The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

ing himself the son of the millionaire by
his first wife, born but a short time after
marriage
NEW YORK CITY enters protest at the
Indian Bureau at Washington against the
removal of the Indian supply depot to st.
Louis.
BEFORE the Supreme Court at Washing
ton, on the 18th, the case Of the State Of
Missouri against the Hannibal a. st.
Joseph railroad was argued.
\. Brown was found dead in his own
yard, near Lebanon, ]. T.. on the lst Bur-
rel Odenwood, the deceascd's brother-in-
law, is suspected
MINISTER MCLANE has forwarded TO
Governor Oglesby of Illinois the petition
adopted by the Paris Municipal Assembly,
praying for clemeucy for the Chicago An
arcnists.
THERE will be a meeting of prominent
Democratic politicians at Columbus. o..
January :, 1S11. to discuss the National
outlook and prospects.
THE Aus'rjdn Al7ag GG-eite retlecting the
views of the foremost officers of the army,
STRONGLY protests against allowing Gen
Cral kauibars to resume the position Of
military attachc to the Russian embassy
in Vienna.
TIMOTHY d. SULLIVAN has been re-elect-
cd lord mayor of Dublin.
THE miners at the Manning. Witch
Hazel and Foster Coal Companies mines
in Ohio struck on the 1st, being refused
ten cents per ton advance. A general
strike throughout the valley i'll antici-
patcd.
Rosa BAER, formerly ladys maid for
Lady Colin Campbell, was put ON the
Il i
the 1st, and completely broke down, ad-
mitting her former statements to be false.
CESAR ROBINSON, color ed, was lvnched
at Florence, S. c., on the 1st, for a crime
which the punishment fitted
WHILE workmen were removing debris
from the recently burned building of the
Ware Vinegar Company at Cincinnati, on
the 1st the east and west walls fell, IA
tally injuring John Lanphier. A half
dozen others narrowly escaped
THREE boys, two sons of John Lee, aged
five and six years respectively, and son
of Robert Pulver, aged SIX years, were
drowned at Joy, a village in Wayne Coun-
ty, n Y, on the 1st. They went on the
ice in a mill pond and broke through.
CONGRESSMAN PRICE, of Wisconsin was
considerably improved On the 1st, and was
able to take more nourishment than for
merly. His friends are in strong hopes
that the doctors are mistaken in pro-
nOuncing his disease cancer of the Stom-
ach
ALL the miners Of the Seventh Ohio dis
trict 800 or 5000. struck ON the 1st on
refusal by the operators TO grant an in
crease of five cents per ton for mining. A
long siege is expected.
TIE loss by hog cholera In Miami County,
Ind, has reached $4,000. The disease is
still prevailing. Two thousand dead hogs
We're carried into Peru to the Craze re-
fners on the lst, as result of the cpl
dcmic.
THREE Hungarans, John Cobbalack,
John Weiner and Andrew kaskO, who
were lying i'll ID drunken sleep upon the
track of the Delaware, Lackawanna g.
Western railroad near Pittston, Pa, on the
lst. were struck by Il passenger train and
instantly killed. Their bodies were fright
fully mangled.
THE river was closed with ice at KeO-
kuk Ia, on the I'd.
THIRTY men were killed by an explosion
in the Lenmore colliery at Durham, En-
gland on the ID.
a sTREET-CAR at Jersey City, N. j.. was
blown off the track on the 2d, the passen-
gers being badly shaken up.
L. B. FRANKEL & Co, stock brokers,
Virginia New, have failed, with liabilities
aggregating S9l5,000.
The testimony in the Campbell divorce
case in London on the I'd was very damag-
ing to Lady Campbell's case.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued proc
lamation promulgating the eXtraditon
treaty with Japan.
FIRE partially destroyed the ancient
Church of st. Mary Magdalen, in Knight
rider street, London, on the 2d.
THE Presidents message was completed
on the Cd, and viii cover about two.t thirds
as much space as last year.
THE loss by fire in Canada and the Unit
ed States during the month of November is
estimated at S10,000O00.
y CIRCULAR has been issued by the Ma
tional committee of the United Labor
party containing a declaration Of prln-
ciples.
The Presidents message is completed,
and will cover about two-thirds as much
space as last year.
THE schooner Ariadne went ashore near
Oswego, n. Y, on Lake Ontario, on the
I'd, and the captain and two of the crew
persisted.
gers were killed and many others injured
on the steamer Westerland, en- route from
Antwerp to New York, during hurricane,
a heavy column Of water crushing in the
under which the victims had
taken refuge.
THE London TimeS commenting on the
Irish rent war, wishes that the Govern
ment would show that it is more conscious
of its own strength.
DATES and evidence, collected at Provi-
dence, r. J., contradict the sensational
story that Doc" Wilson is the son of
Phillip Moen.
ElGHr shocks of earthquake were felt
at Summerville, $. G., on the night OF the
lst. e ri
SPAIN has finally induced Prince Bis
marck to abandon his proposal to establish
q naval station at the Caroline Islands.
THREE persons were fatally injured and
four others seriously burned by powder
explosion near Bellaire, o.. on the I'd.
A TRANSFER of funds to London has been
ordered by the Mexican Government to
meet theintcrest on the English debt, due
the last day of this year.
A Ii. ELwooD, of Silver Creek, Ind,
mail agent between Grand Rapids, Mich,
and Cincinnati, was arrested on the I'd for
systematically rifiing letters, and CON
fessed every thing.
SERIOUS break is threatened in the
Western Export Association.
President Cleveland has~issued proc
lamation promulgating the extraditiop
treaty with Japan .-...... ... a.
THE house of Jesse Stockford, in Lay
township Saginaw County, Mich,
WAS burned on the night of the 1st One
child perished in the flames and another
was burned SO badly that death epsued the
next morning. Stockford and his wife