The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-02

AFTER an hours diplomatic conference,
on the 27th, Bismarck and De Giers lunch
ed together.
The Halifax Sugar Refinery Company ,
of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is in fnan cial
| trouble.
THE answers Of the Powers to the
Porte's circular on Bulgarian affairs are
| remarkably non-committal.
FARMER WELLS, of Willis Station, Mich,
killed his wife on the 27th by cutting her
thu oat.
HENRY GEORGE is talked of for the
workingmen's candidate for mayor of
New York.
MICHAEL GLEASON, superintedent of the
Poor farm at st. Joseph, Mo-, has been re-
moved.
MCCULLocH County, Texas, has ordered
all Mexicans not naturalized American
citizens out of the county.
J. HARRIS ROGERS has filed his answer
to Mr.. Garland's cross bill in the Pan
Electric litigation.
GLADSTONE has issued "brochure" on
the Irish question in which he discusses
! the issues in language that leaves no room
to doubt his attitude and intentions.
AT Evansville, Ind, on the 9th, Alfred
| Cassidy and Peter Welter went on spree
to~ether, quarreled, and Cassidy was
| killed by Weter.
| STEPHEN G. PORTER, the literary crook,
now in limbo at Fredericksburg, Va,
claims to have been once,well connected in
! Missouri.
SISTER ECLALIE, superoress of the I'm
maculate academy, Newport, Ky, caught
| fire in her room on the 27th and burned to
death before help could reach her.
THE business failures for the United
States and Canada dusing the seven days
ended the 9th numbered pol, against lSf
for the previous like period.
FIRE destroyed the roller mill of Lee &
Brown at Saranac, Mich, ON the 9th. A
heated journal caused the fire. Loss,
1000; insurance, 5000.
CRANDALL's toy factory at Montrose,
Susquehanna County, Pa, and thirteen
business houses and two residences were
burned the night of the 27,h. Loss, SO,
900.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire has ragged in
Potter and Sully counties, Dakota, the
past week. Potter is almost a barren
waste, and Sully is badly burned. There
is no way of estimating damages at pres
ent.
On his return home to Madison, Wis
from San Francisco, on the 18th, where lie
was made comman1er-i in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, General
Fairchild was given a hearty reception
by delegates from osts of the city.
ABoUT eight thousand persons listened
to Sam Jones and Sam Small at RounC
Lake, n. Y, on the 9th. Jones' subjec
was, "What Shall | Do to be Saved:'
Small spoke on the life of Christ. Rev
Mr.. Lockwood, of Cincinnati, alsC
preached. A subscription of 500 was
raised for the evangelists.
TIE experts sent from Washington tC
count the money in the United States sub
treasury at Philadelphia, completed theil
tasks on the 9th, and found that the
money and the accounts balanced to {
penny. The experts counted about S27,
COO 600, of which Sl5,0O0,000 was in silver
SPECIAL EXAMINERS \. NJ. SPROEssET
and Davis have completed the investiga-
tion of ex-Chief Pension Clerk Gays ac-
counts at Pittsburgh, Pa. They found
that the shortage amounts to exactly ST.
S37. The examination Of the books was
very laborous, occupying over six weeks
A sKlFF containing six young men upset
in the Ohio river at Cincinnati on the
9th, and four of the occupants were
drowned. The natnes of the victims were
the two Gay brothers, Frank Wilson and
George Glover, and their ages ranged from
thirteen TO twenty three.