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

ADMIRAL JoUETT reports the cruiser
Dolphin in admirable condition, 'clean
and sweet"
THE Woman's Congress adjourned at
Denver. Col, on the 10Th after the elec-
tion of Julia Ward Howe, OF Rhode Island,
president.
JOHN BIsENBERGER, the wife beater, has
received punishment of the lash at the
whipping post in the Baltimore city jail
THE six white survivors of the negro
riot on the island Of Navassa, in the West
Indies, arrived at Philadelphia on the
10th. They were rescued by a British
cruiser in response to an appeal from the
American Consul at Kingston, Jamaica.
The heavy demand for steel rails has
caused n sharp advance in prices.
THERE has been a bu &c in the Chicago
wheat pit No. red passing Soc.
EARL NORTH, a blacksmith, viciously
assaulted two men and a woman on the
West Side at Chicago the other night He
was overpowered by a mob and was about
to be strung up when the police rescued
him.
FIVE hundred miners have struck at
Lens Arras in Belgium and are melting
others to the same course. 1t is thought
that the strike will be successful
INTEREST is again revived in the plans
of the Boulangist element in France by the
report which is current that General Bou-
langer has dispatched his trusted friend
and companion in exile, Count Dillon,
from the Isle of Jersey to Belgium, on
secret mission.
THE trotting match between Belle Ham
lin and Harry Wilkes at New York on the
11th was won by the former in 2:16% first
heat and 2:l9k second heat.
AxrELL won a race at Terre Haute, Ind,
on the 1lth, trotting a mile in 2:111s.
The Knights Templar conclave ended
at Washington on the 11th with grand
banquet
Four members of tho family of Patrick
Daily were killed recently by a natural
gas explosion at a village thirteen miles
from Bradford, Pa.
EIGHTEEN men were hurt, one fatally, in
a collision between a miners train and a
freight near Martins Ferry, o., on the
11th.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in the
department of Jura, France.
JUDGE RALLEY. of Carrollton, o, was
killed recently. He fell from tree while
picking apples
HALF a million pounds of tobacco have
been ruined about Flemlngsburg, KY, by
heavy frosts.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 10 numbered
PA, compared with 2O6 the week previous
and 227 the corresponding week OF last
year.
THE twelve-year-o daughter OF Mr..
Rydabaugh, living near Carlisle. Pa, was
gored to death by an infuriated bull.
Another child was severely injured.
THE president of the Alaska Commercial
Company says that the great increase of
illegal sealing in Alaska has largely de-
stroyed the profits of the company, and
renewal of the lease will not probably be
sought.
AN electric lineman was instantly killed
by shock on the corner of Center and
Chambers streets, New York City, the
other day. The force of the current
caused the blood to flow from the body
suspended in midair.
THE National conference Of miners OF
Great Britain have decided in favor Of
working day OF eight hours with the al
Tentative of a strike after January l.
A WELSH rector headed a party of
bailiffs and an auctioneer in an attempt
to collect ti,hes recently. but was igno-
miniously defeated, although he vigor-
ously used club ON his opponents.
The crop report Of Ohio shows more
encouraging state of affairs now that
wheat has been threshed.
JAMES GROSS, a student, tells a strange
story of tn, murder of another student by
Father Peters in convent at Marienfield,
Tex.
THREE bodies were found at Johnstown,
Pa, on the 11th by workmen while max
ing an opening to a sewer outlet. The
work of search has been stopped although
the stream is believed to contain many
da.d bodias q tho hottou,