The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-01

1HE work OF investigating the Pension
! Office will probably occupy several weeks.
LEWIS BRos. & Co, extensive wholesale
dry goods dealers of Philadelphia, have
assigned for $4,000, 90 Declining busi-
ness and heavy losses in the Johnstown
floods were said to be causes Of the disas.
ter.
THE slayers of "Cettle Kate" Maxwell
and her partner Averiil in Wyoming have
been arrested.
THE Surgeon General has received tel
egram from the president of the Gaines
vile (Fla.) Board of Health, denying
that cases Of dengue fever existed there.
A son of Marshall II. Twitchsll, United
States Consul at Kington, Ont. has been
arrested on the charge of being the
masked burglar who entered the residence
of Mrs. Martin. He was mere boy and
up TO the affair bore good character
THE Union Pacific earnings for June
were $24, go larger than the same month
last year while the net earnings were Sl9T-
662 more.
Over $500, 900 has been subscribed at
Syracuse, NJ Y, TO the North American
Salt Association.
THE mayor and leading business men of
New Yo:k City held an enthusiastic meet
ing recently to take steps 10 secure the
worlds exposition in 1892. The Chamber
of Commerce also appointed a committee
of sixty for the same purpose, headed by
ex-Presdent Cleveland, Vice. President
Morton, Senator Evarts and other noted
men.
STEPHEN w. DORSEY was taken in
custody recently at Now York for con-
tempt of court IN neglecting to put in an
appearance at the supplementary pro-
csedings on a judgment obtained against
him by the Nevada Bank.
KILRAIN, the pugilist, went on tear at
Baltimore, Nd, the other night, amusing
himself in smashing windows etc, acting
as though he had won the fight with
Sullivan.
THE court martial of Colonel Fletcher
charged with conduct unbecoming gem
teman and Cfticer, commenced at Fort
Omaha on the 18th.
The Brotherhood of American Railway
Brakemen held its annual session in Otta-
wa, Ont, recently with 200 delegates
present.
LIGHTNING struck the house of W. B..
Cunningham at Ben Brook, near Fort
Worth, Tex, the other morning, instantly
killing Mrs. Cunnin CHAM. AT the time the
house was struck, Mr.. Cunningham, his
wife and one child were on the same bed.
The father and child were not hurt
a. j. BLETHET, proprietor of the Minne-
apolls Tribune, has purchased the Even
ing Star, of that city, and, beginning Au-
gust 90, will conduct it under the name of
tle Evening Tribune. The intention is to
run an all day paper. The price paid has
not been made public
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrt for the
seven days ended July 26 numbered PIG
including Canada. The previous week
2lS failures w re reported.
LAWYER DUNN, who tempted Cashier
Scott to rob the Manhattan Bank, of New
ork, of $1S5,000, has been sent to Sin g
Sing for rine vears and six months.
IT is officially denied that there is any
yellow fever at TampIco Mex, as had re.
Gently been reported.
IHH Yellow river of China has again
burst its banks. The auth horites at Pekin
were dismaycd.
A MOB OF Paris. KY lynched james
Kelly, coIored, for outrage on Mrs, Crow
recently.
THE officials of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company have notified the Trans
continental Association that unless the
subsidy from railroads is increased they
will cut rates and take all the freight they
can get 1t was thought this was the pre-
liminnry step TO a war against the Cana
dian Pacific road.
THE great British war ship Sultan,
which sank on a rock near Malta some
months ago, has been successfully raised.
THE Cincinnati dry dock buildings were
destroyed by fire early the other morning,
causing $1,000 loss. Ii is thought to have
been incendjary.
A CYCLONE passed through Lebanon,
Ind, on the 2Gth unroofng an entire
block and deluging property. Crops were
greatly damaged.