The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03

A DISPATCH from Nancy says a riot o okt
| out there on the Goth, n mob Of Boulanger.
lists attacking the students clubs, with
stones AMI othtt I1iSs.ios. a number OF
policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Milwaukee on the
21th, dec ded the suit of the heirs Of the
late $. $. Merrill, general manager Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee Il St. Paul road,
against G. H. Price, for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land tran sactiOns
in Minnesota and Dakota, involv ing profits
supposed to be IN the neighborhood of sl,-
100000. The decision was in favor of the
defendant.
AN explosion that pitched seventy people
into the air, throwing one man fifty feet,
wrecked seventeen large plate glass win
dows, ruined $35 OC0 worth of clothing, dam
aged building SIS, 900 and caused a STAN.
pede Of hundreds of people from the upper
stories OF tall buildings, occurred in base
ment on State and jackson streets, Chi
cago, the other night. The explosion was
caused by two workmen, who had broken
IA gas main without knowing it, No one
was killej.
CENTRAL CITY, Oak, has been destroyed
by fire, Loss, s250,0O0.
THE chemical paint factory of Henry
Woods, Son Il Co., at Lake Crossing, near
Natick, Mass; was destroyed by fire the
other morning. The loss was over S150,000;
insured.
AN immense forest fire was reported
raging at Big Nose along the line of the
New York Central railroad, licking up trees
and shrubbery. Farmers were fighting
for their homes with doubtful success. The
fire was started by sparks from passing
locomotive.
The cannon ball train on the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neo., on the 9th. Two pas
sengers were killed and quite number in
jured The mail and express cars with
their contents were consumed.
TIE sawmills of the Ft. Madison Qowa)
Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the eth Loss, $4,000.
TIE American flint glassworks strike
has been settled i'll a conference at New
York
TWENTY survivors of the great Sultaua
explosion cf April 2G, 1865, in which loo
Union soldiers lost their lives, held re-
union at HIlsdale, Mich, on the 26th.
TIE Pope has issued a decree condemn
ing the plan of campaign and boycottlng in
Ireland. The Nationallsts declared they
| would treat it with contempt.
THERE was an unusually large attend
ance at the Presidents reception on the
27,h. Included in the throng were dele
gates to u reig Gus convention, the Boston
baseball team, many of the ballet of a
theatrical troupe and most of the chorus of
an opera company. a religious crank who
Informed the ushers that he was 'oWned
by God and the Bible" was denied admit
tancc.
SIX murdercrs were executed on the
9Th, all for separate crImes-three at Fort
Smith, Ark, one at Anderson, S. c., one at
Orangcburg, S. c., and one at Leonard
town, Nd. FIVE Of the culprits were ne
grocs.
ANARCHIST PARSONS old paper, the
AlurHt, of Chicago, has suspended publlca-
tiOn.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April 26 numbered for
the United States, 1893; Canada, 80; total,
223; compared with l95 the previous week
and 19l the corresponding week of last
year.
NEAR Richmond, KY, the other day
Arch Stolta, farmer. committed suicide
by taking Rough on Rats" His brother
William, seeing the corpse, took the re
mainder of the poison, leaving a note say
ing he wished both to be buried in the
same coffin.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JEFF
fersonville, Ind. were terribly burned by
molten iron recently while attending to a
cupOla.
WHITLEY, a notorious desperate and
train robber, has been captured near
Libertyville, Tex, by officers after brief
fight
Two cisterH cleaners of st. Louis were
found dead in a cistern recently, having
been suffocGted by choke damp.