The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-28
nIsCELLANEoUBs

England for New York October 3 last with
twenty-six men on board, has been given
up for lost.
A GENUINE blizzard ragged in Dakota and
Minnesota to as far south as Kansas and
Missouri on the 21st and 22d.
GEORGE SIXTH, aged sixty, foreman Of
gang of laborers excavating for fats In
New York City, was blown to pieces re-
Gently by the explosion of fifteen pounds
of dynamite in the tool box.
The much talked of Parnell letters were
produced in court by the witness, Richard
Pigott, on the 21st.
COMPLAINTS of an unjust discrimination
in rates against the city Of Memphis have
been fled with the Interstate Commerce
Commission by the Memphis Freight Bu-
reau against the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company, the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis Railway Company and the
Southern Railway and Steamship Asso-
citation.
WHILE two girls, Millie and Winnie
Peterson, were returning from school re-
Gently in the northern part of Atkin
County, Mimi, they were attacked and
completely devoured by timber wolves,
few scattered bones and shreds of cloth
ing alone remaining as the horrible testi-
mony of the children's fate.
The Spanish mail steamer Isle de Cuba,
plying between Spain and Cuba, has been
wrecked off Corunna and is a total loss.
All the officers, crew and passengers were
saved
THE Inter- State Commerce Railway As
sociation (the 'gentlemen's agreement")
was organized at Chicago on the 21st.
Considerable skepticism existed as to its
continuance. The membership is composed
OF eighteen out of twenty-five Western
roads.
THE Secretary of the Navy has con-
tracted with NJ. E. Pickering & Co., of
New York, for the delivery of 1000 tons of
coal at the United States coaling station
at Pago Pago Samoa, at the rate Of S13 25
per ton.
GERMAN papers assert that Klein, the
American who is charged by Germany
with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa
when the Germans were repulsed in De-
cember last was born at Lahr and served
as a sergeant in the German army during
the Franco-Prussian war. He was, so it
is stated, subsequently compelled to leave
| Germany and went to America.
MAX BERNSTEIN, a candidate for the
office of Rabbi, has been sentenced in Ber-
| lin to Imprisonment for three months for
| drawing blood from Christian boy.
Four German ironclads at Genoa have
been ordered to sail for Samoa immedi-
ately.
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, young lady
| of Norwalk, o., died in a dentists chair
the other day. She had taken chloroform
| preparatory to having her teeth drawn,
and it caused her heart to cease beating.
A WARRANT was issued at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 22d foI the arrest of Colonel
w. w. Dudley, of the Republican National
Committee.
A DYNAMITE bomb was thrown into the
Wesleyan College building at New Middle
town, Conn, recently by some foohardy
student. Doors and windows were shat
tered and son of ex-Congressman Hub
bard, of West Virginia, was seriously in
| jured.
FEBRUARY 2 a great fire broke out in
Shidsnoki, Japan, extending down streets
and destroyed 1000 houses, including
| temples, schools and hospitals. On the
following day fire at Yokosuka ruined 800
houses and burned to death three men.
On the same day ten houses were de-
stroyed at Joshua and fifteen at Toxic.
JUDGE CLARK JILLsoN, of the First
Southern Worcester Mass. district court,
has closed his inquest on the body of Lila
noyle, peSuh nearly yeaI anu d mail
ago. His return is as follows: ''She
came to her death as the result of the un-
lawful act of some person other than her
self"
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDER
LY, of the Knights of Labor, has issued
his second call within a year for per capita
contributions from members of the order.
AvALANCHEs in Switzerland recently
have DESTROYED many houses and caused
a number of deaths.