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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1890
Page
1
A noted Edinburg electrical exhibition fell £90 short of expenses and has entered liquidation. The report outlines financial shortfalls and the humble aftermath, with details on who funded the event and the next steps for creditors and organizers.
New York reports a fatal sea collision off Barnegat between the Spanish steamer Viszcaya and an American schooner. The Viszcaya and the schooner sank within minutes. about seventy one persons on board were lost, including a Cuban millionaire and family. Survivors from the Viszcaya describe passengers below deck and crew on deck abandoning ship as it sank. Rescue recovered eight crew members and four officers, with fate of captain and rest unknown.
The twelfth census bulletin issued Tuesday presents the United States population at June 1 and notes an absolute increase of 17,924,797 over ten years, a 20.17 percent rise. It cites earlier data as possibly biased by Southern state undercounting, with New York still leading in population, followed by Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Nevada, and provides regional splits for the North Atlantic and Western divisions.
A couple from Hrowton Alabama, Gertrude Pitman and Thomas J. Mima, wed at the Alabama State Fair Birmingham and ascended in a balloon. The craft drifted south after a one and a half hour voyage ending eighteen miles south. The bride and groom, twenty one and eighteen, waved to spectators and returned for a public reception.
Reverend T DeWitt Talmage delivers the fifth sermon in his Holy Land series from Brooklyn and New York City. He uses biblical events at Sodom and Gomorrah and the Dead Sea to argue that volcanic action and divine punishment align with revelation and geology, with vivid descriptions of Masada the Jordan River and baptism aboard the journey.
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