The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-10
ROBERT RAY HAMILTON has begun suit
at New York for N divorce from his rifa

at New York for divorce from his wife
Eva.
The lunacy commission, consisting Of
Drs Fitch and Field, appointed 70 ex-
anime the mental condition OF Chris
Drihte, the old inventor. who shot and
killed Frederick Gesswein on September
IL at New York, have partially submitted
a report of their work. DR.. Fitch Is of the
opinion that the old man is insane and it
is likely that Dr. Field will concur in the
finding of his colleague.
SIXTEEN monuments were dedicated on
the Gettysburg battlefield on the Sd. 1t
was Names day.
THE steamer Geographic, of the Bos-
| siere line, from Montreal for Southamp-
ton, collded with the Minnie Swift, q
sailing vessel, off St Pierre Miquelon re-
Gently. Both vessels sunk and a number
of lives were lost
WHILE Martin Jascovitz John Sndosky
and Tomaso Guard were pry ing down the
top rock at Audenried, near Hazelton, Pa,
recently the mass fell upon them, crush
ing and killing the two former and fatally
injuring the latter.
THREE men were killed by Rock Island
trains in different parts of Chicago on the
Sd.
THE steamer Corona, of the Ouachita
consolidated line, exploded her boilers at
Falze river. nearly opposite Port Hudson
on the Lower Mississippi, causing the loss
of the steamer and forty lives.
A HEAVY west bound passenger ira in
went off the track at Cheyenne, Wyo., re-
Gently, consequent upon spreading rails
due to rotten ties Four ladies were seri-
ously bruised, the conductor had his leg
broken and the porter had his head
cracked.
BY the breaking of a scaffolding around
the steeple of a church at Altenbruch,
Hanover, recently, seven workmen were
precipitated 100 feet and instantly killed.
AN explosion occurred on the Italian
war ship Formidable at Shields, England,
while taking on gunpowder stores the
other day. The naval officer in charge Of
the work was killed and several of his men
were seriously Injured.
HEAVY rains have caused the destruc-
tion of many houses in Quanajuata,
Mexico.
THE 'longs" have obtained an injunc-
tion in Judge Shepard's court in Chicago
against the delivery of October pork.
TEE City Hall at East Grand Forks,
Dak., was burned recently. The fire was
credited to one of the two hostile factions
i'll the city.
THE Mount Mansfield Hotel, Stowe. VT,
burned recently. Loss, 100000.
WARD F. JOHNSTON, wholesale dealer in
teas and coffees. Boston, has assigned
and offers to compromise for 40 cents on
the dollar in cash.
THREE Mormon elders who had been
working in Wilson County, Tenn, have
been driven away by Whtecaps.
THE United States District Court in
Texas has sustained the Contract Labor
law in proceedings instituted against the
Rio Grande & Eagle Pass railroad for
bringing in Mexicans to work. The de-
fendants were fined 1000 for each work
man imported.
A COLLISION occurred recently between
a passenger train and a freight train at
Lasswitz in Posen. Four railway officers
were killed and many passengers injured.
ANOTHER awful tragedy growing out of
the Hatfield Mccoy feud is reported from
Pike County, KY. John Hand, a relative
of Hatfield but not member of the gang,
was to be married to Peter Mccoy IS
daughter. The mountaineers of both fa c.
tions swore the union should not oc-
cur, and while the wedding ceremony
was taking place unknown assassins fired
into the room, killing Hand and his bride
and fatally wounding the clergyman.
THE wife of Sheriff Sand, who eloped
recently from Little Falls, Dak., with a
convict whom she released, has been
found at Casselton. Oak. The convict
was not captured.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 3 numbered
206 compared with 1872 the week previous
and 221 the corresponding week of last
year. Stringency in the Eastern money
market was causing trouble.