The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-04-02

OLIVER WILLIAM STANGLEr was
hanged at Mauch Chunk, Pa. The
murder was committed in Weatherly on
Saturday, October IL, 1889, when he
killed Mrs Walbert because she re-
fused his attentions.
THE grippe is prevalent at Dubuque,
Ia, and it is estimated that 1000 cases
exist in the city. Many deaths have oc-
Cured
A FIVE thousand dollar fire in the
Commercial hotel and boarding house
of II. Henry at Austin, Pa, destroyed
the building. Three lives were lost:
Lizzie McGarisk, a domestic; Jack Nc
Carly, a boarder, and an unknown man.
THE annual meeting of the yellow
pine lumber association was held at
Montgomery, Ala j. w. White, of
Missouri, was chosen president and j.
NJ. Bevins secretary. The price of sec
ond class lumber was raised 81 per 1000
| feet and on first class lumber 81 per
1000 feet
| GEORGE HARRIS, of Newburn, Ill. who
| tasted thirty-three days in January and
February, has been adjudged insane
and placed in an asylum.
! REAR ADMIRAL GHERARDI has failed
! in his mission to secure st. Nicholas,
! port on the northwestern coast of the
| island of Hayti, as coaling station.
THE Boston Car Spring Co., with a
factory at Roxbury, has gone into in
solvency. The company is a Massa-
chusetts corporation with a capital of
$50, 900.
NJ. BALTCHEFF, Bulgarian minister of
! finance, was assassinated at Sofia on
! the evening of the 27th while out walk
! ing with the premier, NJ. Stambuloff.
| The unknown assassin escaped. 1t
was thought the real intention was to
kill Stambuloff.
The Norwegian bark Dictator, from
Pensacola, Fla, to Hartlepool, Eng,
has been wrecked off the Virginia coast.
Eight lives were lost.
THE non-union printers on the Phila-
delphia Press joined the union on the
eth and all parties then struck.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrt for
| the seven days ended March 26 num-
bcred 256, compared with 275 the previ-
Gus week and 243 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE winter wheat crop in the south
of Russia is very unpromising. Small
farmers are in a hopeless condition in
consequence.
THERE was report that the Sayward
case would not be called in the supreme
court, an agreement being reached.
WHILE the court was in session at
Cork trying the Tipperary rioting cases
the building took fire and was de-
stroyed. The court adjourned.
THE Knights of Labor have boycotted
Rochester On. " made clothing be-
cause of the strike.
! A QUARTER of million persons are
said to be sick in Chicago, mostly from
grip and pneumonia and kindred all
ments.
The Reading Iron Co. has notified its
1000 employees that owing to the con-
tinued depression in the iron trade
slight reduction in wages will be made.
The employees will accept the reduction,
as restoration of the old scale of
wages is promised by the company with
improved business.
Gov DAVIS, of Rhode Island, says
he will recognize the requisition papers
for forger named Garnett, which
have come from Gov. Bulklcy, of Con-
necticut. He says the possession of the
seal of the state make Bull1ley governor
de facto.
Mrs. BENJAMIN VICKERMAN, who was
recently released from the Kalamazoo
(Mich.) asylum, deliberately set fire to
her own clothing and was so badly
burned before the flames could be
smothered that she survived but few
minutes. She was forty-three years OF