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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1890
Page
1
Reported events span railway and military reforms in the Empire and Germany, arrests in Rio de Janeiro, defalcations in Brazilian telegraph funds, and political tensions in Bohemia, Vienna, and Paris. Notable items include naval budget moves, court paralysis, a London funeral, stock market moves, and memoirs by exiled leaders.
Senate discussions cover election control, Oklahoma Townsite bill passage, and charter debates. House considers Missouri river snags and public works while Montana seat contests unfold. President messages prompt policy prompts and regional responses amid party maneuvering.
Ex Senator Riddleberger died yesterday morning at about two. Born October 4, 184? in Shenandoah County Virginia he served in the Confederate army rising to captain. He later held several Virginia offices and was US Senator from Virginia in 1883-89. He opposed Mahone and was active in Democratic politics.
William Vaughan of Rome near Douglas County Missouri says he killed neighbor George Johnson in self defense after a dispute over land and a roadway escalated. Johnson, drunk, threw a rock at Vaughan, who retaliated with a rock then fired when Johnson shot first, hitting Vaughan’s horse and Johnson in the head, killing him. Vaughan surrendered to the Douglas County sheriff.
A natural gas explosion in a one story dwelling at the southwest corner of Wall and Noble streets wrecked the house and unleashed chaos. Firemen, bystanders, and a pursuing wagon team collided in panic, with numerous fatalities and dozens injured. Rescue work stretched for hours as the crowd, trapped by debris, searched for the buried and the dead. The blast followed a gas main leak in Noble alley fueling the catastrophe.
At Guthrie Oklahoma on January 2 a citywide lot jumping craze triggered military involvement to enforce laws. Robert Hamill claimed ownership of a central city parcel and was forced out by officials as crowds gathered. Residents fear fallout until Congress enacts Perkins bill provisions and property values remain steady amid unrest.
In Chicago on January 25 there were ninety six deaths with nineteen from pneumonia and nine from the grip among the week’s total. In Lawnence Kansas Samuel D Craigmale, seventy, a carpenter, was instantly killed by a Santa Fe passenger train while watching the saw mill work.
The Mississippi Legislature memorializes Congress to annul the Fifteenth Amendment, arguing negro suffrage has failed in theory and practice, eroded race harmony, provoked conflict, and harmed national unity. It urges senators and representatives to act and to notify state executives. It also notes a push by the State Medical Association to repeal a ten dollar professional tax and reports on a halted tunnel project by Vicksburg Waterworks due to foundation concerns. A plan to create Jefferson Davis County is noted, along with a capture of escaped convict Reese McAlister and the election of Miss Rose Tucker as State Librarian.
A collection of brief notes on global curiosities and curiosities of the era. Reports touch on a smoke bomb concept in France, a London lawyer barred over extradition tips, a Berlin note on telephones, and growing concerns from the Sahara to Spanish monasteries. Various brief items describe Cairo tobacco shifts, Warsaw restaurant bans, Parisian tree work costs, and Spanish farming methods.
An anecdotal column recalls easy, costly paths to counterfeit nobility, from ambitious adoptions in Naples and Paris to a Paris dentist titled Marquis of the fret water. It notes buyers exploiting heraldry and offers anecdotes of forged lineage, presenting a wry look at social climbing through borrowed titles.
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