The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03

LoUIsvILLE, KY, was visited by de-
vastating storm at nine o'clock on the
evening of the 27th. Hundreds of lives
we're reported lost, many of the victims
being cremated in the burning ruins of
their homes. One hall containing over
one hundred people was wrecked, nearl y
all the inmates perishing. Among the
other casualties noted was the topping
of the Union Depot, together with a
train of cars, into the river.
IT was authoritatively stated, on the
27th, that First Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson will resign at no dis
tant day. When Mr.. Clarkson accepted
the Office 1t was with the understand
ing that he would leave it at the end of
year.
THE Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany, on the 27th, declared cash divi.
dend of one per cent, payable April Is.
THE United States Fish Commission
steamer Albatross arrived at San Fran
cisco, on the 9th, from cruise along
the Pacific coast.
PRINCE BISMARCK was moved to tears
by public demonstration in his favor
in Berlin on the Goth.
THE appointment of DIR. Wescott to
the bishopric Of Durham, England, has
given general satisfaction. Canon
Westcotts "History of the Canon of the
New Testament" is probably the best
known work he has written, but per-
haps he will longer be remembered as
one of the conductors of the recent re-
vision of the New Testament.
IT was reported, on the 9th, that the
representatives from the South Amer
lean countries in the Pan-American
congress had expressed their willing
ness to enter complete reciprocity in
| every thing with the United States on a
| basis of absolute free trade.
The House, on the 27th, passed the
bill for the admission of Wyoming into
the Union of States: Yeas, 1S9; nays,
1877.
HENRY w. HoARsEY, for twenty-five
years city treasurer of Portland, Me-,
died, on the eth, aged sixty-nine.
THE American ship Glendon was re.
ported, on the 27th, ashore and total
wreck at Yokohama, Japan. The ships
crew was rescued, and it is possible
that a portion of the cargo may be
saved.
THE House and Senate committee on
immigration, at joint meeting, on the
27th, determined to refer the general
subject of restricting immigration to
subcommittee of six, and to make a
like reference of the question of the
purchase of American industries by
foreign capital.
HENRY KLUTsCHAK, the artist of the
Sir John Franklin Polar expedition
party, died in New York on the Goth,
aged seventy-three years.
A RAILWAY train consisting of thirty
eight cars loaded with petroleum
caught fire near Batoum, in Russia in
Asia, on the 2Sth, and was totally con-
sumed. Three men were burned to
death.
The Paris La Liberte declares that
tariff war with America will follow if
the Mckinley bill now pending before
the American Congress is adopted.
TIE House committee on merchant
marine and fisheries, on the 2Sth, au-
thorized favorable report on the Sub
sidy bill designed to place the Ameri-
can merchant marine engaged in the
foreign trade upon an equality with that
of other countries.
FRANCE has been approached by En-
gland with view to more satisfac-
tory settlement of the Newfoundland
fishery question. The existing modus
vivendi applies only to the present sea-
son.
THE report that Archduchess Steph-
anie, widow of the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph, had been betrothed to Archduk
Franz, the heir to the Austrian throne,
is declared to be absolutely false.
A STRIKE for an increase of wages was
inaugurated, on the 2Sth, by the Welsh
tin-platers at Melingrifiiths.
The English delegates to the Anti
Slavery conference at Brussels, sub
mitted proposition, on the 28th, that
the sale of alcohol be prohibited in
Africa. The German members opposed
the proposal. All the other delegates
were in favor of it.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, on the
2Sth, appointed Major-General Daniel
E. Sickles sheriff of the city and county
of Nau Work. vica JameS Flacl< resipned