The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-06-11

The census of ireland shows large
reduction during the decade.
The Shawnee Indians who recently
killed three white men in the Indian
territory have been discharged. The
dead men were recognized as outlaws
The Shawnees, on being released,
headed party in persuit of the Dalton
gang of train robbers.
CAPT. MOONEY, of London, Englanl 4,
defeated Murphy, of New York, in a
pigeon shooting match at Hollywood,
Asbury Park, N. J. The score was 81
to 50. Twenty-Five thousand dollars
was was wagered The stakes were
81, 900 a side.
THREE bull fighters have been killed
in Spain. They were given pompous
funerals.
The secretary of the treasury has
called upon a number of national bank
repositories to transfer to the sub
treasury a portion of the amount of
public moneys held by them and not
needed for the transaction of public
business.
THE band of brigands who recently
seized number of passengers on an
express train between Constantinople
and Adrianople and who sent one of the
prisoners to secure a ransom of $40, 900,
now decline to receive the ransom un-
less Israel dismisses the escort accom-
panying him.
A CORRESPONDENT at Odessa tele-
graphs that the recent heavy rains have
benefited the wheat crop in southern
Russia so greatly that the harvest will
probably be but little below the ave-
rage. 1t had been expected that there
would be an extensive shortage, owing
to drought.
JOHN You, an inmate of the county
hospital at Reading, Mass, deliberately
starved himself to death in that insti-
tuition. He went without food for
twenty-seven days. He was terribly
emaciated
lation of 4,211,O The outer ring has
a population of /, 422, ,276-a total of
1888, 332.
THE schooner c. F. Hill brings news
that the grip is creating great havoc
among the natives of Alaska. Hun
dreds have died, at the rate of a dozen
per day. There are no doctors ON the
island and no medical stores.
The Union seminary has voted to re-
tain the services of DIR. Briggs, thus to
a certain extent defying the Presbyte-
rian general assembly.
The kaiser is said to be utterly aston
ished at the baccarat trial, as in Ger
many nobody playing against the heir
to the throne would think moment of
winning.
A PASSENGER train on the Denver &
Rio Grande ran into a rain washed cul-
vert about fifteen miles south of Den
yer, Col The passengers were consid-
erably shaken up.
WHILE engaged in a row over a game
of monte at Fort Douglas, Utah, Rufus
Smith, a private of company c, Six
teenth infantry, shot and fatally
wounded William Carter, of company II.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June numbered
224, compared with 254 the previous
week and 205 the corresponding week
of last year.
NJ. POBIEDoPOsTsEFF, chief of the
holy synod of Russia, has issued regu-
lations which provide that students of
all religious denominations must attend
lessons in the orthodox catechism and
that all Industrious establishments
must have an orthodox church within a
distance of twenty kilometers.
THE machinery of the steamer Itata
is in a bad state and it will require
some days to put it in order again.
When the necessary repairs are COM
pleted the Itata will leave for San
Diego, Cal, conveyed by the United
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