The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-30

THE dairy cows in Sussex county, n
j., are dying from a disease which has
puzzled every one.
THE boiler at Lees sawmill at Min
eveh Junction, near Binghamton, n. Y,
exploded recently. Three men, James
Shaw, Fred Wheeling and NJ. Markham
were instantly killed.
CHARLES OZBURN, a wholesale com.
mission merchant, was hanged at At
lanta, Ga, for the murder of a man
named Bradley. Great efforts were
made to save Ozburn from the gallows
without effect.
SEVEN children of French Canadian
parents were drowned the other day in
the lower st. Lawrence.
S. A. KEAN. the bankrupt banker OF
Chicago, will pay S5 cents on the dollar.
A DRUNKEN soldier, armed with a
sword, recently ran amuck in the
streets of Posen (Prussian Poland),
killing Catholic priest and physician
before he could be overpowered.
THE troubles at Briceville and Coal
Creek, Tenn, ended amicably on the
gath, the miners agreeing not to molest
the convicts and to await relief through
special session of the legislature.
THERE was an anti-Jewish riot re-
Gently at Jaffa, which was crowded
with exiled Jews from Russia Several
of the Jews were killed by the Turka
THE immense wooden mill of Camp
bell & Elliott Philadelphia, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire. The loss was
about $500, 900.
ALBERT HAMIsToN, son of Rev. J. A.
Hamiston, and William Ewing, both
young married men, of Greenville, Ill,
sought shelter under tree from a
storm, where they were struck by
lightning and killed.
THE tower of a church in course of
erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell the
other day, killing sixteen of the work
men.
THE first heavy ordnance twelve-inch
rife gun designed for coast defense and
made in New York state, was fred at
Sandy Hook for the first time with sat
isfactory results. With $50 pounds of
powder it hurled 1000 pound shot
five miles. The gun will use 440 pounds
of powder and throw a 1000 pound shot
twelve miles.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RUsK
denies that he has issued any quaran-
tine laws discriminating against Ten
nessee, as was alleged.
THE master plumbers of Boston have
| decided not to increase the wages o1
| journeymen, and strike is expected
THE strike at the Allegheny Besse
| Do has
been declared off, the men giving ur
the fight
| LARGE credits have been assigned tc
the district of Zemstvos, Russia, with the
object of meeting distress arising from
the failure of the harvest To further
aid the impoverished people the time
for the payment of taxes has been ex
tended and public subscriptions fol
their relief have been opened
THE Russian government, it has beel
learned, has made large purchases o
corn and is storing the grain for futur
supplies. The rise in the prices 70
corn in Germany. it is alleged, is partl.
due to the wholesale buying of thi
cereal by the Russian authorities.
| ALEXANDER CHAMBERS and wife, o
Larimer Pa, were struck by trail
while walking on the Pennsylvania
tracks and were thrown down al
embankment Mrs. Chambers wa
killed, but her husband was onl.
slightly hurt
AT Morehead, KY, Deputy United
States Marshal George Armstrong wa
shot and killed by Constable Simms, o
that place. Armstrong was passing
through Morehead with party o
moonshine prisoners, and while stop
ping over night became involved in ,
quarrel with Simms