The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-01
NIISCELLANEOLS.

Wis. col apscd recently from the heavy
weight Of snow on tue roof. Four work
men who were engaged IN converting the
rink into stores were killed or fatally in-
lured.
MPXICAN troops had skirmish with
YaquI Indians in the Bucaled mountains
recently Ten Indians were killed. The
Mex icans lost two.
WILLIAM MCMAsTERs Of Brooklyn. N. Y,
who had been directed by his physician to
use an electric ba terry for heart disease,
dropped dead the other night when he
turned the current ON.
FATHER KENNEDY and eight farmers have
been convicted and sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for attending meet
ing of "a suppressed branch of the National
League ut Newmarket.
The plan of campaign victory near
Loughrea, Ireland, was celebrated with
boufires. Sir Henry Bourke has granted
twenty-five per-censs Fes uction to his ten
ants, paws he legal cost, reinstates evIcted
tenants and pays the cost Of their maInten-
auCe since eviction.
AT recent session of the Electric Light
convention at Pittsburgh Pa, paper on
Underground Electric Arc Light Wires"
was read by Wells w. L,ggett, of Detroit.
feasible to bury telephone, telegraph or
even incandescent wires, no system had or
probably ever would be adopted which
would solve the question of burying arc
lights underground.
BY the will of Seth Wadham, of Chicago,
$50, 900 each Is left to the Chicago Nursery
and Half Orphan Asylum and the Old PeO-
ple's Home.
A BLACK, oily substance, the exact nature
of which is unknown, has been struck in
the Chicago water tunnel shaft on the Lake
front.
FIRE on New Granite street, Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently destroyed two
churches and several business houses
Loss over 10000
JUSTICE DENNY, Of the Queens Bench
division, Ipswich, Eng, in the case OF a
poacher who had severely wounded a
gamckeeper, held that the gamekeeper had
no right to arrest and hunt poachers as he
would wild beasts. The jury acquitted the
poacher on the ground OF self-defeuse.
IT is reported that syndicate of French,
Belgian and Dutch bankers has advanced
to Russia the sum of $50 0O0,O refusing
to grant larger Loan unless the Bulgarian
question is settled peacefully.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February % numbered
for the United States, 237; Canada, 33;
total, 270, as compared with 273 the pre-
vlous week and 2o9 the corresponding week
of last year.
Detroit, Mich, recently Francis Her.
bert, aged thirty-hree, was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life for the seduction Of a
thirteen-year-old girl.
The party arrested near Lebanon, Mo-,
recently for Tascott, the murderer of
millionaire Smell, turned out 10 be some one
else.
A SEVERE storm visited Gibson County,
Ind, on the night of the PA h. Much dam
age was reported, but no lives were
thought to be lost.
a GRAND tieup on the Burlington sys-
TEN was expected on the 25 h, owing to the
refusal Of the company to agree to the de-
mands Of he Brotherhood Of Locomotive G
| Engineers.
Assistant CASHIER FRANK NJ. RIEGEL. of
the defunct Cincinnati Metr poiitnn Ba k.
has been arrested for using e gut $1,000 or
ders Of building association for his prl-
yate ends.
AN oil still in Buffalo IN. W refinery
| exploded recently, instantly killing an
employe and severely injurlng the super
inteudent.
The Utter State Commerce Commission
has decided the case of Rice vs. the Louis.
vile a. Nashville, charging discrimination
in favor of the Standard Oil Company. The
Comm ssion finds that the tank line system
was deception, the pu ollc not really be-
ing allowed to compete with the Standard
Company. Judgment was therefore en-
tered for plaintiff and the railroad ordered
to grade its tank rates with its carload bar
rel rates.