The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-22

| A DISASTROUS fire occurred IA a art
building occupied by Atkins, Ogd"', < Co.
and another firm at Milwauk"n, WIS, on
| the 18th. The loss amounted to $50 CE.
during the fire wall fell on several fire
men, killing two and injuring several more.
NEAR Cotton, Cal, on the Southern Pa
cific, the other night, a freight train was
derailed by running into some cattle and
Conductor Maguss and Brakeman Van
Mater were killed. The wreck took fire
aud seventeen cars loaded with freight
were burned
DISPATCH from the British Northwest
says: Last spring it was reported that
owing to hunger during the previous win
ter several cases of cannIbalism had oc-
Cured at Little Red river, or Peace river,
below VermillIon. 1t now turns out that
the cannlbalism was not caused by hunger,
but was the work Of q woman who had
turned "wehtigo" several years ago, and
who has since killed and eaten twelve per-
| sons
| A WEDDING party Of sixteen persons, re-
| turning from church at NeuzatZ, Hungary,
the other day, started to cross the ice on
| the Danube in carriages. When half way
across the ice gave way and the entire
party were drowned.
AT the regular meeting OF the Bank of
| England directors on the 18th, Mr.. Jones,
one OF the governors Of the bank, referred
to Mr. GOschen's plan of the conversion Of
| the public debt by means OF gradual re-
duction OF interest as a scheme less honor.
able than the Irish plan of campaign, and
he called it an outrageous attack upon the
rights OF property.
REV EUGENE PECK, Presbyterian
minister, was killed at Washington re-
Gently by locomotive while walking on q
| track.
THREE women were reported murdered in
New York on the 18th. Michael Sheehy
while drunk, Drained his wife with poker,
and Frederick Schilling stabbed his W fe
in the abdomen with a butcher knife
Frederick Carlin, a worthless, drunken fel-
| low, hacked his mistress head to pieces
| with hatchet.
| julius HAAK, ali enterprlsing and highly
respect able citizen, was drowned in the
Brazos river at his plantation eight miles
east of Belleville, Tex, recently.
A H. DANFoRTH president of the Colo
RADIO Coal Il Iron Company and Charles
Brade, formerly purchasing agent for the
same company, have been arrested and
placed under bonds for unlawfully cutting
timber on the public lands. The timber
HoUsToN ROBERTS and Samuel Williams
were killed from ambush near Goldthwaite,
Tex, recently. News has also been re
celved that another man was shot and his
horse killed.
TIE Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the recent annexation of Hyde
Park to Chicago, adding $1,000 to the lat
| ter's population, is unconstitutional.
| Coil 20 or ha
seven days ended March Is, numbered for
the United States, 2O2; for Canada, 26;
total. 22S, compared with 253 the previous
week aud 2S2 for the corresponding week
last year.
| The house Of Ulrich Raux, a carpenter
Of Ste. Sophie, Can, was destroyed by fire
the other night Raux's three children
and his wife. the latter Of whom was an
invalid and bedridden, were in the building
and were burned to death.
A sNowPLow pushed by four engines
jumped the track at Sharon, N. Y, on the
10th. killing Thomas Feeny, conductor,
George Fowler, engineer, Charles Orbon,
brakesman, and Thomas Reilly, fireman.
and injuring Thomas Bower, j. D. Cameron.
Engineer Luther Gates and Fred Strong,
fireman. The four engines and the ploW
were completely demolished.
The other morning powder MIL at
Gad's Station, O., exploded with terrific
force, leaving nothing of the structure,
only hole in the ground. Fred Therman,
the only person about the mill, was blown
some distance and burned from head to
foot in horrible manner He died three
hours later.
A BOX Of dynamite exploded at the roll
ing mill at Joliet, Ill, recently, blowing
William NJ. Green, who was In charge OF
the dynamite, TO pieces.