Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-08

hii'teic VI OOtoDot. NONcIH lower
will deliver the dedcatory a lress and
an original ode and poenH will be
marked features of the occasion
EX- Alderman II. "A. Macdonald Of
Toronto, who has been before the
Canadian public in various ways for
some years, and particularly lately in
advocating annexation, is arranging
for series of annexation lectures in
New York, Boston and other Ameri-
can cities. One object of the lectures
is to raise money to start an annex
alton paper in Toronto.
At Victoria, b. c., the news of the
seizure of one San Francisco sealer
and three Victoria sealers by the Rus
sian gunboats has created sensation,
1t is pronounced by sealers to be
gross outrage. The Sealers' associs
ton is preparing to have statement
telegraphed to Premier Abbott Of
Ottawa.
AT Attention, Pa, William f. Keok,
who was sentenced te be hanged next
Thursday for the murder of the aged
Nipech couple last November, has
been informed that the governor has
granted him reprieve of sixty days.
The reprieve is granted in order to
get his case before the board of par
dons.
Advices from Samoa indicate that
all is quiet on the island. The Mataafa
party maintain a policy of silence,
though some of the chiefs desire to
hoist their own flag. The great de-
sire of the party is that the three
treaty powers should withdraw the
chief justice and president of the coun-
Gil on the ground that they are incom-
petent and too highly paid.
AT London, the London and Cen
eral bank Qimited) of No. 20 Bulge
Row, Common street, e. c., has sus-
pended payments. The bank was
founded in 1882 with capital of
FL 100000 70 September 80, 1891,
the sum of f417 no had been sub
, scribed to the capital, In 1891 the
bank paid a dividend of 3 per cent.
, The failure has created no excitement.
The holy father has declared his
satisfaction with the constitution of
the Gladstone ministry. The vatican
in nowise expects to re-establish per
manent official connection with Eng
land, but it hopes to have excellent
relations with the new cabinet. The
pope believes home rule will be adj
vanced. Democratic ideas triumph
and the triple alliance be snubbed
under Gladstone
AT Grand Forks, N. d., among the
resolutions adopted by the interna-
tional reciprocity convention was one
favoring the extension of enlarge
ment of existing waterways, and the
construction of additional means of
water communication from the great
lakes to the sea and the commerce
passing through said channel, whether
natural or artificial, should be free of
all tolls.
Formal orders have been given
from the treasury department for the
shipment of four six-inch gnns with
their carriages and circles complete,
from the Washington navy to Chicago.
These guns will, with their equipment,
weigh upward of twelve tons each.
They are intended for the batteship
Illinois, which constitutes the naval
branch of the government exhibit at
the Worlds Columbian fair.
s. j. Moody, deputy United States
marshal, has just returned to Guthrie,
.. t., from an extended trip through
the kiowa, Comanche and Apachee
country, where he went to arrest par
ties who have been stealing timber off
the government land in the territory.
He reports that the settlers of Green
county, Texas, have stripped the
country of most of the timber. The
marshaps posse brought back sixteen
prisoners.
Chief Deputy Marshal Waters and
five special deputies have left San An
tonic for San Francisco, having in
charge eigtcen Chinese who entered
the United States at various points
along the Rio Grande border from
Mexico, in violation of the United
States exclusion act. Ten of the
prisoners We're arrested at Eagle Pass,
one at Del Rio and seven at Ell Paso.
They will be transported back to
China from San Francisco.
The Ohio Worlds fair building will
be dedicated on the goth or 21st OF
October. Governor Mckinley will
deliver an address. Ex-Governor
Campbell will follow Mckinley with
an address, after which Senators
Sherman and Brice will deliver adj
dresses. The monument to Gen.
William Henry Harrison, being pre-
pared for Cincinnati, and which will
be temporarily set up in Chicago, in
front of the Ohio building, will be
dedicated on the same day, President
Harrison delivering the dedicatory ad-
dress.
Advices from Honolulu say that
business is almost at standstill and
the prospects for the future are not
very satisfactory, especially when ac-
count is taken of the fact that the
sugar crop is now all off and that it
has fallen short nearly one-fifih of the
J estimate. Three plantations, by their