Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
INTERESTING HOME AND FoH-
EIcN MATTERS.

ZION.
Patrick Burns and G. M. Julian,
cooks, employed on the lakes, have
been arrested at New York for smug-
Cling. Jewels valued at $4,000 were
found on them.
AT Lincoln, the supreme court has
decided that pencil marks made on an
Australian ballot are illegal, and that
the notation shall be made with q pen
and ink.
The Berlin municipal authorities
have rejected the socialist motion for
urgency in the starting of public
works for the purpose of alternating
the distress prevailing here.
The United States steamer York
town, now at Calloa, has been ordered
to proceed to San Francisco with az
little delay as possible, stopping Ell
route at the principal ports of Central
America and Mexico.
The Austrian Emperor has for
hidden the play entitled eDie Sklavin''
at the Vienna court theatre on the
ground that it deals too frankly with
the sanctity of the marriage relation.
The 5000 shoemakers in Leicester
shire, England, who have been OH q
! strike during the past week, have re-
turned TO work, having made salts
factory arrangements with their en-
ployers.
The Sienans e Halske electric light
company, Of Berlin, the largest cleo
trio light company in the world, is
about to locate in Chicago, making
this the center of extensive operations
throughout the United States.
AT Portsmouth, o., Alonzo Lawson.
proprietor of the st. Charles hotel, has
disappeared. Investigation shows
financial complications of magnitude,
coupled with green cloth sport. He
leaves debts behind said to be high in
the thousands.
Near Akron, o., an attempt was
made to wreck the west-bound N. Y,
r.. ~ o. passenger train by placing
logs on the track. The engineer saw
the obstruction in time to save the
train, although it was ditched. No
one was injured.
The Mercantile bank of Melbourne
mas suspended payment owing to run
prompted by rumors as to its sound
ness. The assets of the bank are said
TO be equal to the liabilities, and with
time for realization, all will be paid in
full.
Frank Melbourne, the "rainmaker.v
has telegraphed to Cheyenne, Wyo.,
telling OF his success in producing rain
at Hermosilla, in the state of Sonora,
Mexico. This is the dry season, but
two inches of rainfall is a result of
Melbourne's efforts.
Much concern is felt in maritime
circles for the safety of the British
steamer, Irewaves, which left Cardiff
on January 10th for Jamaica, Santa
Lucia or st. Thomas, in the West
Indies. Nothing has been heard OF the
vessel or her crew of tifty-one men.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
at Elmwood colliery, at Mahanoy CITY.
"a, and five men were badly burned.
The gas was lighted by naked lamp.
The men were taken to their homes.
1t is thought by doctors that none of
them will recover.
The radical and conservative news
papers declare that the victory of the
new French cabinet in the chamber of
deputies was due to a fear of re-
newal of the crisis. They do not con-
slider that a majority in the chamber of
deputies is solid or capable of resist
ance.
AT Chicago, Kate Brown, a wife of
only five days committed suicide by
shooting herself with revolver. She
was married to one Mike Brown, and
1t is thought that dependency over
the fact that she did not marry for
mer lover named Weis led to the sui
eide.
The Vossiche Zeitung severely con-
dennis the government for the prose-
cution of c~.gspapers on the charge of
treason. 1t says that the effect of this
will inevitably be to lower Germany
in the eyes of foreigners. Nothing,
1t declares, is more harmful to
crown than the forced silence of a
nation.
The Brussels papers deny the report
that the government has received a
communication relative to the appoint
ment of a Belgian arbitrator in the
Behring sea dispute between Great
Britain and the United States. They
assert that the arbitrators will be
drawn from Italy, France and Sweden.
The German steamer California.
from Hamburg, which has arrived at
New York, will be detained at quaran-
tine. She has case of smallpox
among her Storage passengers; also a
case of scarlet fever. Her passengers
will all be yaccinated and then sent to
Hoffman island for observation.
Senior Mont, the Gillian minister,
has informed the secretary of state
that in consequence of his election as