Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF LATE HAP.
PENINGS.
The Freshest Sparks From the Wires.
Accidents and Other Happen
ings.

The American refinery of San Francis
GO, Cal, was formally sold to the Eastern
Sugar Trust on Monday.
The German printers Of New York
City announced on Sunday, that they,
would demand SO SO day and go on
strike if refused.
The Council of State, at q meeting held
IN Luxembourg, resolved to invite the
Dake OF Nassau to become the regent of
Luxembourg.
Rev. James McCosh, cx-president Of
Princeton college, N. D., is lying a. his
home in Princeton very i'll from pneumo-
MA following an attack Of bronchitis.
Thomas G. Williams, a wealthy tobac-
eonist, NJ. Rosenbaum, wealthy dry
goods merchant and Peter V. Daniel,
well known railroad lawyer, died at
Richmond on Tuesday.
While Father Agoslino was preaching
in the st. Carlo church, in Rome, Italy,
bomb was exploded. Great excitement
followed and several women tainted.
but the preacher continued his sermon
The eldest son of the late John Bright,
who is liberal unionist, will contest
the seat in the House of Commons for
the central division of Birmingham,
Eng, made vacant by the death of his
father
Postmaster General Wanamaker made
his first public utterance on Sunday in
Philadelphia. Pa, on the question of
high license and prohibition. He de-
nia e Al.
tutlona amendment, and exhorted the
audience he addressed, to work, pray and
vote for it..
Sir John Lubbock has presented a
half-holiday bill before the British Par
Lament, which proposes that whenever
two thirds of the shopkeepers in any
given district vote for half holiday on
some one day each week, all the shops in
the district. shall be closed at 2 O'Clock
on that day.
The closing episode in the record of
the steamer Haytien Republic as trader
between Boston, Mass, and Hayti oc-
CURED Tuesday, when the craft was sold
at auction for Sal 900. The purchaser
is William Lewis, Of New Bedford, who
will fit the Republic out for Behring's
sea and the Arctic ocean as !. whaling
supply steamer.
On Monday fire broke in the Glencoe
Iron Works of Armsbel d Co., at
youngstown, Ohio, and spread through
The building so rapidly that in half an
hour The entire plant was in ruins. The
flames then communicated to the iron
works oil Brown, Bonnell & Co., destroy
ing one of their warehouses and an en-
CINE house. The loss will reach $780,
600.
Judge Alexander McCue, ex-assistant
Treasurer of the Uplted States, died at his
home in Brootiyh, N. T., on Tuesday,
Judge McCue was stricken with paraly-
sis on The Goth of March. and has been
confined 10 his home ever since. He was
appointed by President Cleveland to be
Solicitor of the Treasury, which Office he
held until a year ago, when he was made
assistant treasurer in New York
Al tn meeting OF Central Labor Union,
in New York on Sunday, communica-
ton was read purporting to come from
Jay Gould, through Washington Davis,
railroad contractor, stating that Mr..
Gould was willing to hand over to the
Union ST., 900, 90 in gold, with interest
from 1868, if the Central Labor Union
would be willing TO adopt the plan for
cooperative industry proposed by Mr..
GouId.n
The recent hurricane in the South
Pacific ocean swept over 200 geograph-
ical miles, embracing in its track the
Hervey and Society groups of islands
The American ship, Red Cross, from
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was driven ashore at Baratonga and
wrecked. The crew was saved. The
American ship, Ada Owen, was wrecked
at Ouara. Her crew was saved. Wreck
age from the British ship Suakim, from
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was seen at Aitutaki No doubt the
crew persisted.
A hurricane started on Tuesday in
Aberdeen, Dakota and continued all
day. Roofs were blown off the Park
Place hotel and other buildings. The
storm in several places had the added
terror of fire. Yankton Oak, reports
that Violin, astation on the Northwestern
Read, was burned. A thousand tons of
hay we're burned, aud ali she barns in
the place. The fire invaded the large
cattle corral and forty or fifty cattle were
b dly burned, the rest breaking through
the enclosure and escaping. The de-
struciion was caused by Il prairie fire.
The French Chamber of Deputies, by
a vote Of 800 to ESQ, rejected the Senate's
proposal to prosecute summarily all
papers guilty of libeIling government
officials. M Cocarde( says that Gen.
Bouiangcr Icing warned Tuesday that
the government was preparing for
coup, arranged so that he would not fall
into the governments hands and left the
city. The police are mysiiiied "Thc
general" adds Cocarde, '"wil appear
when duty requires him. 1t is our i'm
preston that he has hidden temporarily,
nerilans in RInssnls y