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

THE Hall-Fitzsimmons prize fight al
ST. Paul, Mimi, was declared off in
consequence of the general objection
and the order of Gov Merriam calling
out the militia
A PARACHUTE jumper named Love
fell $50 feet at Indianapolis, Ind Nc
bones were broken but he was terribly
| bruised.
JUICE WALLACE, of New York, has
granted an order suspending the writ
of Injunction obtained by the Edison
Electric Light Co. against the United
States Electric Light Co. for term OF
six months by the filing by the United
States company of sufficient bond to
protect the Edison company.
EVERYTHING was at a standstill in the
Vanwert CO., yards because of strike
of switchmen.
TIE Big Four switchmen at Spring
field, O., were still on a strike. Most
of the men were non-union and the
Switchmen's association held aloof.
Gov. STONE and Adjutant-Gen. Henry
went to Vicllsburg to see if they could
do anything toward settling the labor
troubles agitating the people of that
city.
THERE is strike among the miners
at most of the coal mines in the Indian
territory. All of the men at Hunting
ton Ark, and at McAlester, i. T., have
quit work.
THE Master Tailors' association has
decided to resort to a general lockout
in Great Britain unless the strike in
Liverpool ceases within a week.
A SPECIFIC duty of eleven cents kilo-
gramme has been imposed on all lard
imported into Peru.
ALL the franchises, tracks. equip
ment, etc, of the Detroit (Mich.) city
railway, controlling eighty miles of
streets, have been sold. The consider
alton was said to be about S5, 900, 900.
A TERRIBLE thresher explosion oc-
CURED recently on James Durbin's farm
near Litchfield, Ky. Three men were
killed and five dangerously injured.
THE citizens of Washington are in
the field for the grand army encamp-
ment in 1892.
THOUSANDS of acres of farm lands
were laid waste by hail in North Da-
kota and Minnesota.
GREAT damage has been done in Mo-
rayia and Silesia by floods A train
was wrecked and many were hurt.
The preliminary examination OF
James Brennan resulted in his being
committed for trial for the murder of
Sam Wood at Hugoton, Kan.
Two murders similar in character to
those perpetrated by Jack the Ripper
have occurred IN Marseilles A man
giving an Italian name twice took rooms
accompanied by woman and in each
case the woman was afterward found
murdered, having been strangled and
then mutilated
JUDGE MCKAY, the alliance judge of
Harper county, Kan, was brought be-
fore Judge Horton, who reprimanded
him for his action in the Honeywell
case. but delayed action until Septem-
ber.
PRoF. KOCH has resigned all the
public Offices held by him. This step is
associated with supposed disappoint-
ment over the unsatisfactory results of
the discovery of 'tuberculin."
FRED c. HAvEMEYER, who established
the great Havemeyer sugar refneries,
is dying at Throggs Neck, L. 1. He is
The father of Henry o. and Theodore
Havemeyer, the leading spirits in the
sugar trust. He is s5 years old.
THE official census of France shows
total of Ss,O97, 159. This is an in.
crease since the last census of 20s, 5S4
The increase is entirely in the suburban
population.