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TRAIN HELD up.
Three Men Rob Train in Texas---Severai
Murders.

Murders.
; Eli PAso, Oct. 81. The Mexican Gen.
lral passenger train was held up sixty-two
miles below Ell Paso, at 4:30 this morning
by three masked men. They came on the
engine over the tender and forced the en-
gineer to stop the train and get off. They
cut OF the express car, getting $4,000.
ssde the door while the robbers were
breaking in the door and ran off with the
keys to the safe, preventing the robbers
from getting its valuable contents. The
robbers then cane on with the engine
nearly to Juarez and abandoned 1t. They
cut the telegraph wires and it was 3
o'clock before telegram was received at
Juarez,. telling Of the robbery. The men
were Americans. No clue.
\ ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.
AKRON, Ohio. Oct 3l.--Joseph Diken.
'hof, aged 20, was assaulted and robbed of
$1,000 this evening by highwaymen. He
was carrying the money home in valise.
AN INDIANA MURDER.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 81 During
"a parade last night, Dollie Phillips. aged
20. was murdered on the street. She was
standing watching the parade, when
man approached pointing q revolver at
her and pulling the trigger. said: There.
take that" She fell to the sidewalk with
a bullet in her head, and died few min
utes later. The murderer. who escaped, 10
q man named Galloway, but the cause of
the shooting is unknown.
FOUR WERE KILLED.
CHARLESTON, Va. Oct. 81. lin Mercer
county, Sunday, four travellers were mur-
dered by robbers. The robbers then es-
capped into the mountains.
SHOT HIS NIECE.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Oct. 3l.--At Hinesville
on Monday night William Harrison, in
An inexplicable fit of jealousy shot his
little niece dead, aud then wounded his
sister. He fled but returned and confessed,
and then denied the crime and tried to
commit suicide by jumping into we'll.
Governing Telegraph Companies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.--A letter has
been sent by direction of the inter-
state commerce commissioner, to the tel
eRraph companies affected by the action Of
placing the telegraph lines of railroads,
which received government aid, under the
control of the commission, calling their at
tention to the fact that they have not COM
piled with the provisions requiring them
to file with the Interstate commission cop.
les of the contracts and certain other in
formation relative to the use Of these tee-
graph lines.
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came in. He met the other train in deep
and loug curve. All four engines were
smashed.
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DELEGATE TooLE ILL.

and loug curve. All four engines were
smashed.
DELEGATE To0LE I'LL.
Delegate J. X ToUlfwas taken suddenly
I'll at Eikhorn. He Was brought back
to Boulder Hot springs, where he will re-
main until he has sufficiently recovered to
he removed TO Helena. Mr.. TooIe has no.
titled the committee to cancel all OF his en-
gagements, which has been done.
swYTcuMEN sTRrKE. ~
The switohmen and freight handlers
here are on strike. New men are being
brought from the East TO ell their places.
The company refuse to recognize the strike
but propose to fill all places the came as !
they had discharged their former EN-
ployes.
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HELENA, Oct. 80. Special. The disastrous
wreck of two trains occurred last night at
Arlee on the Northern Pacific. Three engi-
neers were badly hurt, one having his ribs
broken. The injured are T. p O'Rourk,
John Fleming and one AL Sparks. Both
tra5 edouble headers. The accident
waso. VI the engineer of the West bound
No. Eese&Shen he reached Arlee his en-
gipe was almoat out of water and he
thought he had time 10 run down TO the
tank and take water before the other train
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ROME, Oct. 3l.-A FIRE broke out to-day
in that part of the Quirinal used for
storing furniture, but was extiuguished
before any serious damage was done.
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How Doctors Conquer Death.

Doctor walter X. Hammond saws; AFTER o
long experience have come 10 the conclu-
sion that two-thirds OF all deaths from coughs,
pneumonia and consumption might be avoid
ed II DIR. ACker's English Remedy for Con-
sum ptlou were ouly used In time" This WON
derful Remedy II sold under positive guar.
tee by Chas McNah, druggist.
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MARysvrILE, Gala. Oct. 81, Special
A young married woman named Jones,
one of a party of immigrants from Idaho,
was shot and killed by her 5.year old boy
last night. She discovered the boy play
ing with the revolver, and even as she
told him to put it down, the weapon was
discharged, the bullet penetrating the
woman's body. She died in few hours,
leaving baby only few months old
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To-day John d. Wilcox, editor Of tn
daily News. and Harry McIsaacs, wer
arraigned before Judge Stearns, to pleat
to the charge of an attempt to extor
money. from DR.. Francis M. Murray
Both defendants entered the plea OF no,
guilty. The case was continued unit
Saturday. These cases have attracts
much attention and have been the sourc
of great deal of public comment.
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Flood Improving.
HEIDELBERe, Oct. 3l.-Flood is i'm
proving.
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Take Itln Tinas.

For want OF . nail, shoe was lost; for
want OF q shoe. horse was lost; for want OF a
horse, y rider was lost F" Never neglect small
things. The hrst signs OF pneumonia and
cpn umpton can positively be checked by
DR.. uAcker's English Remedy for consump I.
Ion. Charles McNGb. druggist
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
ADDITIONAL. DISPATCHES.

DISPATCHES from the City Of Mexico
state that six of the eight men who re-
Gently burglarized the house of Mr. Bril-
lianti and secured $4,000 have been cap
tured, and $4,000 of the stolen money has
been recovered.
AN unknown boy tramp, about Is years
of age, was killed by a freight at Edge
field junction, near Nashville, Tenn, on
the 29th. Both legs and one arm were cut
off, and he died in an hour. He said his
name was Ryan, and that he came from
Cincinnati.
AFTER three days of rain it began snow
ing at st. Paul, Mimi, oD the 29th. Spe-
cials from st. Peter, Mimi, Yankton aud
Canton, OAK, report a damp snow at those
places. This is the latest snow OF any
spring for five years in South Dakota.
AT Castle Garden, New York, on the 29th,
$500 immigrants were landed.
WHILE the Cherokee authorities were
attempting to arrest Jack Hawk and Bill
Beaver, two celebrated outlaws, they re-
sisted and were shot dead after a long
fight from behind a barricade of horses.
They were two desperate characters, and
had long been wanted for murders cover
ing a series of years.
OKTrBDEHA COUNTY, Miss, on the 2Sth
failed to vote 5000 of her bonds to aid in
the extension of the Georgia Pacific. The
citizens of Starkvile are very much
wrought up over the matter, and for fear
that they will lose the road they will in
all probability either subscribe that
amount or vote another tax on the town.
TELEGRAMs from the northern cities of
Texas report exceedingly heavy rain
storms which have sweiled the rivers be-
yond their banks, inundated the bottoms
and almost swamped towns, causing a
great deal of damage to property and an
immense amount of good to crops.
In the neighborhood of Edwards, Miss,
there are 115 acres in tomatoes, and a still
larger number of acres in Irish potatoes,
peas, beans, cucumbers and other truck for
market.
JOINT stock company has been formed
at Jackson, Miss, for the navigation OF
Pearl river between that point and the
mouth, thence to New Orleans.
The announcement is made that Gen.
Joseph E. johnson, the highest in rank of
living officers of the Confederate Army,
was ON the 9th unanimously elected
an honorary member of E. d. Baker Post,
No. s., G.. A. r., of Philadelphia.
JOHN STEPHENS, yolng white man
| twenty three years of age, was arrested
at Memphis, Tenn, on the Goth for horse
stealing. The crime dates back two years
ago, when Stephens was employed ON the
farm of Peytop Jones. near Henning
station
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THE GASOLINE STOVE.

A Building Burned and Two Persons Gre
mated at Topeka by Gasoline Expio-
sion.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 2S-At 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Mary Mclaughlin,
aged six, daughter of james Mclaughlin,
tried to light gasoline stove but had no
sooner applied the match than an explosion
occurred and she and Annie Evans, agel
nineteen, a domestic, who was standing
near, were enveloped in flames. Every
effort was made to save the two but with
out avail. The house belonged to A. d.
Campbell and was occupied by his family
and that of Mclaughlin. The coroner
viewed the charred remains of the victims
last night but no inquest will be held The
position in which the bodies lay indi,
Gated that the servant had espefately
tried to save the little girl. Mrs Nc
Laughlin, the mother of the little girl, was
badly burned and lies in critical condi-
don. She ran out of the house enveloped
in flames. When the explosion happened
she attempted to return to the house to
rescue her child, but fell exhausted to the
ground. The house was new one and un-
finished. The partitions were paper and
temporary. The whole house seemed to be
on fire at once from the start. 1t was well
furnished There was no insurance, and
the loss to the owner, Campbell, will ex-
coed 50 OO0
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

LORD WoLsELEY, at a banquet to Sir
John Pender IN London recently, dsap-
proved the present army and navy system,
which he said would sooner or later land
the country in disaster Undoubtedly the
reason for this could be found i'll the
system of government by party, the curse
of modern England, which, he said, was
sapping the manly honesty formerly char
acteristic of her statesmen.
JUDGE SAMUEL ID. LECOMPTE died in Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the Ath, in his seventy
fourth year He was appointed Chief JUS
tlce of Kansas by President Pierce, and
presided ut the constitutional convention
ncld at Lecompton, whlchplace was named
after him.
TIE International Copyright bill was
again before the Senate on the 24th and
went over The House had the Tariff bill
under discussion.
THE body of Ex-Governor John L. Hoff
man arrived at New York on the oath on
the steamer Fulda, of the North German
Lloyd's line
THE Queen of England arrived at Char
lottenburg on the morning of the 24th and
Immediately visited the sick Emperor of
Germany. The latter rallied somewhat
after the interview, but relapsed again at
night.
TIE British Parliament has refused to
pass the Irish County Government bill TO
second reading.
CONFLICTING reports were current on the
25th regarding Hon. j. G. Blalne's health.
Walker Blaine emphatlcally denied that
his father was in any way sick, and said
that he went to Europe for pleasure and
not for the benefit of his health.
TIE Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
Arizona Republican conventions have
chosen Blaine delegates. The Texas dele
CATION will stand divided.
PARNELL recently expressed himself as
confident of Ir.sh home rule In the near
future.
EMPEROR FREDERICK was reported much
better by his physicians on the Goth. His
appetite was returning and his recovery
was thought probable.
QUEEN VICToRIA left Berlin for London
on the Goth.
THE Indiana Democrats have nominated
Courtland NJ. Matson for Governor Gray
was indorsed for the Vicc-Presidency.
HENRY GEORGE advocates Grover Cleve-
land for President and Roger Q. Mills for
Vice President.
THE Servian ministry resigned on the
eth, but new one was at once formed.
The birthday of the late General U. 5.
Grant was celebrated in New York and
other cities on the 9th.
PRINCE BISMARCK has declined the title
of Duke on the ground that he is not in a
position to support the dignity.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

JoUN THCRNwALD, prosperous farmer
living near Bismarck, OAK, claims to have
found very rich ore near the surface at a
point within twenty miles of Bismarck,
Oak.
A TORNADO the second one this year,
struck Pratt, Kan, on the evening OF the
26th Mrs. William Fisher was killed aud
many others seriously hurt.
MILE. DECO Miss Annie WILSON, had a
terrible fall from slack wire at Steuben-
vile, o., recently, during performance,
the apparatrs giving way. She was fatally
injured.
BENJAMIN s. ROBBINS, the assistant
United States district attorney at Denver,
Col, recently attempted suicide by Jabbing
knife in his neck. He was in a tit of de-
lirium at the time. He was from Kentucky,
where he had been State Sena.@r.
TIE contention over the foreign flag issue
in New York City was removed to Albany,
where bill was introduced IN the AS
sembly making it misdemeanor to raise
any foreign flag upon any building owned
by the State or by any city or village
therein. The bill created heated discus
sion and was voted down-l04 to 40
The Atlantic engine works at East Bos'
ton were burped recently. Loss heavy.
TIE Bank of Amigo iWis.) was robbed
of 81, 600 tho other day by some unknown
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner
DIR. MCMAsTER, a veterinary surgeon,
was fined in Washington recently for
docking" two horses tails belonging Ia
attaches Of the British Legation,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
GRANTS BIRTHDAY.
General sherman and Others Celebrate IL
w a ISani Iet ut DeIrdOnico's.

New YoRK, April 2S.-in tommemoration
OF the anniversary Of the birthday OF Gen
cral Grant an elaborate banquet was gwen
at DelmOnicOs last night The arrange
ments had been made by General W. 1.
Sherman and about 1J0 persons were
present, all parties and all ranks being
represented.
General W. T. Sherman presided otGr
the first table. On his right sat Chauncey
NJ Depew, the orator of the evening, and
on his left Mayor Abram S. Hewitt. The
others at the table were General William
Malone, General W. II. Seward, son OF
Lincoln's Secretary of State; Hon. George
w. Childs, Cyrus w. Field. Rev. John K.
Paxtoh,o Edwards Pierrepont, General
{. b. Comstock, w. c. Andrews,
Ssmuel Sloan, Captain W. w. Pax
ton and Albert Bierstadt. Among
others present we're. General Fitz
John Porter Colonel A. Louden Snowden
of Philadelphia, ID. o. Mills, General
Stewart L. Wo-drord, General Wager
Swayne, Colonel RI bert g. Ingersoll, Elliot
+. Shepard, Hon. Elihu Root and Herman
c. Armour.
Letters of ofregret were read from General
Joseph Z. Johnston, CelOnel John I. Mosby,
General James Longstreet and General
General Sherman, after an appropriate
address, introduced Mr.. Depcw, who de-
livered brilliant grafton. He compared
and contrasted President Lincoln and Gen
eral Grant and said that each was neees-
sary to the success of the other and both
10 the restoration of the Union. No other
soldier was so fitted for the work to be
done in the field and no other man than
President Lincoln would have had the
masterful stamina to withstand the de-
mands of the country for Grants with
drawaL The speaker touched upon the
generous recognition of General Sher-
mans great abilities evinced by Cen
eral Grant and of Grants interposi-
tion when President johnson wanted to
punish those who had been in rebellion. In
view of The association of his name with
the Repu blican Presidential nomination,
the following sentence from his speech
seemed significant: 1T is notable fact
that though we are the only purely indus
trial nation in the world, VIC have never
selected our rulers from among the great
business men of the country. And the
conditions and prejudice Of success present
insuperable Obstacles to such choice"
Other speeches were made by General
Malone Colonel II. G. Ingersoll, Judge
Pierrepont, General Noble, of Missouri
and others.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03

New York has another candidate IN
the person of Congressman Frank Z.
Hiscock. His boom is not vigorous,
and is not Likely to become so. Mr..
Hiscock has n record. He was Gree
ley man in 1872, and prominent anti
stalwart in the 1SS0-S2 period. Those
are flies enough to settle his case.
Vermont has Edmunds, but nobody
dreams of urging his name seriously
again. Aside from his lack of nearly
all the qualities that make Presi-
Dental candidate run well with the
people, Edmunds sulked in his tent
while Blaine was being beaten in 1884
and indulged in some icy chuckles over
that event. That will never be forgiven
by the controlling Blaine men. Ed
munds is buried in flies.
Connecticut has n favorite son in
General Hawley, man of great merits,
both personally and politically. But
then General Hawley's record includes
among other things, a fatal stand on
the Chinese question. The Pacific
States will never ratify such q nomina-
ton at the polls General Hawley,
too, is mortally afflicted with flies.
The whole list of Republ lean entries
can be gone over without disclosing
the names Of any man who has the
power to draw votes to any considerable
extent, and who, at the same time, IL
not handicapped by some weakness,
either of personality, position OF
record.
There are flies on them all.-BoSton
EIoBo
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
COMMENT AND CRITICISM.

The men who insist on the irreg-
ular admission of a revolutionary frag-
ment of Dakota us State are the men
who are keeping Dakota out.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
1t is announced that Mr.. Blaine
will have the nomination thrown at
him whether he wants it or not Ii so,
he will stand behind the bat ready to
catch it hot from the pitcher. Boston
Globe.
Judge Thurman is advanced in
years, but he seems TO be yet equal to
a good deal of work. Why shouldn't
the Democrats put him back into har-
ness, brains. bandana, rheumatism,
and all. -SaUaRnah NeiCS.
Mr.. John Sherman has been in
receipt of a salary of s., 900, with
brief interval of $8, 600. for genera
ton. Out of that accumulating sala-
~ Mr.. Sherman has succeeded in saw
ing two or three millions of dollars
~ Y. Sun.
Oregon has held her Republican
the Chicago convention. Oregon has
a great financial head. The rolling of
barrels thitherward will begin at once.
and the Oregonians will have the fresh
tap Chicago Times.
Abraham Lincoln died twenty
three years ago. He lived long enough
to immortalize himself, but not long
enough to give any lasting life to the
party he made temporarily possible
through his own honesty and patriot
ism. Louis Republican.
The Democrats of York County.
Pa, have made mistake. They have
dignified Senator Ingalls, attack upon
Hancock by a formal denunciation. lt
would have been better to have left it
to the silent contempt of the people
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If the Republican party wishes
to go into the campaign with hope OF
success, it must turn its face to new
chieftain. That is the hard common
sense of the situation which those Re-
publicans who are prone to respond to
their emotions rather than to their
judgment must begin. to consider. -
Philadelphia Bulletin (Rep.).
Although ostensibly plea for
independence in politics, James Rus
sell Lowell's New York speech must
be recognized as = plea for the re-
nomination of Cleveland and decla-
ration of the willingness of the indie
pendents to march under his Lanner
and stand on platform Of Civil
Service and Revenue reform. accord
ing to his exposition. = l'astisgto's
Critic
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
FATAL WRECK,
A Fatal Wreck on the Bui lingtOn Road in
Nebraska.


OMAHA, Neb., April 2S.-Thcre was quite
a serious wreck on the Burlington q Mis-
souri, River two miles from Alma, Neb.,
about six o'clock yesterday morning. The
smoker, daY car and Kansas City Pullman
were precipltatcd into Rope creek, which
had been swollen by rains that had weak
cned the bridge. The engine, baggage and
express cars passed over safely The Gu
gine broke loose from the others. The ex-
press cat turned over and caught fire and
burned. The baggage was all burned.
The mail was soaked, and the smoker
and day car, telcscoped and broken IN
pieces, are now lying IN the bed of the
creek. Twelve persons in the day car and
smoker were badly burned. The ucad are:
$. A. Towns and wife, Grand Rapids, Mich,
Mrs. Towns was taken out of the creek
alive, but died at Alma; G. f. Eaton, Lin
coin, travelling man from Kansas City, is
not expected to live. Conductor Oiell was
severely cut on the head and internally
injured; a brakeman was cut on the
head; Edward Defenbaugh, of Adelphi,
o., was seriously injured; NJ. c. Kirby, OF
Montreal, was cut on the head. The
wounded are all at Alma, and all doing
well, except Eaton. An inquest will be
held to-day.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03
VEXED BY VOORHEES,.
An Alleged Scheme to Defeat the Springer
Oklahoma ISiII.

WASHINGTON, April 21,-The House Pub
lie Lands Committee at their meeting yes
terday morning ameded Senate bill 1851 by
attaching the Public Land Strip known as
No-Man's- Land to New Mexico, instead Of
Kansas and for a land Office to be estab-
lished in the strip and the appointment of
a register and receiver. This is the Voor-
hees town site scheme and the parties back
of it think they are throwing the public off
the track by this amendment. Their pur-
pose is TO pass it through the House as
amended and thus get it before an accom-
modating conference committee, where 1t
will be juggled into its original form as it
passed the Senate, which attaches the
Public Land Strip TO Kansas. or course
the Interior object Of this conspiracy is to
defeat the passage Of the Oklahoma bill,
but Mr.. Springer and the other friends Of
this latter measure are fully advised of the
facts and prepared to thwart this scheme,
which is being engineered b. Senator
Voorhees, and other Senators.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03

MANY of the leading importers, man.
ufacturers and merchants in the woolen
goods trade met at New York on the
oath and organized an association.
The scope of the association is to reg
ulate terms and discount in the sale OF
goods, and it is probable that prices to
iobbers and the retail trade will be
greatly advanced. The new organiza-
ton, il is said. will take the form of a
trust, efforts being made to compel all
dealers to enter the combination.
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DAkOTA'S DIVISION.
senator Spooner's Self Evident and High
IyTransparent IIumbu..

ly-Transpare mt HumDus.
The humbuggery of partisan poll.
tics is we'll illustrated by the speech of
Senator Spooner OH the question OF
Dakota's division into two or three
Republican States. MIR. Spooner spoke
for the Republican party-the same
party whose spokesmcn for fifteen
years past have held up as one of the
bugaboos of Democratic success that
Texas would be cut up into four
Democratic States. Contemplating
the self-same scheme by the Repub-
licans of Dakota-as real in this case
as it was chimerical in the other, Mr.
Spooner declares that the country
wants no more big States like Texas.
They are too big. 1t must have more
small States-the more the better il
the material out of which they are to
be constructed is Republican. Three
months from now, neither SpoOner
nor any of his associates will be will
ing to assert that Texas is too large.
I'm the heat of the Presidential cam
paign they will be ready to swear that
Texas is just the right size for State,
and that the dcmouiacal Democrats
who want to cut it up into half a
dozen States should be suppressed by
the troops.
As in the matter of rebel claims,
the thing which Republicans in fine
frenzy have assumed that the Demo-
Gratis would do, they themselves have
sought to do. They predicted Demo-
cratic schemes to divide Texas for
political purposes. They are then-
selves the hackers of bill to divide
Dakota with less reason, for the same
purpose. Chicago Herald.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-03

The entire Texas Congressional
delegation, headed by Senator Coke,
called upon President Cleveland re-
Gently and presented an invitation to
attend, with Mrs. Cleveland, the OPEN
ing and dedication of the new State
Capitol at Austin. The President said
he could not give a definite answer,
but might possibly be able to go to