The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

lHE New York clearing house certih-
Gates continue to decrease On the 7th
S9OO,0 900 were cancelled, leaving the
amount outstanding 1886, 600.
ENGLISH Board of Trade returns for
December show imports increased G1,-
100000 and exports e3sO, 600 as compared
with the corresponding month in 1889.
The cold and raw weather is re-
sponsible for an alarming increase in
the death rate in most European cities.
One OF the most startling reports on
this subject comes from Dublin, where
the number of deaths during the past
week reached the phenomenal propot-
ton of 40 6-1O in 200.
Two brakemen were killed by COLI
sion between stock trains at Chicago on
the sth.
HAMBURG dispatches state that several
merchants of that city are preparing to
outfit "A steamer to begin a cruise in
Behring sea about May 1, and that a
promise has been given from Berlin
that two vessels of the German navy
will cruise in the northern part during
the sealing season.
IT was said that Lieutenant Casey,
who was killed recently in the Bad
Lands, was shot from behind by Brule
assassin.
MAYOR CREGIER, of Chicago, has
given notice to the railroad companies
and others occupying the lake front
that they must remove all their prop
erty before February 80 or the city will
act.
A CHARLESTON, w. Va, special to the
Baltimore Sun says that news has
reached there from Logan County, that
State, that the Brumfield- Mccoy VEN
delta, which had been quiet for some
months had been renewed and that in
fight on Hart's creek few days ago six
men were killed.
THE Baltimore & Ohio is reducing its
labor force.
AT Lancaster, Pa, two men were
fatally hurt by the fall of a church scat
folding.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN recently honored
n reporter of the Milwaukee Daily News
by knocking him down.
BECAUSE he employed a German, a
grocer of Toulouse, France, named
Lind, was raided by angry Frenchmen
and his place was wrecked.
THE Cherokee Commissioners called
on the Secretary of the Interior recently
and made a statement of what has been
thus far accomplished by them. Sew
eral important agreements had been
signed by the tribes in the eastern part
of the Indian Territory, the only tribe
which has so far refused the terms Of
fered by the Government being the
Cherokees.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended January s num-
bered 4O3, compared with 32S the pre-
vious week and 373 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE powder pool organized about
eighteen months ago at San Francisco
collapsed and the price of powder has
consequently suffered a drop The
cause of the dissolution was the compe
tition of the Eastern firms.
ASSERTIONS that Jay Gould has OBJ
tanned a controlling interest in the
Santa Fe continue to be made.
DELAMATER & Co. (including George
w. Delamater, late Republican candi-
date for Governor), bankers, who as
signed recently, were summoned before
an alderman at Meadville, Pa, charged
with embezzlement. The complaint
was made by the outgoing board of
county commissioners, who charge Del
amater & Co. with the embezzlement of
upward of $50, 900 of county funds.
THE oatmeal mill owners of America
are reported to be about to form big
combine with Ferdinand Shumaker, of
Ohio, as president. 1t will result in
closing down smaller mills.