Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-07
CONDENSED FLASHES.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS.
The News from Various parts of the Globe
In a Condensed Form.


Finland Diet has passed an act increas-
ing the cavalry force.
Memorial services were held over the
tomb of General Winfield Scott Hancock
In Montgomery cemetery on Sunday at
Norristown, Pa.
Cardinal Gibbons has heen notifit | of
the appointment of Dr. John S. Fol>v,
of st. Martins Church, Baltimore, Md,
to be bishop of Detroit, Mich.
The Chicago, Ill.,, anarchists talk of
putting presidential candidate of their
own in the field. Capt. Black, their law
yer, appears to be the favorite for the
nomination.
A new gasometer at the gas works at
Hochelaga, Canada, exploded on Satur-
day. There were from twelve to twenty
men in the building at the time and five
were killed.
Company II. list regiment, Virginia
Volunteers (Richmond Grays,) went 10
New York to participate in the Memorial
Day exercises and received grand ova-
tion from the Metropolitan city.
John Lawrence Sullivan, the "slugger'
OF Boston, Mass, has bought an interest
in circus enterprise, that is noted forts
many scrimmages with The police author
tiles in which it exhibits.
| The switchmen employed in the Sou
thern Pacific yards in Les Angeles, CAL,
struck on Friday. They complain that the
company has been gradually dispensing
with the men who participated in the
strike two weeks ago.
Some of the boy inmates of st Vincent
Orphan Asylum, located in San Rafael
near San Francisco, CAL, made several
attempts to fire the building. One boy
confessed that they wished to run away
was the reason they did it. r
Some excitement ensued in the Met
odist Conference in session at New Yd 2
on Thursday, in the balloting for bisk'
and after IA ballots, DR.. Newman,
Grants old pastor was elected to OF -zr-y1
the vacancies. N
M. Wilson's constituents in p 4 have
sent petition to the ChsmknclotBf Dep
uties, asking that body I'd s SG t'o1sSmon NJ.
Wilson to attend to his Les I. dive duties
or to expel him. Wilson SEX President
Grevy's son-in-law.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
! NORTH at Philadelphia. Pa, voted that
In view of the present unsettled opinion
relating to the Revised Version it was in
expedient to authorize its use in the pub
lie worship of the sanctuary.
All the employees of the Milwaukee
road at Mitchell, Dakota, were notified
that they had been assessed one-third of
their pay for the first six days of the
month, to help the company pay the dam
ages sustained through the 30" strike.
The parliamentary election at South,
ampton, England. resulted in victory
for the liberals, Evens, liberal candidate
received 5,15l votes, and Guest, conser
vative nominee, 1896. The vacancy was
caused by the promotion of Admiral Com
merell, conservative, to command at Ports.
mouth,
Mrs. F. G. Kruger of Elgin, ILL.,,
was killed on Friday in trying to rescue
her eighteen months old child from an
approaching freight train on the North
western railway. The child had wan.
dered from the house out to the track
and was also killed, being struck just as
she reached 1t.
Mr.. Gladstone, addressing party of
| Rockdale excursionists at Hawarden on
Saturday said, with regard to the Irish
question, that while it was going back
ward within the walls of Parliament, it
was advancing outside, and it was to the
nation they looked to carry every great
question.
| At the Methodist General Conference
in New York, in ballot for bishops
| (447 votes being cast two out of the
five to be elected were chosen, viz: Rev.
John Heyl Vincent, ID. d., LII. D., Of
Rock River, Illinois, and Rev. j. N.
Fitzgerald, d. D., of Newark, N. j.
Vincent received 81 votes and Fitzger-
aid 80.
A waterspout fell in the northwesterr
part of Dawes county, Nebraska, or
Sunday night, burying five miles of the
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
track, and carrying away large number
of cattle. Bridges across the White and
Lone Tree rivers were carried away, and
a number of settlers along these rivers
have been lost. The spout came in the
form of black cloud, which resemblcd
a large cart wheel in rapid motion and
appeared about ten feet thick.