The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

OFFICIAL returns from indianapolis
gives Sullivan (Democrat) l. $40 majority
over Coburn (Repnblican) for mayor
Swift (DemocraD for city clerk has a
majority over Taft (Republican) Of /, 253
The Board of Aldermen comprises five
Republicans and five Democrats and the
Council ten Republicans and fifteen Dem
ccrats.
NEWS from Bay st. Paul, Quebec, states
that six inches of snow had fallen there.
There was also a slight fall at the River
Apierre, and a fishing party just returned
from Great Lake jacques Cartier, near
the summit crest of the Laurentides, re-
ports winter almost set in there.
WHILE a priest was saying mass at the
altar of the Cathedral at the City of Mex
leo recently he fell upon his facs in dy-
ing condition. The Archbishop and others
went to his assistance and physicians
were summoned, but life was already ex-
tinct
THE Supreme Court of the Chickasaw
Nation has sustained the constitutionality
of an act of the Legislature disqualifying
"squaw" men, or white men with Indian
wives. The latter were much incensed
and threatened to work for the opening Of
the Territory and the abolition of the tribal
system.
The magnificent residence of Mr.. Glenn
Studebaker, recently erected at South
Bend, Ind. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
In the case of Kemmler, the Buffalo, N.
Y, wife murderer, the courts have held
that death by electricity is constitutional.
A DECISION of ex-Commissioner Tanner
by which that official doubled all pensions
of s. per month has been revised by Sec
retary Noble. The act of Tanner in this
matter was one of the causes of his re-
movaL
THE steamer Herman Winter ran into
and sank the lighter, Manhatten in New
York harbor recently. The fifteen men
on the lighter escaped.
AT Davis & Lamar's kaoline mine, near
Atkin, s. C., mass of clay caved in, fall
ing on Thomas Woolly, the superintend-
ent. killing him instantly.
THE fertilizer factory Of g. Ober, Sons
& Co., at Locust Point, near Baltimore
Md, burned recently. The loss was esti-
mated at $200,o00
ADvICEs received at the Marine Hos
pital state that there are several cases of
yellow fever at Key West lut that there
is no danger of the disease spreading.
The largest double track drawbridge in
the world, which spans the Thames river
in Connecticut, was formally opened on
the 10th.
GOVERNOR LEE has respited Simon
Walker, colored. of Chesterfield County,
for thirty days. He was to have been
hanged for crimlnally assaulting a white
girl about twelve years of age
THE only saloon in Lafayette, O., was
wrecked by a mob the other morning.
Every thing was ruined.
THE Methodist Church South met in an
nual conference at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
on the 9th, Bishop Keener presiding.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR have elected j. p. 8.
Goblin, of Pennsylvania, grand master and
Hugh McCurdy. of Michigan, deputy grand
master.
TIE Inman steamer City of New York
got stuck In a mud bank in the lower bay
near Sandy Hook on her last trip. The
passengers were taken of by tugs.
A FaEIeHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, at McKeesport, ran down two
women and q small boy at the Martins
street crossing. The boy, Willie Jones,
was fatally injured
THE .'consciencs" contributor who cast
a slur on the late Mr.. Manning concerning
a payment to the treasury few years
aeo has bsen Iebuked. The Treasury
Department, finds that the money has
been properly accounted for.
COMMANDER GooDRIoH, chairman OF the
trial boarJ, has telegraphed Secretary
Tracy that the test of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius has been successful in degree
aot anticipated.
AMosG the passengers arriving by the
City of New York was Mrs. George
Gould, who was quite sick. She had been
delivered OF a still-born child during the