The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-25

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on the railroad near Paris, KY, was shot
by a guard the other day while trying to
escape.
THE Irish team won the Echo challenEs
shield at Wimbledon with a score of $50;
the English, /. 1.GS4; Scotch, 1,626.
THE coal beavers of Superior, Wis,
struck recently for fifty cents an hour, on
which they were beaten in the spring.
The Wabash railway car shops at But
Ter, Ind, were destroyed by fire recently
with several cars. Loss, 100000.
JoHN FITZPATRICK, referee; Bud Renaud
and Pat Duffy, managers of the excursion
to the prizs fight; T. b. Rich, owner OF
the fighting groInd and Kilrain's host;
j. w. Smith, Rich's clerk, who enter
tanned Sullivan before the fight; ID. A.
Gilbert, the head carpenter; w. b. Gilbert,
sawyer at the Rich mills. were arraigned
at Purvis, Miss, on the 18th for particIpa-
ton in the late prize fight.
A SECRET bal OF was taken among the
miners of the Brazil (lni.) region recently
to determine whether they should resume
work at the operators term. The prop
osition was defeated.
Two hundred houses were deStroye ed BY
fire at Constantinope the other day.
DR.. Mellow, the slayer of Captain Daw-
son. at Charleston, s. G., has been ex-
PEELED from the South Carolina Medical
Society.
THE Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin
will demand $12j,000 annuities and back
dues which the Government owes them.
THREE men were killed by the bursting
of boiler at Stones planning mill, Chi
cago. The building was blown to atoms.
POSTMASTER GRAY, of Givin, Ala, was
shot and killed recently by Burrows, the
train robber, for sending to the dead let
ter office a mask which Burrows claimed.
AT Denver, Col, on the 18th warrants
were issued for the arrest of Secretary of
State Rice, Sheriff Wcbber and his part
ner in the furniture firm of Graham q
Webber, and Lawrence d Co, who sup
piled the Assembly, and the State Printers,
Collier 81 Co all charged with conspiracy
to defraud the State.
ARSENIC was placed in the food of the
four children of Joseph Hulter planter
living near Star City, Ark, recently and
three of them died The criminal and his
mo i've were unknown.
CHURCHILL $ mil a. Alpena Mich, was
burn ed recently. Tie less was $l20, 900;
insurance, $50 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reporD for the
seven days ended July Is numbered pos
compared with 20j the previous week and
2.S the corresponding week last year
ITw was reported at New York on the 19sh
that Claus Spreckles was in " ith the sugar
trust. 1t was believed that the market
was cornered and that a grand coup was
meditated.
A MAN supposed to be Jack the Ripper
was arrested in the Whitechapel district
on the morning of the 20th He had just
killed woman and had the knife on his
person with which he had committed the
deed.
The Little Kanawha valley in Wesl
| Virginia was swept by n cloudburst on the
night of The 18th. At NorriStown severa
| lives were lost.
CHARLES +. COLEMAN, treasurer o.
! Warren County, O., has been arrested
charged with embeZzIemen.
The National Educational Association
/ adjourned at Nashville, Tenn, on the 1911
to meet next year in st. Paul.
Two Indians, White Horse and BacE
! Eagle, were killed by lightning recently
! in their tcpec at Standing Rock Agency,
| Oak.
pEARCE & RYAf, who! esaie liquor deal
ers, of Nashville, Tenn, have assigned
Liabilitie $103, 0S9; assets, $l33 l49.
CHAIRMAN WALKER, of the Inter-S a {
Commerce Railway AS -ociation, has is
sued a new decision restoring rates or
| bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
to Missouri river points to the former basis
of 81 and a respectively.
MCQUADE, on trial for boOdleiSm in the
Broadway, New York, combine, has been
acquitted.
JUDGE LoNGENEcKER says that much
valuable evidence against the men ill.,
dicted for the Cronin murder had beer
secured since the last grand jury. The
new grand jury will not touch the case.