The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-31
THE Episcopal convention adjourned


sine die at New York on the oath.
FIFTEEN farms near Fergus Fails, Minn.,
have been devastated by prairie fires.
The recent wheat growers convention
at St Louis, after the adoption of resolu-
tions, elected the following officers: Pres
ident, Hon. Norman j. Colman, OF Mis-
sour, with the privilege of naming his
own secretary; executive board, w. l.
Scott and A. d. Noe, Of Kentucky; N. J.
Colman and U. 3. Hall, of Missouri; f. H.
Murphy and z. A. O'Dell, of Minnesota; !;
d. b. Green and J. I. McCaffrey. of Illi-
nois; Calvin Cole and George Gibson, of
Oregon; Walter N. Allen and ex-Gover-
nor Charles Robinson, of Kansas; J. A.
Coates and d. A. Eppson, OF Indiana; N.
o. Walker, of Tennessee, and IL N. Sar-
gent, of Ohio.
THE Russian Government has offered
prizes of 2 900 francs and large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
on the part John Howard took in prison
reforms, to be delivered at the fourth in
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year.
THE strike of the switchmen at Evans
Vile, Ind, has ended in the defeat of the
men, many OF whom have lost their places.
GEORGE CURTIS and Charles Kimm OK
have been held for trial at Ashland, Wis.,,
on the charge of being principals in a
prize fight
AN explosion of dynamite in Montreal.
Can, the other morning caused one death
and the serious injury of five other per-
sons.
THREE trainmen lost their lives in burn
ing oil by a wreck and explosion on the
Lake Erie & Western at Kokomo recently.
Their awful fate was the work of un-
known miscreants who placed an obstruc-
tiou on the track.
DESTRUCTIVE wood fires were reported
at Winchester, forty miles below Pine
Bluff, Ark.
REV. j. w. PowELL's private bank at
Fostoria, o., has closed its doors. The
assets and liabilities are each about $24,-
000
BY the premature explosion of a cannon
during political meeting at GAINESVILLE,
O., William Nevitt was blown fifty feet
and fatally injured.
FIRE in Port Leyden, N. Y, the other
night destroyed nine business houses and
seventeen dwellings causing 500, OCO loss
with $60 900 insurance.
THE State Departments estimates for
1s9)-91 aggregate about $4,000, ,0O0 The
ne" itCih 10 SojVVO iOA hO" AoA "a
ture for the department rooms.
MICHAEL DAvITT asserts that the Pigott
forgeries were known to lie forgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union, before they were pub
lished in the London Times.
GEORGE SABoURIN aged twenty -one,
working on a new Congregational church
at Newport Vt, recently fell eighty feet
from the spire and was fatally injured.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken
place on the island of Savaii between the
forces of Malietoa and Tamasese. Which
par Y won was not known.
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
of railroads, as often mooted, is not at
present feasible.
THE negroes concerned in the fatal riot
ing on Navassa island, West Indies, have
been landed at Baltimore and jailed.
Two children were fatally injured at
Franklin, Pa. They had found a dyna-
mite bomb and were playing with it when
it exploded. Eight other children were
seriously hurt.
BUSINESS ia lures (Dun's reporD for the
seven days ended October "a numbered.
including Canada, 225, compared with PSI
the corresponding week of last year.
CHARLES MCILvAIN, nineteen years old,
murderer of Christian w. Luca while
committing burglary on the night of Au-
gust 21-22 last has been sentenced to
death by electricity at Sing Sing prison
in the week beginning December g.
AT the instance of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Chung
Lee, Buffalo IN. W laundryman, has
been arrested for abducting two little
girls from their homes.
A SUPPOSED Tascott was arrested al
Reading, Pa, ON the 25th. The detectives
were sure of their man.