3)th.
FIRE broke out on the 30th in the base
ment of the Cliff House, a very large
boarding house, at Lenox, Mass, which
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