The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-16

Greenridge colliery near Mount Carmel,
Pa, set fire to the works. Great dam
age was likely to ensue.
THE Society of Christian Endeavor
met in convention at Minneapolis,
MINI, on the 9th Over $1,000 were in
attendance.
THE Russian consul-general in New
York declares that many Russian Jews
who have come to this country recently
are seeking means to return, alleging
that they have not been well treated
DURING the session of the lower house
OF the Austrian reichsrath man COM
mitted suicide with revolver at the
entrance of the strangers gallery. He
was identified as hunter. He had
| gone to the reichsrath to demand justice
in an imaginary lawsuit with the
Rothschilds.
MAJ. JOHN w. RYERsoN, a prominent
resident of Simcoe, Ont, and Abel
ronto, who had gone to Long Point for
fishing, have been drowned.
The house of S. p. Anderson, a Swede
living near Clifton, La, was struck by
lightning, killing his wife and three
daughters, all that were in the house.
| Anderson was close to the house when
the bolt struck, but the flames were so
rapid, being fed by the explosion OF a
five gallon can of oil, that none but the
wife could be taken from the house.
The house was rodded.
NJ. S. & J. NJ. BROWN, general mer.
chants of Delaware Bend, Tex, have
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Ex-SHERIFF ZACH MUNsEY, of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, shot Policeman James
Looney dead. Looney had attacked
Munsey.
A SHORTAGE of SIG, 9s7 has been found
in the accounts of City Treasurer Perry,
of Grand Rapids, Mich. The amount
was at once made good.
The Bardsley confession" has been
made public 1t duplicates Wanama-
ker and other prominent persons with
acts leading to the defalcations.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN Pow
Derby has issued special circular to
all local assemblies of the Knights of
Labor, declaring off for the present the
proposed industrial conference, which
was to have been held on July 80.
FRENCHY, the New York Jack the
Ripper" has been sentenced to life inn
prisonment.
THE Falls City bank, of Louisville,
Ky, has finally closed its doors.
THE case against President Egan and
Passenger Agent Holdredge, of the
Maple Leaf, for selling tickets at prices
different to those scheduled with the
interstate commission was decided by
Judge Thayer, at St Paul, Mimi, in
favor of the defendants
JOHN HENDERSON and three girls
were drowned while boating on the
Lake at Oak Point. They belonged to
party of picnickers from the Miles
Park Methodist Sunday school, of
Cleveland, o.
JAMES S. VAN VRANKIN, paymaster's
clerk in the general storehouse of the
Norfolk navy yard, and J. III. Creston,
another clerk, have been arrested for
stealing composition metal and other
goods from the government of the esti-
mated value of $4,000.
A SOCIETY has been organized at
Louisville called the Kentucky frater-
nal congress. 1t includes nearly all the
mutual or benevolent insurance orders
and its purpose is to oppose legislation
and litigation to place these companies
on the same footing as the regular in
surance companies.
DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL WEST was
shot and killed by j. ID. Gaines, q
prominent citizen at Texarkana, Ark.
The men had dispute about a trivial
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had fired the first shot