Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
ErITos1IzED.
A Concise Review fO.Nthe Week OF
Doings from nll Over the
World.
A FINANCIAL panic is on in the Argentine

A SHIPMENT of cotton goods has been made
from Augusta, Ga, to Manchester, England.
BuFoRD Grimes, chief clerk in the office OF |
the city Treasurer, of Richmond, Va, has |
been arrested for embezzlement.
THE population of Norths Carolina is 1,6l7,
9i7 of which 1919, 19l are whites and SGT, ITO
colored; ,57l are Indians and fifteen Chinese.
L. C. BEDINGFIELD, Major j. H. Wilson
and Thomas M. Mason have been nominated
for railroad commissioners of North Carolina
and win be elected.
THE 1t5 ballot in the Illinois Legislature
gave Palmer l0l, Streetor 81 and Oglesby Q
for United States Senator. The Republicans
are said to be hopelessly split and Palmer has
good chance for election.
THE statement prepared by the clerk to the
House Committee of Public Buildings and
Grounds, shows that during the past Congress,
ia bills for buildings were introduced, car
rying a total appropriation Of SIG, 7S5, 725.
or this number, SO passed both Houses, all Of
which became laws save four, which were
vetoed by the president
News of horrible massacre comes from
Madagascar. Remiasactra, governor of the
province of Bclanond, resenting a petition to
the government to defend them from cruel
ties, massacred 27S persons, including men,
women and children, belonging to leading
families. The slaughter continued for several
days. The agonies of the victims were in
rrpfroatp1 Snp1ntiplac thnir
limbs were gradually dsme,nbered, their
heads were sawed off, and their bodies were
thrown to the dogs. Many of the women
were outraged.
The census bureau gives the population Of
louisiana as |. 1851.
The Farmers Alliance warehouse at Green
vile, S. c., has been DESTROYED by fire, sup
posed by an incendiary. Loss $4,000; in
sured.
BODIES of five men, frozen to DEATH were
found on the extension of the Great Northern
III Montana. There is nine feet of snow
there.
The second annual convention of the state
railroad commissions accounting officers met
in Washington, with Judge Cooley presiding
The legislature of North Carolina has alst
passed a bill providing for an amendment to
the constitution by which the people of the
entire state viii vote for solicitors.
SADLER the steamship fireman under ar
rest in London on suspicion of being ia elk
the Ripper, has beon discharged, the police
being unable to secure evidence against him.
Rev. j. G. FURMAc, D. D., one of the most
prominent clergymen of the Baptist Church,
and for many years president OF the Furman
university, in Greenville, S. c., is dead; aged
eighty years
The treasury department yesterday paid
out IS, COO for pensions, completing the
100000 coo required on that account for the
quarter ending to-day. The treasury surplus
has accordingly been reduced to s15,0G0000
A STATEMENT prepared at the treasury de-
partment shows that there was a net decrease
of 1916 1882 in circulation during the month
of February and net increase of a. 900 O8s
in money and bullion in the treasury during
the same period.
THE senate has received the report of the
board appointed to investigate the falls,
stamping of the steel test prices for naval
vessels made by the Linden Steel Company
of Pittsburg, which shows that the counter
felt stamp had been used by an employee o.
the company, and that the latter had no
knowledge Of the fraud practiced on the gov
eminent.
South Pittsburg, Tenn, have made an assign
ment.
Mr.. HARRINGTON has obtained averdict of
e5, 900 damages in his suit against The 1nsup-
pressibe.
THE London dock laborers have removed
the boycott which they placed on one of the
three steamship lines belonging to the ship
ping federation.
THE census bureau announces the populi'
ton of Kentucky by races as follows: Whites,
,5s5, 526; colored, 272 ,9Sl, Indians, 9S; Chi
nese, 20; Japanese, l. Total, 1,sSS,G35.
PERSONS in London who are moving for the
release Of Mrs. Maybrick, urge that the sum
ming up Of Justice Stephens to the prejudice
of the accused was owing to his unstable men
tai condition.
THE Tombigbee river is on a tear" and
the whole country for many miles on each
side of the river is flooded.
THE Ohio river, at Cincinnati, has reached
81 feet 4 inches; but it is believed to have
reached It's highest point.
GENERAL DA FoNsEcA, who was chosen
provisional president of Brazil at the time of
the overthrow of the empire, has been form
ally elected president of the republic
THE electrotypers of Boston arc out ON
strike. Three hundred men come out, and 1t
will seriously interfere with the work 0.
about 1900 Others in the printing trade.
LA GRIPPE has taken possession of Fort
Logan and is playing havoc with the soldiers
Eighty are in tho hospital. and four deaths
have occurred this week from the disease
EMMA ABBOTT'S REMAINS
Said TO Have Been Crcmated in Pitts
burg, Her Ashes in New York.