Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-10-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Current Events Of the Day
Epitomized.
A Concise Review for the Week NJ
Doings from.AIl Over tho
World,

Henry w. Blair has resigned as
Minister to China.
The jeff Davis statue at jackson,
Miss, has been accepted,
The town Of Dwight, ILL.,, was
nearly destroyed by fire Satur day
night.
The malt house Of the Manhattan
distillery was burned at Peoria, III.
Loss $4,000.
Bad weather on the sea coast has
caused delays and much anxietI about
steamers now several days overdue.
At Galena, ILL.,, c. N. Peters was
killed by drinking poisonous mixture
which he supposed was whiskey.
Near Deadwood S. D., big quartz
mill was destroyed with loss Of $780,.
900.
The Gillian Steamer Itata, out on
bond, has started from San Diego,
CAL, for Chill.
The British bark Santone has been
wrecked at Matazas, and the captain
and fifteen of the crew lost.
An iron furnace at Braddock, Pa,
collapsed Saturday, the workmen bare
ly escaping the deluge of molten metal
flowing from it.
The United States warship Yorktown
sailed from New York for Valparaiso
Wednesday under orders from Wash
ington.
DR.. Briggs, the New York Presby-
terrain theologist, charged with heresy,
has been cited to appear for trial in
November.
AT Cincinnati, Rev. Samuel Bend
obi, for many years rector of st.
Pauls Protestant Episcopal church, lost
his life by an elevator accident.
The packing establishment Of John
f. Squire q Co., was burned in East
Cambridge and Somerville, Mass.
Over 1880 live hogs were roasted.
In Atlanta, Justice Lamar has de-
cided that the United States court has
no jurisdiction in the cases of Savages
and others charged with conspiracy.
The United States steamer Despatch
went ashore and is a total wreck ON
the Virginia coast. It was reported
that Secretary Tracy was aboard, but
afterwards contradictcd.
The striking firemen on the Lake
Erie and western Railway. held a con-
ference with the railway officials, with
the results favorable to a settlement of
their grievances.
AT Kingston, N. Y, M. r. Trump
born, assistant treasurer of the defuuct
Ulster county bank, is said to have
confessed to having used the banks
money.
Charles Long, motor man ON the
Manchester branch of the Richmond
Electric Railway Company, was in
stantly killed in Manchester, Va, by
his car jumping the track and throw.
ing him against the side of the track
A Stuttgart dispatch says: A procla-
nation, signed by the now King and
all the ministers, has been issued. 1t
announces the accession of Wilhelm ii,
nephew of King Kark l to the throne
of Wurtemburg.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has de-
cided that the Hamburg Phosphate
Company of Florida may import, under
contract, mining engineer and prof
essional chemist for service in connec-
ton their operations without violating
the immigration laws.
At Reading, Pa, Rev. Phillip H.
Garrett, a we'll known United Brethren
minister, was convicted of obtaining
fraudently $3.50 on life insurance
policy, and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment.
A special from New Lebanon, o.,
ysays: William Garfield has confessed
to having turned the switch which
wrecked the limited train on the Penn
sylvania railroad at New Palestine a
few weeks ago, in which three men
were killed. He says be attempted to
wreck the train to plumber it. He is
AZ jail ucIc'
Captain Fitzgerald of the Brigantine,
Attic, from Bristol, August oath, for
Harbor de Grace, picked up nine Of the
crew of the steamer "Woleston." lost
September 10Th, in the mid-Atlantic.
The captain and the remainder of the
crew are supposed to have drowned.
The British barentine, Minnie G.
Elkins, sailed from St. Johns August
10Th for Dundalk, with twenty people
on board, including the captains wife
and baby. That was the last seen of
her until the day she was passed
bottom upward, abandoned. Her
boats foated about her water log and
hulk, It is not known what became
Of Captain Bolt and her crew.