Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-08-16
CONDENSED FLASHES.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS.
Tho News from Various parts of the Globe
In a Condensed Form.

The market reports from New York
show that Southern fruits and produce
brought liberal prices.
Advices from Rome, Italy, state that the
eruption at the volcanoes continues and
an estate belonging to an English COM
pany has been destroyed
Col. George Gibson, of the 9Th U. s.
infantry, commandant at Ft. Bliss, died
very suddenly on Tuesday at Las Vegas,
N. M, where he had been for rest.
Seven socialists of Berlin Germany,
have been sentenced to Imprisonment for
terms varying from two months to three
years for insulting the imperial house.
Emperor William will sojOEn in AL
sace-Lorraine for ten days, nSaking the
palace at Strasburg his headquarters.
He will visit Metz and other large towns.
The car drivers and conductors of New
York City will not support their striking
brethren OF Green Point, Long Island.
They say that the step was i'll advised
and uncalled for.
Terrible damage has been done to the
crops in Germany and many head of cat
tie have been lost near Koenigsburg,
Elbing, and Sagan. Railways are inter
rupted at Gorlenz and Bromberg.
Lawrence Donovan, who successfully
jumped from Niagara and Brooklyn
bridges, was drowned on Tuesday in the
Thames, London, into which he jumped
from the Southwestern railway bridge at
Charing Cross, formerly called Hunger
ford bridge.
Lightning struck the main building of
the Cincinnati Exposition ON Wednes-
day and produced counter current on
the electric dynamos and stopped the
machinery and put out the electric
lights. No one was hurt.
Avenue A, in New York, caught fire, and
the family of Gustave Berg, who lived on
the top floor were burned to death They
were Gustave Berg, 40 years old his..wife
So; his mother-in-1aw and his 12-year-old
daughter Gertie.
James O'Neil, an employee of an cleo
trio company, was repairing lamp in
the city hall at Hoboken, N. j., on Tues
day, when the current was turned on and
he was instantly killed. There was long
red mark on his night side The flesh
was broken at the waist.
An east-bound passenge, train on the
Santa Fe railroad left the track near
Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, while
running forty miles an hour. All the
cars except the seepers went off the
track, several of them being demolished.
Martin Meyars, the engineer, was killed
instantly, and John Harff, the fireman,
was badly scalded. The accident wan
caused by broken rail-
Almost riot took place at the meeting
of the National Temperance Society at
Ocean Grove, N. j., on Wednesday.
Col. G. w. Balm, of Kentucky, delivered
an address, and Mrs Alice Osborne, of
Boston, Mass, sang a solo so sweetly that
an encore was demanded. The Society
people would not allow it, but the aud
fence insisted and the sweet singer tri-
umphed.
A tremendous rain and wind storm
burst over Springfield, Ohio, and ragged
for five minutes. In that brief time,
thousands of dollars worth of damage
was done. The magnificent Arcade
during the storm and badly wrecked.
The wind lifted the wrecked roof and
hurled it with tremendous violence on
the sky-light, and it fell with crash
that was heard for blocks.
Fifty thousand people turned out to
view the funeral of Gen. Eudes, the
communist Of Paris, France. A display
| of red flags being made. the civil Guard
captured them after severe fight. Eff
| teen thousand persons marched in front
OF the hearse bearing the remains and
they wore bouquets of red immorteles.
M. Basly, member of Chamber of Depu-
ties, was present, and he and Rocheiort
were greeted with cheers and shouts of
''vive la revolution" and ssvive la com
mune." Shots were exchanged between
the police and the mob at several points
on the route of the funeral.
Surgeon General Hamilton. of the Ma
rine hospital bureau at Washington, D.
G., received the following telegram on
Wednesday: Jacksonville, Fla.-Two
cases of yellow fever were discovered this
morning. One of them had been in the
city six days from Orlando when taken
sick; the other had not been out of the
city. The Other two suspicious cases are
traceabe 10 the same store where others
were taken sick The health authorities
are taking active steps in the matter. All
cases will be sent to Sandhils hospital.
fear this is the beginning Of the out.
break. Guiteras,"