The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERsoNAL Ann po1Ir,c.r

THE Ohio Republican State convention
assembled at Columbus on the 25th,
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, one of the
american Commissioners to the Samoan
conference, arrived at Washington on tn,
zoth. de called upon Secretary Blain,
ana had long consultation. He brought
the Samoan treaty with him.
The wife of ex-President Hayes died a
Fremont o., on the 25:h. She was borr
at Chillicothe, O., August 90, 1881, and hel
eventful life was one of great usefulness
SECRETARY TRACY authorizes an EN-,
phatic denial of the story that his recent
visit to the New York navy yard wa.
connected with or attended by the whole.
sale discharge Of Democratic employees.
FRANCE has decided to refuse to agree
to the scheme for the conversion of the
Egyptian preferred debt unless England
will give guarantee that she will evacu-
ate Egypt.
GOVERNOR FORAKER has been renomi.
mated by the Repu blicans of Ohio.
The story that Mgr. Persico, in his re-
port to the Pope on the result of his inves
legation of Irish affairs, had asserted that
the Irish Nationalists had formed a plot
to kill him If he returned to Ireland is
pronounced purely imaginary.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN has written a letter
to a member of the Baptist Church, in
which he says that neither party can gain
profit or honor by a bargain with Mr..
Gladstone, binding him to advocate the
di5estabishment of the church in Wales
in return for Nonconformist support oil
his homo rule scheme.
HERR REICHHoLZ, German Consul al
Newcastle, England, has committed sui.
eide.
THE lower house of the Michigan Legis-
lature has passed the Holbrook Anti Trust
bill by vote of 55 to 8.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, the well
known statesman, whose life extended
over ninety years, diedat Lancaster, Pa,
on the 26th.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, of New Jer-
sey, has been appointed Minister to Ger
many.
THE War Department is in receipt oi
dispatches confirming the press reports oi
trouble with the Fathead Indians near
Missoula, Mont.
A SWEEPING general order has been is
sued by Secretary Tracy, requesting an
entire reorganization of the business
methods of the Navy Department.
j. II. HoLLENDER, who was recently ex-
pelled from Guatemala by the Govern
ment of that country, has laid grievances
before Mr.. Blaine.
A HANDSOME monument to Captain John
Mason, who ended the Pequot war in Con-
necticut in 1857, was unvailed at Mystic,
Conn.,, rec entity.
GEORGE LoRING BROWN, once a noted
painter of this country, died at Maiden,
Mass, recently, aged seventy-five.
PRINCESS LOUISE, aged twenty-five
years, daughter of the Prince of Wales,
has been betrothed to the Ea-l of Fife,
her fathers bosom friend and the Queens
past forty years of age
COLONEL A. NJ. SAXToN, one of the orig
inal settlers of ST. Joseph, Mo-, died on
The 9th. He was born in Ohio, February
y, 1921.
COMMODORE GREER, now on his way
home from Europe, has been appointed
president of a board to revise the organ
ization, tactics and drill of the navy.
QUEEN CHRISTINA assembled 100 feet in an
air balloon at Madrid on the 2Sth. 1t was
her first ascent. The balloon was chris
tened MARIA Chr .stina."
MURRAY S MAGAZINE announces tnat
Prince Albert Victor, oldest son of the
Prince of Wales, has been affianced to
Princess Victoria, of Prussia, sister of
the Emperor of Germany.
MARIA MITCHELL, the noted astronomer
of Lynn, Mass, is dead. She was born in
Nantucket, Mass, August /, 1918.
FRED DOUGLASS has been appointed Min
lister to Hayti.
CARLoTTA PATTI, sister of Adelina, died
on the 28th. She was singer of consid-
cradle repute.
The funeral of the wife Of ex-President
Hayes took place at Fremont, o., on the
2Sth.