The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-30

and Tennessee rivers at Paducah, Ky,
greatly alarms the residents.
THE grand jury at Denver, Col, has
indicted the Secretary of State and other
persons for frauds in public contracts.
Four negroes, brothers, are in Jail at
Raleigh, n. c., charged with hoodooism
JAMES BLACKWELL and his two sons
were drowned recently while crossing
the Tradewater, near Providence, Ky.
J. w. AVERY, of North Carolina, a
| clerk employed in the geological survey
| Office at Washington, by mistake took a
drink of carbolic acid from an unlabled
bottle which he thought contained
whisky and died in a few minutes.
An aged couple named ComstOck,
while returning from funeral at Wal
ton, Conn, were run into by a train on
the Danbury & Norwalk railroad and
both were fatally injured.
The board of guardians of the work
house at Cork, Ireland, has been Off
cially dissolved for adopting political
resolutions.
The Milwaukee express on the Chi
cagO IL Northwestern recently ran into
a funeral procession at Chicago, killing
four of the mOurnerS.
POTTs, the noted Des Moines search
er," has been sentenced to three years
in the Iowa penitcntiary on the indict-
ment for perjury growing out of his
liquor seizures. Hamilton, his code
fendant, was acquitted.
THIRTEEN prominent young men living
! at Givinnsville, Ind, have been arrested
on suspicion of being Whitecaps.
By an explosion in a colliery near
Newport, Pa, five miners were killed.
IN the district court at Fort Worth,
Tex, jury allowed C. E. Bebee $1,000
damages for being placed on the black
list by the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company.
THE Missouri Pacific has followed the
Chicago e Alton and the Wabash and
has made livestock rate of ~ cents
from Missouri river and intermediate
points to st. Louis and East St Louis.
TIE supposed express robbers and
murderers. Brown, Wallace and Dulancy,
were identified by Engineer Spaulding,
at Brownsville, Tex, and held in $1,000
bail each. They were already under
s., 900 bail for cattle stealing.
JESSIE DEAN REYNOLDS, an actress, com
mitted suicide in New York because of
jealousy.
II. G.. MEGIBBEN, of Cynthiana, KY, is
dead. He was wealthy distiller and
prominent turf man.
An apparently new disease has broken
out among the horses in the vicinity of
Springfield, ILL.,, and several have died.
Cases are also reported from Macon
County The disease has some symp-
toms of ordinary typhoid fever, and the
veterinarians are puzzled about it. 1t
appears to affect colts and young horses
| most.
THE British steamer Sandman had a
terrible mishap on her recent trip from
Portland, Me-, to Liverpool. Heavy
seas smashed the funnel and the steam
gauge burst. Three of the crew were
killed.
In a duel between Edouard Roths-
child, son of Baron Alphonse Roths-
child, and the Marquis de Gouy in Paris
the other day, the Marquis was wounded.
JOHN PLANKINToN, the former partner
of the Armours in the pork packing bust
ness, was reported lying dangerously
sick at Milwaukee, Wis, on the oath.
b. p. HUTCHINSON, the noted grain
operator at Chicago, was recently
swindled of many thousand dollars by a
| trusted clerk. NJ. p. Dickinson, an
other operator, also suffered.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January 23 num-
bered 33s, compared with 1856 the pre-
vious week and 342 the correspon ling
week of last year.