The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-04

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wheat rye and corn in winona County,
Mimi, recently by hail and rain.
APPLICATION has been made at New
York for an order directing the executors
Of the will of Louis c. Hammersly to pay
to the Duchess Of Marlborough 500. 900
from the accumulated income of her late
husbands estate, she being in need of the
cash.
GEORGE and Fred Saniskey, brothers,
were drowned recently in the river at
Des Moines, Iowa.
| THERE was q sensational finish to the
Cornell and Columbia boat race at New
London, Conn.,, on the 9th. On getting
out OF their boat, six of the Columbia crew
fell in dead faint from exhaustion.
Three were in a serious condition, physi-
clans being hastily summoned.
TIE United States steamer Adams, now
at Honolulu, has been ordered to Samoa
to replace the Alert and Nipsic, now en-
route to the United States.
COMMENCEMENT day at the Lake Forest
University at Lake Forest ILL.,, was o
regular jubilee, because of the fact that
| 100000 had been added to the endowment
and more was promised. There were four
teen graduates.
The committee at Johnstown has issued
an appeal to persons holding relief funds
for the forwarding of the money. Dona.
| tions have been held back for various
reasons and the work at Johnstown has
been seriously hampered thereby.
AT The Paris (Ky.) races r. w. Brass.
field, the we'll known turfman. was ex.
pelled by an unanimous vote of the judges.
THE inspection of the pictures of NJ.
Speitan, which are to be offered for sale al
Paris, began on the 9th. The parlors
were crowded with aristocrats. Amons
those present was the Due d'Aumale. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Vanderbilt has Of
fered 81, 6G0, 900 for the collection. One OF
the Rothschlds Is prepared to give high
figure for the Angeles.
A COMBINATION OF the knit goods men
in the territory west of the Alleg hanies
and north Of Memphis has been practically
effected by a meeting of a number ol
manufacturers at Chicago.
AN extensive prairie fire recently
ravaged Cascade County, Mont. No lives
were reported lost.
PART of the Burton block, Clinton and
Van Buren, streets, Chicago was burned
| the otter day. Loss, $500, 600.
A STORM swept over Southwestern Ohio
| on the afternoon of the 2Sth. The south
| bound train on the Ohio & Northwestern
run into a washed-out bridge just south.
west of Batavia, fatally and seriously in
juring several persons.
ACCORDING to the figures of the just
completed directories the population OF
the twin cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis
is now close to half a million.
THE assassination of DIR. Cronin was de.
nounced in q mass meeting held at Chica.
go on the night of the 2Sth.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days end d June 81 numbered 2l5
compared with 220 the previous week and
POI the corresponding week of last year.
Two attendants in the State Insane
Asylum at Rochester, Minn., have beer
sent to the penitentiary for killing 6
patient
GERMANY has bought majority of the
shares of the Swiss Western railway, anC
has replaced the French by German di
rectors.
YALE won the fourteenth annual eight
cared race at New London, Conn.,, defeat
ing Harvard. The course was four miles
time for Yale 2l:30; for Harvard, q: 80
The record now stands: Yale, Svictories
defeats; Harvard. 6 vic tories defeats
THE people of Albuquerque, N. NJ, have
raised $75. 900, to be given as bonus tC
the Atlantic &, Pacific railroad if it will
build thirty-five miles of track this year
toward the San Pc lro mining camp.
A PASSENGER train struck a cow twenty
miles below Cairo, Ill, the other day and
was ditched Six passengers were slightly
hurt and an old negress fatally crushed.
Both houses of the Michigan Legislature
have agreed 10 the Damon bill fixing the
liquor license at $500.
Four men and two women were recently
found dead in a disreputable resort at
Paterson, N j., all having been asphyxi.
ated by the fumes from gas stove.