Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-08-04

the trouble and that an lncr ease In the
toll rates by the United States will be
met by an increase by Can ada.
AT Sioux City, Ia, Ed Wolcott,
young man from Omaha; was arrested
Friday for couuterfiting. He took the
new silver quarters, cut out the letters
"Q-u-a-r-t-e-r" and changed the last
''r' TO an" making it read ''Ten dol
lars" The coins were then neatly
plated with gold.
AT Laredo, Texas, of the four Mex
leans arrested for the murder of Luis
Garcia last week in New Laredo,
Mexico, two were released, no COM
plant having been filed against them.
The other two were held, awaiting
extradition. The extradition pro-
ceedings will be fought.
The Texas Worlds Fair Exhibitors
association has applied for 1907 feet
of space in the transportation building
in which to exhibit a miniature of the
harbor and city of Galveston, showing
its advantages and facilities as ship
ping Joint and port of entry, its docks,
parks and buildings.
LIE Canada of Ottawa, Ont, pub
fishes remarkable editorial, in which
it says that an effort is being made to
denationalize the French Canadians
and make them 'shewers of wood and
drawers of water" 1t couinsels French
Canadians to leave for the United
States in a body before submitting to
English aggression.
1t looks very much as if special
session Of, the Michigan legislature
would be Called to redistrict the state
into senatorial and representative dis
tricts. Governor Winans thinks that
the act of 1881 is inferior to either of
those declared invalid by the supreme
court, and he is almost convinced that
special session is necessary.
Spain has decided to increase the
tariff duties on articles imported into
Cuba. A transitory duty will be inn
posed upon all imported goods except
the following: Flour, lard, hams,
bacon, wheat, jerked beef, vegetables,
vermicelli and other soup products,
wines, vinegar, olive oil, crude petre-
leum, ice, cheese, sailed fish, meat and
potatoes.
There was panic among Dakot
farmers lest they be unable to harvest
their great wheat crop, which is now
being cut in the southern part of South
Dakota. Central South Dakota be-
gins its wheat harvest in about week
or ten days, and farmers are especially
anxious. 1t has been estimated that
about 200 or 400 laborers are needed
in each county in South Dakota.
AT Cincinnati, O., John W. Heron,
attorney for David Armstrong, re-
ceiver of the Fidelity National bank,
filed petition in the United States
court, Thursday, against Major HI. p.
Lloyd, assignee of E. Harper, for
$2, 54,476. The document is alengthy
one and comprises various amounts by
Harper from the banks funds before
the failure.
At Indianapolis, Ind, President
Frenzel, of the street railway COM
pany, Wednesday,, discharged j. P.
Riggs, secretary of the brotherhood,
on the alleged charges of not reporting
fares. The accusation was made by q
spotter, supposed to be Pinkerton
detective. Riggs Indignantly denies
The charge. The Frenzel management
is anxious to get rid of him because
Of his influence in the brotherhood.
At indianapolis, Ind, all the girls,
about twenty in number, employed as
operators in the Central Union Tele-
phone exchange went on strike at
80 Thursday afternoon, and there is
much Inconvenience throughout the
city in consequence. The trouble. the
girls claim, is not one of wages or
hours. They say that they have struck
because of unreasonable rules which
hey are expected to observe, but
The famous Faribault plan for
which Archbishop Ireland went to
Rome to fight has proved failure at
MINI. 1t is announced
hat st. MichaePs parish, of that city,
the last year,under the new
plan, will conduct its schools as paro-
,hial this year. The Saltwater board
of education will not enter into a con-
.ract with st Michael's school for
Inauguration, and in view of tho
opposition of Catholics themselves,
he scheme was abandoned.
Carnegie Denounced:
A telegram from London says: The
labor troubles at Homestead, in the
United States, are exciting increasing
interest here, now that mail accounts
have been received of the struggle
here. The newspapers are loaded
with articles and letters upon the issue
between the Carnegie company and it's
employees and intense feeling is ex-
pressed against Carnegie. In those
owns which have heretofore accepted
gifts from him, local newspapers
tenounce Carnegie and express regret
hat the gifts were ever accepted.
In letter to the Yorkshire Post de-
'lares that Americans are fools to
believe in such as Carnegie, who uses