The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-11

THEcxperiment of transmitting opera
music from the opera house TO the
Urania Theater by telephone proved q
complete success.
THE President of Venezuela has Just
issued a decree furnishing several edit
ors of newspapers who have been ad-
judged as having libelled him and other
public functionaries
In consequence of the Potter Lowell
failures some firms which they had been
carrying are in financial straits Seary,
Foster & Bowman, manufacturers OF
sewing silk and machine twist, Boston,
are said to be badly involved
TIE Liverpool seamen and fremen
have decided to combat the just organ
lied ship owners federation, and a trial
capitalists may soon be looked for.
THE New York Board of Aldermen
has adopted a resolution declaring that
the recent census of the city was mac
curate and an injustice. and calling
upon the Government for a special
enumeration.
WHILE q colored excursion was on its
way from Savannah to Albany, Ca, q
row arose over a woman's choice of an
escort Fully fifty pistols were drawn
and firing became general. Seven
women were shot dead and several were
seriously wounded.
THE International Agricultural Con-
gross at Vienna, has passed resolutions
in favor of the formation of central
European customs league and the
adoption of standard of value of the
states compr. sing the league.
ALI. the consulates, the cathedral and
most of the public buildings at Salonica
have been destroyed by fire. Twelve
hundred houses were in ruins
In answer to appeals from the Chero-
kee Strip cattlemen the President has
extended the time for removal
WHILE number of persons were on a
bridge watching the floods at Prague
Austria, the structure gave way and
thirty were drowned.
II is reported that the liabilities of
the insolvent Potter-Lovell Company,
of Boston, will reach -, 000,000.
SAWYER, WALLACE & Co., an immense
coffee and provision firm of New York,
failed recently after losing 81, ,000 900 in
pork deal.
A New York Central train was
wrecked three miles north of Castleton
on the night of the 4th by unknown
parties. Four men and woman were
reported killed.
Two men were killed and sixteen cars
wrecked and burned in a freight col
Ua
REroHrs of very destructive fires still
continue to come from Hungary. The
latest dispatch says that Szalnok and
several other hungarian villages have
been burned.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended September A num-
bered 203, compared with 1S9 the prev
Gus week and 201 the corresponding
week OF last year. Speculative markets
were lower, but trade outlook was good.
THE annual report Of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern shows net earn
ings from operation of 81, 223, AT.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, has population
of so, 674
THREE hundred miners had a narrow
escape from suffocation in the Cayuga
pit Scranton, Pa, the engine house
burning and stopping the fans.
TIE State line steamer State OF
Indiana had stormy time crossing the
Atlant on her last trip.
THME trainmen were killed by col
lision on the Delaware & Hudson, near
Whitehall, n. Y.
THE duel between NM. Rochefort and
Tribeaud was prevented by the Belgian
authorities
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to Off
cials declaring the arid lands again
open.