The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-11

SERIOUS storms prevailed in the North-
ern Lake regions on the hight Of the LIST.
Many barges and schooners were reported
wrecked and missing and serious loss Of
life was feared.
AN appeal has been received by Mayor
Smith, tf st. Paul, Minn., from the settlers
OF Ramsey County, OAK, who are in great
distress because of the ruin caused by
premature frosts.
SCHUMACHER & ETTINGER, cigar manu-
facturers of New York, are to be prose-
cuted for using limitations of customs
stamps m inferior b"xes ct ciPSrs IN order
| t. deceife the public.
POLICE INSPECTOR BoNFIELD, of Chicago,
has been awarded -, 900 damages for libel
against DR.. George B. Cunningham in con-
nrction with the shooting of DIR. Thomas
| Waugh in September, 1885.
| JAMES B. CURTIS, aged fftyshve years,
| of SslanarHa' N. y, shot himself through
! the head recently III d Metz Yerk hotel
! He left note stating that he was crazy.
InE steamboat pilots VINO recently
! joined the Knights of Labor at Pittsburgh,
| the tivat coal ittef. The scale provides for
tearly palatv NJ st,Ba, with S2,2Bd ier
captain and pilot Combined. .,.,.
3, EIRf broke out the other riett " the !.
| y 9n diy goods store at Little Rock,
/ Ark, and the entire stock and building
were burned. The stock was valued ! at
| $4,000 and inquired for $1,000 The fire
| r.r~ -" TO" ol AN lncendlary.
1 SINCE oyster planting and the leasing
Of oyster beds has been regulated by the
! Government the industry has grown
rapidly in Importance, until now, in New
! York State. about I.Qa0 men and $1,000. 600
' = Ia, emplOyed IN II.
| MISS ELLA BAKER, IN English woman,
the author of several successful stories for
/ young people, was recently stung under
! the eye by bee and applied some simple
remedy. The swelling did not go down,
! and in a short time she awoke from sleep
! in y Corvusve fit and died within a
trinnte
A the Roman chariot races at the fair
| grounds, Kutztown; Pa, on the 5thI the
| horses hecarle unnana gedble and dashed
among the st,ectatots QUITE . ruthbef of
! persons we're seriously injured, two ia
| tally.
| THERE were - new cases of yellow fever
and six deaths at jacksonville on the 9Th.
Tho weather was warm but the cases were
| generally mild
IHOdAS lHIlLIPS, a wealthy landowner
of Mississippi County, Ark, was killed
recently by one of his tenants in husi-
ness difficulty.
| j. NJ. RAGSDALE, hardware and imple-
ment dealer of Greenville, Tex, has been
closed up by his creditors. His liabilities
are ~, 900. and his assets 5000.
rbr vs. ,hlnetoh monument is teady for
! the public.
SmALL-rox was reported spreading at
| Toronto, Ont.
! TIE twelfth annual congress of the
American Secular Association opened at
Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 18th.
\ GOOD authority of the crops in the
Northwest says that the Minnesota and
Dakota yield viii be between 10000, 900 and
$4,000. .0oe hushelo, and that nine tenths of
it will be delivered out of the farmers
hands by November 80.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor) for the
seven DAYS ended October numbered 21l
as compared with 220 the previous week
and 212 the corresponding week of last
year.
MuCH damage to fishing vessels and con-
sequent loss of life have occurred i'll the
| North sea a. result of violent storms
BY a collision between a wild train and
a passenger train in a deep cut near Han
nibal, n. V, the other morning, an engn-
eer was killed and five train men hurt.
| Both engines were completely wrecked and
much other damage was done.
AT a wake at Racine, Wis, the other
night three persons drank embalming fluid
! by mistake for beer. One will die.
W. s. KING, bookkeeper for the Bruns-
wick Rake Billiard Company, Chicago,
| has been arrested for embezzling 5000.
JAMES Hilger, the firms collector, is also
wanted, but has fed.