The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-12

to resolution for the appointment of
Commission to meet the United
States Commission to consider the sale
of the Cherokee Strip.
SQUIRE i. TAYLOR, sOn-in-law of
Hon. Alex Caldwell, ex-United States
Senator, committed suicide at Leaven-
worth, Kan, recently by shooting him
self through the right temple. He had
been Respondent lately, but nothing
was known sufficient to account for his
suicide.
The McAuliffe-Daly fight at Boston
ended in a draw at the end of the fif-
teenth round.
EMIN PAsHA had serious accident
at Bagamoyo the day after his arrival.
Owing to his nearsightedneSs he mis-
took the height of a railing and fell
twenty feet, fracturing his skull.
THE boiler OH the sugar plantation of
a planter named Meredith exploded at
Colfax, La, recently, killing six men
and two women, all negroes, and
wOunding several others.
THE Brotherhood managers claim
that they have signed all the baseball
players they need.
SIX of the men arrested at ArdmOre,
|. T., charged with the train robbery
near Berwyn, have been released by
United States Commissioner Hooker,
at Purcell, having satisfactorily proven
an alibi.
THE well known MOnOngahela Hotel,
Pittsburgh, Pa, was burned on the 5th.
Loss, about 100000. The POO guests
of the house had to make rapid exit
for life.
THE cOroner's jury was of the opinion
that the many telegraph wires had
much to do with preventing the rescue
of the unfortunate persons who lost
their lives in the burning of the Mime
apolis Tribune building.
THE Miner House at East Tawas,
Mich, took fire recently. Two charred
bodies were found in the ruins.
THE house of John Madden at Kings
ton, Ont, caught fire the other night
and while he and his wife were trying
to extinguish the flames their means of
escape were cut off and both perished.
GOVERNOR MILLETT, of South Da-
kota. says there are 600 families i'll
Minor County who are starving to
death. The Governor was soliciting
aid for the destitute.
SILCoTT, cashier of Sergeant-at-Arms
Leedom, of the House of Representa-
tives, has disappeared with $4,000,
money due Congressman and others OH
salaries, etc. Leedom was under bond
to make good his cashiers dcfalcatiOns.
The boiler in Governor Jackson s
sawmill at Marion, Md, exploded re-
Gently. William Dennis, aged twenty
two years, was killed, and William
Dixon probably fatally hurt. Richard
Martin had foot blown off and two
or three others were seriously injured.
JOHN KENDAROOCH and Annie
ChomO have been indicted for the mIlr-
der of the wOman's husband, Il paralyt-
ic, who was found hanging to Il bed
post in Potsdam, Pa, on November 27.
DURING trial in Judge Blanton's s
court room at Marshall, Tex, opposing
lawyers got into dispute and weap-
ons were drawn. The result was that
State Representative Alexander Pope
was mortally wounded, dying the same
day, and Senator w. ii. Pope, his
brother, was seriously wounded in two
places. Another lawyer was also hurt.
WILLIAM PETERS, secretary of a
Cincinnati building and loan associa-
ton, has confessed having embeZZled
$4,000. He is now in Jail.
CHARLES JOHNSON, colored, has been
hanged at Gadsden, Ala, for the MUIR
der of policeman in November, 1883.