The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

A NATIONAL convention OF colorek
Catholics met at Cincinnati on the 9th.
THE revised estimate OF Census
Supervisor Gilbert puts the population
Of Chicago at 1,100, ,000-possibly few
more than that number.
THE story of the killing of Court Clerk
Spalding Of Chamberlain, s. D., by
Cheyenne Indians is positively denied.
THE recent disaster by fire at Fort de
France, Martinique, inflicted a loss of
SO, 600, 000 Fully three-fourths of the
place was destroyed.
THE independent brewers of Chicago
cate. Prices have already dropped from
So to So. so per barrel and further cuts
are expected.
THE United States war ships Ranger
and Thetis have been ordered to the
west coast of Central America to guard
United States interests in case of war
between Salvador and Guatemala.
THE National Educational convention
at St. Paul, Mimi, elected William r.
Garrett, of Nashville, Tenn, for presi-
dent. Prof. James II. Garfield, OF Law
renee, Kan, was elected one of the
vice-presidents; also Prof. Buchanan, of
Kansas City, Mo. James NJ. Green
wood, Of Kansas City, Mo-, was chosen
treasurer.
THREE ladies were killed recently
near Auburn, N. Y, by a train on the
Lehigh Valley road striking their
buggy.
A FATAL race riot occurred at Starts
mill pond, Fayette County, Ga, recent
ly. The trouble commenced in a dis
pute over some wine between a negro
and white man. After the fighting it
was found that eighteen were killed
and wounded. Four of the dead were
negroes.
AT Dartmouth, N. S., recently about
700 persons were precipitated into the
water by the sinking of the front end of
a bridge. BY desperate efforts all but
seven or eight were rescued.
ADvIcEs from st. Johns, N. F., say
that there have been 2,671 cases of diph-
liberia and 500 deaths since the outbreak
of the epidemic. Tho disease is now
under control.
THE coroner's jury in the Dunbar,
Pa, mine disaster has returned verdict
holding Superintendent Robert Lang
criminally responsible for the disaster.
RAY HAWK, a boy, and Fred Arm
strong, a man, were killed by choke
damp in an old shaft at What Cheer,
Iowa.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended July 10 num-
bered 1877, compared with 1879 the previ-
GUS week and 2O9 the corresponding
week of last year.
A SPARK frop a workingman's pipe
started fire in Wassil jervo, Russia, in
which 329 dwellings were burned, and
seven persons perished.
THE Henry Miller brewery, Philadel-
phia, was damaged 500, 900 by fire the
other day. Two men were slightly in
jured.
AT Ysleta, Tex, a terrible faction
fight was reported on the night of the
11th for possession of the city govern
ment Quite number were killed and
wounded.
BY an explosion of fireworks at Brunn,
Austria, a man and his wife and two
children were killed.
THERE was an explosion and fire on
the lake steamer Tioga at Chicago on
the 11th. A number of stevedores en-
gagged in unloading were burned to
death, though desperate efforts were
made to rescue them from the hold.
EDWARD d. GALLAGHER was hanged
at Vancouver, Wash, for a murder last
November. He died cursing the sheriff.
ALFRED COOPER, colored, was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala. He smoked Gig
arctic until the black cap was drawn
over his face.