The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-18

TIE steamboat Crystal City, plying be-
tween St Louis and Grand Tower, ILL.,,
sank seventy miles below St Louis the
other night No one was injured.
THE lockout against the Glasgow Tivet-
ers has been withdrawn.
A DISEASE resembling dysentery is epi-
demic at New Canton, Ill Seven deaths
have already occurred, nearly all among
children.
WHAT is supposed to be gold, silver and
copper ore has been discovered in War
rem County, N. Y, in the mountains.
Troops have been ordered to Egypt
from Malta by the British Government.
The labor troubles at the Homestead
mills (Carnegie's steel plant) took active
shape on the 1lth, strikers maltreating an
employment agent and three German
workmen brought on to take their places.
No disturbances were reported OH the
Orange celebration of the 18th of July.
THE strike among the sailors of Liver
pool, Eng, has collapsed, the men accept
| ing the terms offered by their employers.
To add still further to the railroad COM
piications it was announced at Chicago on
the 18th that the Grand Trunk had cut
grain rates.
1T was stated that Wiley Matthews, the
men in Boone County, Ark, who had at
tempted his capture.
| The Magdeburg sugar ring being unable
! to meet the settlement was compelled to
ask weeks grace, which the Sugar Ex-
| port Association declined to grant. The
collapse caused fall of four marks in
Hamburg.
The President has granted a respite till
/ ct n Ia On "a lack
Joseph Ma'in and Elsie Jayne, convicted
| in the United States court of the Western
! district Of Arkansas Of murder in the In
| dian Territory.
! A JAIL at Jacksonville, Ore, containing
three prisoners was discovered to be on fire
| the other morning and before the cells could
| be reached to lib rate them the prisoners
! died from suffocation. The origin of the
tige was a mystery.
| Ed. FRITZ, a laborer, was torn to shreds
in the drum of the cable power house at
Denver, Col, recently.
a TERRIBLE storm ragged at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, on the 12,h, creating much alarm
for the safety of shipping.
JUDGE HORTON, of Chicago, refused
habeas corpus for Lawyer Beggs, charged
with completely in the murder of DR.
Cronin.
FIRE starting in a bakery at Fresno,
! Cal, the other morning, destroyed half q
block of brick buildings, causing 500, 900
! loss.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
pas ed the Panama Canal Relief bill in
the form in which it was adopted by the
Senate.
AFTER fifteen months of contention
withdhe union, the employers of Indian
apolis stone cutters have accsded to the
| demand for eight hours as days work.
THE Russian Government has totally
suppressed the Lutheran Church.
Two thousand bakers of Berlin have
gone on strike.
NINE side-tracked freight cars in Pater-
son, N. j., ran powu grade suddenly tie
other day, jumped several switches and
collided with an engine and train. One
man was fatally inj Ired and great dam
age was done.
The Secretary of the Treasury has tele-
| graphed his approval of the course of the
| Emigrant Comm ssioners at New YORK in
OBTAINING the emigrants sent to Agent
! Nell, of the Southern Pac fic railroad, by
! Wrighton e. Son, of London, and ordered
| the immediate return of every man sent
to Agent Nell, under the law prohibiting
| the importation of contract laborers.
Two men named Horner and Reifsnyder
were killed in barn ten miles south of
Gettysburg, Pa, recently by a stroke of
lightning. The barn was set on fire and
destroyed.
The remains of Mrs. Tyler were inferred
beside those of ex President Tyler at
Richmond, Va.
THE steel cruiser Baltimore returned to
Cramps yard at Baltimore recently after a
satisfactory test of sea maneuvering. The
engines averaged 10 knots on e develop
ment Of s 700 horse power.