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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

Two COMPANIES of State troops, one
from Harrodsburg and the other from
Lexington, left Pineville, KY, on the 14th
to go to Harlan Courthouse to preserve
order during the session of court at that
place.
AN examination of the June accounts of
the Washington City Pension Agency
shows an over payment of 2,100 on one
voucher.
The Flood Relief Commission on the 14th
completed its consideration of the question
of final distribution of the fund in its hand
and agreed to give Jamestown IL ,6OO, 600.
Up to this time the commission has re-
ceived s., ,6O5,1l4.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the pas
senger men, both east and west of Chicago
to form a gigantic association in which
shall be vested the rate making power OF
the entire territory between the Atlantic
seaboard and the Missouri river.
THERE is a report that the Mississippi
Valley Railroad is to begin new branch.
1t will extend from Lula, Miss, to Green
wood, and tap the main line at Vicksburg.
LOUISVILLE, KY, had a $75, 900 fire on the
10Th. Six firemen were killed by a falling
wall.
THE later crop reports confirm the pre-
vious estimate of the wheat yield for the
State of Minnesota-namely, 100000 to
5O, ,00O, 900 bushels. The averages run from
10 to 30 bushels per acre in the different
counties, the bulk making returns of Is to
20 bushels.
mt tvaf
folk & Western Railroad was wrecked on
the 10th near Lynchburg, Va.
THE most recent reports of the race
troubles in Jasper county, Miss, show that
they are assuming larger proportions.
THE Tennessee penitentiary and the
labor of the eonvicts were leased at auction
ON the 14th. There was but one bid and
the lease went to the present lessees, the
Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Company
at the minimum price allowed by the law,
100000.
A COMPANY with a capital Of 500, 900
has been formed at jacksonville, Fla,
to establish a cotton factory.
JAMES LooNKY left Mckenzie, Tenn, on
the 10Th on foot in company with Will
Cannon. Later news came that Looney
had killed Cannon in the woods near Pate's
Pond. Cannon's body was found being
riddled with pistol balls. 1t is supposed
the trouble grew out of a divorce suit.
I. NJ. HURST has been appointed assist
ant postmaster at Nashville, Tenn, by
Maj. Wills, the new postmaster.
STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that the total amptnt
OF bonds purchased to date since August
q, 1887, is Sl99, 9,25S,SlQ,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

kEv. JUDsoN TITswoRTH, of Mil
Waukee, Wis, was recently called on
70 marry Theodore Souzo Tomagawa.
VI Toxic, Japan. to Miss Catherine
Ashmore Adams, of Chicago. After
Inc ceremony the Jap and his bride
IL 1eit Tor New York. 1t seems that
4Omagawa has been in America for
some years. Five years ago he was
IN chicago as a teacher of the art of
making Japanese embroidery. Miss
.I' nuams was one of his pupils and she
ie'i IN love with him. Her father is
uead and her mother opposed the mar
mage 1g The end was an elopement to
Milwaukee
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

DURING the celebration of a relig-
ious festival at Rohtak. India, the
Mussulmans and Hindoos became in
volved in religious disputes which led
to rioting. The police were COM
PEELED to interfere to stop the fighting,
but before they succeeded many OF the
rioters were shot by the officers. The
Mussulmans at Delhi. forty-two miles
northwest OF Rohtak, are organic
ing to avenge the insults put upon
them by the Hindoos.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

LIEUTENANT SAMUEL A. SNAKE, U.
S. A., who has arrived at Glenwood
Springs from a trip to Routt County.
COL, where he Investigated the recent
Indian scare, reports but few Indians
to be found and these in small parties.
They claimed to be after stray horses,
but is pretty certain they were hunt
ing parties. The report of armed
parties was started by frontiersman
fOoling party OF "tenderfeet"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

The Vossische Zeitung. of Berlin,
publishes complaint signed by a
number of merchants of that city in
which it is stated that Mr.. Edwards,
United States Consul at Berlin, SUBJ
lects exporters to trivial vexations in
the matter of verifying invoices, thus
hampering trade with America The
merchants intended to call meeting
70 protest against Consul Edwards
action and to request the German
forelgn Office to intervene for the re-
moval of the trouble.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

JOHN GORDON. in the employ of the
Lake George Paper & Pulp Company,
at Ticonderoga, N. Y, fell asleep the
other night near the machinery. The
fellow-workmen, it is said, in a joke
tied rope about his feet and threw it
over shaft making 125 revolutions a
minute. They could not cut the rope
in time and Gordon was killed, the
body being horribly mutilated. One
Of the perpetrators of the joke lost his
reason from the shock.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

In the columns OF the Pail Mall Ga
zette it is announced that russet shoes
are very bad form indeed and the au-
tboritics of Eton and Harrow have is
sued Instructions that the pupils in
these schools must not wear them, as
they do not consider them either "be-
coming or dignified.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
ELECTRICITY WILL KILL.

Shocking Death OF an italian Fruit Ven
der In New York Through Contact with
Live Electric Light Wire.
NEW YoRK, Sept. 13.-Joseph Matz, an
Italian fruit vender at the corner of East
Houston and Christie streets. was killed
to. day by coming in contact with a ''hve"
electric light wire of the United States
Illuminating Company. The manner OF
MATHS death was horrible and peculiar.
The awning over his stand had become
clogged with mud drippings from the
corner building, and Matz, while at
tempting to remove this accumulation,
lost his footing. and to stay his fall
grasped a wire near the edgs Of the avn
ing.
A spectator attempted to bring Matz
to the street and received a severe shock
the moment he touched the body. After
a delay of ten minutes two linemen ap.
peared, and after cutting the wires re-
moved the body. The hand which clutched
the wire was burned to the bone, and other
parts of the body which had come in con-
tact with the network of live wires, pre-
sented a sickening appearance.
Our Commercial Relations with Canada.
Boston, Sept 14.-The Massachusetts,
Tariff Reform League has issued state
ment of its views upon the question of
our commercial relations with Canada.
1t says there are three different methods
Of attaining closer trade relations be-
tween Canada and the United States.
First the political union Of the two coun-
tries; second, commercial union. involv.
ing the maintenance by the two countries
Of q common tariff against all other coun-
tries, and common internal revenue
system OF taxation with some equitable
division Of the receipts; third, treaty ol
reciprocity. admitting some or all OF the
products of either country ialo toe other
tree OF DUTY.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

COMMISSIONER TANNER has made
puoiic a statement claiming to show
uia' the heavy disbursements of PEN
a.O.s during the last two months were
mainly attributable to deficiency in
previous appropriations. The amount
sSppprOpriated Sp for the year ended June
S,a ~ last a was $s6,473, 900, while sss. 1885,
10 % was disbursed. Disbursements
tho ~'e exceeded appropriations during
s tue last four years. In 1885 the num-
~ S' oi pensioners was 345. .125. while
'ue number now is 4s9, ,725. In July
ssu ss august. 1888. Commissioner Black
~s., Sssanced to agents $24, 800. 900. OF
n ien they disbursed $40, ,577. o5.
~ afing the last two months Commis-
sSs oaer Tanner advanced $S4. 700, 900
A., S ,,s4g agents have already disbursed
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

ESTIMATES of the loss by the recent
fire at Antwerp range from $4,000, 900
TO $1,000, 900 francs. nj. Corvitain,
proprietor of the cartridge factory, is
charged with homicide by imprudence.
His defense is that the fire originated
in the petroleum sheds and caused the
explosion in the cartridge factory.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
--.na oE SUBSCRIPTION.
CURRENT COMMENT.

CuAKIR PAsHA, the Governor OF
Crete, has banished from the island
four prominent Christians. ono OF
wbom was a member OF the Cretan
Assembly.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

JOSEPH T. KELLY, son of Eugene
Kelly, the we'll known New York
banker. was blown from the platform
of car of the 4:30 p. m. train from
New York on the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad while the
train was crossing the Newark
meadows. He was instantly killed,
his head being crushed against pile
Of ties. The wind was blowing a gale
at the time. The deceased was about
twenty-five years old and unmarried.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

Mrs. G. ii. DUNsFoRD. the wife Of a
leading citizen of Reading, Pa, died
the other day after being thrown into
spasms while laughing heartily'at a
theatrical performance. Her artifi-
cial teeth were missing and a post
mortem examination developed the
fact that she had swallowed them.
They were found lodged in her
stomach
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19


the late s. s. Cox oc-
Cured at the First
Presbyterian Church,
Fifth avenue, short
ly after ten o'clock
this morning. At q
few minutes after
nine the pews began
to fill up. and by the
time services were
begun the doors had
ito be closed. turning
away a large throng
that collected on the
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

WHILE Prime Minister Crispi was
driving in Rome the other day stone
thrown by man on the roadside
struck him in one of his eyes. infiicting
painful but not serious injury. The
assaiant was arrested and found to be
Iu,ati1
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
ALL LOVED HIM.

Funeral of the Tate '.Sunset" Cox In New
York lit Might Have Been Sweet TO Yet
Live, But Death that Could Evoke
Such Eulogy was = CoBsummatIon to be
Him.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13-The funeral of
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

xh oficial report concerning the
leOnoo s crop OF France shows that T.
as.,s svv hectares were sown this year
IS'ns' Il - o,iS9.l44 hectares last year.
N . ,sa seselmated that the yield will be
32s bao.,s. zis hectolitres against 9S. 74o.-
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

! WOULD give nothing for that mans
religion whose very dog and cat are not
the better for it Rowland Hill
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19

coScrrr may pun a man up, but never
prop him uR-Enskin,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
A MURDER CONFESSED.

Mrs. Washington billiard Tells the Story
of the Murder of Her Husband bv Will
lam H.Bartholomew.i in Court at Easton
Pa.-She Consented to the Murder and
Led Her Husband Into the Trap.
EAsToN, Pa, Oct. 22.-The trial OF
William H. Bartholomew for the murder
of Washington billiard, was stopped sud-
denly about noon yesterday by Mrs.
billiard (who is charged with completely
in the murder) coming into court with
Sheriff Miller and announcing her de-
termination to tell all she knew about
the murder of her hus band; then plead
ing guilty to murder in the second de-
gree and accepting sentence in accord-
ance with that grade Of crime. Her
counsel objected to this procedure, but
the woman was determined in her action
and the court finally adjourned in order
to allow the attorney time for consulta-
ton.
Court reconvened at 2 p. M, and Mrs.
billiard was placed on the stand. She
testified that she was thirty-two years
old; lived in BartholOmew's house two
wears; was criminally intimate with him
there and at the last place of residence.
Her husband intended to move to Mercer
County, and ne told Bartholomew that
they were going. Bartholom ew was at
billiards. house the night before the mur-
der. He had billiards. gun with him, and
said he would take the nipple off 1T and
come to the house the next night; that he
would make the chickens cackle, and
that Mrs. billiard aud her husband should
then come out in the yard; that he would
be at the big cherry tree and shoot Dill
lard that night Mrs. billiard awoke
her husband when she heard the noise,
and they, accompanied by their son, went
down TO the yard, Dillarl catching the
gun, which his wife handed him. and q
lantern.
.When we got to the tree" Mrs. Dill
lard continued, IL told him (Dillard) to
look up in the tree. l then heard noise,
and my hus sband came back and fell dead
on the porch. Bartholomew wanted to
rent the farm, and said we would all live
together. We would not agree to that.
He then wanted me to 60 West and live
with him. said I would not go SO long
| as nv husband lived. would have been
ten times better off il had never seen
Bartholomew"
Here the witness broke down and be-
gan to CRY.
On cross s-e1amination it was admitted
that she was promised that her sentence
would be changed to Imprisonment for
life if she went on the stand. Mrs. Dill
| lard was then taken back to jail and tbs
| trial of Bartholomew proceeded.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

Herr Vogneer-" "Mein Gott, but
vas all proke up! Watched nit a
corpse last nighd." Gilligan-"Wu
it a wake?" Herr Vogneer-"Nein
you Irish chump; i'd vas dead. Life.
To be good husband man must
have good memory. So he must. He
must be able the next morning to tell
the same story he told the night be-
fore about where he had been.-Wash-
ington Post,
why" asked the funny boarder
at the supper table, lis this beefsteak
like our landlady's youthful sonP"
because" chorused all his fellow
boarders in unison, 'it is little
tough. IN. Y. Ledger. .....
First They're talkin av
cilibrathin' the four hundredth an
niversary av the discovery av the
country, Pat" Second citizen
"Begorra! an OF didn't think that
Castle Gardin was that ovid. Harp
er's Weekly.
IL suppose you are ready to sub
stantiate any statement your paper
makes?' said an angry-looking caller
to the editor. "Oh. yes; we have-the
compositors prove every thing that is
set up. ."-Washington Capital.
Where have you been all
month";" asked one travelling man OF
another. i've been in the country
studying insect life" IBID you find
much to interest you?' ''Lots in the
way of gnat-ural istory."-Merchant
Trave eler.
Aspiring poet-"With your per-
mission should like to read my new
poem | have on Mount Vesuvius "
Literary editor-''Certainly. you may
read it on Mount Vesuvius. but don't
attempt to do so here or I'll summon
the fighting editor. Omaha World.
Miss Hortense (of Boston, TN
deed, can hardly look into the deep,
opalescent amethyst Of the starrbe-
spangled midnight sky without recall
ing Rosetti's thin, blue flames Of
souls on their way to Heaven Then,
| too, the soul-fullness Of inner ment-
atty is grand Have you ever read
'Sully's Psychology" Mr. Charles
(also OF Boston, mo; but l think'sI
shall. first chance l get, since he did
up Kilrain in such great shaper'-
Light
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS,
shootings at Birmingham.

Birm ingham, Ala, continues to keep
up its record for suicides and sLootings.
W. A. Hull, stencil -engraver, twenty
Ave years old, recently shot himself three
times in the left breast and died. all be-
cause Lizzie Thompson would not love
him. James Hillery. private detective,
was shot through the heart by an uu-
known man. The detective begged for
his life, aud, although fully two hundred
people witnessed the affair, no one in
terfered. Several bystanders were struck
by stray bullets. The unknown man
escaped. Sam Brewer of the fire de-
partment was shot by j. A. Osborn, a
contractor. Brewer was using d hose to
sprinkle the street in front Of the engine
house and threw water on Osborn, SO the
latter claims. The men had o fight, and
soon after they were separated Osborn
re turned with a pistol and shot Brewer
through the left breast. Osborn Is il
Jail.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
Fatal Shooting in Louisville.

Michael Hade, a Louisville & Nashville
.witchman, was hacked in thirty places
with a knife in a quarrel at Louisville.
KY, recently, and Anthony Losteter was
shot dead. Both were drinking. Hade
had just drawn his wages, and it is be-
lieved that two robbers drew Hade into
1uarrel on the street, and then pulling
1inl into an alley with the intention OF
-obbing shim. Losteter, who lived near,
vas soma way drawn into the quarrel. Los
teter staggered into his house just after
a shot was heard in the alley, and Soon
after died Of pistol-shot wound. Hade
was found lying in the alley insensible.
Two men were seen running away as
Losteter's brother John hurried up tb 8
alley after the shooting was heard. Los
tcter could not or would not tell who shot
aim.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Queen Victoria has an abnormal
craving for air. She has windows
thrown open in the coldest weather.
and her suite sneeze most Of the fall
and winter.
Ben Holiday had claim OF $780,
900 against the Government for dep
rotations committed by the Indians
on his overland stage route. At one
time the Government offered to COM
promise on 800, 1000. but Holiday re-
fused. The other day the claim was
sold for $3.50
The late Mrs. R. b. Hayes once
said. in familiar talk with friend:
mo, am not good; know myself too
well to claim that; but" after pause,
perhaps I should be unjust to my
self If did not say that | am trying
always and everywhere to do as
would be done BY"
A Miss Annie Johnston recently
went down and stayed in the water at
a summer resort in England 3 minutes
10 seconds, which beats the amateur
record of minutes 514 seconds. Miss
Johnston is only nineteen years of
age, and is accounted the best lady
swimmer in the world.
Leo XIII. is a very small old man,
80 low OF stature that man of ordinary
height kneeling at his feet is aware
of the Pontiffs bent head not very far
\ e 1, 60. u,
ly hands, so slender that the rings
which many monarchs sent him for the
jubilee will not hold on his fingers ex-
cept over mittens, are resting on the
strangers head or patting his cheek
with an impulsive affectionateness.
Mrs o. G.. Converse. of Water
bury, Conn, now nearly eighty years
OF age. is remarkably proud Of the fact
that years ago, when a school teacher
in the West, she had two pupils who :
have become famous. In South Bend,
Ind, she taught little Benny Harrison
his letters. One fall in Ohio sudden
cold snap froze canal near her school
house, and some boats were caught
and held there for several weeks. A
boy who drove for one of the boats
came to her school. He was fourteen
years old and the boys called him Jim
| Garfield.
| Isaiah Vansant Williamson, the
venerable millionaire philanthropist.
of Philadelphia, died aged eighty-six
years. The best-known act in Mr..
| Williamson's life was his recent con-
tribution of 81, 800, 900 for the founding
of the Williamson Free School Of
| Mechanical Trades, which is to be.
| built as soon as a site is decided upon.
1t was at first stated that he had
failed to sign the will in which he was
expected to make provision for exc
cutting his expressed intentions as to
| this school, but the trustees announce
that his wishes will be fully carried
out. Mr.. Williamson's fortune is esti-
mated at $15 100000
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the evening of the 11th, while Ma
dame Janauschek was being driven to the
;heater at jamestown, N. Y, she was
thrown from her carriage, and though
not seriously injured, suffered from the
severe shock.
on the 10Th two men were killed and
several severely wounded by the fexplo-
sion of a boiler in Q saw-mlll at Ander-
son, Ind. Two of those injured will prob
ably die.
AT Greenville, Ala, on the 10Th, ayoung
man named Roberts, who was connected
with Burke's horse show, quarreled with
a negro helper, who poured gasoline over
Roberts clothing, and another negro set
fire to the fluid. Roberts was literally
roasted, and was in critical condition.
One of the negroes was arrested, the
other escaped.
COUNT OKUMA, the Japanese Foreign
Minister, was attacked by an assassin at
Yokohama on the Goth, and slightly
wounded. Before the would-be murderer
could be arrested he stabbed himself to
the heart.
GEORGE PFEIFFER was found dead in
bed in New York City, on the morning Of
the Goth, having been suffocated by gas.
His room mate, Morris A. Reeding, was
unconscious and may die. Pfeiffer was
out of work. and it is thought he left the
gas turned on in order to end his life,
and that Resding was unaware Of his ac-
ton. = Is - 4Fs
ON the night of the 10Th the Albany
Stove Works, at North Albany, N Y,
were entirely destroyed by fire. Loss,
upwards of $4,000; Insurance, S13 900.
on the night Of the 19.h the express Of
ice at Jackson, Teun., was robbed by
professionals, who took the keys from a
sleeping clerks pocke unlocked the safe
and stole S2,l9E
SEVEN survivors Of the steamer Earn
moor, which fouudered September 5, in
cyclone three hundred miles off Turk IS
Island, while bound from Baltimore to
Rio Janeiro, arrived in Philadelphia on
the 21st by the steamer Santiago, from
Nassau. They tell a story of great suf-
fering during their twenty-five days
cruise in an open boat without food.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS,

| Ar Taphan, N. Y, on the 2lst, John
Tallman and wife, of Rockland county,
celebrated the seventieth anniversary Of
their wedding.
| REPORTS from Giles and other counties
In Tennessee are to the effect that the re-
cent frosts have greatly damaged the
cotton crop, and that but little of the crop
has opened. |
| DIR. PETER BURGMAN, grand secretary Of
the Arkansas Grand Lodge, Independent
Order Of Odd Fellows, was buried at Little
Rock on the DIST.
THE Olive Bill, which had become the
symbol of anti-railroad legislation in
Georgia, has been killed after a fight of
several 70 1nths. 1t was over this measure
th at the duel originated between Pat Cal
houn and J. d. Williamson, president OF
the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus road.
AS ESTIMATED by the Bureau of Agricul-
ture, the cotton crop in Tennessee was low
cred by recent frosts % per cent. below it's
cond ton on September Goth.
A LARGE number Of small incendiary
! fires have occurred ct Kansas City. The
police have just finished their investiga-
ton into the crimes and have discovered
that tho incendiaries were q band of school
boys ranging in age from II to 10 years.
AMONG the passengers on the steamship
Wisconsin, which arrived at New York on
the 18th, were 135 Mormons bound for Salt
Lake City. They are from England, Wales
and Holland.
FOREST FIRES near Purvis, Miss, are
creating CONSERVATION among lumber, tur-
pentine and charcoal men. 1t has been
five weeks since rain fell there, and the
woods are dry as tinder.
VIZ. j. JORDAN, son Of the postmaster at
Manchester, Va, was arrested on the 18th
charged with robbing the mails.
BILL NATION, the oldest moonshiner in
Southwestern Kentucky, was captured on
the 18th. West Tennessee officers have
been searching for him for twenty five
wears He was captured on the Tennessee
river while selling fish. In 1879 posse
went out from Mayfield, KY, to capture
Nation. He turned the tables, capturing
the guns and routing the officers.
WILLIAM LORI, a mail rider, who was
recently reported to have been held up by
mail robbers near the State line of Missis-
sippi, has confessed to the robbing him
self, and is lodged in Jail at Meridian,
Miss.
NJ. THAsHER s. Co., one of the best
known firms in the tea trade of Chicago,
made an assignment on the 18th. The
liabilities ara scheduled at $3.50, 900.
NEWS of another big express robbery in
Alabama has just leaked out. 1t involves
about sc coo, and occurred at Millsport, in
Lamar county. Walter Abercrombie, a
young white man, is charged with the rob
berry.