Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-11
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF LATE HAP.
PENNIES.
The Freshest Sparks From the Wires.
Accidents and Other Happen
ings.

The strike in the ship building trade
at Belfast, Ireland, is spreading. About
1000 men are now idle.
1t is expected that Count Herbert Bis
marck and Counselor Gravel will repre-
| sent the Germans in the Samoan confer
| ence.
A cotton mill at Unterhausen, neal
Pfullingen, Wurtcmberg was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday. The loss is 1, $780,.
! 900 marks.
| The British steamer Cromoa, at Liver
! pool, from West Point, collided with
the pier head, and stove her stem plates.
Fire broke out III her cotton hold.
| German government detective named
| Wichman has been sentenced to two
| years imprisonment at Altoona for falsely
accusing two men of being anarchists.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Cos
chen announced that the British govern
ment intended to appoint committee to
inquire into the whole subject of emil
grafton.
The bark Fanny Schofeld, from Cal
cutta, arrived at Jersey City, N. j., on
Thursday with scurvy-stricken crew.
One of the crew is dead and two more
are likely to die.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin, China,
says that that the natives have risen on
the Kwang ST frontier, and they have
destroyed ten block houses and killed
one hundred Frenchmen.
Charles H. North & Co., 83 and 35
North Market street, of Boston, Mass,
the second largest pork packing firm in
the country, made an assignment. The
liabilities will probably be $3.50, 900.
house situated at Days Mills, near
Baldwinsville, Mass, was burned on
Tuesday. Mrs. Russell, aged 70, and
the two daughters of neighbor named
| Irueheart, aged five and fifteen, persisted
| in the flames.
The Bank of France has advanced TO-
600, 900 francs additional for the support
of Compton Escompte, and other banks
and bankers subscribed 20, 900, 900 francs
and have made up the full 100000, 900
francs necessary to save it from bank
ruptcy.
The funeral of Admiral Jaures, late
minister of marine, took place ON Mon
day in Paris. Orations were delivered
by Premier Tlrard, De Freycinet, minis
ter of war, and Duperre. Marshal McMahon
was present ana received an ovation
from the crowd.
Ohio is going to spend S., on
monument in the National Cemetery at
Chattanooga, Tenn, in honor of Capt.
Andrews and the other Federal railroad
raiders who were hung in Atlanta,
Ga, during the War, for running away
with locomotive at Big Shanty
The international chase for Tascott,
the Chicago murderer, has ended in
failure. A. j. Stone, son-in-la law of the
fugitive's supposed victim, Millionaire
Smell, has returned empty-handed to
Chicago, Ill. The man captured in the
Northwest Territory was the wrong man.
A Halifax (Canad0 express on the In
ter-Colonial railway came into collision
Tuesday with special freight train near
Rimonski station The driver of the
express and his fireman, the conductor of
the special and the fireman of the special
were killed. Two other train hands
were injured, but not fatally. Both of
the engines, baggage cars and two
freight cars We're wrecked. None of
the passengers were injured.
I,atters of srnnothr n;th tho ,ro;oo.oa
National Confederate Soldiers Home, at
Austin, Texas, continue to pour in to
the New York committee. Among the
letters just received is one from Ex-
President HAYES from Fremont Ohio
There are also letters from Major Geperal
George Crook. of the division Of Mis-
souri,. and from Gen. William Merritt Of
the department OF Missouri. Gen Crook
speaks of the movement as "a charity
which sectionalisn can well afford to
overlook, and the North can. in this way.
show kindness and sympathy to the fall.
On foe."
Lieut.. Carson, commanding troop G of
Ine o.h oniteu States cavalry, arrived at
DAiahon', ,1, !. l., On sunday, from Fort
nseno. tne wouia-pe settlers We're
warmed o' tne so,uieis coming aud scat
.ereu III every ulrectloh. several nun