The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
ArronNEr-GENERAL MILLER finds nc

CrawtOr0 Ior receiving moneys from the
Creeks for acting as their attorney in re-
cent financial transactions With the Gov
srnment
A FIRE broke out in the cotton stored In
the hold of the steamship Britannia on
her last trip to Queenstown. After con-
siderable trouble the fire was exIiu-
guished.
The old wooden war ship Iroquois which
was recently extensively repaired at the
ship yards at Mare Island, Cal, could not
develop more than eight knots an hour on
trial trip.
SEARLE, the champion sculler, has
challenged Guadaur TO row at London for
g, 500 side.
The report of a fatal mine disaster at
Jellico, Tenn, was false.
A wHIRLwIND at Lulu Island, B. c., the
other day desolated the whole country
through which it passed, uprooting gi-
gantic trees and leaving the thickly
wooded surface bare.
THE colored Baptist convention at In
dianapolis Ind., was much stirred up by
the indignities to which five of the minis
ters were subjected near Boxler, Ga,
where a number of white men roughly
elected them from the railway car.
BY a collision at Miller City, o., the
other day, two freight locomotives and
fifteen fruit cars were wrecked and both
engineers injured.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, DIR. Bartlett finished
his effort to beat DIR. Carve|s record of
breaking so. 900 glass by riffs shots in six
days He broke 60,017 in all.
THE big chemical works at Wandsworth,
England, were destroyed by fire the other
day and one fireman lost his life. The
works were valued at 500. 900.
THE municipal authorities Of Liverpool,
England, warned by Antwrp's expe-
rience, have voted $3.50. 900 fer the con-
struction of petroleum storage depots at
isolated points.
THE first snow Of the see son fell at Hope,
Oak, on the 18th.
A CATTLE disease, either Texas fever OF
black tongue, is reported ravaging the
herds near Scottdale, Pa.
f. w. GEsswEIN, the millionaire i'm
porter and manufacturer of jewelers.
supplies and tools, was shot dead at New
York recently by Christian Dshle, an old
German, who said he committed the crime
because Gesswein had robbed him of his
patent and left him penniless
Two hundred and fifty-six nominally
Boulangist candidates were nominated for
election to the French Chamber of Depu-
ties.
BUTT for $1,000 indemnity money has
been begun in San Francisco against Don G
Tsiug the Chinese Consul.
CAPTAIN WIssMAN's police have de-
stroyed the town of Kondutchi, between
Bagamoyo and Dar-es-S -Salaam. Captain
Wissman wished to punish the inhabit-
ants of the place for having supplied the
insurgents with arms.
SERIOUS collision occurred on the Bal
timore & Potomac railroad the other night
at Washington between a freight and q
passenger train resulting in the killing of
the engineer of the passenger train and
badly injuring the fireman and one brake
man of the freight train.
FIVE hundred miners at Clarion and
Clear Run, Pa, have struck for an ad-
vance. The strike was in cooperation
with the striking miners Of Adrian and
Watson.
THE steamer Rothesay recently sank
the tug Moira near Brockville, Ont, and
two lives were lost
The business part of Dandy, N Y,
burned the other day. Cause, no fire ap-
paratus. Loss, $4,000.
THE verdict of the court-martial CASH
iering Colonel Fletcher, of Fort Omaha,
has been set aside on the grounds of per-
secution and conspiracy. This leaves the
prosecuting officers in bad fix.
A. II. WATsoN's plumbing shop in Chi
cago was wrecked, one employe fatally
injured and several persons more or less
hurt by flying missiles the other day by a
gas explosion.
The troubles of Erie and Garfield miners,
near Denver. Col, have resulted in blood
shed, one man being shot dead and another
fatally beaten.