The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

PIETRo BARANOvsKL a Pole, was hanged
at Pottsville, Pa, recently for the murder
of two women, which was committed while
he was robbing house.
MAJOR BURKE, ex-Treasurer of Louisi-
ana, has been indicted for the bond
frauds.
HARRY NJ. LoEHR, the tax boodler of
Bloomington. ILL.,, has been sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
THE wheat growers of the Mississippi
valley met in convention at 81. Louis on
the 23d.
AN alliance is reported between the Chi
cago & Northwestern and the Union Pa
cific sy stems. The c. & N. is under con-
troll of the Vanderblts, and the report
gave rise to considera bic speculation.
A MEETING was held at Washington on
the night of the 23d to perfect an organ
ization for securing the Worlds Fair in
that city.
BY the explosion of the boiler of steam
cotton gin near Pleasant Plains, Ark, the
other day, Flavel and Alphonso Robert
son, brothers, were fatally and two other
men seriously hurt
IT is the general impression OF officials
at the Navy Department that the board of
survey recently ordered on the Ossippee
Will IcpOit III AaFOA OA SOhUCbih'h5 'hO
vessel.
JUDGE MORRIS. of the United States
District Court of Baltimore. has decided
that the sinking of oyster pirate boats by
the State vessels was perfectly justifiable.
AN unknown man was found burned to
death in the Pendleton lodging house in
Duluth, MINI.
Two of the employees of the Pension
Office whose pens ions were rerated have
been officially requested to refund to the
Government the extra money paid to them
on account of such rerating.
IT is stated at Shanghai that the col
lapse of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma
terial for any Chinese railway.
A PLOT to release prisoners at Sing Sing
las been frustrated.
ADMIRAL GILLIS reports from Monte
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
GIANT powder was exploded in the bed
of Oscar Steinberg, sign painter, at
Butte Mont, while he was asleep the
other night, and he was fatally injured.
His wife and son were arrested for the
crime.
FIRE at Port Clinton, o., the other night
destroyed the lumber yard of August
Spies & Co. and other property. Loss,
$780, COO.
AN autopsy has been had on the body of
William Burns, a saloon passenger on the
steamer Hondo, who died on the steamers
arrival at New York quarantine 1t
showed conclusively that Burns died of
yellow fever.
The requirements of the United States
sinking fund for the present fiscal year
estimated at $4s,O0O,OO0. have been met
the bonds purchased on the Oath bringing
the total of this fund up to the amount re-
quired by law.
The examination of witnesses in the
Cronin case commenced at Chicago on the
oath.
THE annual report of the supervising in
spector of steam vessels shows that dur
ing fifteen years past the number of steam
vessels in the United States has increased
from 1855 to 6, 725.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that a railway company allowing
newsboys on its cars Is responsible for
any damages that they may receive. This
is the first decision Of its kind and is of
great importance to railroad people.
THE will of the late L. G. Babbitt, the
wealthy soap manufacturer OF New York,
has been probated. His widow is left the
family home and S4OO. 600 cash in trust for
their daughter Ida. Another daughter,
Lila E. Babbitt is left 100000 cash and
$500, 900 of Nav York Central q Hudson
River railroad stock
FIVE hundred Chicago tailors struck on
the Gath.
JUDGE PRENDERGAsT has issued war
rants for the arrest of w. E. Kent and
Thomas E. Downey, Chicago Fifth ward
politicians, charged with procuring
change of names Of election judges by
false representations.
The Jury in the case OF Assemblyman
Smith, of New York City, charged with
bribery at elections, were unable to agree
and were discharged.
The following amounts were pledged to
the New York Worlds Fair on the 24Ih;
c. Vanderbilt 100000; New York Central
& Hudson River Railroad Company, SlOO,'
600; Wagner Palace Car Company, So9
600; Joseph Pulitzer, $50, 900.