The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-12-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


TWELVE HUNDRED Clyde (Scotland)
engineers went out on strike on the 25th.
Eighteen firms, under pressure OF con-
tracts, were obliged to conccde the
strikers demands.
GEORGE II. WILLIAMS, colored, aged
thirty years, was found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree at Wilmington,
Del. lie was charged with killing Wal
ter E. Wright white boy about eight
cen years of age.
THE Plummerville and Morrillton
ARK ballot-box theft trials were con-
cluded in the United States Court at
Little Rock, on the 25th when in the
case Of Walter p. Wells, o. T. Bentley
and others the jury returned verdict of
not guilty.
THE Pacific Mail Steamship Com
panys new 81 ZOO, 900 steamship, the
China, recently reported aground near
Yokohama, was fioated off and pro-
ceeded, without having sustained any
apparent damage,
THE $50 miners who were entombed
in a flooded mine at Recklinghausen, in
Westphalia, were all rescued.
lSADOhE u
clothing dealer, has made an assign
ment, for the benefit of creditors, to
Simon Bacharach, of the firm OF A.
Bacharach & Co. The liabilities are es-
timated at S225, 600; assets nominal.
A PLOT to depose King Alexander Of
Servia and to put Prince Peter Kan
georgvitch in his place has been dis
covered at Belgrade. Many Russian
diplomates are said to be implicated in
| the plot.
PHILIP LA CosTE, life prisoner, was
| terribly stabbed in the neck by John f.
Mccarthy, highwayman, at the Rhode
Island State prison on the 25th. Both
| were employed in the shoe-shop, and
Mccarthy stepped up behind La Coste,
put shoe-knife in the back of his vic
TINS neck, and drew it around one side
of the neck. La Coste, who will die,
| was sentenced for murder.
HENRY T. SCHALI, the young man
| employed in the cashiers department of
the Northwestern Railway Company at
Chicago, who left that city last January,
after taking, as alleged, S12, 900 of the
company's funds, returned on the 25th.
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
NOTICE of appeal from the decision of
the New York City Supreme Court sus-
| tanning the order of Justice Barrett dis
solving the North River Sugar Refining
| Company was filed on the Goth.
THE law committee of the New York
| City Council, on the Goth, reported to
the aldermen an ordinance which will
allow the playing of organs in the city
streets between the hours of a. N. and
ID. m. The number is, however, limit
ed to three hundred organs.
THE election for Mayor of Providence,
r. l., on the Goth, resulted in no choice.
AMOS, Jacob, Charles and James
Long, brothers, and all leading citizens
and churchmen of Pine Grove, Pa, were,
on the Goth, arrested for burglary The
residence of Jacob Long was searched,
and a complete burglars outfit captured.
| ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
the holding of an exhibition at Kin gs-
ton, Jamaica, to be conducted under
| government auspices.
| AN east-bound Pennsylvania freight
was wrecked at Falmouth, Pa, on the
night of the 25th, by broken axle.
Fifteen loaded cars were derailed, and
| eight of them fell into the canal. A
number of cattle in the cars were drown
ed.
AMONG the passengers of the City of
Paris, which sailed from New York, on
the Goth, were Hon. Edward Stanley,
son of the Governor-General of Canada;
Lady Stanley, who is the daughter of
the Duke of Manchester, Vice-Admiral
of the Royal navy; Sir Michael c. Sey-
mour; Mrs. B. Lowdon Snowden, OF
Philadelphia, wife of the United States
Minister to Greece, and Hon. ID. j. Par
tello, United States Minister to Dussel-
dorf.
THE roller-process flour-mill, saw-mill
and undergrad of J. A. Taylor, at Safe
Harbor, Pa, were burned on the Goth;
loss, $4,000.
IT was announced, on the Goth, that
the sale of the Fort Worth road to the
Union Pacific had been effected, but
that the officials were not yet ready to
give out detailed statement.
KING CARLOS of Portugal has had the
Necessidades Palace prepared for the
reception of his great uncle, Dom Pedro,
although he is not certain that the ex-
lied Emperor will reside there.
SECRETARY BLAINE is engaged in ne
gotiating an international copyright
treaty with France.
The City of Boston was visited by a
very destructive confagration on the
2Sth. Several squares of the most cost
ly business houses of the city wepe
burned. The loss was variously stated
at from S., 900, 900 to SO, 900, 900.
RT. Hon. PETER O'BREN, now Attor-
ney-General for Ireland, is to succeed
Sir Michael Morris as Lord Chief-Justice
of Ireland.
THE Governor of Obock has induced
the ruler of Tajurah, in Northeast Afri-
ca, to sign a treaty for the suppression
of slavery. Tajurah has been one Of the
,hief stations of slave caravans.
JOHN v. BEDLE, aged eighteen, and
Miss Amelia Taylor, aged seventeen,
were married without the knowledge Of
their parents at Freehold, N. j., on the
27th.
THE French-Canadians threaten, If
the French, as an official language, and
the separate schools are abolished, to
appeal to the French Government for