The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SENATOR FARwELL introduced bill,
on the 25th, to pension Mary, widow of
The late General Crook, at the rate of
81, 900 per annum.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, after a
short stay at FREDERICKSBURG, will visit
England.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the 18th, &C
tepted the resignation of Count Herbert
Bismarck as Minister of Foreign Affairs
and appointed Herr Won Alvensleben,
herman Ambassador to Belgium, to
succeed him.
MIR. DAvITT, at a meeting of the
striking Liverpool lockers, on the 25th,
approved their aim, and assured them
of the support of the knights of Labor
and other labor unions.
THE village of Womelsdorf, Pa, is
greatly excited over the startling death
Of Johnny Lehman, aged nine years. A
thorough investigation leaves no room
to doubt that it was a genuine case of
black vomit.
FIVE negroes, two men, one woman
and two children, were drowned, on the
25th, at Arkansas City, Ark. Seven got
into a boat to go to the railroad that
they might go out of the water and hunt
work. The boat sunk and five lost their
lives One man and child five years
Did were saved.
THE casket with the body of General
Robert c. Schenck arrived at Dayton,
o., from Washington, on the evening of
the 25th, in charge of Captain Woodruff
schenck, a nephew of the deceased.
The Generals daughters were also of
the party. The body was taken to the
residence of Robert c. Schenck, Jr.
The steamship City of Pekin arrived
from China and Japan on the 25th,
bringing advices that on February 81
$50 houses were destroyed by fire in
Toxic. Two persons were killed and
about twenty-five firemen more or less
injured One hundred and eighty-seven
houses were burned in the city on the
preceding day, and on March about $50
were destroyed, and several firemen
were injured. The fires originated &C
cidentally.
THE Liverpool dock-laborers' strike
ended on the Goth.
TIE entire northwestern portion of
the town of Pioneer, o., was destroyed
by fire on the Goth.
THE Senate committee on claims rem
1ered favorable report, on the Goth,
on the French Spoliation or Fourth of
July Claims bill as it passed the House.
The case of Reporter Choate for
eavesdropping in the Flack jury-room.
was called in the New York Court of Oyer
and Terminer, on the Doth, and an effort
was made to make the city editor of the
World co-defendant
MAJOR GEORGE CHRISTIAN, Jacob
Wissler and Mr.. Prince, representing
the Farmers Alliance of the United
States, have concluded to establish the
Alliance Agricultural Works at Iron
Gate, Va. The works will employ from
800 to 500 hands, and their products will
go to every SURVEILLANCE in the country,
representing four million members.
THE various detachments of troops on
the island of Crete are being supplied
with large quantities of ammunition.
MANUFACTURERS at Manresa, Spain,
are closing their mills in anticipation
of a general strike.
The House committee on agriculture,
on the Goth, authorized a favorable re-
port On MI. DutbSTNOrbu JILL ucaulHB
s.options" and futures" and imposing
special taxes on dealers therein.
The new Servian loan offered in Paris
has already been taken up. The
amount of the subscriptions was three
times as great as the loan.
HERR VoN ALvESsLEBEN has declined
the Office of German Minister of For
eign Affairs.
JoHS A. DAVIS, late city treasurer Of
Rochester, N. Y, pleaded guilty, on the
e7th. to the charge of embezzlement
and was sentenced to the Auburn State
prison for i've years.