The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

By the caving in OF a sewer trench in
Eau Claire, Wis, two men wore killed, r
third fatally injured and two more badly
hurt.
THE annual meeting of the National AS
sociation of Wool Manufacturers was
held at New York on the I'd with closed
doors. The resolutions adopted urge
upon Congress the necessity of revision
of the tariff and especially The tariff on
raw material and manufactured woolen
goods in such a manner that both indus
tries should be properly protected.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, on the I'd was brill
lantly illuminated and the houses deco
rated, it being the Inauguration of the
carnival. The trades parade and display
was a pronounced success, fully 1900 peo-
pie being in line, with floats, etc.
AT the deep-water convention at To-
peka, Kan, the whole day of the Cd was
occupied in making speeches and nothing
material was accomplished.
A DISPATCH from Buffalo. n. Y, says
that the two-masted schooner George
Finney, with a cargo of 1000 bushels of
wheat from Toledo, encountered a water
spout while. off Port Colborne recently
which damaged her considerably.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in the
City of Mexico and surrounding country
on the Cd.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were reported
raging in Mclean County, fifty miles
north of Bismarck, N. Oak, which were
driven by the wind at a speed of sixty
miles an hour. The town of Washburn
had narrow escape, the flames reaching
within the limits. Many of the farmers
lost all they had.
THE Priests of Pallas parade at Kansas
City on the night of the Sd was a very inn
posing and grand affair. Eighteen coun-
tries were typified in the beautiful floats.
The weather was perfect, the crowd was
large and there was nothing to mar the
success of the occasion.
GENERAL FAULKNER was found guilty
at New York OF making false report Of
the Dansville National Bank In 1887. He
got a seven years. sentence.
DURING the progress of a prayer meet
ing in Presbyterian church at Moss
Point Miss, the other night some un-
known person fred into the edifice and
killed Daniel McIDnis and his little daugh-
ter, Nellie, and seriously wounded Henry
Bumer.
The Department of State has received
a telegram from General Franklin, United
States Commissioner General to the Paris
Exposition, saying that the United States
exhibit has been awarded fifty three
grand prizes, 199 gold medals, 271 silver
medals, 21S bronze medals and 220 honor
able mentions.
CHARLES SPARKS, a deputy United
States marshal was killed at Bell Green,
Franklin County, Ala, recently by Lock
Ezzoll, who was resisting arrest. The
desperate escaped
AN explosion in the Red Jacket shaft of
the Calumet and Hecla mine in the Upper
Michigan peninsula killed two men,
fatally injured two more and severely In
jured seven others. The explosion was
due to a miner striking a charge of dyna-
mite with pick.
THE steamship Earnmoor, which sailed
from Baltimore, Nd, for Rio Janeiro Au-
gust 30 foundered at sea September
and it was thought the crew Of nineteen
were lost
The other m orning an attempt was
made to blow up the slaughter hou Sc
of j. & G. Scanlon at New York dyna-
mite bomb was thrown in through an open
window, doing about $500 worth OF dam
age to the property, but luckily injuring
no one. The act is supposed to have been
committed by a discharged employe
MRS. KATE NJ NYE, of Louisville, KY.
committed suicide the other evening by
jumping from the third story window of
the house where she and her husband
were boarding. She was instantly killed.
Marital unhappiness was the cause.
THE revenue cutter Rush has arrived at
Port Townsend from Alaska. Commander
Shepherd reported that he captured six
British sealers from Victoria, B. c., and
intercepted over two dozen.