The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-20

| at Mr.. Gladstone while be was travelling
in Cornwall recently. II missed its mark.
A TERRIBLE fire was reported sweeping
the Wisconsin forests near Superior. Loss,
$500, 900.
The cabmen Of Paris followed up their
strike with q riot on the 18th.
IT is reported In London that members
Of the Clan-na-Gasl committee who
signed the majority report finding DR..
Cronin guilty OF treason to the organiEa-
| tion and fencing him to be removed are
James ]. Rogers, Brooklyn, n. Y; P. o.
O'Brien, Pittston, Pa; Christopher F.
ByrneS Saxonville, Mass; John d.
Mcmahon. Rome, N. Y.
WHILE a drum corps composed Of colored
men was parading the streets OF Will
mington, Del, the other night q crowd OF
small boys made an attack upon them.
when the colored men drew pistols and
fired on the boys, killing one and wound.
ing several
The Chippewa Indians of Mile Lac,
Minn., went on the war-path after a big
dance and drunk, numbering three Sweds
families. The Indians were excited by Q
rumor that their lands were to be taken.
Immediate steps were taken by the mil.
itary to suppress the hostile bucks
FOURTEEN thousand people ore still un.
registered in the Conemaugh valley. Over
| 1900 bodies have been recovered The
debris at the bridge has been fred. There
was an overpowering odor of burning
flesh. How many lives were lost will
therefore remain q matter of conjecture.
Ii Is officially announced that the Nor
gan line of steamers have suspended their
trips between New Orleans and Vera Cruz
owing to the rigid quarantine established
by the Louisiana authorities.
The short session of the Mexican Con.
gress adjourned on the 14th to meet again
September Is
A MRS. KIRocHNoR and her grandchild
were suffocated in a tenement house fire
in Norfolk street New York, the other
evening. An oil stove exploded.
AN unknown woman between forty and
fifty years old jumped into the rapids OF
Niagara river above the falls recently and
her body was whirled over in a moment.
She had evidently contemplated suicide.
JUDGE TULEY ordered the release OF
Alexander Sullivan on the writ of habeas
corpus at Chicago ON the 14th. He held
that the evidence connecting Sullivan
with the murder of DIR. Cronin was too
weak. Sullivan's bond was fixed at
$50. 600
AN unknown man was beheaded by
cable cars In San Francisco the other day
the third fatal accident in a week
GEORGE and Charles Sherwood, sons of
a railroad conductor, were drowned re-
Gently near Chicago, while trying to swim
ILLINOIS has been officially quarautined
against Southern cattle in order to pre-
vent the introduction of Texas fever If
possible.
jim CHALTY, chief of the Snake river
band of Chippewas has conferred with
Captain Ssanch. He said that the recent
trouble was caused by whisky, and there
would be no general uprising, as the In
dians desired TO maintain peaceful re-
lations between themselves and the
whites. 1t was stated that only one
white man was killed.
THE crew of the Russian schooner David
has been landed at Southampton, En-
gland. The schooner was sunk by a COL
lision with the North German Lloyd
steamer Trave.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June 13 numbered $50,
compared with 225 the previous week and
232 the corresponding week OF last year.
AT a public meeting in Cork, Ireland,
to express sympathy for the sufferers of
the Conemaugh valley, after some warm
hearted speeches had been made, a SUBJ
scription was opened and in few min
utes 81, go was contributed.
THERE was a serious conflict between
whites and blacks recently at Given's
store, eighteen miles southeast Of Austin,
Tex. The trouble originated in a co,ored
justice of the peacs's office. SIX or eight
men were killed on both Sides The whites
were arming and the negroes were in
furiated and grave fears of worse trouble
existed,