The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-06

A NATIONAL assembly OF Knights Of
Labor brass workers will be formed In the
next two weeks. It will have 5000 MEM
bers.
By the explosion of the boiler Of port
able engine at Denton, Tex, the other day,
one man was killed and another fatally in
jured.
A SHORTAGE Of So, 100 has been found in
the accounts OF the late City Treasurer
McGeochen, Of Lafayette, Ind, who died
recently.
CALvERLY's statue Of Robert Burns was
unvailed at Albany, N. Y, recently In the
presence of 900 people.
ADvICEs from Matamoras state that the
Texas authorities having raised the quar-
antine against Mexico, Mexico will raise
its quarantine against Texas.
ADvICEs from Lorenzo MARQUEE, a
Portuguese town in Africa, say that a
mutiny had broken out among the soldiers
of the garrison, and that marines had been
landed from the war ships to quell it.
Fighting was expected.
HORACE BISHOP, aged fifteen, and Charles
McApplebee, aged sixteen, living near New
Haven, Conn, died soon after drinking
soda water at drug store. Investigation
showed that tincture Of aconite had been
mixed with the soda water instead Of
syrup. Robert J. Lama, the clerk who
made the fatal error, was arrested.
AT Tarneberzeg, Galicia, $50 houses
were destroyed by fire and 200 fam
lilies were rendered homeless recently.
The loss was &, 100000. One man was in
jured.
THE Cashgar Chinese have put a five per
cent tax on all articles of foreign or home
manufacture.
Two Russian ex-offlcers have been ar
rested in Bulgaria on suspicion of being
concerned in the recent acts of brigand-
age.
AT Rinez, Hungary, the other day, a
man murdered his five children and then
committed suicide.
PREMIER FLoQUET and Admiral Krantz,
Minister of Marine, witnessed the French
naval evolutions at Toulon on the 31st.
During the movements of the feet two
torpedo boats came into collision and both
were seriously damaged.
A TERRIBLE rainstorm at Hot Springs,
Ark, on the night of the 30th proved ex-
tremely disastrous to life and property.
One report was that thirteen persons were
drowned, mostly colored.
CHARLES II. LIrCHMAN, secretary Of the
Knights of Labor, has resigned for politi-
| cal reasons.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
the seven days ended August 30 numbered
| for the United States, POP; Canada, "a;
total, 226; compared with pa the previous
week and 1879 the corresponding week last
year.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco says;
Three steamship lines, which have been
competing for the China trade, have formed
pool ON -four rates. Their agents have
| notified shippers that hereafter the sched-
ule rate would be s. per ton to China, and
that this figure will be fixture.
THE Manitoba Legislature has ratified
the agreement with the Northern Pacific
railway by vote of 81 to 10.
| MISS Lillian DEPLEY, of st. Paul, Mimi.
aged about fourteen years, Is reported tC
have eloped with her fathers coachman
| William Stewart, burly negro.
! COTTON worms are reported doing much
| damage in various parts of Louisiana and
Mississippi.
LAND COMMISSIONER SToCKsLAGER has
decided, in the case of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company against John Geary, OF
the Shasta, Cal, land district, that the
land within the thirty miles indemnity
limits of the grant of July 26, 1866, to the
California & Oregon Railroad Company
was opened to settlement after withdrawal
and before selection by the company. This
decision rests upon the assumption that
the withdrawal was illegal, and follows
the doctrine laid down in the Guiford
Miller case.
FIVE cowboys are reported to have been
drowned by a cloudburst just west OF
Pixies Peak, in Colorado. They were
sleeping in the dry bed Ola stream at the