The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-19


Ohio penitentiary recently fdr the murder
of his former sweetheart, Alice HancOx, at
Youngstown March q, 1881.
A TERRIBLE storm was reported Oft the
New England coast on the night of the
18th. MANY wrecks occurred, accompanied
with loss of life.
THE crop prospects in India are said to
be improving with the cessation Of the
drought All fear OF a famine has passed
away except In Orrissa, where the drought
still prevails.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, Africa,
of the 18th SAYS that the Zeebers coal
mine at Kimberly had caught fire and five
hundred miners were entOmbed and
thought to have perished.
HENRY NJ. IVES has been indicted by the
Hamilton County (O.) grand jury. What
the offense was the court authorities re-
fused to tell.
john ZACHAR, the Caledonia CWis.) al
legged faster, after an abstentlon from food
for fifty-three days, is reported to have
again started his feed mill.
FRED REMINGTON, an artist on Hdrper'S
Weekly, who had been sketching mountain
scenery, took morphine recently with sui
cidal intent, and died at Trinidad, Col.
Unrequited love was thought to have
caused the rash act.
GOVERNOR MoREHOUsE gave Maxwell.
who was to have been hanged at st. Louis
on the 18th for the murder Of Prellcr, n
respite of thirty days, but refused any
communication of sentence.
A DUEL between Minister Floquet and
General Boulanger occurred near Paris ON
the 18th. The General was quite seriously
wounded in IKE neck. Floquet was only
scratched.
MCHCGH, mayor of Sligo, Ireland, and
editor of the Sligo ChdnpioH, was arrested
recently on a charge of publishing land
grabbing articles which advocated intimi-
dation and melted to violence. He was re-
leased on bail.
JOSEPH WELLS and his twin sister, Mrs.
Margaret Kelly. while returning to their
home in TOminson. near Little Rock, Ark,
in a buggy, attempted to ford a stream
when they were caught in the current and
drowned. The bodies were recovered.
Mrs. RAwsoN, who attempted to kill At
torney Whitney in court room in Chi
cagO some time ago, has been released on
bail.
TERRIBLE suff erng is reported in the
lOwlands of West Virginia as a result of
the recent floods. Over 500 persons are in
need of the necesSares of life.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven DAYS ended July l. number for
the United States, PIG; Canada, n; total
2l0: compared with 2li the previous week
and 119 the corresponding week last year.
THE residence of the Queen of Servia
was raided by German police at Wies-
baden on the 18th and the Crown Prince
forcbly taken from her. Much sympathy
was expressed for her on account of this
harsh proceeding.
CHIEF PIAH, the once notorious chief of
the renegade Utes in North Park Col, has
ended his career by suicide. The old In
dat shot himself on the old Navajo trail,
about thirty-six miles south of the agency,
about six weeks ago.
THERE were rumOrs at Helena, Mont, on
the 18th that an eastern bound passenger
train went through the Rosebud river
bridge, on the Northern Pacific, and that
thirty persons were drowned.
Two hundred natives and twenty five
whites were killed in the recent mine dis
aster at Kimberly, South Africa.
THE mail train east on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck and instantly killed Mrs.
James Crusan and her nine year old
daughter Annie near Latrobe, Pa, re-
ceHIIy'
THE window glass workers and manu-
facturers of the East have compromised on
last years scale with the understanding
that the two should work together to regu-
late prices.
DILLON, GRANT & Co., retail dry goods
merchants of Louisville, KY, have as
signed with $25, 900 liabilities.
THE Journal de 50. Petersburg denies
that the Russian Government is about to
issue another lean.