The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


the Attorney-General for an opinion as
to whether he has the authority TO
place premium on gold bars withdrawn
from the New York assay Office for ex-
port.
ONLY about eighty men were at work
on the Nicaragua canal June 1.
THE striking brakemen on the Pitts
burgh & Charleston road have been paid
off and discharged.
Miss ANNIE FELTON, REYNOLDS is the
first woman dentist TO graduate in Mas
sachusetts She received the highest
honors in the Boston Dental College
ROBERT A. WARD, champion amateur
half mile runner of the United States,
died suddenly at I1illsdale, Mich.
Two men we're drowned by the cap
sizing of boat near Santa Cruz, Cal.
The third was rescued just in time.
A REIGN of terror is reported in Polk
County, Tex, caused by negro killing
white man. The negro was lyHched
when band OF negroes killed two of
the supposed regulators.
THE Superintendent of the Census
has allowed supervisors TO issue esti-
mated returns in advance of the official
figures
A HEAVY storm visited Louisville,
KY, on the 10Th and the people were
terror stricken, as they feared another
cyclone. Considerable damage was done
by wind and lightning.
CRETAN Christians recently ambushed
and shot three Turkish soldiers and a
Cretan Mussulman. A body of Mussul-
mans in revenge killed Christian.
SURGEONGENERAL HAMILTON, of the
marine hospital bureau, is not inclined
to fear cholera's appearance in this
country from Spain because of the sani-
tary precautions
JOHN w. MACKAY, the bonanza king,
has sued Cassius III. Reed and Edwin 5.
Stokes, of New York City, for 1852, 597
with interest from January, 1889.
SIR Z. X. c. BRADFORD is the new
chief of police for London.
A TERRIBLE accident happened early
the other morning near Childs, Md, on
the Philadelphia division of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad by which two
men were killed and several persons
were more or less injured. Among the
injured was Bishop Keane, of the Cath
olic University at Washington.
THE flint glass workers have present
ed a scale advancing wages 12 per cent.
to the manufacturers, who have it un-
der consideration.
SEVEN thousand cloak cutters and
makers have been locked out in New
York City.
THE President has signed the bill
granting $50 month pension to Mrs.
Della Parnell, mother of the Irish
leader.
CoRcoRAN and McAfee, charged with
Wholesale fraud during the last Chi
cago election .were acquitted.
THE Chicago News asserts that the
census of that city shows population of
1885, 900.
JOSIAH PORTS and Elizabeth Potts,
man and wife, were both hanged to-
gether at Elko, New, for the murder of
Miles Fawcett in January, 1888. Both
died protesting their innocence.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June 10 numbered
199 compared with 212 the previous
week and a2O the corresponding week of
last year.
THE Post-office Appropriation bill as
laid before the Senate calls for $72, 461,
600, an increase of $473, 1000 over the
House measure.
AN awful tornado visited Illinois on
the afternoon of the Goth. In the vi
cinity of Earlville twenty-five lives
were lost. Four were killed at the viii
lage of Sublette, south of Dixon. At
Cornell much damage was done and four
persons were fatally injured.