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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1889
Page
1
A collage of brief items: labor congress reforms in Canada, floods in Tampico, plans for a Grant monument, land claims in Washington Territory, Navy vessels deemed unreparable, and curious incidents from Indiana to Utah. Mentions of Chicago Tampa Line abandonment and Montague treasure leads among scattered notes.
Telegraphic notes indicate Andrew Price Democrat won a clear majority over H C Miner Republican in the Third Lewisiann Congresstown district. Navy dispatches place Commander Sumner at St Nicholas Mole with Admiral Ghernech. Kearsarge may move north at his discretion. Captain B H Boyd named port supervisor for New York. Also reports on Dr Peters, Emin Key relief, and various international and domestic political items.
A massive dynamite explosion at a cartridge factory near Antwerp's bourse triggered a blaze across docks and petroleum warehouses. Hundreds killed or injured, many workers and girls, with fires spreading to nearby stores. Troops and relief workers battled flames as panic spread, witnesses report windows shattered miles away.
A derailed passenger train No. L on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio at Pumatunning injured several Pittsburgh residents including Mrs. H. W. Clark and Miss E. L. Clark. A brakeman rushed the switch as a last car passed, causing the derailment. Separately, a La Flor parish note reports armed Negroes roaming swamps, white pursuit, and killings, with Governor Lowry criticized for not taking stronger action. A subsequent Federal Court case recounts Deputy Nagle’s testimony regarding a violent incident in which Justice Field was attacked and Nagle shot to defend him. A World’s Fair fundraising update from St. Louis shows strong local support, and temperance advocates push public sentiment using placards detailing the societal cost of liquor.
A 19th century temperance tract urges closing Sunday saloons in New York, arguing law, humanity, and public order demand the ban. It cites Beecher, Powell, and historic city enforcement results, urging citizens to oppose saloon openings and echoing Christians’ calls for a humane civil Sabbath. It notes liquor’s demonology and praises landlords like Jonny Jacop Aston for suppressing sales and Vanderbilt tenants resisting leases.
President Harrison with Postmaster General Wanamaker and guests planted a tree near Chelton Hills during a Washington visit. He, in a tall hat and rolled sleeves, worked the soil despite heat as Rodman Wanamaker and Elliott Shepard assisted. The event followed a morning departure for Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The Treasury Department denied Richard Bayliss of Bilueland Manitoba a request to return a yoke of oxen and wagon seized in Dakota for violating U S customs. The collector of customs at St Paul noted Bayliss’s history as a continual violator who transported the goods into the United States without permis sion and planned to steal timber for export to Canada. The consul urged denial of the petition. A New Departure. Atlanta Ga Sept 6 A delegation asked Governor Gordon to act on the whipping of negroes by unknown white men near East Point after a lynching. The governor pledged to take action and called in officers after the mass meeting.
The piece condemns temperate workers as the ideal standard and argues intoxicated laborers reduce output and household welfare. It claims rum drinkers divert wages to saloons, deplete savings, and depress families, urging a national strike against rum to revive industry, wages, and prosperity across the United States.
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