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

coast Of Africa, states that Capt
Holmes, of the whaling bark Sea Fox,
IN officer and servant, were killed and
i've of the crew killed by the explosion
Of whaling gun bomb.
The locomotive of a freight train on
the Mahoney division of the Reading
Railroad ran off the track at st. Nicholas,
Pa, on Monday. The engine and twelve
cars were wrecked. Benjamin Walker,
fireman, was instantly killed, and Con-
ductor Joslin Gillsner has since died from
his injuries.
A passenger train on the Trans Caspian
Railway in Russia was on Sunday thrown
from the track in tunnel, owing to the
removal of rails by train wreckers. The
result of the derailment was frightful,
the killed and injured numbering fifty
The band robbers who tore up the track
were captured.
A sensation has been in Cashmere by
the unearthing of plot against the life
of the British Resident. The discovery
was made through letters left by the late
premier of Cashmere. These letters re-
veal the design on the part of the Ma
harajah to poison the British Resident,
besides other reasonable plottings.
A boiler thirty feet long in the forg-
ing department of the Cleveland, Ohio,
Rolling Mills in the Southern part of the
city, exploded with terrific force on
Monday. One half of it went five hun
dred feet west and the other half sixteen
hundred feet east. Several buildings
were damaged, two men killed and elev-
en- persons-men, women and children
injured.
Chance has led to the discovery of a
cure for hydrophobia. In Ayacutho.
Peru, man was bitten by mad dog,
and shortly after the dreaded disease de-
veloped. In his madness the man rushed
from the house, and falling among a lot
OF ''peuca" plants, some of the juice of
these plants entered his mouth, and he
swallowed it. He was carried to his
house, and soon regained his health.
The will of Isaiah V. Williamson, the
dead millionaire, who died IN Philadel-
phia Pa, recently, was admitted to pro-
bate in the register of wills Office. The
estate will amount to between So, 900. 900
and 50, 600, 900 exclusive of the fund of
So, $50, 600 for the mechanical school.
The collateral inheritance tax payable to
the state will amount to between $780,
600 and 100000, and the expense of
settling the estate will reach about
$3.50, 900.
The steamer Cobean arrived in New
on Sunday, bringing news of bloody
battle between Legitime's and Hippo
lite's forces, and the massacre by the
victors. Legitime's men were so elated
over their success at Grandsaline that
they Immediately commenced to pillage
the town. One drunken soldier shot
one of the prisoners for some trifing
matter. This was the signal for gen.
eral outbreak on the part of the soldiers.
They rushed at the prisoners, shooting
and stabbing them right and left, and
the undisciplined horde proceeded to
break into houses and smash furniture,
abuse the women and behave generally
like demons, winding up the atrocities
by firing the town.
At Norwood, N. Y, on Monday, E. L.
Smith. cashier of the Norwood Bank,
was alone in the building about noon,
when Charles Phelps, post-office clerk,
entered and asked for some stamps.
Smith stepped into the vault to get them,
when Phelps quietly closed the door and
turned the combination, locking the
cashier in. The robber then turned to
the money drawer and took all the paper
money that it contained-$27S-leavin
several hundred dollars in silver. Mean
while, customer entered the bank and
saw what had happened. He heard the
cashier calling to him from the vault and,
being instructed as to the combination,
released him. Phelps, who was arrested,
is young man and native of Norwood.
He has fallen into bad habits of late and
is said to have become an opium eater.
A mob of about 1000 people gathered
in front of the city hall at Milwaukee,
Wis, on Monday, to await the arrival of
Sam Zip ia and Hah Ding, two China
men, charged with inveigling little girls
into their laundries They were disap-
pointed, however, as the officers took
the prisoners to the court room at very
early hour. The crowd was very noisy
but not violent, about fifty officers keep
ing it in check. The crowd hung around
Tor several hours, when it suddenly left
md proceeded in body to the west side,
where they went to smashing in windows
md quitting Chinese laundries. At one
point an unlucky Celestial fell into the
hands of the mob, who began yelling for
! rope to string him up, and he would
nave Jared badly but for the courage of
me policeman, who protected him until
assistance arrived.
DURING the Paris Exposition or 1858,
4 commission for the organization. of
Universal Peace Congress is to be held.
Eight societies of peace will be repre-
ented. The exhibit of this department
It the exposition promises to be one of
interest. 1t will comprise among
many Others, picture of PENIS treaty,
society of Friends Discipline Against
Var, and the Department of Swarth-
more College, reaching this branch of
,eace.
SOME European journals have already
adversely President Harrison's
eferences to immigration. The cheapest
way to get rid of paupers is to pay their
'assage money to country sufficiently
istant to make their return improbable.