The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31

ONE man was fatally and three seriously
! injured by the falling Of the walls OF q
building which was being torn down in
Cincinnati recently. The driver OF the
patrol wagon had leg broken.
fIRE In st. Paul, Mirn., recently did
$50, 900 damage to the Berrisford Baking
& Confectionery Company's building and
stock.
IT is reported that Hopkins and jenkins,
colored labor agents of Vicksburg, Miss,
have been lynched by a mob in North
Louisiana.
The rebellious Polish priests Father
Kolasinski, has established his indepen-
dent church at Detroit, Mich, and recent
ly administered the first communion to 265
girls and boys. The ceremony took place
in a chapel fixed up for the occasion In a
back room in his house. His following Is
! said to be 2, 900 families strong.
THE British steamship Erin has been
abandoned Off Cape Hatteras with a shaft
broken. The crew was landed at New.
port News, Va.
MRS. Lou WRIGHT. a married woman,
was whipped by Whitecaps the other
night in Monroe County, Ind.
JUDGE WILSON, of the circuit court at
| Geneva, ILL.,, has refused to grant a new
trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy dynamiter who was
recently found guilty and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
A SENSATION has been created through
out Holland by pamphlet by Tindal en-.
titled, ''The Netherlands in Danger" The
author condemns the country's defensive
organization on both land and sea, and
regards the $7,500,000 spent yearly as
wasted.
TIE remains of lima di Murska, the
prima donna, have been cremated In
Gotha, Germany.
SEVEN Mormons of st. John, Ariz, have
been arrested on account of timber frauds
and three because of land frauds. The
Mormons who control the region were
greatly excited
The other night an explosion occurred
in slope No. "a at Nanticoke, near Wilkes
| barre, Pa, where a gang OF engineers
were at work making surveys. T. 5.
Sharsus, one of the engineers, was blown
to pieces and Chet Owens, another, was
instantly killed, and John Williams, a
third was fatally burned. Several others
were more or less seriously burned.
| JUDGE BREWER, of the United States
| Circuit Court has reiegated to the State
courts the suits brought by the Rock Is
land and other railroads to test the validity
of the Railroad law passed by the last
General Assembly of Iowa.
AN English missionary named Brooks
and sixteen of his followers have been
murdered near Sedaani by members of
the coast tribes and natives of Zanzibar.
THE feather manufacturing firms of
New York locked out their girls, number
ing 500, OH the 25th.
1T is stated that the soldiers have once
more cleared Oklahoma of boomers"
The last roundup" numbered 5000 per-
sons.
orders to all the collectors of customs to
suspend the issuing of further licenses to
fishermen under the modus vivendi.
DURING a gale through which the steam
er Amalfi, which arrived at New York re-
Gently from Hamburg passed, three per-
sons had limbs broken and other damage
was done,
Four thousand coal miners in and
about Shenandoah, Pa, have been thrown
out of work by the shutting down of col
leries because of overstocked markets.
THE principal cashier of the National
Bank Agency at Bologna, Italy, has alb
sconded having embezZled $50 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January "a numbered
$40, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 269 the corresponding week of last
year.
COUNSEL from New York and Philadel-
phia, representing unnamed parties, pre-
sented petition 10 the States Attorney
General at Richmond, Va, asking for a
writ of quo warranto against the Rich
mond & West Point Terminal Company
for the purpose of forfeiting its franchises.