The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

can Mohair Association, at which strict
registration rules were adopted.
j. EDWARD SIMMONS is being put for
ward as a candidate for mayor of New
York, representing "capital as opposed to
labor and Socialism"
Mas. CLEVELAND and Mrs. Folsom re-
turned to Washington on the 9th. They
arrived at the railroad station at $3.50 a.
M, and were met by the President
JOHN B. DARLING, student of Harvard
College, residing with his widowed mother
at North Cambridge, Mass, attempted
suicide on the 9th by shooting himself in
the head, inficting dangerous wound.
A GENERAL convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
begun its sessions at Chicago on the 9Th.
THE National Undertakers' Ass ociation
met at Cleveland, o., on the 9th, with
fifty delegates present. The address of
welcome was delivered by City Solicitor
Brinsmade, the response being made by
P. Sampson, of Pittsburgh, president of
the association.
THE freight brakemen on the Mahoning
division of the New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio road are out on strike.
AN explosion of giant powder occurred
on the 9th in the Porter coal mines near
Durango, Col. One of the Cornishmen
was killed outright and two were fatally
injured. The timber caught fire. The
flames reaching a large amount of powder,
caused the accident. The mine Is badly
shattered.
REPORTS from Vladivostock show that
cholera continues to make most frightful
ravages in Seoul, district of Corea. Hun
dreds of people are said to be dying daily.
THE Union Furniture Company's works,
located at the Detroit, Grand Haven &
Milwaukee junction, just north of Grand
Rapids, Mich, were burned on the night
of the 9Th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $22,-
500. The surrounding lumber yards were
also damaged, and at 1 a. m. of the 7th
the fire was still raginy.
COMMODORE CHANDLER, commanding
the New York Navy Yard, and Admiral
Luce, commanding the North Atlantic
squadron, have been instructed to consult
with General Schofield with reference to
the part to be taken by the military and
naval forces in the Baltholdi statue cere-
monies.
MRS. H. HENsHAw, the wife of brick
maker at Cold Springs, N. Y, gave birth
on the 4th inst. to a male child
with four feet. Otherwise the child
is we'll formed and healthy. One
leg is but two inches long and protrudes
from the left hip. Another leg protrudes
from the lumbar vertebrae. The child is
able to move these with almost as little
difficulty as its natural limbs.
The Spanish Ministers of War, Marine
hau ic ho
the Cabinet will be remodeled on a more
democratic basis.
A NATIONAL association of whip manu-
facturers has been formed.
H. LEAvITr is under arrest for COM
plcity in the murder of Rev. Mr.. Had
dock, of Sioux City, la.
M. KARAvALoFF has resigned as Regent
of Bulgaria.
ST. LOUIS has not yet been heard from
in the bids for the construction of the new
naval vessels.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires were reported
raging in Manitoba on the 7th.
A. G. FRAZER, of Portersville, Pa, was
killed by the cars on the Chicago & Alt on
road at Quincy Junction, ILL.,. on the 7th.
A DEFICIT of $l0,0O0,000 is announced in
the revenues of New South Wales for the
past fiscal year.
TAMAI, Osman Digna's stronghold in the
Soudan, was carried by friendly natives
and two hundred rebels were kill
MILITARY headquarters Department of
Dakota will be changed November from
Fort Smelling to ST. Paul, Minn.
THE Independent Bulgaria urges the gov
ernment to bind General Kaulbars and
send him across the frontier.
ONE woman was fatally injured by
jumping from burning factory at New
York on the 7th, and several others had
narrow escapes.
WILL Roy was fatally shot at CASTLE,
Wyoming County, N. Y, on the 7th, by
Robert Van Brunt, member of the Saliva
tion Army.
THE latest report put in circulation by
the Cabinet smashers is that Mr.. Endicott
has grown tired of being Secretary of
War and is quite anxious to resign.
THE Indian question, involving the dis
position of Geronimo, was the principa
topic of discussion at the Cabinet meeting
on the 7th.
AT Belfast, N. Y, on the 7th, in a dense
fog, two freight trains on the Buffalo,
New York g. Philadelphia railroad coll i'd
ed, badly wrecking the engines and many
cars. The caboose and several cars of
one train were burned. Conductor Frank
Ingram, of Olean, was in the caboose and
burned to death.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake continue at
Summerville, s. c., and vicinity.
JOHN EDWARD ELLIS, L teral member
of the British Parliament, after MAKING a
tour of Ireland and examining into the
Irish tenant question, praises the work of
the National Land League.
AMONG the passengers who arrived on
the steamer Belgic at San Francisco on
the 7th was Prince Louis Bonaparte, trav-
cling incog. as Count Louis De Moncalieri.
He intended to remain few days there
and proceed Est. He was received on
his arrival by the Italian Consul.
A DISPATCH from West Clare, Ireland,
says the sheriff, bailiff and large force
of police, while trying TO make seizures
for rent at Guerrin, on the 7th, were op-
posed and defeated by 250 men and women.
THE business failures in the United
States for the seven days ending the Sth,
numbered 167.
NJ. De LEssEPs will attend the dedica-
tion of the statue of Liberty.
JOHN CULPEPPER. of Norfolk, Va, was
badly beaten on the night of the 7th by a
negro burglar.
JOSEPH WADE had an arm mangled in a
clover hull er near Jefferson City Mo-, on
the Sth.
The case against James Gilhooly, M. p,
L. 81 -.