The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

A VERY extensive tire broke out at Ames-
blrv, Mass, on the night Of the 9Th in the
wood shop of the Babcock Manufacturing
Company. Half the business portion Of
the town was destroyed One Thousand
men werh thrown out Ut employment and
81, ,OOOOOd worth Of damage done:
The verdict Of the cUroncr's jury in the
Rich Hill, Mo-; mining calamity was that
the explosion was due TO natural gas which
had accumulated in the mine because Of
the neglect Of Keith & Perry, the owners,
and tho incompcl ency Of State Mine In
spector Wolfe, who had pronounced the
mino safe after he was supposed TO have
made an examination.
BRITISH medical papers agree that the
disease OF the Emperor of Germany is
quiesccnt and that he ia gaining strength
M.+s roots ACrS blown Oh at Farlbault,
MInn., during recent severe wind storm.
FoUR boys were drowned in a creek Of
the Cedar river near vt. Ansga-, Iewa, re
Gently, owing TO a wagon upsetting while
crossing when the creek was much swollen.
FIRE in Baltimore, Md, the other morn
ing destroyed two coal oil storage ware
houses and several thousand barrels OF
oil, doing $4,000 damage,
TIE British naval training ship Martin,
r'anned bt boys, went ashore of Ports.
mouth, Eng, recently and was much
damaged.
DISPATCHES from Burmah state that
large fire at Mandalav has burned 800
houses to the ground and rendered many
people homeless,
PEfER hEtS,SGER fniddle-ased man
nSar Reading, Ia, died tho other night ~
hydrophobia, caused by a recent dog bite.
He had suffered horribly.
IT Is announced by the State Department
that the Venezuelan Government has
placed barbed wire on the free list.
THE steamer General ID. II. Rucker was
burned on the Mississippi recently few
miles abote New Madrid No
FIRE IN Nassar, Mich, the other morning
destroyed eight stores and several small
buildings, causing total loss Of $3l, ,7O0.
\ MURDERER who had been released on
ticket of leave, near Temesvar Hungary,
recently went to the house of the judge
who condemned him and killed the judges
wife with a revolver. Then he went to the
house nf the notary md killed the latters
deputy. From there he went to his own
home and split the skulls Of his wife and
children, after which he Aed and has not
yet been captUred
FATHER KENNEDY and sixteen farmers OF
County Cork have been convicted of at
tending Nat onal League meeting IN a
proclaimed district, and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
THE other night a Mr.. Mathson aud his
sixteen year. old SON. of Oil Springs, Ont,
started to cross the river at Port Huron
Mich, to harsia il row boat When
about half way across sudden squall
drove the boat against a cake OF ice, the
craft capsizcd and its occupants wero
drowned.
JAMES PARsO Ns' barn near Centerville,
Mich was struck by lightning recently
and totally destroyed, Mr.. Parsons and his
little child and Mrs. Yankee being in.
stantly killed at the same time.
KENNEDY PORTER, son OF Ex-Governor
Porter, of Tennessee, was fatally shot ut
Paris, KY, on the 9th by VIII Edmunds.
The origin Of the difficulty was supposed
TO Le the attention of young Porter to Ed
munds' sister.
BUSINESS failures Dun's reporD for the
seven days ended April 3, numbered for
the United States, 1919, Canada, Is; total
227; compared with 223 the previous wee,
and 223 the corresponding week of las
year.
REV. Mr.. SUTHERLAND, the evangelist,
better known to the theater-gong public
as "Senator Bob Hart" of the Minstrel
| SldSc1 NHlIIl ht Hd'O " PlCaChi NOo 'OuAu
dead in bed in the room of a friend at Bar
ney's Hotel, in Chambers street, New
York, the other night. He had recently
gone to the bad, and Immediately preced-
ing his death had been drinking heavily.
JUDGE JACKSON, in the United States
Circuit Court, at Louisville, Ky, recently
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
the West Virginia habeas corpus case
against the State of Kentucky for posses
sion OF the Hatfield prisoners. This was
the second victory for kentucky.