Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-10

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and cars standing on side track
John p. Sutton has rendered his
resignation as secretary of the Irish
National League of America, as ~
suit of his disagreement with Treas
urer Lyman.
Gov. Markham has informed COM
mittee of the Sacramento federation
of labor that he has decided to de-
clare labor day, the first Monday in
September, a legal holiday in Cali
| fornia.
Near Guthrie, O. t., prairie fire
mas been burning several days, doing a
large amount of damage to property.
A little daughter of j. r. Nida was
caught in the fire and burned to death.
A bar of gold bullion weighing $40
pounds was shipped from Phoenix,
A. L. 1t was worth So per ounce, or
about $73.440. 1t is the product of d
six weeks run on Hurquahala mine.
4! Col. James Edwards, 70 years of
age. committed suicide at Spartan
burg, S. G. The loss of his fortune
through the failure of the First
National Bank, of Raleigh, some
| months ago, was the cause.
A terrible snow-slide came down
the mountain side and completely
covered the Hungo mine near Ouray,
Col. w. Cameron was instantly killed
and the buildings at the mine were de-,
stroyed.
The ministerial council is expected
to Immediately issue decree remov-
ing the prohibition placed some time
ago on the export of corn from the
Caucasus. The question of the export
OF oats will be postponed.
General Master Workman Powderly
appeals to Pennsylvania laborine men
to crush the Reading conspiracy. 1t
has created great excitement among
forty thousand mine workers, and
many of them assert that all is needed
now is leader.
Another grain blockade is on in
Kansas City. The Burlington has
given notice that it cannot receive any
more grain. 1t is impossible to tell
how long the blockade will last, but
the Burlington people do not expect to
get clear for week at least.
The st. Petersburg Viedomosti says
Russia has postponed decision as to
proposed commercial treaties, in order
to be able to judge, before acting, of
the effects of the treaties and tariffs
recently adopted by other nations and
also to give her own tariff fair trial
A disastrous explosion of natural
gas occurred at the Knowles, Tyler e.
Knowles pottery near East Liverpool.
Ohio. A number of workmen were
frightfully if not fatally injured.
Robert Grin was fearfully burned
about the face and arms. Reuben
Densmore and William McCray were
also badly burned.
A correspondent who has been visit.
ing in company with Count Tolstoi,
the famine stricken districts of Sa-
mara, says the free tables of food are
crowded with starving applicants, who
look like living skeletons. In eyery
second house people can be found
dead or dying, and the sick 90 with. |
out attention, as there is not more
than one doctor to every 5000 people.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, the business of
the Posegate printing and Autograph
ing company has passed into the
hands of Michael Lawler, trustee.
The assets and liabilities are not vet
known. The concern is one of The
oldest printing houses in the west.
having been established by f. M. Pose
gate over thirty years ago, the plant
and business being very expensive.
Several days ago several tramns
were arrested at Beardstown, Pa, but
two were afterward discharged for
want OF evidence. The tramps still in
Jail have been identified as members
of the gang that has been operating in
western Pennsylvania and eastern
Ohio, for four months. and in that
SINE have stolen nearly $50, 900 worth
OF goods and destroyed fully $40 900
worth of property. There are twenty
five or thirty men in the gang.
President Mcleod, of the Philadel-
phia and Reading, has proposed to
market the entire output of individual
operators on the lines Of the JERSEY
Central and Lchigh Valley, guarantee
ing them minimum Of 81 per ton for
stove coal, which is higher average
than has ruled in years. The settle
mcnt price is to be based on the aver
age monthly selling prices of the Lee
high, Lackawanna and Wyoming
Goals.
It is said that preparations for
another Cuban revolution are in pro-
gress in New York and other Ameri-
can cities, as we'll as upon the island
itself. The movement is stated to be
the largest and most completely or
gained ever inaugurated for Cuban
independence. There are said to be
5000 Cuban patriots in this country