The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-29


clan from New Orleans had died Of yellow
fever in Chicago. No fears OF an epidemic
were expressed.
THE Railway Passenger and Freight
Conductors Mutual Aid and Benefit As
sociation Of the United states met at Chi
cage on the 22d.
THE last volume of the report in the
tenth census has just been issued. It COM
pletes a set of twenty-five volumes, ag-
gregating 19,304 pages.
OVER one hundred children were hurt
recently III panic caussd by en- slsrm Of
fire in the First ward school, Long Island
City, N. Y.
SEVERAL persons were quite seriously
hurt in q panic at the Boston store, Chi
cago, on the 22d, caused by fool sales
man crying s'fire" on observing the COM
motion created by the arrest of pick
pocket;
PRon II. f. vANDERaRIFT, Of Clinton,
Mo-, was killed recently in a parachute
performance at Columbus, Ga. He was
up about half a mile when the balloon
collapsed. He released himself and para
chute safely, but fell in the Chattahoochie
river, where he was drowned.
A SPECIAL from Denison, Tex, says:
Officers after long chase in the Choctaw
ing a desperate supposed to be John
Barber, one of the celebrated Kep Queen
gang of outlaws. The gang had killed an
Indian and were wanted for attempted
train robbery.
IT is reported that a Chicago syndicate
is about to secure control of four St Louis
| street railway lines whose capital stock
| aggregate nearly three millions of dollars.
ARTICLES of incorporation of a new and
direct line of railroad between st. Paul,
Mimi, and Kansas City, Mo-, have been
filed at the former city.
AN Anarchist circular Of the style
adopted by Parsons and Spies was dis.
| tributed through the saloons Of the West
and Northwest sections of Chicago on the
| 23d, asking for subscriptions to defend the
alleged dynamiters, Hronek, Cheboun
and Sevie.
EXPORTS of merchandise from the United
States during the twelve months ended
| October 81, 1885, as compared with similar
| exports during the corresponding period
of 1887 were for 1888 $724. 6O5, ,230; 1887,
$67S, ,422, $50. The values of the imports
were for 1888, $707 157, 1893; 1887, S722 776 939.
OLAF SUNDE, cashier of the New York
Daily Netos, is reported to have absconded.
| A preliminary investigation disclosed the
! fact that Sunde absconded with at least
| 10, 900.
| THE strike of switcbmen at Indianapolis,
| Ind, assumed serious phase on the 23d.
Business in the railroad yards was at a
| complete standstill.
JAMES E. BEDELL of New York, who
swindled his employers and their clients
out Of $264,000 has been sentenced to
twenty five years. imprisonment
handed down an important decision in
which it seems that the Bell Telephone
Company is liable for New York State
taxes. The State claimed the right to
collect tax of one- half of one per cent on
the gross earnings.
| BY the burning of the Fort Wayne
Qnd.) Jenney Electric Light Company's
plant recently $3.50, 900 damage was done.
Insurance. $3.50. 900.
OSCAR HUNT, a parachute performer,
came near being killed at Canton, o.. re-
| Gently. One rope of his trapeze broke
and he whirled around like top. being
seriously bruised when he reached ground.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November % numbered
| 296, as compared with 237 the previous
week and POT the corresponding week of
last year.
THE Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood on
the 23d at Chicago celebrated the hanging
| of Allen. Larkin and O'Brien at Man
chester, England, twenty-one years ago.
ADAM BERkEs. of Sardinia, O., whow as
recently fogged by masked men, has be-
| come insane.
| I. V. POwDERLY was reelected general
master workman of the Knights of Labor
| by vote of ia to 90. He refused to accept
more than So, 900 of his salary of S., 900.