The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-07

LIE BrlJlSn schooner ARIEL mas been
warned by the cutter Rush to keep out
Of Behring sea.
An alarming fire broke out in tho
lumber yards north of the mouth of tho
river at Chicago on the 30th. Forty
acres were burned over The loss
amounted to $500, 900.
THERE was a disastrous hailstorm in
the vicinity of Casselton, n. d., recent
ly. Seventy.hye per cent of the crops
was destroyed in places.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, in speaking
of census frauds, said there was over
whelming evidence of padding in tho
St Paul returns. The corruption was
as rank as it was at Minneapolis.
FoRTY-ONE dwellings at Braddock,
Pa, were destroyed by fire on the after
noon of the 31st Three hundred people
Nnre rendered homeless. The aggregate
loss was S16O, 900; fairly insured.
THE business portion of Walnut ILL.,,
was burned recently. The loss was
s125, 900.
VIOLENT diphtheria is reported at Red
Bay, fishing settlement on the Labra-
dor coast.
TIE Treasury Department has issued
it's first order for the purchase of bull
lion under tho new Silver act.
ONE hundred years ago July 81, 1900
the first mechanical patent was issued
by the Government. 1t was granted to
Samuel Hopkins for making pot and
pearl ashes. The total number of pat
ents issued during the century was 433,-
432.
THREE children OF Samuel Warrington,
farmer near Laurel, Del, have died
within two weeks of black measles and
the father has become raving maniac
in consequence.
TIE Illinois Legislature has passed
the requisite resolution permitting Chi
cago to issue bonds for the Worlds
Fair.
Riots are reported on Sado island,
Japan, consequent upon the high price
of rice.
Mrs. REESE and her sister, Miss An
derson, were drowned at Youngstown,
Ny
JACOB HANCOCK and wife, an aged
couple, were fatally injured by run
away at Mackville, Ill
UNDER the new form of statement is
sued by the Treasury Department the
public debt showed net decrease dur
ing the month of July OF 1896, 257
PATSY DOwNEY, Peter Mclaughlin
and Charles Mcneil, inmates of the
Sunnyside orphan asylum near Toronto,
Ont, while attempting to cross tho rail
road track in a carriage were struck by
a passenger train and all three instantly
killed.
THE total wheat yield of Tennessee is
placed at s, 500, 600 bushels. Corn will
produce only 60 per cent. of crop if the
rest of the season be favorable. Cotton
Is in fine shape.
In the race for the Goelet cup off New
port, Il. l., by the New York Yacht Club
the Volunteer won, beating the Puritan,
Katrina, Gossoon and others.
LIGHTNING in North Arlington, Mass,
killed Mary Quigley, aged twenty, and
badly injured Thomas Sheridan and his
wife and son.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended July 81 num-
bered 1S9, compared with 100 the previ-
Gus week and 2l0 the corresponding
week of last year. The business tone
was good.
MANY deaths have occurred in Italian
regiments on the French frontier and
they have been ordered removed to the
interior
THE Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has promulgated its order mate
rally reducing grain rates from points
$50 miles in Kansas and 200 miles in
Nebraska to the Mississippi river. The
order does not affect Eastern rates,
which were declared not to be excessive.