The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE San Francisco Johnstown subscrip-
tion has reached $50, 900.
THE other night at Helenwood, Tenn, a
mob broke into the Jail and took Lloyd
and Reynolds, the double murderers, and
hanged them to tree near by. A note
was pinned to the bodies threatening
vengeance on any informer. Public senti-
nent justified the act
THE State took control of the relief oper-
ations at Johnstown on the 18th, with
General Hastings in charge.
ALL the sheep aud cattle belonging to
white men have been removed from the
Umatilla Indian reservation in Oregon to
the delight of the red men.
THE Sangamon river IN Central Illinois
was reported beyond its bank, had broken
four levees and had flooded thousands of
acres of farm lands.
MRS. G. VAN BECK, the wife of farmer
living near HULA, Iowa, burned to death
while asleep recently, the house having
caught fire from a lamp.
The Sioux Indian Commissioners left
the Rosebud agency on the 18th for the
Pine Ridge agency. Their work at the
former place was successful
MICHIGAN dedicated her monuments on
the field of Getty sburg on the 18th. Gen.
sral L. S. Trowbridge, Governor Luce and
War Governor Austin Blair were the
speakers.
A BATHER in a creek near Grantsdale,
Mont, found several large gold nuggets
recently and the town was excited.
OVER 400 teamsters of Duluth, Minn.,
were reported on strike. The men tried
to prevent others from working, but were
dispersed by the police.
THE Minnesota State prison managers
have appointed a committee to investigate
the question of making binding twine at
the prison by convicts.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred near
Armagh, Ireland. on the morning OF the
18th to Methodist Sunday school excur-
sion train, causing the loss of y lives and
The injury of 100.
BY the burning of Luchow in China ten
thousand persons are said to have lost
their lives
GRINNELL. Iowa, was visited by a dis
astrous confagration on the 18th The
loss footed up TO 1000. Grinnell was the
place visited by the terrible tornado few
years ago.
NINE men were thrown from a scaffold
1t the new power house of the West Side
Cable Company at Chicago recently.
Some were fatally and the others seriously
injured.
LOUIS MILLER, fifteen years old. and
James Freeman, eleven years DID, while
out in the harbor at Charleston, S. C., in
sailboat the other day were both knocked
overheard by the boom and drowned.
PREPARATIONS for the taking of the GEN.
sus of 1890 are assuming shape. The ap-
propriations provide for 175 supervisors.
which is an excess of twenty 6Es over the
number employed in 1880. This excess of
supervisors will 60 to the South and West,
excepting one each to Oklahoma and
Alaska. The bureau estimation OF the
population is placed at 65, 100000.
CAPTAIN DUvERGE. formerly of Balti-
more, Nd, who shot and killed Vice-Con-
sui Stanwooi at Andakale, Madagascar,
last fall, has been arrested and Will be
tried before Consul John Campbell at Ia
matave. Madagascar.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania.
has granted respites TO Peter Baronskl,
who murdered two women, and James d,
Jacobs, both of whom were to be hanged
June 25, to October % 1t is claimed that
both men are insane.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York. refused
to honor the requisition for Maroney and
Mcdonald, charged with completely in the
Cronin murder at Chicago. on the ground
that no direct charges were made.
A DISPATCH from Columbus, o., says;
w. B. Brooks & Son, among the larges,
operators in the Hooking valley. assigned
| recently. Assets, s254000; liabilities,
$4,000. ax
THE opinion of weIl-posted people at
Johnstown Is that the loss Of life will bs
between 5000 and 4.00a
The hirty-fourth biennial session OF
the Lutheran Church of the United States
was formally opened at Pittsburgh, Pa
on. the 18th. A prohibition resolution wa'
unanimously adopted.