The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-09

THE Treasury Department on the Cd
mailed q certified copy of the new Tariff
law to every collector of customs and of
internal revenue in the United States.
H. WALTER WEBB has ordered tho
discharge of all New York Central en-
ployes connected with the Knights OF
Labor.
TIE boat race between Hanlan and
Teemer at East Liverpool, O., was won
by Teemer. The alleged stakes were
1000
A PASSENGER rate war has commenced.
Round trip tickets from Kansas City to
St Louis and Chicago were selling for
| single rates on the I'd.
A BRUssELs carpet trust has been
formed Prices will go up 25 to 80 cents
per yard
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas finds that
crime in the State has decreased 40 per
cent during the past four years.
THE Mormons of Arizona number one
fifth of the population.
TIE present population of Sioux City,
Iowa, is 81, s62; of Dallas, Tex, 3s, 14O;
of Macon, Ga, % 6SS; and of the State
of New Hampshire, 375,s s27.
IT is stated at the Treasury Depart
ment that the decrease in the bonded
debt of the United States during the
past month, viz $40, 316 24O, was greater
than in any month since the period of
refunding operations under Secretary
| Sherman, the nearest approach to it be-
ing S2G, 593, $50 in the month of October,
| 1883.
CHARLES WESLEY HASTINGS, a veteran
of the war, and two other men were ar
rested at North Lansing, Mich, while
in the very act Of making counterfeit
silver dollars.
A CHANGE in the weather Of California
for the better has saved many thou
sands to the grape growers and raisin
men OF the State. About Napa 500, 600
damage has been done.
SECRETARY BENJAMIN BUTTERwoRTH,
of the Chicago World Fair, is preparing
a circular letter containing full informa-
tion for those who desire to make ex-
hibits and for all others who seek
knowledge.
Ir is stated that Eastern capitalists
have organized company with s., 900, 600
capital for the purposes Of manufacture
ing timed plates. The headquarters of
the company will be at Baltimore. 1t
will run its own tin mines and will try
to control the American timed plate
trade.
THE United States Fish Commission
promises to make great exhibit of fish
and fisheries at Chicago during the
~; NJ i
sion has been called to meet in Chicago
October Is.
WILLIAM H. SCIIRIvER, the bank cashier
OF Columbus, Ind, who escaped to Cana
da with $780, 0l0 in bonds and cash and
was only recently arrested, has turned
over all his i'll gotten gains and will
plead guilty
TWELVE hundred miners at Dayton,
Tenn, have struck against reduction
in wages.
CHOLERA has reappeared in Toledo
Spain. Four cases, one fatal have been
reported.
ERNEST HUMPHREYS, a negro who had
killed two other negroes, was lynched
at Princeton, Ky.
Iris reported in Chicago that the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad has arranged for a
new entrance to Chicago
FIVE men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion at Gurley's saw MILL Chewalla,
Tenn. Among the unfortunates was
Gurley himself
TIE small lake pleasure steamer
Golden Eagle exploded at Peoria, Ill
OF the fifteen passengers only two were
slightly hurt
LOUISE CARBINE, who lives on tho
third floor of 1913 Lake street, Chicago,
was horribly beaten by burglars. She
will die