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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1898
Page
2
Fragmentary notes from a New York ball recount playful scenes with vegetables, while broader columns discuss political bravado in Washington. Observers warn of rising tensions with Spain, war talk intensifies, and U S leaders brace for mobilization amid uncertain public sentiment.
The report bundles a long, dense sweep of parliamentary actions and international notes. It covers congressional proceedings, amendments, and political maneuvers, with updates on diplomacy, honors, and notable deaths, all framed in a hurried 19th century press style.
The telegrams report railroad survey work from Milnois Central and a branch line from Aberdeen Mississippi to Carbon Hill Missouri. A collision injures six aboard a passenger freight car. Other items note bread riots in Spain, martial law rumors, Yukon reindeer arrivals in New York, Memphis Charleston railroad holdings, a $2.5 million purchase, Lamar County Alabama gang arrests for attacks on Black residents, a Mobile & Ohio presidency change, Dr. Henne Jowns denying fever, a Louisville tobacco plant fire costing over $350,000 insured, a Greensboro Alabama murder verdict, weekly business failures, a Charleston fire killing nine people.
Kinbrough of Oxford posts he will not canvas Mississippi district for Congress citing events that halted plans and public press support. Meridian reports a disputed arrest of J W King amid a bond and train pursuit. Vicksburg urges national quarantine law. accidents, executions, charters, and political shifts fill a wide Mississippi update with dates, places, and names.
R J Don de Jo reviews trade dynamics with foreign demand shaping speculation and export activity. Wheat prices edge up toward 81.04, while Atlantic exports top 104,414 bushels of flour for the week. Wool, silk, iron, and textile sectors show varied responses amid strikes, cancellations, and new contracts. interstate actions suspend long and short haul clauses in routes competing with Canadian Pacific, guiding passenger rates across Atlantic to Pacific paths.
The Noyo from Alaska reports a British flag planted 14 miles inside the American boundary near Summit Lake and 14 miles from Skagway. Eight men reportedly frozen to death on the trail since February 13.
A cabinet meeting weighed war versus peace as officials discussed naval buildup, army needs, and costs. They agreed the Maine’s destruction was not proven accidental and favored pursuing peace or war with Spain depending on reparations, leaving Spain to decide.
Unofficial Havana rumors about the Maine disaster meet a formal naval stance of no evidence yet from the court of inquiry. Secretaries Long Roosevelt and staff weigh the political risks, while indemnity precedents rise as potential redress options.
A large fire destroyed the Laureville Branch plant of the American Tobacco Co. at Twenty First and Maine, Louisville. The blaze forced hundreds of workers from the factory, caused more than 100000 in damage, and left fourteen hundred people unemployed. Two workers suffered probable fatal injuries from jumping from upper floors. Firemen faced collapsing walls and heavy smoke as the blaze raged for hours. The origin is unknown but officials expect the plant to be rebuilt.
At 2 00 a m February 24 a fierce fire swept a Church Street tenement at 140 Church Street in Charleston South Carolina. Police arriving early found flames issuing from a first floor window and evacuated the occupants. Firefighters saved the residents on the second floor but nine lives perished on the third floor including women trapped by the blaze.
Henry Albert A., reveling agent for a Philadelphia cold storage firm, leapt from the Eads bridge and drowned in the Mississippi. It marked the fifteenth attempted suicide in St. Louis since last Sunday as bystanders watched him climb the railing and plunge. The incident followed a scene where he removed his overcoat and appeared to tamper with telephone wires. Meanwhile at Coalburg Blocks near Coalburg, Ohio, Angelo Will shot Martha Lawrence and others fatally wounding Joseph Paranda, Mrs. Veter Farando, and Daniel Noute. The Italian residents, relatives, and a sister-in-law who shielded others were involved. Will fled as farmers with Winchesters and shotguns sought him.
Much needed rain finally arrives after hours of downpour spanning northern California to Monterey. Los Angeles county sees light showers with prospects of more rain, while the far south remains mostly dry.
A damaged OCR page fragment blends stray quotes from newspapers like Free Press and Washington Democrat with items about mail postal offers from Geo. L Heatford and John A Salzer Seed Co. It includes a potpourri of jokes, catalog notices, and brief questions about baldness and acoustics, reflecting a garbled late 19th or early 20th century clipping.
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