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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHARLES BRADLAUGH, the English radi-
cal and free thinker, was reported crit
ically sick on the 22d.
THE German Reichstag was opened on
the 22d.
CONSUL LEWIS, late of Tangier, has
given his statement of the Imprisonment
affair to Secretary Blaine. No details of
the hearing were published.
The King of the Netherlands will abdi-
cate the title Of King Of Luxem burg in
favor of the Duke of Nassau.
RELIABLE news has been received by
Captain Wissman concerning Emin Pasha
and Henry M. Stanley, Signor Casati and
six Englishmen. They are all expected to
arrive at Mwapwa at the latter part Of
November. Captain Wissman also says
that he defeated force of insurgents
near Somwe and killed seventy of them.
COUNT OKUMA, Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, Japan, upon whose life an attempt
was made a few days ago. was more Sc
riously wounded than was at first sup
posed. The wound, which was on the leg,
assumed such state that amputation was
necessary.
LORD DERBY in a speech at Liverpool,
Endorsed Mr., Gladstone's foreign policy.
He deprecated alliances and said England
had no business to assist Germany in
keeping conquered provinces.
THE Parnell Commission recommended
Mt London on the oath.
WILLIAM G. GRESHAM, brother of United
States Circuit Judge w. q. Gresham. has
been appointed postmaster at St Peter,
Mimi.
A CONSERVATIVE defeated the Home
Rule candidate at Brighton, England.
The vote was I. 1872 to 1925.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter of the
rx-Confederate President. will spend the
winter in Europe
AT a Democratic meeting in Cincinnati
recently Judge Thurman, while making a
speech, was overcome with weakness and
had to abruptly close.
Hon. JEREMIAH MCGUIRE, ex-Speaker
Of the New York Assembly, died recent
ly. He had been in poor health for some
time.
THE Japanese Cabinet has resigned.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

SOME twenty representatives of the vari-
GUS cracker manufacturers of the Northern
section Of the country met at jackson,
Mich, on the 2Sth and organized cracker
trust. The organization is to force the
manufacturers to adhere to fixed
schedule.
WHILE prowling in cornfield near Deep
Creek, Va, Gypsy woman from camp
near by got caught in a bear trap. The
gun exploded and wounded the woman so
badly that she died where she was shot,
and her body was found lying alongside
the trap.
5MoRE than 5000 cigar-makers are still
out on a strike at Key West, Fla. Several
hundreds of the Cuban operatives havere-
turned to Havana.
MRS. NJ. A. YORK died at Newport, Ark.
on the 9th. The deceased was one of the
pioneers of that section, living the major
part of her sixty years in the neigh
borhood.
THERE was a $4,000 fire at Decatur,
Ala, on the 9th. Two blocks of buildings
were destroyed. The insurance amounts
to about two-thirds of the loss. Several
persons asleep in the buildings had narrow
escapes.
ABOUT midnight on the 27th mob sur
rounded the Lincoln county (W. Va) Jail,
forced an entrance after a short resistance
by the authorities, took two of the pris-
oners, Green Mccoy and Milton Haley, and
hung.them to a tree near by. Haley and
Mccoy were natives of Kentucky, and
were outlaws.
A RIOT at Delhi. La, on the 2oth took
place in which the stores of several Jewish
merchants were attacked by an armed
mob and fired into.
HENRY J. SMITH shot and killed John
Tullis at Tylertown, Miss, on the 9th.
The trouble grew out of dispute between
Smith and Mrs. Tullis as to the amount of
Tullis's Indebtedness to Smith, and Mrs
Tullis says he gave her the lie. Tullis
struck Smith with chair, when Smith
drew his pistol and fred three shots with
fatal effect.
THE President has acted unfavorably
upon the application for pardon in the case
of William Spencer, convicted November
%, 1888, Of assault with intent to kill and
sentenced to one years Imprisonment in
the Little Rock, Ark, penitentiary.
The Farmers, Alliance of North Carolina
has s5,0 900 members, and they are unit
in their detestation of trusts, especially the
jnte bagging trust, which they execi ate.
The Alliance is only two years old inlthe
State aud its growth is phenomenal.
Tue total fraudulent bonds put in circu-
lation by Ex- Treasurer Burke OF Louisiana,
amounts to SS73, 600, including $4,000 Of
constitutional bonds, $4,000 of which have
been recovered by the State authorities.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
THE BODY IDENTIFIED.

The Prosecution In tho Cronin Case Es-
tablishes the Identification of the
Body.
CHICAGO, Oct 26-When the taking of
evidence in the Cronin case was resumed
in the criminal court yesterday morning
the prosecution continued the presenta-
tion of witnesses whose only testimony
ives as to the Identification of the body as
that of DIR. Cronin. These were Nicholas
Wallen bern, wine and liquor merchant,
and friend of the dead doctor; I. T..
Conklin, the man in whose family Cronin
had lived for ten or twelve years; John
+. Scanlan, a member OF the Clan
na-Gael and an intimate friend and
par isan of DR.. Cronin; Frank Seaman,
brother of John F., and David p. Ahearn,
a merchant tailor who made the doctors s
clothes. The identification was very
perfect and very positive.
Whatever doubts had existed regarding g
the fact that DIR. Cronin was killed within
n short time after leaving the Conklin
residence was set at rest by the testimony
given at the afternoon session when Dr.
Egbert produced a number of jars con-
tanning the contents of the stomach of the
murdered man. The food, he said, had
scarcely commenced to digest and had
been taken in the stomach less than three
hours before death. The jury glanced at
the contents of the jars, while the people
in the court room craned their necks to get
a look at the receptacles.
The witness minutely described the
body. All the internal organs were in ex"
cellent condition and there was no. the
slightest evidence of disease. internal or
external, although the brain and its COW
ering were terribly decomposed.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
BRADSTREET.
What the Mercantile Agency Has to Say
For the Past Week.


For the Past Week.
NEW YORK, Oct. &c G-Bradstreet says
Special telegraphic investigation Of
domestic money markets revealed that
funds were easy at forty-nine out of sixty
nine cities reported. The important ones
reporting funds working close
were Chicago, Baltim r., Cleveland.
Teledo Peoria, Dayton, Birm-
ingham, Ala; Cincinnati, St
Louis and Omaha. Mercantile
collections were reported slow or unsatis-
factory at nineteen points, chief among
them being the two Portlands, Prov
idence, Sacramento, Burlington, Ia,
Grand Rapids, Detroit and Toledo
Wheat -four is less &C i've for export, owing
to lower offers and higher ocean rates
Wheat has been freely sold at times, the
total at New York aggregating nearly TO-
600, 900 bushels for the week. Exports of
wheat land -four as whea) }, both Goa SITS,
equal 2.l97, Ago bushels this week. against
2, 1853 535 bushels last week and ], S27 346
bushels in the corresponding week in 1888
Total shipments abroad from July l to
date equals 80 Gil, 103 bushels this year,
against 80 1874, 455 bushels in 1888 and 55,-
900, 900 bushels in 1887. Business failures
reported number 19) in the United States
this week, against 205 last week and 20S
this week last year. Total failures in the
United States from January l to date is
9.132, against 8, 8,074 in 1888.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Riddled With Buckshot.

Henry Mccullough, the foreman on
DR.. Perkins plantation, eight miles east
of Memphis, Tenn, was assassinated
after dark recently. He was sitting
with two other white men in an Office on
the place, when both barrels Of shot
gun were fired at him through ar open
door, by an unseen marksman outside.
Mccullough fell from his chair r!ddled
with buckshot. His companions rushed
out, but could not find the assassin in
the darkness. Suspicion, it is said,
points to a former negro tenant on the
place, with whose wife Mccullough was
supposed to have been intimate. An at
tempt was made to poison Mccullough
two months ago, and negro woman fell
a victim to the dose prepared for him in
his food. Williams was arrested charged
with the poisoning, but the proof was
not sufficient TO hold him.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Work of Wreckers.

bound eight train, No 92 on the Lake
Erie & Western railroad was wrecked at
Kokomo at four O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. The engine struck an obstruction at
the outskirts Of the city and with eight
or ten cars was thrown from the track.
Twelve oil cars exploded in quick success
sion setting fire to the box cars attached.
Two cars of merchandise and four OF coal
were consumed. Engineer MehL, Fireman
Edward Burnett and Head brakeman
John Spellman were thrown be-
meath the oil cars and burned to a
crisp The accident was the work Of
wreckers, this being the third attempt
made in that vicinity.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

GEORGE w. SHIRLEY, proprietor of
'the Merchants Hotel at Spencer. ILL.,,
was hanged in effigy to a tree in the
public square the other night because
OIL his marriage to Miss Frame. of
lerre Haute, when only two weeks
Previous his wife was buried. His
help about the hotel all left after
breakfast next morning.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
A Surprised Judge.

The ways of modern juries are past
finding out. Joseph Krank, young
German, was tried in the Circuit Court
at Louisville recently on charge of
stealing. The Court held that his guilt
was clear. and Krank himself admitted
the theft, but said that he did SO only in
fun. The jury found him not guilty,
however, and Judge jackson was so put
out that he lectured the jury as we'll as
have received five years.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

'LAUS SPRECKLEs in an interview
recently declared that he would fight
!ne sugar trust. with the aid of the in
Tefendent refinery firm OF Harrison &
irozels, to the bitter end. Harrison
ffozelS' refinery has daily capacity
VI seven thousand barrels and have
Ueen assured the support of the Penn
'9lVania railroad. Baltimore & Ohio
anu The Pacific Coast road controlled
OyC I. Huntington.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Cotton Converted Into smoke.

At Charlottesville, Ga, recently, a
spark from passing engine set fire to
twenty-five bales of cotton, which were
destroyed. The depot was also burned.as
we'll as the residences Of Mrs. Martha
Harris and DR.. 5. J. Farmer. The total
loss is $4,000
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
SOUTHERN GLEANiNoS.
A Yazoo River steamer sunk.

The steamboat Gamma, Captain d. c.
White commanding, sunk, few days
ago, at French bend, Yazoo river, below
Greenwood. This was her second sea-
son. She was run in the interest of the
Yazoo oil-mill and valued at $40, ,0Ce, and
was partly insured. She will probably
be raised
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

n WARRANT has been procured in
60 eau francisco for the arrest of United
s'a'es ~, Senator W. NJ. Stewart and his
va. "''o 'or perjury in connection with a
Sa'e .. oelng tried by which Senator
m. o"art Is seeking to obtain the per-
aSns ,lalsn' custody of his daughters two
tu'uren' The warrant was sworn to
y 8! a. r. Fox. the divorced husband of
Ouu n"'or otewarts daughter. Fox is
tt tStppOSihg Stewart's efforts to obtain
'Ao custody of the children.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

FREYTAG's book of the late Emperor
Frederick, entitled "a Contribution
Toward the History of the Making of
the New German Empire" is pub
lshed. 1t gives one of the most in
teresting pictures of Frederick that
nave yet appeared, and shows that he
was possessed Of the idea of forming an
Empire long before the scheme was
adopted by Prince Bismarck.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

HENRY WINTER, formerly postmaster
|at Cochecton. N. Y, detained his sue
ceSSors commission when he was re-
moved and got himself into trouble.
Judge Benedict. of the United States
Court, sentenced him to pay fine of
s25O and go to prison for one day.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Miss Johns Dead.

Miss Annie E. Johns, Of Leaksville,N n.
c.. is dead. She was literary character
of local reputation, the author Of Goo
lance" and other works. During the
war she spent much time in hospitals
and was known as THE Angel Of Mer-
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Cotton DESTROYED.

The depot of the Georgia Pacific rail-
way at Fayette Court House, eighty
miles west of Birmingham, Ala, was
burned, recently, with one hundred
bales of cotton and large amount OF
other freight. The loss is probably So.
600, with little or no insurance. A spark
from a passing locomotive is supposed
to have caused the fire by igniting a
bale of cotton lying on the depot plat
form
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Talked to by the Governor.

Governor Fowle of North Carolina
opened the colored State fair at Raleigh
with speech, few days ago. A large
audience of colored people were present,
and the Governors talk was very inter
esting.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

LEWIS A. BEACH, agent of the Cleve-
land u Marietta railroad and the
American Express Company at Phil
lipsburg, O., has disappeared, leaving
hn unknown shortage.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

TRADES procession, three miles
long and including 100 floats. was the
feature of the Arkansas Travellers
Protective Association meeting at
|Iittle Rock, Ark,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

A CONVENTION of persons interested
p the mining industry has been called
|Or Salt Lake City, Utah, November
~ to take steps to force change of
FuIing in regard to lcad-silver ore i.
noSSihIo
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has
left Washington for short visit to
Fort Monroe to recuperate his health.
which has been bad lately.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

ASSISTANT CHEF SANDERS, of the
bureau Of navigation of the Treasury
has been ordered to duty
in connection with the international
maritime conference.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

WHILE the steamship H. A. Hart
nan was crossing the Atlantic on its
Fast voyage the vessel struck an i'm
nense whale and cut it in two. The
pecan for more than a mile was COW
pred with the animals blood.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
An Unfair Discrimination.

Little Tommie-Mamma, i think
papa might take me wifi him as well as
other boys.
Mother-Your papa does not take
other boys. What put such an idea
into your head?
Little Tommie, Yes he does. mamma.
for heard him tell Mr.. Brown th2s ha
was out wifi the boys las night
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Murder at a Corn Husking.

There was husking bee at the farm
of John Mitchell, near Stuart, Patrick
County, Va, recently, during which
moonshine whisky flowed freely. Bur-
we'll Foley and Henry Haley had fight.
After the fight the dead body of Foley
was found in pile of husks. Haley
and negro named Obey, who, it is
thought, killed Foley, escaped.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

The traders and manufacturers oil
England are up in arms against the
unjust charges of the railways and the
high handed treatment accorded ship
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Remembered Thar Friend.

The letter-carriers of Charleston, S. c.,
in response to suggestion from the
letter-carriers of New York, have con-
tributed two dollars each to fund for
a monument to the late S. S. Cox.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

THERE has been falling off in the
receipt of hogs at Chicago and other
pork centers, due, it is thought, to the
large corn crop. The hogs are being
|leld and fattened.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

Az electric launch in England re-
,ently made sixty miles without re-
cbarcing the accumulation.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

GERMANY has extended its protec-
tion over further portions of the East
African coast, the nations agreeing.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
All Lovely.

The grand jury of Montgomery Conn-
ty, Ala, in arecent report, said ut
may be worthy of note as indicating un-
mistakably the relations of amity exist
ing between the races here, that no Sc
rious act of violence has been reported
to this grand jury, committed by white
person against a colored person or vice
versa, and that in nearly every instance
complaints of assault and battery and
assault with intent to kill were made by
colored persons against those of their
own race"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

JOEL B. MooREHEAD, a millionaire
philadelphia, is dead.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
Express Office Robbed.

The office of the the Southern Ex-
press Company at Jackson, Tenn, was
robbed recently of 81, 1875. The superin-
tendent Of the company will investi-
gate.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

IT is reported at Guthrie that the
Missouri Pacific system will be ex-
tended through Oklahoma.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

The Belgian Government has de-
,ded to adopt the Manser rife as the
arms to be used by the infantry.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

srs,y B. ANTHONY is hopeful OF
uoman suffrage in the State of South
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt over
, large part of Mexico the other day,
bnt no damage was done.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

,nv1cEs from Belle Isle and Labra-
-. chow continued destitution.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

rur Paris Exposition will close No
rember 3.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
More Indictments Against Burke.

The grand jury at New Orleans has
returned two more indictments against
exTressurer E. A. Burke for forgery in
uttering as true forged bonds of the
State.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

review of the calamities caused
isOo ,ue Japanese floods during the year
nIo, '' the Japan Mail says: "Incom-
s.o ,ao. returns show that twelve pre-
sures N.o'u have been devastated, 2,419
sS sTp,e apo Killed, l55 wounded and over
.nS' uIOvO people deprived of means of
b.. bsistenee. More than so, 900 houses
lsN 'e eoO Oeen swept away or submerged.
SCoS 1O'v acres OF crops destroyed, about
buOS.,i O,idges washed away and some
Dureds of miles of road broken nm. y
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
A Vigilance Committee.

A number of the best citizens Of the
section Of Catahoula Parish, La, says a
dispatch, have decided to organize Wig
ilance committee for the protection Of
the negro laborers Of the parish against
nightly raids of armed bands of white
men and colOred men, who have been
visiting the various plantations and
searching by armed force houses of la
borers, threatening and attempting the
lives of the tenants, and shooting at them
upon the public highway while in the
pursuit of their daily avocations.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31

tAa Csr S OF the lepers in the colony on
avss" Sanawlch Islands are men. The
elsrs ase Duration of the disease is
b, 'a o. years and the mortality fifty
cjar me me thousand. The local physi-
disease. ' Is d victim OF tho
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
A Reign of Terror.

James Howard, sheriff of Harrison
County, KY, was in Frankfort few
days ago and had conference with the
Governor about affairs in Harlan County.
The stories telegraphed from there, he
said, have not been exaggerated. There
is a reign of terror there that nothing but
force can break. Sheriff Howard, who
is a cousin of the outlaw leader, Wills
Howard, is anxious that the lawlessness
be suppressed, and does not seem to
want his relative protected. He did
not ask the Governor to send troops to
Harlan, but in talk after his confer
ence he said he did not see how the
trouble could be suppressed without the
aid of the militia, backed by the law.
He is not going home just yet, pre-
ferring TO wait for calm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-25
Charleston's Double Representatives
I'm the General Assembly.


BY constitutional enactment Charleston has
two Senators, while every other county has
but one.
BY methods which are unjust and unfair to
to the balance OF the State, Charleston holds
several sea Is in the House OF Representatives
TO which that county is not entitled.
With these facts before the public 1t is
Strange that any country delegate would vote
TO continue the unjust methods. But 1t IL
true, that there are country delegates who did
this very thing.
Upon the vote to deprive Charleston Of her
extra Senator the vote stood SO, yea; and 4S,
nay-not receiving the necessary two-thirds
vote the measure failed. or the 4S votes cast
Charleston, we believe, cast II votes-some
four or five OF which justly belonged to the
country districts.
When the country representatives educate
themselves to q proper sense Of right and
wrong, and when they more faithfully repre-
sent the interests of their constituents, Char
lesion will no longer be granted special priv
ileges and special advantages.
Why does Charleston want more than her
due share OF representatives? 1t cannot be
because she thinks 1t takes two Of her Sena-
tors to be the equal of one country Senator.
We think one good way to have the matter
settled right, would be for the country voters
to enquire who OF their delegates voted for the
Ubiquitous measure OF giving Charleston
double representation in the Senate, and then
put all such delegates on notice that such an
outrageous wrong will not be longer tolerated.
Proper self-respect on the part Of the coun.
try voter and the country delegate would for.
bid such a humiliating concession to Charles
ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-25
Judge COthrun ut Home.

Judge Cothran came home last Saturday,
and although he is on his feet, yet he is quite
unwell. He seems to be suffering with some
thing like cold.
We had hoped to Interview him on the sub
ject of his resignation, but owing to his indis-
position we have been unable to do. We will
say in the meantime, on our own account,
that the public need have no fears Of his re-
signing at any time, when his presence Is es-
sential to a faithful representation of this
people. While many good friends would he
glad to have him remain in Congress. yet
they wish him to occupy the place which best
suits him.
The position of attorney for the Richmond
and Danville system Is a good one, ana he
will be equal to the demands of the high posi-
ton.
1t has been suggested that his resignation
may take effect at an early day, but Of this we
do not know.
When the election OF his successor does take
place the people should demand the primary
election.