The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

loss is not less than S3O,OOO, pretty well
covered by insurance.
GREAT destruction is being caused 10y
forest fires in Wisconsin.
PLACARDs appealing to Irishmen to
make the greatest demonstration possible
on the departure of Lord Lieutenant
Aberdeen, have been posted in Dublin.
THE remains of Hubert q. Thompson,
were inferred at Woodlawn cemetery,
New York, on the Goth.
BELFAST municipal officials are indig-
nant because the government proclaimed
that city under the provisions of the arms
clause of the Peace -Preserv alton act.
THE London Times fears the new Cabi-
net is not altogether what could have been
wished in the interests of steady govern
ment and harmonious cooperation.
The Postal Telegraph Company has
been reorganized by foreclosure and sale,
and it is the intention to extend its lines
to the Pacific coast.
CHINESE pirates recently captured the
Dutch steamer Hok, killed the captain,
first mate and chief engineer, and hold the
captains wife and the remainder of the
crew for ransom.
Ross RAYMOND, formerly a newspaper
reporter and well known swindler, both
in this country and Europe, was arrested
in a hotel in New York on the 10Th, and
locked up for passing worthless checks.
THE first fatal case of smallpox in De-
troit Mich, was that of little Mary Koch i,
who died Oh the ght of the 2Sh. Mrs.
Koch has been taken with the disease,
making the sixth case IN five di fferent To-
calities. There are fears of an epidemic as
soon as warm weather ends.
The French Government has assured
England that as soon as the present emer-
gency is passed the French troops will be
Withdrawn from the New Hcbrides.
THE bolt and nut departments of the
Elba iron-workS at Pittsburgh, Pa,
burned on the night of the 29th. Loss,
SIS, 900: insured. The building will be
rebuilt.
THE superintendent of the Dominion po-
lice denies having had any communica-
from one Sweeney, formerly of Ottawa,
who has been represented as keeping the
Canadian Government informed of the do
ings of the Chicago Anarchists. The
story, he says, is without foundation in
fact.
FIRE in the tenement house No. 2010
Third avenue, New Y ork, occurred on the
29th. Mrs. Mtchering, aged sixty five,
was too feeble to fight her way, and was
burned to death. The money damage by
the fire was trining.
\ MAN, believed to be Grin Sperry, the
dcfaulting treasurer of Chautauqua Coun-
ty. New York, was arrested at Allegheny
City, Pa, on the night of the Goth, while
IN h;c
so, 900 in bonds, considerable cash, letters
from prominent men aud addresses of all
the large banks and bankers in the coun-
try.
JOHN MCDERMoTT, eighty eight years
of age, afflicted with cancer and weary
of life, cut his throat on the Goth, at the
residence of his son-inlaw, John Heer,
who lives about ten miles below Dubuque,
la.
A VEIN OF natural gas has been discov-
cred in Calumet County, Wisconsin.
GOVERNOR IRELAND of Sexas has
written letter to Secretary Bayard stat
ing that if the General Government does
not redress the wrongs inflicted by Mexico
on citizens of Texas, the State can and
will redress her own wrongs.
ONE THOUSAND carpenters and joiners
at Port Chester, N. Y, are locked out.
A FAREWELL address to the Earl OF
Aberdeen was adopted by the Dublin mu-
nicipal council.
RUDOLPH SCHULTZ, German gardener,
committed suicide at Peoria, H., on the
30th, by hanging.
GENERAL DABNEY II. MAURY has been
appointed United States Minister to Co.
lombia.
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS has formally
resigned, and will go into the newspaper
business at Omaha.
THE bill for the public building at
Springfield, Mo-. has been vetoel by the
President.
The Wyandotte (Kas.) train wreckers
have been held for trial in the District
Court, without bail.
The train of ten coaches bearing the
Iowa, Michigan and New Jersey delega-
items to the G. A. II. encampment, and
also Senator Logan and Governor Alger
of Michigan, collidei with an engine at
Echo, Utah, on the night of the 3Oth,
wrecking both engines. No one was hurt
except ono of the tiremen, who was slight
ly bruised.
T. W. BRoTHERToN is the nominee for
Congress of the Fourth Ohio district Re-
publicans.
SLICK swindler has worked A lbany On.
W foundrymen extensively on worth
less facing" mixture.
THE balloon Torpilleur, which left Paris
on the evening of the 18th, descended
safely in London ON the morning of the
30th
THE presence of newspaper correspond
ents at the autumn military maneuvers of
the Austrians in Gallicia has been for
bidden.
THERE were 1872 failures in the United
ended the 30th, against a total of 1Si for
the preceding like period.
GLADsToNE's visit to the Queen at Os-
borne on the 30th was for the purpose
of submitting list of honors which it
is visionary for a retirin premier to be q.
stow.
THE official valuation of railw ay prop
erty in Missouri il S42,Si7, ,29i4S, an in
crease in one year of $l,SI4 ,492.l1.
BRAKEMAN PORTER was killed on the
80 b, in railway accident at Bluffton,
Ind, and Engineer Sipple was terribly
.scalded.
REFERRING to the fishery question the
London Times says, as last resort, the
controversy can be solved only by arbi-
tration.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKG of Missouri has
commuted the death sentence of john I.
Leabo, of Bates County, to Imprisonment
for life.
PErER NnnNAN died Of snnstroke az