The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-23


Hennessy, OF New Orleans, have been
arrested and identified as Antonio
Scaffidi, Antonio Bagnetti, Sebastiano
Incardino and Petro Mastero.
The great Perseverance cotton mill
near Bolton, Eng, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $780, OOO
THE Census Bureau announces the
population OF the State of Texas as
2,232 220. increase $40, All, and of Ten
nessee as 1,764, 723, increase 221, ,364
THE burning OF the Leland Hotel at
Syracuse, N. Y, proved fatal to eight
persons About twenty were injured.
A CYCLONE passed west Of Maxton, n.
C., on the 10th, moving nearly north.
At TASTY several houses were blown
down and one person killed and several
injured.
BY an explosion in the Bessemer de-
partment of the Otis steel works at
Cleveland, o., three men were badly
burned by molten steel and others
slightly injured. The building was
greatly damaged.
MRS WILLIAM WELLHAUsEN and her
seven-year-old son were drowned in a
we'll near Marine City, Mich, the boy
falling in and the mother trying to res
cue him.
MAYOR GRANT OF New York has sent
letter to Superintendent Of the Gen.
sus Porter demanding an official re-
count The letter was accompanied by
statements and tables showing the re-
suits OF the police census.
SEVERAL workmen were shockingly
burned at the blast furnace of Moore
heads rolling mill, Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently. They were overwhelmed by
burning coke, one of the ovens break
ing Two died from their injuries
r G. PETERS, a lumber baron, of
Manistee, Mich, has assigned. Liabil-
tiles reach into the millions.
The Hovas, the ruling race of NADIA
gascar, are greatly excited over tho re-
port of French protectorate suppressed
ing the native authority and there
Is danger of rising against the
French.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended October 16 num-
bered 227, compared with 215 the previ-
Gus week and 223 the corresponding
week of last year.
UNION PACIFIC net earnings show a
decrease.
CAREFUL estimates of the country s
population indicate 63,6OO, OOO-about
., 000,0 900 less than was expected.
THERE was panic at St Stanislaus
Catholic school, Chicago, on the 18th
| during the celebration of mass the
altar draperies catching fire. Several
children were seriously injured in the
mad rush for the doors
ACCORDING to the Census Bureau the
population of Pennsylvania is 3. 249, ,574
an increase of 065, 5S3 in ten years
A COMPANY has been formed with
500, 900 capital to maintain at Chicago
permanent exhibition of the products
of Texas.
CHAMPION, the labor leader in New
South Wales, has cabled to Burns in
London that money from England will
be useless to prevent the failure of the
strike.
BoIsTERoUs gales were reported along
the New England coast on the nth.
Many vessels were in distress.
THE ship Lizzie G. Troop has been
wrecked on the Island of Loochoo in
the China seas. Most of the sailors
were drowned. They were shipped from
Philadelphia.
TIE Haytien corvette Jacmel has
been sunk in collision with a merchant
vessel.
IT is reported from Birmingham, Ala,
that the $40, 600 reward for the capture
of Rube Burrows, the dead outlaw, may
not be paid, as the captors were not
lawful officers, to whom the reward was
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