The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
A DISPATCH from Vancouver saws
that parties interested in the Behring
sea fisheries are known to be getting
ready to sail under the German or
italian flags in the event of close time
arrangement between Great Britain and
the United States.
CONSIDERABLE surprise is exhibited
in English and Irish ecclesiastical cir
cles at Rome at the failure of the pope
to appoint an Irish cardinal Two no.
blemen were sent as special ENJOYS to
notify Monsignor Rotelli at Paris and
Monsignor Gruscha at Vienna of their
elevation.
DISPATCHES received at st. Peters
burg from the districts of Samara and
Simbersk state that the peasants re-
Gently revolted against the authorities.
The revolt was only suppressed after
number of desperate and bloody con-
flicts between the peasants and troops.
PRIME MINISTER DE FREYCINET, of
France, denies that French men-of-war
are interfering with the bait supply in
Newfoundland and discredits the re-
port that a French officer had warned
DuS llNlDR ob
bay not to sell bait to United States
fishermen.
THE pope, in order to provide against
oil possible contingencies, has just con-
cluded a definite will In this he be-
queaths all his personal property to the
holy see.
A GILLIAN insurgent cruiser recently
defeated the government flotilla-
THE peoples party of Iowa has put
full state ticket in the field, headed by
A. J. Westfall for governor
THE state department has been Off
:ially informed by Consul-General Kim
berly of a change in the ministry of the
government of Guatemala and of the
appointment of Senior De Leon as min
lister of foreign relations.
THE confederate monument at Jack
son, Miss, was unveiled on the Sd.
THE Connecticut supreme court has
decided the "for" ballot case in favor
of Morris, the democratic candidate for
governor. This decision favors the
democrats and is point gained by
them in the contest for the governor
ship
JUDGE T. N. EDWARDS, district attor-
ney of Carson, New, committed suicide
by shooting himself He had been suf-
fering for some time from nervous
prostration, brought on by acute ILL
ness.
BISHOP FLAsCH, of the Milwaukee
Catholic diocese, is suffering from can
Ger of the stomach and his recovery is
doubtful.
THERE has been another fight be-
tween an insurgent vessel and the gov
ernment fiotilla at Valparaiso, Chilli.
The fiotilla was defeated and the
cruiser steamed away.
BENSON j. LOSING, the well known
historian, died at his home in Chestnut
Ridge, N. Y, on the Sd of heart failure
at the age of rs years The deceased
was born at Beekman, February IL,
1918.
GEORGE w. TURNER has resigned the
office of publisher of the New York
World and has been succeeded by Man
ager Dillon, late of st. Louis Post
Dispatch. Mr.. Turner goes to the Re-
corder, in which he is said to have ac-
quired proprietary interest.
THE new Chilian congress convened
by Balmaceda, which is now in session
and in which Balmaceda's friends claim
all but two provinces are represented,
has placed absolute power in his hands.
BARON LUDWIG FISCHER Won NAGYs
SzALATUIAs, proprietor of the great
Weinberg estate in Hungary, is about
to join Emin Pasha in German ease
Africa and link his fortunes to those of
the African explorer.
THE president has appointed William
D. Owen, of Logansport, Ind, superin-
tendent of immigration. Mr.. Owen is
As years of age, represented the Tenth
congressional district of Indiana in the
last three congresses and was the
author of the new immigration law.
He was strongly backed by labor or
ganizations for the position.
The report has again been started
that Secretary Noble will resign on ac-
count of bad health.
MISCELLANEOUS.