Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-10-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Current Events of the Day
EpitOmized.
A Concise Review for the Week Of
Doings from All Over the
World.

A terrific thunderstorm passed over
Berlin Tuesday. Several houses were
struck by lightning.
Ex-Congressman Harvey Watterson
is quite i'll at the home of his son,
Henry Watterson, in Louisville, Ky.
The superintendent of the census
places the amount of Tennessee's
mortgage Indebtedness at $40, 42l, 1896
The Congress of American Physician.
and Surgeons met in Washinton Tues.
day.
Rae Bros. u Co., of Pittsburg failed
on account of the suspension Of 5. V.
White & Co., in New York.
Attorney General Miller has directed
that the second libe: filed against the
Gillian steamer, I'ata, be dismissed.
Peter Foster, Ernest Carlos and
George Davis, all boys, were run over
and killed by a train in the Chicago
stock yards.
The pope has sent letter to the
German and Austrian Catholic clergy,
urging them to make the strongest
endeavor to eradicate dueling.
The steamer Ems, from Bremen,
which sailed from Southampton for
New York Sunday, has on board
vi, 250, 200 in gold.
A cablegram received at the navy
II arn oil
announces the arrival of the Charleston
at Yokohama, Japan, Tuesday.
Several thousand Italian citizens
paraded in New York in celebration
of the twenty-first anniversary of the
entrance Of the Italian army into
Rome.
The democratic city convention in
Philadelphia, Pa, Friday, unani-
mously nomanated W. Redwood
Wright for city treasurer, and Theo-
dore F. jenkins for register Of Wills.
Sir James Ferguson, Bart, political
secretary of the foreign Office. has
been appointed to the office of post
master general of England, made va
cant through the death of Henry Cecil
Raikes.
1t is stated that the king of Rou-
mania, upset by the queens illness and
court intrigues, has impaired to the
Roumanian premier and others his de-
sire to abdicate the throne.
At Chicago, crazed with jealousy and
drink, Oscar Gundeman, laborer, at
his home OH the northside, blew out
his wife's brains with a revolver and
then ended his own life in the same
manner.
M. j. O'Brien, the defaulting treas
nrer of the catholic knights of Amer
lea, has made proposition to pay up
his shortage, which is nearly $40, 700,
on the installment plan. His where
abonts are unknown.
A special from West Superior, Wis,
says that the city is shrouded in smoke
from the destructive forest fires south
and east The village OF Comstock,
Byron county, is nearly destroyed and
Cumberland is in great danger.
Abundant harvests are reported
from most of the Turkish provinces,
and especially from those situated in
Asia. 1t is estimated that the revenue
will exceed that of any previous year
by 100000 Turkish pounds.
The President has appointed Lieut..
Col. John w. Barlow, Capt. w. Symons
and Prof. A. II. Norman as members
of the Mexican Boundry Commission.
which is authorized by Congress to re-
locate the existing frontier between the
United States and Mexico west of the
Rio Grande.
Captain Schley, commanding the
I Baltimore, now in Gillian waters,
cabled the navy department yesterday
from Valparaiso the following: "Fes-
| tivities to celebrate the anniversary of
CHILEAN independence and the restor-
alton of peace have passed without
| political disturbances. Balmaceda
committed suicide September 49,"
| The French bishops have received
instructions requiring them to report
to Rome as to the growth Of socialism
in their dioccses. 1t is regarded as
probable that the Vatican win snm-
mon in 1898 the universal council, the
programme for which win include the
discussion Of the relations of capital
and labor.
Grand Duchess Paul, wife of Grand
Duke Paul Alexander, the youngest
brother Of the car Of Russia, is dead.
The grand duchess was, previous to
her marriage, Princess Alexandria of
Greece, the Oldest daughter Of King
George of Greece. She was born
August so, 1870, at Corfu, and mar
ried June s, 1889, at st. Petersburg
The late grand duchess leaves one
daughter, May, born April 6, 1890.
The North German Gazette pub
fishes letter from DR.. Peters, the
African explorer, dated August 8,
saying the country southeast of
Mount Killimanjaro, the mountain Of
greatness, snowy mountain Of East
Africa, is delightful in temperature
and healthy and fertile. uWar.n saws