Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-21
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
,nrEREAr,ac HOME AND FOR
ENoh MATTERS.
A syndicate is attempting to buy up
all the nickel mines of Canada.

A syndicate is attempting to buy up
all the nickel mines of Canada.
The Berlin municipal authorities
resolved to petition Chancellor Won
Caprivi to alter the military instruc-
tions, which permit the reckless shoot
ing of civilians by sentinels.
The customs committee of the
French Chamber of Deputies has
unanimously approved the committees
agreement between France and the
United States, negotiated by Mr..
Whitelaw Reid.
The Croker school house, one Of
the largest in Des Moines, burned Fri
day. The pupils were successfully
marched out of the flaming structure,
though several were slightly injured.
Loss, $50, 900; no insurance.
Near Albany, Ind, Thursday after
noon, Roland Hobbs, aged II, shot
and instantly killed Walter Shonley,
aged 80. Hobbs shot at mark with
a rifle; the ball penetrated the board
and hit Shonley, who was on the other
side.
Samuel Miller, an oiler employed at
the Worthington pump works at Elz-
abethport, n. j., was caught in
shaft and whirled around several
times with great velocity before the
machinery was stopped. His clothing
was completely stripped from his
body and he was seriously injured,
but he escaped death, app arently
almost miraculously.
AT Ashland, Pa, Thomas Williams
was instantly killed and John Phillips
and John Myson seriously injured, by
an explosion of gas at the Glendon
colliery, Friday afternoon. The gas
was ignited by spark from drill.
The men went into part of the mine
contrary to the orders of the fire boss,
who told them that the breast was
full of gas
The crop bulletin of the Ohio board
of agriculture just issued estimates
the wheat crop of this year at 25, OOO,-
600 bushels, an increase over last year
| of 100000 bushels. The barley
| yield is estimated at IS per cent Of
last years crop, rye at rs per cent,
| corn at 70 per cent, and fruit at "A
| per cent.
The Newfoundland seal fishers have
| been so far very successful. OF
| twenty steamers which left the ice
/ f5ol1c loct xxor,<h olox,a,. I,oxxu ..zx.~r
! with $4,000 seals, which at % per
head, gives total value of e418, 900.
The steamers, as fast as they arrive,
are rapidly unloaded and start off on
second trip.
At Toledo, o., Samuel Clark, aged
| 90, was fatally shot Thursday night by
| George Leithart. A lawsuit between
the gentlemen is supposed 10 be the
cause. Clark was in his office when
Leithart drove up and discharged his
| pistol at the old man. Clark is at the
hospital and his assailant is in Jail,
| guarded from the threatening crowd.
Near Guadalupe, Uruguay, an Ital-
| ian named Travis, and his wife and
three children, the eldest girl 22
years old, were found murdered Fri
! day, The dead bodies showed numer-
GUS dagger wounds. Travis recently
realized 81 900 from the sale of his
crops, and the money was known to
be in his house. The identity of the
| murderers is unknown.
On May the indianapolis street
car lines will pass from the hands of
their present owners-Cyrus McCor-
mick, S. w. Allerton and other Chi
cago capitalists-to the control of
New York syndicate, headed by r. l..
Belknap. An option, given by the
Chicago owners to j. g. Shaffer, ex-
president of the company, has been
closed.
At Chicago, as George Scott, car
penter, was entering u building on
which he was employed Thursday
afternoon, he was insulted by gang
of West Side roughs, the insults hav-
ing been given him several times be-
fore during the day. He suddenly
struck one of the gang in the nose.
The latter instantly pulled a revolver
and fatally shot Scott.
Gov. Pattison hae received encour-
aging answers from Geo. w. Childs
and from other large owners of Urge
conservatories in and near PhiIadel-
phia with regard to floral display by
Pennsylvania at the Worlds Coium-
bian exposition. There has been
considerable correspondence on the
subject and the florists of the
state are said to be willing to give
substantial aid.
4 The London Athen@um says that
owing to the scantiness Of the unoccu-
pied space in Westminster Abbey, the
Very Rev. George Granville Bradley,
ID. D. Dean Of Westminster, has re-
luctantly declined to find room in the
Abbey for the proposed monument to
the late james Russell Lowell. The
dean has suggested that instead Of
monument window in the Chapter