The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-10
AMoxe the cities kicking at the cen.

sus returns is Denver, Col.
JUDGE THAYER, of the United States
District Court has granted a decree Or
dering the sale Of the st. Louis, Arkan.
sas & Texas railroad.
JUDGE KAvANAGH, OF the Polk
County Uows) district court has affirmed
that an alien can acquire by inheritance
no right to real estate under the Iowa
law.
THE business section OF Pullman,
Wash, was destroyed by fire the other
day.
THE Minneapolis -four trade is re-
ported in better condition than for
many weeks.
THREE men we're killed by the fall OF
a cage 140 feet down a mine near Rich
mond, Va.
SAMUEL II. Dow's large brick block,
Concord, n. H., was destroyed by fire
recently, causing $50, 900 loss.
LOUISA CALLwELL was stabbed seven
times by her husband in New York City
and will die. The man escaped.
THE new Masonic Temple at Denver,
Col, has been formally dedicated by the
grand lodge.
ASSIGNEE SMITH, OF the defunct Bank
of America of Philadelphia, has begun
suit against the stockholders for the
face value of their shares.
CREDITORS of the bankrupt jewelry
firm of Clapp & Davis, Chicago, have
filed bill in court charging fraud and
asking for a new receiver.
STEPHEN HOLMES, alias Stephen
Smith, arrested in London on suspicion
of being the man who stole the jewels
of the Duchess of Edinburgh, is said to
have been barber at Chicago at one
time.
TIE New York Times sprung story
recently that the Vanderbilts were
about to purchase Santa Fe stock. 1t
was positively denied in a short time
from Santa Fe headquarters in Boston.
THE East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railroad Company has leased
the Louisville Southern and thus Sc
cured an outlet to both Louisville and
Cincinnati.
JOHN MCMULF was killed at Cincin-
natl by the falling stick Of a sky rocket,
which penetrated his brain.
A MAN named Souls attempted to
swim the rapids at Niagara on the 4th,
but failed. He was taken out of the
water badly bruised.
AT Louisville, KY, on the 4th, three
occupants of picnic wagon were killed
by collision with an express train on
the Louisville Southern road.
MANY lives and much property have
been lost by floods in Tomsk, West ST.
IBERIA.
WINES from raisins must in future
pay duty in France.
LAKE MICHIGAN was visited by Sc
we're storm on the night of the Sd and
morning of the 4th. A schooner was
overturned at Chicago and the captain
drowned.
TIE FL Paso express was stopped re-
Gently near Van Horn, Tex, by eight
miles of water caused by a cloudburst
in the mountains. Fifteen minutes
previously the track was dry.
THREE lives were lost at the burning
of the steamer Iron King at Ashland,
Wis, on the 4th. While endeavoring to
subdue the flames an explosion occurred
in the coal bunkers, causing the fatali-
ties.
WHILE crossing the Youghiogheny, at
McKeesport, Pa, Richard Smith and
John Thompson were drowned; also
daughter of each. Others of the two
families were rescued. The boat was
rotten and broke in two.
PROF. SAMUEL BLACK, an @ronaut,
met with a frightful death at Boards
town, ILL.,, on the 4th. BY some mishap
his parachute took fire. His mangled
remains were found two miles from
where he assembled.