Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
CURRENT EVENTS OF THn DAY
EPIToMIxED.
= Conoise Review for tho week of
Doings from All Over thu
World.


trains on the Chcago and northwestern col
lided. A fireman was killed, both engineers
fatally hurt, and many passengers injured
The wreck took fire and burned,
A MADRID dispatch says: The Workmsns,
Congress, now in session here. have approved
of the proposition to declare general strike
throughout Spain should such step be found
necessary in order to secure the adoption OF
the eight hours for days work system.
THE Ohio Senate has defeated the anti
Pinkerton BILL
The New Hampshire Legislature has de
feated the nine hour law.
BACK water Of the Merrimac river has
stopped many miles at Lawrence, Miss
A PETITION has been sent to the Massachu-
sets Legislature against Sunday papers.
A SWEDISH ship is ashore off North Caro-
lima coast 100 miles south of Cape Henry.
In New York the Washington National
Bank is in the hands of the National Bank
Examiner.
THE Parnell leadership COMMITTEES now says
Parnell will not resign until Hsaly has sought
reelection.
RAMIAsTRA, governor of the province Of
Balahona, Madagascar mastered 21s persons
, including men women AMI children A later
dispatch says the governor has in tvrn been
massacred.
| A KANSAS CRY dispatch says that i. NJ
ott of ~
| was found in his Office the other day ravina
maniac He is very poor. He had no money
| to buy food, and was too proud to beg
Hunger drove him mad He was arrested
An inquiry into his sanity will be instituted
A DISPATCH comes from Chill, stating that
the Gillian government in order to avoid the
bombardment and destruction of Antofagasts
! by vessels in possession of the rebels, have
withdrawn the government troops from An
! tofagasta with all the rolling stock Of the
I Antofagasta railroad to Collin, a strategic
| point between Antofagasta and Iquique
A CORK dispatch says: The trial of Mich
aci O'Brien, Dillon and others charged With
rioting at the time of the trial at Tipperary
of John Dillon and William O'Brien begar
to-day in this city. Among the witnesses
summoned are John Morley and Alfred Ill.
| ngsworth, Brstish members Of Parliament
The removal of Dillon and O'brien to Corh
| Jail is believed to be for the purpose of put
ting them on the witness stand in These
trials.
The Vulcan Iron Works, of Richmond. Va
have closed down. The men refused to accept
monthly instead of semi-monthly payments
CHARLES L. MORTON, correspondent foi
the New York World, while looking for a
supposed volcano near Tallahassee, Fla, fell
seventy feet from the top of tree and was
fatally hurt
AT Chicago, fire in the sailroad traffic
house Of the Baltimore & Ohio destroyed
several carloads of goods and the building,
causing loss of slo0, 900.
| TaE orange trees in Florida are in bloom.
| IN New York 1865 policeman hays the
! grippe.
| MANY deaths from la grippe have occurrei
i'll Milwaukee, Wis.
| A SEVERE hail storm visited Orlando. Fla.
ami did much damage.
II is said that R,lhsld Proctor, Secretary
OF War, will soon resign.
! Four thousand people in Pittsbury and AL
leShany City, Pa, are scx with tho grip 49,
II. +. ToPIN, a merchant tailor at Franklin
Pa, Was murdered in his house and the srruc-
ture burned
MEMORIAL services vera held in a little
chapel in Roosevelt street in New York for
the eleven ltalians WAC Vera killed in New
Orleans
"A PLANK supposed to coataia dynamit,
waen placsl on the flee it nsgro's cabin In
Augusta, Gl., exploded and iAjured three
negroes, ono fatally
PRESIDENT HARRISON has telegraphed 10
CnicASo for ths resignation OF Iudila C. nm
missioner Morgan II, is charged with IT.
hgious plrtialty il the disc aargs OF his
dutses.
PASSENGER train No. on the Louisville g.
Nashville Railway was wrecked Saturday
near Louisville, KY. Engineer George Bur
GEES Was killed and Fireman Ersklne fatally
hurt. No passengers were hurt.
AT st Joseph, No, fire destroyed the store
ana stock OF the kennard Grocery Company.
The loss is $4,000, partially insured.
Gov. HILL of New York, has accepted the
invitation of the Henry w. Grady Monu
ment Association of Atlanta, to deliver an
address at the unwilling next summer.
CHIEF OF Construction Barnhlm and the
commissioner OF architecture have figured
out a plan by which about $4,Oo9, 90 will be
saved In the construction Of tho worlds fair
bindings.