The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-10-08

THE southern interstate exposition
opened at Raleigh, N. c., on the 1st.
Gov. Hold delivered the address. The
whole town was decorated.
IT really was DIR. Mary Walker who
bobbed up so mvsteriously at the muir
dered Christie Warden homestead near
Hanover, n. H., with a theory that
Frank Almy was not guilty.
EIGHT miners were killed near Br:d-
meme, Glamorganshire, Wales, by the
fall of a hoisting car.
HALIFAX, N. s., lost between 5000, 600
and S40O, 900 by fire which broke out
in the Morelin planning mill near the
Cunard wharveS
THE Farmers Voice couxsels holding
corn until next spring.
A MEETING held in Windsor, Ont,
favoring annexation to the United
States broke up in confusion.
THE schooner Frank Perew has been
lost in Lake Superior. The crew of
nine men perished.
DETECTIVES are on the lookout fer
Abe Standiford, the absconding banker
of Chrisman, Ill
SOME little excitement was caused in
Rome by French pilgrims deriding Vic
tor Emanuers name and shouting for
the pope. A mob gathered and for a
time it looked serious until the national
flag was displayed at the hotels where
the pilgrims were staying.
THE Rothschilds have promised S50,-
900 toward Russo-Jewish relief fund.
A special prayer is to be said in all
synagogues of England on the day of
atonement
THE butter manufacturers of the
northwest met in Chicago to arrange
for an association to advance the grades
of butter. Examinations for butter.
makers are proposed
ANOTHER United States deputy mar.
shall has been killed in the Indian Ter
ritory, William Rogers killing r. S.
Taylor in the Usage nation.
THE revenue cutter Rush has arrived
at San Francisco. All the British war
vessels have left the Behring sea and
the United States steamers Mohican
and Thetis will leave in a short time.
The Bear will remain until December
A large number of sealing vessels had
been warned" during the season.
A REPRODUCTION of S. c. Pratt's "Al-
legory of the War in Song was given
the other evening at Madison Square
Garden, New York, under the auspices
of the Grant Monument association and
for the Grant monument fund.
A DARING Jail delivery occurred at
st. Louis on the I'd, ten notorious bur-
glars, sneak thieves and murderers
escaping.
ADvIcEs state that the island of Tan
ma has been visited by hurricane and
devastated by civil war. Fierce fight
ing has been going on and two villages
have been wiped out of existence. In
the midst of the fighting came the fear
full hurricane.
The murderer Fitzsimmons, who
shot Detective Gilkinson and who re-
Gently escaped from the county Jail at
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been heard from
He sent 81, 900 to his attorney to obtain
a new trial for his wife, who was in
dicted with him, and after his escape
found guilty of murder in the second
| degree.
The Pennonia. reported lost with all
hands some months ago, has been heard
from. She was wrecked on one of the
islands of the Marshall group May 4.
All on board escaped to the shore and
after much suffering reached Apia in
safety. The Pennonia was a total
| wreck
Two vessels the Barre and Amazon,
returning from Labrador laden with
fish, were overtalzen by the recent
violent storm, driven ashore and be-
came total wrecks. The captains and
crews, numbering ten or eleven men,
were all drowned.