The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-21

lN o collision between freig 1T trains
near Danville, KY, the other night two
mon were killed and much damage done.
THE grand jury at Hazard, KY, found
two indictments for murder against the
Fugetts 1t Is believed that forty more
indictments will be found for murder,
and that at least twenty-five hangings
will be the result
FIVE persons have died at Nicolaeff,
Russia, from disease supposed TO be
Asiatio cholera. Eleven cases of the
disease have been reported there so far.
The Porto has boon asked to quarantine
all arrivals from places on the Black
sea.
MARY l. WELDON, of Schweinfurth's
Heaven" at Rockford, Ill, gave birth
to girl baby. Schweinfurth claims that
the Weldon woman was with child by
the Holy Ghost The community was
reported indignant
JAMES FITzPATRIcK, president of the
Interstate Basel Ball League and city
treasurer OF Terre Haute, Ind, Is
charged with being a defaulter in the
last two years for 50, 400.
n ofEClAI W Guo lOS aukol6Sp Sdl-,
Times from Azusa, says: Bentley, the
editor OF the News, was taken out by an
armed body of men and tarred and
feathered for publishing an article re-
flecting on the conduct OF c. f. Frazier
while teacher Of q grammar school"
SMALLPOX is causing many deaths in
the ranks Of the Guatemalan army on
the Salvadorian frontier.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand barrels of
whisky were burned in fire at the
Barkhouse distillery, Louisville, KY,
on the 14th. The loss was heavy, the
property destroyed being valued at
$500, 900.
MANY lives have been lost by an over
flow OF the river Ganges in India.
THERE was bad explosion recently
at the Kendall soap factory, Providence,
r. /. Fire broke out and acids were
blown over number Of men.
INFORMATION has been received of the
murder in the Soudan by Arabs of f. NJ.
Gates, L. Kin0man and John E. Jader-
quist, Presbyterian missionaries, who
left the United States in May last.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor) for
the seven days ended August IA num-
bered 1877, compared with 208 the pre-
vious week and 213 the corresponding
week of last year.
THERE was terrible cloudburst at
Colorado Springs, Col, recently. A
man and woman were swept away and
drowned. The damage to the city and
vicinity amounted to $500, 900.
CHOLERA has appeared at Cairo, Egypt.
UNKNOWN miscreants placed ties on
the B. &c o, track twenty miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa, and wrecked an excur-
sion train. Two engineers and tramp
were killed.
By the explosion Of centrifugal ex-
tractor in the cleansing room of the
Tillit silk mills at Pottsville, Pa, girl
was killed and young man fatally in
jured.
THE spring wheat crop of the North
west is estimated at 90, 900, 900 bushels
so, 900, 900 in the Dakotas and $4,000, 900
in Minnesota.
ALFRED LUDINGToN and George d.
Rossitu, two Pinkerton policemen from
Philadelphia on duty at Albany, n. Y,
were killed by passenger train while
walking on the track. s.
TIE memorial to Daguerre, presented
by the National Photographers Asso-
citation. was recently unvailed by Secre-
tary Noble in the rotunda of the Nation
al Museum at Washington.
THE population of the State Of Della
ware is 1851. The population in 1880
was 146, COS. The increase, therefore,
has been 81. 263. or IA so per cent
THE population Of Providence, R l.,
is 1872, 043 against 104, SS7 in 1880, an in
crease of 81, 1856, or 25 93 per cent