Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-08-25
LIGHTNING FLASHES.
INTERESTING SPARKS FRfN
EVERYWHERE.

Thursday, Geneva, o., was swept
BY fire, which caused loss Of
$4,000
Three French officers and lady
have been arrested as spies at Myslo-
WITT, Silesia.
Thursday the wheel manufacturers
met in Cincinnati and agreed to estab-
hsh scale of higher prices.
Fire at South Charleston, o., de.
stroyed six stores and six dwellings.
Loss 1000; insurance, $40, 900.
Extremely hot weather prevails
throughout Europe, the thermometer
In some places reaching 107 degrees.
| Seven fresh cases of sunstroke were
reported in Vienna Sunday. Three
Others previously reported hay since
died.
During twenty-four hours there was
reported in st. Petersburg ninety-two
new cases of cholera and thirteen
| deaths.
The directors of the National Lead
company have declared a quarterly
dividend of l S-4 per cent on the pre-
/ ferred stock.
A decree is about to be promul-
gated removing all existing restric-
tons on the expectation Of cereals
from the Russian empire.
Offers of silver to the treasury de-
partment Saturday aggregated 499 900
ounces. Amount purchased was 20O,-
600 ounces at S2.97 to S4.03.
A rebellion has broken out in the
province Of Szuchren, China, result
ing from union of secret societies
and a religious fanatic leader.
According to the official returns
there were reported Sunday through.
out Russia 1877 new cases of cholera
and S,4S2 deaths from the disease.
The sanitary commission of GalIcla,
Austria, advises that a military cor
don be stationed along the Russian
frontier to prevent the Introduction of
cholera.
On account of the socialistic boycott
OF the Warbrecker brewery, the mas.
tiers of Hamburg, Germany, have dis
missed 1900 workmen until the boy
colt Is removed.
AT Chester, Pa, the State Federation
OF Labor has passed resolutions re-
commencing all union men to refrain
from enlisting In the national guard,
and all enlisted men to withdraw.
The pope has appointed Monsignor
Cszacka, project In the vatican and
coadtutor to Monsignor Persico, Sec
rotary to the propaganda. The pre-
late Is friend of Cardinal Rampolis.
AT Lancaster, Pa, the Pennsylvania
iron woaks closed June /, owing to a
disagreement about the Amalgamated
scale. The works will begin opera
lions next week with the old scale in
vogue.
The military maneuvers at Laon-
nance, Germany, are to be suspended |
on account of the heat. The troops
returned to the garrison by night
marches. Thirty cases of sunstroke
are reported.
AT Dubuque, Ia, the trades and
labor congress has declared boycott
against the Rhomberg street railway
line, on account of the company
threatening to discharge motormen
who Joined labor organizations.
AT San Francisco 1t is reported that
the revenue cutter Rush seized the
whaling bark Lydia on July 28, at
Dueth Harbor, Alaska, for having
seal skins obtained in Behring sea on
board. The Lydia was sent to
Sitka.
AT Pittsburg, John Eberhardt, a
Waterman at the workhouse, was
found dying Thursday morning in the
cell of prisoner named Heber. An
investigation showed that Heber had
beat the Waterman with heavy iron
bar sawed from the cell door. The
prisoner then escaped.
The president has appointed WILL
lam Harrison Bradley of Illinois to
be consul at Copenhagen, vice Ryder,
dismissed. MIR. Bradley il the present
consul at Nice, France, aud is trans
fersed to Copenhagen. The change is
made In consequence of Mr.. Ryder's
confession of official misconduct.
The sessions of the grand lodge of !
Ohio, order Of 81. George, closed at
Akron, o., Wednesday night. An
important amendment to the constitu-
ton, providing for the election of the ,
supreme lodge every three years, was
favorably passed upon. II has already
been submitted 10 other grs nj lodges
BY the supreme lodge Of the order.
The American silver question Is a
matter which Is already beginning 10
agitate financial circles In Montreal.
AT present the Montreal banks and
other financial institutions refuse TO
AXE the American dime, quarter.
lalf-dollar and dollar at par, and In
tact viii not have anything 20 do with
hem.