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

MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND was elected
president of the Eastern Alumni Assoca-
tion of Wells College at the annual meet
ing of the association in New York, She
was graduate OF the college.
NJ. FLoQUEr succeeded in forming a new
French Cabinet to follow that Of Mr.
Tirard, defeated over a constitutional
question having reference to the case of
General Boulangcr.
TIE Maryland Legislature has repealed
the charter of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Employees Relief Association, to take
effect N one year.
ELECTIONS were held generally through
out Illinois on the Sd, but as rule there
was no special feature. In Galesburg two
of the striking engineers Of the Burlington
road were elected aldermen and the ticket
favored by the strikers was generally sue
cessful.
THE Ohio Senatorial Committee investi-
gating the charges of alleged bribery on
the part OF certain members, has made a
report completely generating the mem
bers, and the report was adopted.
EX-ATTORNEY-GENERA BENJAMIN H.
BREWSTER died at Philadelphia on the
4th. He was born in Salem County, n.
j., in 1916. From 1865 to 1869 he was At
torney General of Pennsylvania, and in
1851 he was chosen by President Arthur to
be Attorney General of the United States,
continuing in this Office for four years. 1t
was under his administration that the fam
Gus star route trials were brought to their
conclusion.
RETURNS on the 4th indicated the election
OF Taft, Republican, for Governor of Rhode
Island by 1000 to 1900 majority. The
State election went Republican by about
1900 on the general ticket and the Repub
licans had sweeping victory on the Legs-
lature
MAJOR GENERAL ALFRED II. TERRY has
been placed on the retired list of the army.
This was in accordance with the report of
the army retiring board, of which Major
General Schofeld was president.
JACOB SHAR", the Broadway surface rail-
way bOodler awaiting u new trial. died at
New York on the 9Th.
THERE were reports, we'll authenticated,
in Berlin on the 5th that Prince Bismarck
had resolved upon resigning the Chancel-
lorship, owing to a disagreement with the
Emperor who wanted to marry his daugh-
ter, Princess Victoria, to Prince Alexander,
of Battenburg late of Bulgaria. The news
of Bismarck's proposed resignation created
great excitement.
a horse at Oak View which had run away
with it's rider, lady in the newspaper
business.
WILLIAM TAYLOR KELLOGG, the last but
one OF the associates Of Horace Greeley in
the founding of the Tribune in 1910, died at
Birmingham, Conn, recently, aged seventy
two. He was a veteran compositor.
The President has approved the act
granting a pension to Mary s. Logan,
widow Of General John A. Logan, and the
act to increase the pension OF Mrs Apo
lima A. Blair.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate Brigadier-Gen-
eral George Crook to be Major-General; !;
Colonel John r. Brooks, OF the Third in
fantry to be Brigadier General.
THE Italian Cabinet has decided to stop
military operations in Africa during the
summer. A special colonial corps will re-
main at Massowah and the rest Of the
troops will return to Italy.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
KANSAS DEMOCRATS.
The State Central Committee Decide UpOr
Wichita. May II. for Choosing National
Delegates ard Lea-snworthi July 4, For
the state Convention.

The state Central Committee Decide Upor
Wichita. May II. FOR Choosing National
Delegates ard Lea-snworthi July 4, Fot
the state Convention.
LEAvENwOKTH, Kan, April 6,-The Dem
cratic State Central Committee met here
yesterday for the purpose Of fixing thl
time for holding the Democratic State con-
vention to select delegates to the National
convention and to nominate candidates for
State offices. There was nearly full rep
resentation, only four or five of the thirty
odd members beng absent. The meeting
was called to order by Chairman Carroll.
Mr. Dale, of Wichita, presented his city
as the place for holding the convention for
the selection Of delegates to the National
convention and it was selected unanimous
ly The time set was May II at eleven
O'clock.
The committee suggested to the county
committees to hold their conventions not
later than May D
For the convention to nominate State
officers, George Click spoke in glowing
terms for Abilene. Mayor Neely presented
the claims of Leavenworth and was sec.
onded by Ed Carroll. A vote being taken
Is were for Leavenworth and 9 for Abilene.
The vote for LeavenwOrth was made unani-
nous. The time fixed for holding the con.
vention was Wednesday, July 4, at twelve
o'clock. Tnc basis OF representation was
fixed at one delegate for every 200 votes
cast for Lieutenant-G Governor in 1856 anC
one for every fraction of 100 and over
The following resolution was unanimously
passed
The Democratic State Central Committee
Kansas lndorSc without reserve the Admins
tratiOn Of President Cleveland. His course has
been manly, wise just and patriotic. They com
mend TO the appreciation OF all citizens, his cf
forts TO remove abuses, to restore economy tC
revive a reverend respect for the Constitution,
to reduce the taxation, to reform the tariff TO
remove sectional animosities, to guard the
treasury against unwarranted appropriations OF
the public money, and to restore the simple
method OF government practiced by the fathers.
The debt which the people owe him is great
as to imperatively demand his denomination and
re e-election.
The committee adjourned subject to the
call OF tho chairman.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
Some Decrease Reported In Business--Fall-
ures For the Week.


NEW YORK, April 7.-BrGdStrectS in its
review of the week, says Special tele
grams to BrddStreefs report some decrease
in the total volume of merchandise dlstrib
uted early in the week, with moderate
gains since. The weather throughout the
country has been warmer and more season
able, and wagon roads west and south are
easier to travel, which fact has stimu.
lated freer movement of grain and stock
to the market. One effect of the latter is
seen in declines of 10c per 100 pounds In
prices of hogs at Omaha and OF 15
to 30c at Kansas City. Business is smaller in
volume at New Orleans than had been eX-
pcctcd, and is fair only at st. Joseph, Gin
cinnati, Sioux City and Galveston. The
raising of the Burlington freight boycott
has helped trade Northwest, notably at
Chicago. Funds do not show signs of in
creasing stringency at leading financial
centers, with few exceptions, and rates on
call and time are not materially changed.
Our total of bank clearings of thirty-two
cities for March is - per cent. less than
last year, 10 per cent. less than in 1886 and
"a per cent greater than in 1885
At New York the March decline was lG
per cent. against 1887, and IS per cent.
against 1885, The New York stock market
is active and excited.
Money is slightly easier at , to 2l6 on call
Foreign exchange is lower on offering Of
security bills.
Reports of business failures number l47
in the United States this week, against 230
last week and lS2 this week last year.
The total of failures in the United States,
January TO date, is 200, against 8, ,326 in
1887
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
FLOOD IN THE MISSOURI
The Big Muddy on "A Trar-Great Damage
Above sioux city,

piorH CtTr. Iowa, April 6-The food on
the Mrs. esouri friut diatcis above Sioux City
hAs been he highest ana me 81 sas'fGus
shcc tie memorials irundatioH OF the
spring of 1851. The region inundated is the
low ground on the Dakota side abOTc the
Sinr= river. During the breakup q the
ice two wcens HSu an Imm gorge
formed in the curved channel CT tho Mis-
souri, below Elk Point. A dam was formed
and the whole cxpanse Of low country
overiiowcd. In every direction for miles
the whole country was under water. ElE
Point was q diminuivc island in vast sea
of angry waters. The country there is
th,Clily cat,lad AMI many farmers had al
ready moved theft I've stoek to the bluffs
just below Elk Point the county authgrl4
ties have dug an i.rnense ditch along the
liro OF the !oAtsi depression, northcasterly
toward the Sioux river, to carry on Hood
waters This ditch carries Fl JOd Of waters
with great violence into the Sioux river
above the St. Paul railroad bridge. There
was thus a vast river several miles wide
sweeping across the low lands. 1t plowed
out the ditch and threatened 10 change
the channel OF the Missouri in conformity
with il; tore away fences, hag stacks,
small outbuildings and every thing IL its
way
Ii is now learned from Superintendent
BcarGslev, OF the Milwaukee Company,
that about four miles Of the railroad track
was washed out this side OF Elk FONT. The
vlolence Of The current Utay be Inferred
from the fact that about mile and quar-
ter of the track, including fal!road ties
and iron, has been carried two miles away
from the roadbed and left in the fields.
The Sioux river, swollen by the flood wa
ters of the Missouri, rapidly accumulated
great mass Of driftwood and ice against
the ra,lrcad bridge. The pressure was
sufficient to movs the bridge three feet
and would have swept the structure en-
tirely away but for the precautions taken
by the railroad company. However, 1t
will take two weeks to repair the damage
Tuesday night The gorge, which caused
all the trou bic, suddenly broke. The con
fined food rushed down the stream like a
rate hurss ana with an ominous roaring
sound The rise here was ten feet II less
than ten hours and the lower part Of the
city was threatened. Yesterday the tivct
fell some, but IT is still very high Above,
in the region Of Elk Point, the water still
stands deep on the low grounds and 1t will
be many days before it can Ue drained on.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

IT is stated that Claus Spreckcls, the
California sugar King, has decided to
build refinery in Philadelphia, 1t is
understood that 50, ,O00,O0 capital will
be put into the enterprise, all to be
supplied by Mr.. Sprcckcls himself, and
that contracts for the erection, ma
chinery, etc, will be placed in few
days. The capacity of the proposed
refinery Is put at 1000 barrels, or 2o0,-
600 pounds per day, The cost of the
plant has been stated as $4,000, 900,
and the annual output as $50, 600, coo.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad that was chartered year ago
is making its plans for building the road
from a point on the Mississippi river
opposite New Madrid to Humbolt, Tenn.
AN organization of veteran soldiers and
sailors, Of New York, which terms itself
the Veteran Association of the Regular
Army and Navy of the United States, has
recently been agitating the matter of
securing bounty land and means for inn
proving the same from the Government.
THE outlook for grain in Kansas is said
to be magnificent.
NEAR Summerset, KY, Abe Clay, a
negro, was fatally shot on the night of the
Sth, by Miss Jasper, a wealthy old maid.
Clay with brother, went to the residence
of Miss Jasper about II O'Clock at night
and tried to gain admittance. Miss Jasper
refused to admit them and they attempted
to burst down the door and Miss Jasper
fired through the door at them.
THE Riverside Creamery of Macon,
Miss, has just closed its first years busi-
ness. In that time it has made and sold
$4,000 pounds of as fine butter as can be
made anywhere. The price obtained has
mand has far exceeded the quantity made
SAMUEL w. BROOKS, father of Hugh NJ.
Brooks, alias w. II. l.. Maxwell, has
written long and touching appeal to the
American people to help him save his boy
from the gallows.
AT Lexington, KY, ON the Sth, Tom
Waltz, colored, assaulted a white man
named Leroy Smith, and cut his head off
with a razor or pruning knife.
SEVERAL hundred thousand feet Of lum-
Der was burned at McNeilps Mills,
eighteen miles south of Little Rock, Ark,
on the Sth. The loss will run away up in
the thousands.
REV. DIR. PRIDGEoN, 81 years old,
preached his own funeral on the Sth in a
small country church near Athens, Ga.
He had his grave dug and a coffin made
for the occasion. lie and his assistants
sang the song, "Shall We Gladly Meet"
He then gave his text, second Corinthians,
eighth verse, and gave the large crowd q
short talk in a very faltering manner.
jim POWELL, who is wanted for making
counterfeit half dollars in Conway county,
Ark, is in Jail at Little Rock. Powell
served a two-years' term at Detroit for
this crime, and returned last year aud
went at his old business and was found
with a complete set of counterfeiter's
tools.
FIVE miners were taken to Chattanooga,
Tenn, on the eth from South Pittsburg,
Tenn, and locked up in Jail on a charge of
larceny. They were examined by the
jailor and five dynamite cartridges were
found on them. Every man was taken out
of his cell and examined separately, The
discovery caused q sensation.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
DEMOCRATIC NUGGETS.

What a handsome pair of jump
ing-iacks Foraker and Boulanger
would make. -PhiIadelphta Times.
-Bctter confess, Mr.. ingalls,, that
YOU made mistake, and that you are
sorry. - Chicago Trit,me (Rcp.).
The Democratic party is en-
barked heart and soul in the rcdemp-
ton of the people from the spoliation
of monopoly, and woe to those who
get in its way!-N. y Star.
William B. Allison's boom re-
sembles that OF John Sherman. 1t is
of delicate texture. and is not much
bigger than the string which is tied to
it.-Chicaqo Herald
Senator ingalls, has not apollo
gized yet. New England Brahmins of
the strictest sect who have been
through course of training us Kansas
Jayhawkers rarely apologize. ST.
Louis Republican,
Perhaps it was an accident. but
any way it wrs unkind in the Chicago
Tribune to print picture of ingalls,
and Immediately underneath to insert
the advertisement of q worm medicine.
Omaha Herald
With Foraker, Gresham, Depew
and Harrison rapidly gaining ground
in Ohio the spectacle of old John Sher-
man brooding over his Presidential
boom reminds one strongly OF Marius
sitting disconsolate amid the ruins of
Carthage. - Chicago Ne~s.
-Ex-Sanator Thurman made some
very vigorous remarks in the tally"
sheet forgery trial, and he spoke tho
simple truth when he said the Demo-
cratic party of Ohio neither defended
that crime nor was responsible for it,
,-C!erelaaa PlaiadsG!sr.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

MAYOR HEWITT has written an i'm
portant letter to George b. Sloan,
chairman of the State Senate Finance
Committee. In it he alludes to Il COM
munication which he sent to the Gov
ornor, inclosing a report from the
Academy of Medicine referring to the
condition of the quarantine establish
ment at New York. He invites the
immediate attention of the committee
to the subject. and speaks of the dan
ger of an outbreak of cholera in the
city. The quarantine establishment is
in a dilapidated condition, and the ap-
pliances are inadequate. He urges
the Legislature to appropriate the
necessary amount, 100000, at once,
to make the requisite repairs and addi-
tions, and says if the State is unwill-
ing to do this, the city will do it at
once if the control of the quarantine be
transferred to the Board of Health,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

TIE Treasury Department reports Il
net decrease in the circulation during
March past amounting to $3,166,51+.
On April l, compared with March l,
there was Il decrease in the circulation
of gold com amounting to 1888, 434; in
standard silver dollars, 1929, ,349; in
subsidiary silver, S204,759; in gold GER
tificates, 1913. 964; in United States
notes, 1903, $50; in National bank
notes, S1,525. 159, and an increase in
the circulation of silver certificates
amounting to S7,073,7S6. The treas
my money and bullion fund was in
creased Sc, 6,096,673 during March, and
the issue of National bank notes aggre-
gated 1855, $50, and the redemptions
amounted to So. 412, $50.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
What Mrs. Hendricks Wants.

Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the late
Vice-President, complains that she has
been grossly misrepresented in re-
cent interview. crediting her with CEN
suring the Democratic party because
it had not procured pension for her,
She has been severely criticised by the
press, and in defense of herself she has
prepared statement, in which she
says; Il never at any time felt or ex-
pressed myself rs complaining that the
widows of General Logan and General
Blair should receive pensions. No
such sentiment was ever expressed by
me- Indeed. l am reioiced to know
that these ladies are likely to receive
pensions, 1t is a great mistake that l
ever alluded to pension for myself.
| have thought, and SO expressed my
self, that the Government should give
me the salary that would have been
lue my husband. II is in the abun-
liant United States Treasury, and, rs l
m told, is drawn by no one. IN.
IGEapcii5 Letter,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

GEORGE ALLEN, of Aiken, S. c., died
recently of voluntary starvation. He
was in prosperous circumstances, but
had been for some time sufferer from
Il complaint of the stomach, every thing
he ate causing him terrible pain. He
refused all medicine and decided to
cure the disease by starving it out. He
began starving himself and for thirty
seven days nothing but water entered
his stomach. He then became uncon-
scious and his family began giving him
stimulants in small quantities, but it
was too late, and he died on the thirty
ninth day of his fast. He was we'll ed
ucated and sixty years of age.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
OF LOWLY BIRTH.
Contemptuous Iiings at the Chief Glory
of American Citizenship.

Contemptuous filings at the Chief Glory
of American Citizenship.
The Democratic party can ask moth
ing better than q general adoption by
Republicans of the tactics in favor
with Ingalls, Dollivcr Foraker and
other orators or the opposition. When
these mon snccr at the humble origin
of Grover Cleveland they east reproach
upon the chief glory of American cit
izenshlp. Had his beginnings been
more obscure than they were there
would have been nothing in the fact
on which to base the contemptuous
filings now so popular in some circles
The American roll Of honor is long
one. but it contains the names OF few
men who at birth were not poor and
apparently not in the line of fame or
greatness.
As matter of fact, however, Grover
Cleveland was respectfully born. He
was reared in an honest, industrious
and intelligent American family. He
came OF to manhood rs hundreds OF
thousands of Americans have done. and
went about his life work dcccntly and
quietly. When called to public place
he discharged his duties with fidelity.
and nothing in his career is more cred
table to himself and to the American
system than the fact that his promo
ton was so rapid as to excite the
wrath of lifelong postulants for place
and pelf
Grover Cleveland has never been in
vestigated by Congress. John James
ingalls, can not say as much. - Chicago
DoruIJ
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
eLAINE'S HENCHMAN.
HaIe's BuncOmbe Committee and What
II VIII Accomplish.


Senator Hale" Blaine's little bub,
rs Hon. =. S Cox once dubbed him
has gotten up committee of the
United States Senate to inquire into
alleged violations of the Ciyil-Servicc
rules by United States oflice-holders.
This committee is to 60 a-tishing for
buncombc for the Republican Prcsi-
Dental campaign. When the Rcpub-
licans were in power III the Executive
department Of the Government and
the Jay Hubbclls and William j.
Chambers were levying blackmail up
on the clerks and other Federal Off
cials, and Commissioner Dudley, OF
the Pension Office, had his special
agents out over the country to intimi-
date and bribe claimants to pensions,
and every oflice-hOlder under the
United States was active in season and
out of season in promoting the success
Of the Republican party, Senator Hale
sat quiet in his seat and if any Demo-
cratic Senator opened his lips to pro-
test he was the first 10 pooh-pooh and
ridiculc the idea that the Civil-Scrvicc
rule had been infringcd. But 1t Is
different now. Senator Hale imagines
that his OK is gorcd, and he is deter
mined to defend and protect his OK.
Well, let tic little buncombe-
monger crack his whip. He will prob
ably get more than he bargains for.
The sore headed fellows who have lost
their offices and are his informants will
appear TO poor advantage in most
cases ~hcn they arc subjected to rigid
cross-examlnation. They will proba-
bly have their memories refreshed as
to what occurred in the way OF viola
ton If the Civil-Servicc rules when
they were n Office under a Republican
Administration. Their own incapacltJ
and shortcomings in many instances
will be exposed. Their activity as par
tisans will be recalled to the recollec-
tion of the public. The assessments
that were levied upon them by Repub-
lican committees will be called to
mind Even Senator Hale's own cam
paigns for Congress may get an over
hauling. Meanwhile Democratic otll-
cial7 will be able to show that Repub-
lican sub0rdinates have been retained
in office to a generous degree and that
the Republican rule OF political ostra-
cism has not been followed as rigidly
as fair retaliation would have re-
quired.
Come on. Mr.. Hale, come On.-Har-
rtsJtrg (Pa.) Patriot.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
A SENSATIONAL cIopemcnt occurre,

A SENSATIONAL elopement occurred
at Wilkesbarre. Pa, recently. A
butcher named Joseph Tradiski, who
had been very prominent in Polish
circles, eloped with Mrs, Volvavitch,
the widow of the murderer who was
hanged at Wilkesbarre three days pre-
viously. They had been engaged since
the conviction of Volvavitch, last Sep
tcmber, and agreed to get married on
the night of the execution, but public
opinion was so strong they were afraid
to defy it. The woman took with her
the watch and chain stolen by her late
husband from the body of his victim,
John Bidsky.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
The Color Line OuestIon.

TOPEKA, Kan, April "a molten was
made in the Supreme Court yesterday TO
advance the case of Buford Crawford by
Robert Crawford, his next friend. against
the Board of Education in the city of FIT.
Scott. This is the case involving the ques-
tion of the right OF the colorei ch ildren of
Ft Scott TO enter the public schools in
common with the white children. The
motion was made on the ground of the i'm
portance OF the issues of statutory and
constitutional law involved, touching the
freedom OF the Kansas common schools
and their equality of rights in the enjoy
ment of the system. The court took the
matter under advisement,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

CONSIDERABLE commotion and excite
ment was manifested IN the court room at
Nacogdoches, Tex, recently by the sudden
death of Malinda Garrett, who was giving
testimony against her husband in a divorce
suit. The superstitious thought it was a
visitation from the Almighty, owing to the
impression that her story was false. She
dropped dead instantly.
THREE children are reported to have died
at Springfield, o., from drinking water
out Of well into which poisoned rats had
been thrown,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

Two new theaters about to be opened
in Berlin, are named "Thcater of the
Living aud "Theatcr of the Dead. ="
The theater where classical works are
to be played will be called the Les
sing Theatcr, while the Grown Prince
Thcater' will be the name given to the
thcatcr reserved for the production of
.liNeN nlaNs.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12

TIE beautiful daughter of a Russian
army officer rented room in Moscow
recently, but directly she had taken
possession of it the police appeared
and forced the door, when she jumped
from the window and was mortally in
jurcd. Her trunk contained dynamite
bombs, which on investigation, were
intended for the purpose of assaSsinat.
ing the Gar.