Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-05-17
CONDENSED FLASHES.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS.
Tho Nows from Various parts of the Globe
In n Condensed Form.

Minister Pendleton Is rapidly recover.
ing. He takes carriage rides daily.
Fifteen banking houses in Buenos
Ayres have suspended within ten days.
Mount Etna, in Italy, is in a state of
activity, but the eruption has not assumed
a serious aspect.
Gen. Carl Schurz and Bismarck have
been discussing politics at Berlin very
amicabiy over their beer.
At the Democratic territorial conven-
ton held at Ogden, Utah, all the Nor
mon delegates were excluded.
Gen. Boulangers friends in Paris have
distributed free, 1900, 600 copies of his
book on the Franco-G ermau-Wa
Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, who is
suffering with throat disease similar to
Emperor Frederick, lies dangerously ill at
Milan.
Dispatches from India announce that
Delhi and Moradabad have been visited
by disastrous hail storms, about one hun
dred and fifty persons having been killed.
The hailstones were flat and oval in shape,
and some of them weighed as much as
two pounds.
Chairman Hodge, of the grievance
committee of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers at Chicago, ILL.,, ss
the strike has not been declared off, bli
the men have been allowed to secuA
their places with the Burlington cons
pany at the best terms they can get.
In the Edgar Thomson's Steel Works,
at Pittsburg, Pa, the new rail mill was
put in operation recently, and the first
rails made since last December were
turned out. Pinkerton guards are still
on duty, but everybody is in good humor,
and no further disorder is expected.
Col. William r. Aylett, of Pickett's
division, delivered lecture in Philadel-
phia, Pa, on Gettysburg" before a
large and distinguished audience, in
cluded among which was Mrs. General
Pickett. He paid a glowing tribute to
Generals Grant, Sherman, Mcclellan
and Hancock. Mrs. Pickett says she
takes great interest in the great assem-
blage of Northern and Southern soldiers
which occurs at Gettysburg early in July.
The schooner, Edward e. Webster, of
Gloucester, Mass, arrived at San Fran
cisco, Cal, after a six months voyage,
during which she ran out of all provisions
except musty flour, and the greater part
Of her crew came near dying
from strange disease, probably
caused by insufficient food. The
meat on board became tainted and
had to be thrown overheard. Soon after
several of the crew fell ill of strange
complaint, which swclled their limbs,
made them useless and several died.
About three miles above Centerville,
Ohio, at NIilkanna Station, as.the train
of Miller. and Freeman's circus, passing
that point, went through a deep cut
known as Backbone, f" it met a landslide
which threw the engine and five cars
from the track, piling them up in con-
fused and broken mass. A. II. Stillwell,
of Wellsville, o., engineer, was terribly
scalded. Elmer Ellsworth, of Column
bus, Ohio, a colored cook, was killed
outright. The passenger coaches, con-
tanning performers, were uninjured, as
were also the cars containing the horses.
Edgar Il. Hermance, late pastor of the
Presbyterian church, in the village of
White Plains, N. Y, shot himself while
in the pulpit Hermance's resignation
was asked for some months ago, in con-
sequence of dissatisfaction arising be-
tween himself and the flock over his sal
ary. His wife is the daughter of OK
President Woolsey, d. D., LID, of Yale
college. Shortly before he shot himself,
Hermance was sitting within the chancel
conversing with the sexton, John Blake
ly, and appeared perfectly rational.
Hardly had he closed the church door
on leaving, when he was startled by the
report of a pistol shot, and rushing back
into the church, found the pastor stretch
ed prone upon the floor of the pulpit. He
was bleeding profusely from a bullet
hole in his right temple. Close beside
him lay smoking 82-calibre revolver.