Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

TELEGRAPHIc ITEMS.
Emperor Williams visit to England
| has been arranged for June.
1t is rumored that Tirard has proposed
to the ministry to recall the Due D'Au.
| male.
Cardinal Charles Sacconi, bishop OF
| Ostia and Valletria, and dean of the Sa-
| cred college, is dead. He was eighty
years old.
Jailer Hurst, of Waynesboro, went to
the Jail to carry supper to the prisoners,
and as he entered the Jail r.1oor he was
knocked down. When he regained con.
seriousness, he was locked in one of the
cells, and the prisoners were gone.
-Four new cars passed through Augusta
en- route to the Jacksonville, st. Angus
tine and Halifax River railroad. The
porter built big fire in the stove with
lightwood and went to sleep. The stove.
pipe got red hot and set the stove on
fire, and two of the new cars were burned,
the sleepy porter barely escaping him
self.
A serious riot occurred at an early hour
at Chicago, ILL.,, between lot of drunken
laborers employed grading the connec-
ton between the Pttsburg and Western
and Cleveland and Canton railroad, in
which five were pounded almost out of rec
ognition. One died. Several shots were
fired and considerable slashing with
knives done.
Miss Lizzie McAuley and her two
children were found dead in bed at Chi
cago, H., on Monday. In the woman's
mouth was rubber tube connecting
with gas jet. The gas was turned on
full, indicating that Mrs. McAuley de-
liberately planned to kill the children
end herself. She shot her husband De-
cember 4th last, while in a fit of jeal-
ousy. No Indictment was found against
her by the grand jury. She has suffered
from mild form of insanity ever since
the murder.
Back of tho Gaylord shaft at Plymouth,
il mining town, few miles from Wilkes
barre, Penn, stood the factory of John
Powell, for the manufacture of ''squibsn
used by the miners in loosening coal.
The factory employed eighty-fou girls,
aged from twelve to twenty years, and
several male workmen. While majority
of the employees were absent at dinner,
at noon on Monday, and about twenty
remained in the building eating their
lunch, terrific explosion startled the
neighborhood. Ten girls were killed
outright and one man killed and one
badly injured. The latter was Mr. Pow
ell, the proprietor. Several kegs Of
powder exploded, but no explanation is
known as to what set them off.
Letters received in London, England,
from missionaries, dated Zanzibar, have
been received. They give details of a
third revolt in Uganda. 1t appears that
King Kiwewa, who was raised to the
throne after the overthrow of his brother
King Mwanga, tried to poison his Arab
supporters, but that plot failed. He then
invited three of them to private audi
ence. At a signal from the king they
we're seized by executioners and the king
speared two of them, and was in the act
ofspearing the other, when the Arab man.
aged to free himself from the grasp of
the executioner, and fred at the king,
who fled. King Kiwewa has since been
tying to induce Christian chiefs to assist
him in regaining the throne, upon which,
after his flight, the Arabs placed Kalema,
son of Mutesas.
A few weeks ago several families Of
negroes left Herbert Station, on the
Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Rail-
road, for Little Rock, Ark, being in
duced to emigratc by the representations
Of an influential negro, who some years
ago went out to Arkansas, but returned
after few months stay, and has since
resided in Union county. The people in
the Herbert neighborhood were surprised,
two or three days since, to observe por-
ton of the emigrants appear once more
among them. 1t was ascertained that
all who had the means to return had
done SO, and that the rest of the
party desired that funds be sent them
with which to buy tickets for old South
Carolina. They declared that they had
been deceived by the representations of
the agent who induced them to emigrate,
and that they had found South Carolina
to be better country than any they had
seen.