The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

pERsONAL AND POLITICAL.
nr John FARNHAM BoYNToN died at
svracuse, N. Y, recently, aged fifty
400 lie invented tho Babcock fire ex-
,ircuisber. He had been married three
Zines. the second time in balloon In
Now York. He was divorced from the
woman he married in mid air.
AnvIcEs from South America state
chat the Chilians are indignant at the
Tronch Government for aiding the no
,orious Dreyfus claim and are prepared
% onnose a firm resistance to French
GrSERAL HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY,
.ho first Governor of Minnesota and the
on1v Democrat who over held that Of
fee suffered n stroke of paralysis at St
panl on the 2lst and was in a critical
condition.
TuE French Chamber OF Deputies will
discuss a proposal to place poll-tax on
foreigners.
THE Parliamentary election in the
EccIes division of Lancashire result ted
in n victory for the Gladstonians. Mr..
Roby. the Liberal candidate, received
1901 votes and Mr. Edgerton, Conserva-
tive, 1896 In the preceding election
the Liberal candidate received 8, 9S5 and
the Conservative 4,277.
Asa result of the recently reported
attempts upon the life of the Gar all
of the palaces and many of the official
buildings, as we'll as tho public squares
and parks of St Petersburg, have been
closed to the people.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in a recent speech,
approved combinations of workingmen,
which had had much to do with improving
their condition. lie deprecated appeals
TO Parliament to help workingmen out
of difficulties.
SENATOR MCPHERSON has discovered
errors in the Tariff act which he thinks
fatal TO its enforcement Government
officials, however, while admitting the
errors think they can haze no effect on
the act as a whole.
SENATOR J. S. C. BLACKBURN was Sc
vcrely hurt recently by being thrown
out of his buggy in runaway near
Versailles, Ky.
A NOTABLE wedding took place at
Chicago on the 23d, the only son of
Marshall Fold being married to Miss
Abertina luck
THE University OF Cambridge, En-
gland, has conferred degree on Henry
NJ Stanley, the African explorer.
Two candidates for the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench have appeared in the
Northwest They are Senator w. +.
Sanders, of Montana, and exRepresent-
ative w. II. Calkins, of Washington.
WILLIAM OBRlEN, in an interview at
Paris, said that the Irish party was as
sured that the American tour of himself
and Mr.. Dillon would yield sufficient
funds to last until the general election.
ENSIGN RUMsEY, Of the United States
steamer Swatara was accidentally
drowned at Yokohama August 81.
THE Sultan of Vitu, East Africa, has
refused to give redress for recent mas
sacres and is preparing for war with
England and Germany.
THE vacancy in the United States SUI
preme Court will, it is now said, not be
filled until after Congress convenes in
December.
BUSINESS in Portugal is at stand
still because of the serious decl ne OF
Portuguese funds on tho London mar
ket. 1t is believed that revolution
VIII soon occur.
ROBERT p PORTER, Superintendent of
the Census, has returned from Europe.
The Roman Catholic priests and
monks in Milwaukee have all registered
and, for the first time, will vote at the
election against the Bennett law.
COLONEL n. n. Cox has been nom
mated to succeed Hon. w. c. Whit
borne, the present incumbent by the
seventh Congressional Democratic con-