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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

SIX THOUSAND coal miners, nine-
tenths of all the miners in Alabama,
will probably go out on strike on De-
cember 1.
WHILE sinking an artesian well at
Galveston, Texas, on the 21st, fresh
water was encountered at the remarka-
bly, small depth of $40 feet, and the
water seems pure as spring water, and
the we'll will yield $4,000 gallons day.
THE Democratic Central Committee
has issued a call for meeting of the
committee December I'd at Little Rock,
Ark, to decide upon date for the State
Convention to nominate a candidate for
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
A FEW nights since negro tramp was
found beneath bed in the residence OF
]. w. Hopkins at Fulton, Ky. He was
held at the muzzle of pistol by the
lady who discovered him until the
officers came and locked him up.
HERMAN BECKETTsoNE, one OF the
wealthiest and best known distillers in
Kentucky, dropped dead from heart
disease at Louisville on the 21st.
RETURNS from all counties in Tennes-
see give the following official vote for
Governor: Buchanan, Democrat, 115, ,545;
Baxter, Republican, 76,S34; Kelley, Pro-
hibitionist, 1925.
IT is learned definitely that an En-
glish syndicate is negotiating for the
purchase of all phosphate lands in South
Carolina, together with the machinery,
etc. Ten million dollars are said to be
about the figures involved.
THE Fort Worth (Texas) Packery,
capitalized at $1,000, 900, started perma-
nently into operation on the 2lst, and
slaughtered hogs at the rate OF a hog
per minute. 1t will require 1000 hogs
per day to fill the demand, and the COM
pany claims that it has already assur-
ances that Texas will be able to NIL the
demand.
Mrs. s. C. WEBER was accidentally
shot at Brinkley, Ark, on the 21st while
handling revolver in her own hand.
She was preparing to leave in iew
days to ioin her husband at Shreveport
La, where he recently located. Inc
wound is not considered necessarily
fatal.
BUSINESS failures reported number
245 in the United States this week. as
against 200 last week and $50 this week
last year. The total number OF failures
in the United States from January 70
date is s,s47, against 1O,lO7 in Ike
portion Of 1889,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

BY an explosion at Cadajan's mine,
near Ottumwa, Iowa. Tom Donelson
was fatally injured and Frank Bowers
and Lee Nash badly burned. The men
had dug through into an abandoned
mine and an explosion of powder ig-
nited the gas.
WASHINGTON has been decided upon
as the place for the next meeting of the
Ecumenical Council of the Methodist
Church in October, 1891
FOURTEEN children at North Brad
dock. Pa, have been made seriously i'll
by drinking milk bought of strange
man.
THE Turkish authorities in Macedonia
have arrested fourteen persons on sus-
picion OF hav ng been connected with
the murder OF the Greek Pope at st
JOAN Four of the persons arrested
have died under the judicial examina-
ton and the torture which attended 1t
MAJOR MCLAUGHLIN, the agent at
Standing Rock, admits that he has lost
control of the Indians Sitting Bull
day or two ago very coolly told the
agent that he and his braves had no use
for him.
JAMES d. BUTLER, brother of Con-
gressman. elect Butler, of Michigan, a
clerk in one of the departments at
Washington, was stabbed in the back
by Thomas Fl. Tate, fellow-clerk.
They were apparently under the infiu-
ence of liquor when the stabbing oc-
Cured.
A LONDON dispatch received on Wall
street states that powerful interna-
tional commission has been formed to
inquire into the financial affairs OF the
Argentine Republic
INTENSE excitement prevails at Beld-
ing. Mich, over the discovery that a
Mormon elder has succeeded in prose-
lyting fourteen young girls employed
in the silk factory there.
The Burlington has declared the
usual quarterly dividend of N per
cent
THE first annual meeting Of the Ma
tional non-partisan w. C I. q. began
in Allegheny City, Pa, on the 10th.
THE New York Supreme Court has de-
clared the bequest of S4 600, 900 by Sam
uel j. lilden to the New York public
library invalid. The case now goes to
i Court Of Appeals for fnal decision.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

/ III.
Pa, on the Goth.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, passenger agent
In Michigan for the Grand Trunk rail.
way, was killed at Lapeer, Mich, while
attempting to board moving train.
THE members of Tong Yoong & Co, q
Chinese merchandise house, Of San
Francisco, have fed to China, leaving
their employees unpaid There was a
riot in Chinatown in consequence.
1T is again asserted that Mr.. Adams
Will be compelled to retire from the
Union Pacific
THERE is report that Secretary Win
dom will recommend the issuing of
bonds at low rate of interest redeem
able at will in currency.
CHARLES JACOB, JR, e. Co, pork
packers, Cincinnati, have failed.
BARKER Bros. & Co., bankers and
brokers of Philadelphia, have failed.
The failure was heavy and was caused
by Improbable railroad investments
IT Is said Barring Bros will reorgan-
ize as joint stock company.
A. M. LoFTUs shot and killed his
father, H. C. Loftns, six miles east of
Gainsboro, Tenn, in a personal diff
Guilty, accidentally killing his brother
with him at the same time The son is
said to have acted in self defense, in
defending his mother from an attack by
his father
THE weekly statement Of the Bank
of France shows decrease in GOLD Of
81, S5I, 900 francs and an increase of sill
yer of 2, 975, 900 francs
CARDINAL GIBBONS says that the re-
port of his bringing libel suit against
the publishers of a book dedicated to
him was entirely untrue and was prob
ably set afloat to advertise the work.
JACK NAPLES, colored, was hanged
for rape at Knoxville, Tenn. He vigor-
ously protested his innocence on the
nors of swearing his life away.
CHIEF MAYEs has sent message to
the Cherokee Legislature advising that
the Nation make the best terms it can
with the Government for the Cherokee
Strip.
JAY GOULD thinks better times are at
hand for Wall street.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended November 20 num-
bered 274, as compared with 266 the
previous week and 272 the correspond
ing week Of last year.
THE Commercial National Bank of
Guthrie, Ok, failed on the 21st.
THE run on the Howard Savings
Bank at Newark, N. j.. gradually
tapered off. 1t was the result of fool
ish scare.
ITALIAN laborers and citizens had
fight recently at Paris, KY. The Ital-
oral had been hurt. The trouble was
caused by runaway horses dashing into
the Italians, when they attacked the
driver.
IDA JONES a colored courtesan con-
victed of stabbing Steven thinner, of
St Paul, to death last June, has been
sentenced at Denver, Col, to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. A motion for
new trial was denied.
DORSEY EDWARDS was hanged at va
zoo City. Miss, for the murder OF his
wife in September last
TIE Twenty-sixth Ward Bank Of
Brooklyn, of which Ditmas Jewell, for
merly of the Brooklyn Bank, is presi-
dent was robbed of a package contain
ing SIS. 600 in bills. The work is sup
posed to be that of a band of clever
sneak thieves.
w. s. WHARTON, the Chicago broker
who was arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge of swindling a number of
persons in that city out of amounts ag-
about $50, 900. was committed
to await the action of the Illiuais au-
thoritieS.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

COUNT ALEXANDER SzECHENYI, who
was given up as lost is soon expected
AT Vienna, Austria. The rumor was re-
gently that he had been assassinated at
Honolulu. The Count has brought back
from his distant voyages more than a
thousand Photographic views from coun-
tries which had not been visited by Eu-
ropeans since the times of Cook and
Vancouver
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27


" 1T is stated that the United Stock
clauus q Transit Company has de-
sna eI T, war on Armour. Swift. Morris
re". aa L,ooy' the big four packers, who
;eVentiy N purchased large tract of land
a. s,oal INDIANA for the purpose of erecting
TU; VA yards in competition with the
cn.N n.on stock yards of Chicago. Thslatter
b;porauon proposes to compete with the
Ns iour' backed by the Vanderbilts, of
AI."rk AL" iork, and the Thayers. of Boston.
The thay plans have been prepared for
sas. ae erection of the largest dressed beef
blsnment in the world The new
nso" uuse VIII be located northwest of the
saes r.esent stock yards This land was re-
TTn'iy Tn purchased for the sum of 5000, 600.
-He plant will cost about IS, 900, 900.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

=. rNoF' CHARLES N. THoRNBERG. pro-
1vSSor 1 OF engineering at the Vanderbilt
,LHIVerslty at Nashville. Tenn, has
A.. ,Ooatea the comet which was first seen
- ooium DO, Italy, November Is. He
,ass ,as mat he telegraphed Harvard Col
,ose ana that he received reply that
~ ~ was the first astronomer in America
" discover it The location of the
.Unet .iu Is as follows: Its right ascen-
s S.on is 80 degrees 16 seconds, and its
aeOi,natlon aei is S3 degrees 81 seconds
aU'sn' urn 1t is the comet "E" of 1890 and
WI VII oe visible from the earth for sew
iMa , months and will probably be Wis.,
q ,tie 10 70 the naked eye before long. As
" Is now the nebul@ only is visible.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

TIE new board OF the Union Pacific
Intends to appoint some young and active
railroad man as vice-president and gen;
eral manager, whose headquarters will
be at Omaha. The person to be selected
for this purpose has not yet been de-
termined upon, but the endeavor will
be made TO secure a young man Of
abundant railway experience and Of the
highest capability.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

CONGRESSMAN CANNON, of Illinois, the
chairman of the House Committee on
appropriations, recently told reporter
that he apprehended in general way
mat when the adjudications under the
new pension law were made, the PEN
Sion roll would reach $50, 600, 900 a
year. lie estimated the cost of the new
law at 100000 a year. Mr.. Cannon
SAD he had no doubt that the revenues
OF the Government under the new tariff
law would be sufficient to meet all the
ofalnary expenses of the Government
anu pay $780, 600, 900 year for pensions
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

THE grand jury at Chicago has re-
turned five indictments against w. II.
Bright, president and w. c. Bright,
yjce-president, of the Genesee Oil Com
pany, OF Buffalo, who shipped the naph.
tha which caused the explosion of the
steamer Tioga in the harbor some
months ago, killing o number of long
shoremen. They must stand trial for
manslaughter.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

THE following officers were elected at
,be meeting of the American Copyright
Ioacue in New York: President James
Russell Lowell; vice-presidents, Ed
rnnd Clarence Stedman, General Lew
wallace and Edward Eggleston; secre-
tary, Robert Underwood Johnson; treas
urer Thomas w. Knox
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

BARRY SULLIVAN, the tragedian, is
lying seriously i'll at his residence in
Brighton, England. Mr.. Sullivan has
been in bad health for long while and
cancelled all engagements some time
back; people, indeed, have marveled
that be has held out so long. The vet
eran actor has had varied and not in
glorious career. He made his debut on
the stage at Cork in 1910
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

~ cABLEeRAM received by General
ri.z T hugh Lee, president of the Rock
pridse Company, from London, an
aOunces that the first payment has
" Ueen made to the British-American
tnn rust Company of London of the ST.
O'OOOO which is to give a syndicate
naue up OF prominent Englishmen an
interest in the capital stock of the COM
pahy which controls the town of Gas
gov, va The arrangement is similar
~ ~ mat made by the Middlesborough
iown Company of Kentucky with a
oynuicate, some OF the members of
which are also interested in Glasgow.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

THE first regular through broad gauge
train over the Rio Grande Western from
the east arrived at Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the nth. The standard gauge
is from Salt Lake to Grand Junction,
Col, over the Rio Grande Western, then
sixty-fve miles from Grand Junction to
Rife, used in common by the Midland
and Denver & Rio Grande, thence these
lines separate, each having it's own track.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

ENGLISH cotton operatives are
demanding that they shall not be
subjected to the competition of
operatives working long hours for
small wages in the cotton mills OF
India, and agi tation is on foot to shorten
the hours of labor in that country. Cot
ton manufacture in India is rapidly
growing, and that country will soon
be a formidable rival in the field
Of competition.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

sURGEoN-GENEEAL HAMILTON OF the
Marine Hospital Service, discuss
inr Dr. Koch's new remedy for
Snsumption S with representative
:, The United Press, said that he is
Oorvinced that the statements made by
@ proi Koch arc based on close study and
..roful observations.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

SECRETARY TRACY has in contempla'
.,on the building of two torpedo cruis-
w w. one of $50 tons displacement and
o.a ~ 200 tons displacement
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

~, n,h,EuTENANT FRANK L. McNAIR. of
ana Asilie, c, Iowa. prominent in polit' cal
cido urand Army circles, committed sui
HI. " drowning himself In pond near
tro.l mousse Mental aberrat on resulting
tbo iOn recent sickness was the cause OF
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

Human life is like game Of chess
each piece holds its place upon the
chess board-king, queen, bishop and
pawn. Death comes. the game is up
and all are thrown, without distinction,
pell-mell into the same bsg.-Tallsy.
rand.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

The spirit and enterprise of
courtier are all expended in the search
after place and preferment; nothing re-
mains for the fulfllment OF the duties
to which success compels him. -Talley-
rand
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
Uncle Sans Sinners.


JACKSON, Nov. 1s.-In the United
States Court, William Whitfield, a
negro, was sent to the Holmes County
Jail for three months for abandoning a
mail bag on a star route, he being the
mail rider.
Zack Quick, for running blind tiger
without a revenue license, at Ellisville,
got thirty days in the Ellisville Jail
and was fined 500.
Joel Yates, Isaiah Jones, James Will
Jams and eighteen others, convicted of
cutting government timber, we're given
ten days each in the Ellisville Jail and
fined in sums amounting to twice the
value of the timber cut.
Rube Smith, the train robber con-
victed of mail robbery when he, Bur-
rows and jackson held up the train at
Buckatunna, was today sentenced by
Judge Hill to Imprisonment for life in
the Columbus (O.) penitentiary, and
Gov. Stone will turn him over to the
Government.
Jasper Smith, cousin to both Rube
Smith and Rube Burrows, plead guilty
to perjury committed in swearing that
Rube Smith was in Lamar County on the
date of the Buckatunna train robbery,
and was sent to keep company with
Barker in the Detroit House of Cor
rection for year.
Dan Othey, young white man, was
convicted of passing counterfeit money
at Meridian, and sentenced to one year
in the House of Correction at Detroit,
Mich.
The Court hit the ''blind tigers a
hard lick. Most of these indictments
for the Illicit sale of whisky came from
the dry counties. w. j. Dunn, of Co.
piah County, was given thirty days and
fined 500, while Bunk Arlington,
Willie Gibson, Frank, Jap and Jake
Graves and Theodore Hudson, of Coving-
ton, are to spend the same time in the
Williamsburg Jail and pay 800 each.
DR.. j. w. Conroy, prominent citizen
of the Utica neighborhood, was con-
victed of forgery in a pension case and
sentenced to the Detroit Mich House
of Correction for two years. He came
from Massachusetts directly after thu
war
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27

Certain acts mas ia rendered legal,
but can never - m+is legitimate =
Tallsyrand
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
Miscellaneous.

MANY of the leading citizens OF
Natchez are paying the three mills rail-
road tax, levied to pay the interest on
the railroad bonds voted in aid of the
New Orleans & Northwestern Railway
Company, under protest indorsed on
the back of their receipts. There Is
great dissatisfaction about the road. and
the feeling is general that the city has
not gotten value received for the $780,
900 voted the company. All work on the
road has stopped and there does not
seem to be any immediate prospect of
an extension. The stringency of the
money market is assigned as the cause,
and the company claims that it cannot
place its bonds. This is the road of
which Gen. John Fl. Rice, of Kansas, is
president, and it extends from Natchez
to Rayville, La, distance of about
seventy miles. 1t is projected to run to
Fort Scott, and the people of Natchez
expected through line in making such
q munificent subscription.
JUDGE RALPH NORTH of the Sixth
Judicial District last week sent to the
Governor of the State his resignation.
Failing health is the reason assigned.
There are already probable candidates
for the vacancy, among whom are Capt.
Whitney, of Jefferson County, and w.
p. Cassidy, of Summit, who have been
put forward by their friends.
o An Indian from Neshoba County named
Tom was run over and killed by Mo-
bile & Ohio switch engine at Meridian
last week. He tried to cross the track
Immediately in front of the engine.
The jail of Pamela County, valued at
sle,QQQ, Yas burned last week.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
The New Way.

JACKSON, Nov. 17.-In the Supreme
Court today, when the case of w. F.
Brabston, convicted in Warren County
for killing his cousin, w. Ii. Brabston,
in the Newman's Grove row last year,
and sentenced to ten years in the peni-
tentiary, was called, Judge Cooper,
being disqualified by affinity, retired
from the bench and his place was taken
by Mr.. David Shelton, who had been
agreed upon by the attorneys engaged.
The selection was made by lot from the
following names of members of the
Jackson bar, agreed upon by the attor-
neys and placed in a hat, from which
the clerk drew that of Mr.. Shelton:
w. p. Harris, S. S. Calhoon, G. NJ. Will
hanson, S. b. Harris, L. Brame and
David Shelton.
Under the new Constitution whenever
any Judge of the court shall be disqual'
flied, the Governor is authorized to com.
mission another of law knowledge to
take his place. Where the attorneys
engaged shall not agree upon member
of the bar and either party desire that
there shall be full bench-three
Judges-and though two Judges make a
quorum, no judgment can be affirmed
by disagreement of the two.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-27
Gen. G. C. Mckee Dead.

JACKSON, Nov. 17.-Gen. George c.
Mckee, Receiver of Public Moneys,
died this morning, after protracted
illness. He was native of Joliet, Ill;
was Major of the Eleventh Illinois Regi-
ment, and was made Brevet Brigadier-
General upon the occupation of Vicks-
burg and Natchez by the Federals. He
was made Provost Marshal, and after the
war removed to this State, holding the
Office of Register in Bankruptcy, and
was chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the Constitutional Convention of
1868. He served three terms in Con-
gress from this district, and after the
Democrats gained control of the State
he was appointed postmaster by Gar
field, and after Harrison came in was
made Receiver of Public Moneys.
He was one of the most prominent
republicans in the State, and one of the
few Northern men who invested his
money in Mississippi real estate and be-
came wealthy.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-03
Logging Creek Mines.

A deal which will be far-reaching in its
effects on the properties of Logging creek
camp was effected yesterday, sayst the Great
Falls Tribune. few months ago j. b.
Douglas, Irwin Boyd and J. M. Patton l.
Co. discovered some very rich leads on
Wyman creek and made some fine loca-
tions. Work has been continued on some
of these claims and the showings made
have been the wonder not only of all
miners of the Belt mountains, but of old
miners who have visited the celebrated
mining regions of the western states.
The ores taken out are rich Ralenas and
hard carbonates, and several assays have
run above 80 ounces silver and IS per cent
| lead.
Heretofore the mines could only b.
reached by pack train, although located
only nine miles from the railroad at tn.
mouth of Logging creek. The deal CLOSED
yesterday provides for the building of I
good wagon road to the entrance of tn
mines and for the execution of a deed b,
the locators, transferring to Samuel bod,
and Dan Carpenter, one mine, the Amer
ica,'' for the sum of 100000. Dodd Il Car
penter, the purchasers, have given BON
to sink a shaft 200 feet on their propert
and to commence work within thirty days
These gentlemen have the means and vii
push this work. They also propose to be
gin shipments of ore within ten days, bring
ing 1t down three miles to the wagon trai
ON pack horses. The first shipment of or
will reach the smelter here about June 10th
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-03

CONGRESS ought unanimously to re-
ject the bill of Representative Flower
providing for an appropriation by the
general government for monument to
Grant in New York city. It is proper
that the country should recognize
Grants distinguished army services, but
New York begged the privilege Of hav-
ing him inferred in one of it's parks,
promising to erect memorial over his
grave, and the city should be held to it's
bargain. Had the nation buried Grant
in the Soldiers Home grounds at Wash
ington, as was first proposed and as
Grant himself doubtless would have
preferred, a national monument would
have been appropriate. AS it is, New
York should pay the entire cost of the
memorial stone.