The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

conspIrators In tho West Virginia insut-
ance swindlcs have been captured in Ala
bama. Governor Richardson will issue
requisi,ions for them.
ARRESTS OF Nihilists still continue TO be
made secretly in 81. Petersburg. Many
prisoners are sald 70 be subjected TO tor.
ture and made insane.
RANDoLrH q JENKs' cotton warehouse,
Philadelphia, was damaged $4,000 by fire
recently,
Wni,f attempting TO escape from Jail at
Trinidad; Col, the other evening W W.
Reynolds a contractor, awaiting trial f0t
attempted murder 81 railway pay master,
was instantly killed. He Knocked the
jailer down, and was getting away when
shot. The jailer will die.
Moses FRALEY the bear grain operator,
who failed recently at ST. Louis for $780,.
900, declares he will pay dollar for dollar,
An csplosIcr orcrrrcd =. the st. Hsle-
co,Iiery, England, recently by which seven
teen persons were killed and several in
jured-three, it was feared, fatally.
FOUR hundred members OF the Brewers
Union struck at Cincinnati on the 18th.
AN earthquake shock was felt in the
Province OF Quebec on the morning Of the
Nth,
Dawn 4 FOtHKbINGHiw tyaS awarded
$20,OOO damages by the St Louis jury in
his suit for 81 900 against the Adams Ex
press Company for false Imprisonment
The case grew out of the robbery on the
! Frisco road in 1856, when WIttrock, alias
Jim Cummings" robbed the express Of
S53, 600 Fotherlngham being held as an ac-
compice.
FUtp provinces IN Cuba have been dc.
clared in state of siege in order TO sup
press brigandage.
The House Judiciary Committee has re
ported bill providing tos tho construction
of two United States penitentiaries, one to
be north and the other south of the thirty
ninth degree north latitude
SERIOUS trouble about the lumber docks
at Muskegon, Mich, is looked for because
Of the STRIKE Of thr lonSshoreiLGn for g. a
day.
AN avalanche has destroyed fifty meters
of the railway in the Tyrol, over which
Queen Victoria prpDsed to go TO reach
Berlin.
SnAKEsPrARE's chair was sold at auction
in LonLon the other day for Gl20.
The Azof war squadron of Russia is to
be reinforced by twelve torpedo boats to
be made in l'rahrc
AT Ennis. ireland, recently the sentences
Of three trHdcsmcn convicted of boycotting
were, an appeal. increased from three to
SIX months imprisonment.
NEWT VoRcr, the Deer Trail terror, who
was convicted at Greeley, Col, of killing
Deputy Sheriff IIollIngswOrth last Decem-
bcr, has beeu sentenced to fourteen years
in the pcniteniiarv at Canon City. Motion
for now trial was oVerrulcd.
THREE lives were lost by fire, supposed
to be iucendiary, which occurred recently
at the Bethel Homo, st. Louis The other
inmates, mostly tramps, had narrow es-
CapcS
FURTHER particulars about the revolt in
Roumania show that mary persons were
Killed and wounded in kalarasch, and that
twenty were killed and eighty wounded in
Budescht. In many places the Government
officials, under threats of death, told the
peasants to help themselves to maize, lands
and any thing they fancled.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's rcporD for the
seven days ended April 10 numbered for
the United States, III; Canada, Is; total,
l95; comp lred with 222 the previous week
and l99 the corresponding week OF last
year
The Supreme Court of Minnesota, on d
test case has sustained the right Of the
State Railroad Commission to decide
whether a railroad is giving reasonable
rates
FIRE in the Metropolitan Clue House.
Washington, the o; her morning badly am
aged the roof and northern tower and
caused the flooding OF the building. The
total loss was SIS 600.
THE Indians on the Bad river reservation
in Wisconsin threaten trouble because not
employed to tend logs being sent down the
stream.