The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN ARMEs threatens to bring suit
againt General Schofeld, who, as Acting
Secretary of War, issued the order con-
vening the board to examine into his
mental state.
BISHOP FOWLER, of the Nj. E. Church,
lately returned from China, says that that
country is quietly biding its time to re-
taliate for the enactment of the Exclus ion
act
DR.. LOUIS MAAs, famed In the old world
and the new as a pianist and composer,
died at his home near Boston the other
night Of peritonitis. He was born in
Weisbaden in 1852.
TUY CROOK YING, the new Chinese Am
bassador to the United States, has arrived
from China with a large delegation of
dignitaries.
COLONEL GEORGE FLoURNoY, a noted
Confederate officer and once Attorney
General of Texas, died in San Francisco
on the 18th.
MRS. ELIZABETH s. MCCLELLAN, widow
of DR.. George Mcclellan and mother of
General George B. Mcclellan and DIR. John
II. B. Mcclellan, the distinguished sur
geon, died at Drifton, Pa, on the 1S.h.
She was ninety years of age.
Iowa Democrats met at Sioux City on
the 18th and nominated Horace Boies, of
Waterloo for Governor; S l.. Bestow, of
Charlton, for Lieutenant-Gover w.
H. Brannon, of Muscatine, for Su-
preme Judge; Thomas Irish, of Du-
buque, for Superintendent of Instruc-
tion, and David Morgan. of Powes-
chick, for Railroad Commissioner. Among
the resolutions adopted was one calling
for the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
THE announcement is made that a
stringen compact has been entered into
between England and Italy on the slavery
question.
A CABLE dispatch has been received at
the Del artment of State from Consul
Allen, at Kingston, Jamaica, saying tn at
a riot occurred at Navassa, an island in
the Caribbean sea, in which number of
Americans were killed. A British war
ship had left Jamaica to protect the
remaining Americans.
THE King of Portugal, whose health had
been precarious for some time, was re-
ported as seriously i'll.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TIcHENoR, of the
Treasury Department, was seriously i'll at
his residence in Washington and was said
to be threatened with pneumonia.
]. B. BARNABY, of Providence, R. l., a
we'll known clothing merchant, with stores
In many Western cities, died recently.
JESSE WENTWORTH PAYsoN, the noted
penman, author of the Payson, Dunton &
Scribner copy books died at Hyde Park,
near Boston. recently, aged seventy-four
THERE are persistentrumors at Belgrade
that x-King Milan contemplates a coup
d'etat for the purpose of securing the
Regency of Servia. 1t is said that he
asked the Aus rian Government for mill
tary support, but his request was TT fused.
REPUBLICAN primaries were held in New
York on the Goth to choose deleg ates to
the State convention. They were mostly
uneventful, but in the famous Eighth AS
sembly district the expelled O'Brien men
caused some disturbance by attempts to
vote and some anti O'Brien men were as
saulted as they went to the polling place.
A BILL has been introduced in the Par
Lament of Holland to impose duty on
cereals.
THE Wyoming Statehood convention
has adopted clause giving women the
right to vote.