Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-24

Assistant Secretary Krouse, of the
J treasury department, says that he has
heard from two real estate agents in
New York who thought they could
dispose of the New York custom house
site for $4,000, 900, the price fixed in
the act of congress, provided reason
able commission were allowed them
for negotiating the sale.
AT Cadiz all the anarchists charged
with participating in the recent attack
| upon the town of Here's, who were
tried by court martial have been nc.
Quilted. This decision is somewhat
OF surprise. 1t is said that the anar.
chists have Jared better at the hands
OF the military tribunal than thew
would have done had they been tried
In the criminal court.
A dispatch to the London Times,
from Athens, says that the new Con-
stanunople ministry have been unable
10 obtain working majority in the
Boule or legislative chamber, and that
the dissolution of the house is, there.
fore inevitable. The dispatch adds
That perfect quiet prevails every-
Where in the country.
AT Salt Lake City, Utah, Nicholas
Groesbeck, pardoned last year bv
PRESIDENT Harrison on his promise to
abandon polygamy, was arrested the
other day and held in $4,000 bond
Tor unlawful cohabitation. It was
very tiagrant case right in the CITY.
the offending parties living openly in
polygamous relations.
An important decision has been
handed down by the South Dakota
supreme court. 1t is in the case of
the FIRST National Bank of Clark, S,
~, indicted for taking illegal interest.
The court holds the bank guiltv. and
,hat the national character of the
bank does not protect it from the
laws of any state in the matter of
usury.
+. I'll. Cook, flushing chairman of
the executive committee of the ma
tlonal educational association. is at
saratoga, N. T., in consultation with
the local committees to make the pre-
hmlnary arrangements for the annual |
meeting of the association there in |
July next. He estimates that about |
2o'ooo delegates will be present.
AT Vancouver, B. c., the Union
steamship company has three steam-
ers tied up, owing to the firemen ard ]
engineers being called out by the
local union. The company is paving
engineers $50 per month and fremen
S4o. The union demands 800 for
engineers and $50 for firemen. The
men struck without giving notice.
There is every prospect that the
PERUVIAN exhibit at the Worlds Col
Dlan Exposition will surpass that of
the other republics of the west coast
OF south America. The greatest in
terest has been manifested in the sub
)ect both by the government and the
people, and active measures are in
progress now TO insure most credit
able display.
AT Ell Paso the United States and
Mexican boundary survey has at last
completed arrangements, and the party
began Its slow march along the border
to the Pacific coast Thursday. The
United States contingent is under the
command of Col. Barlow, and the
Mexlcans are under Senior Jose
Blanco. 1t is estimated that the trip
VIII occupy twenty-six months. {
At Ottawa, Ont, at the proper
stage on the northwest territories bill. {
Mr.. Dalton Mccarthy, M. p, will
re-lntroduce his amendment for the |
aDolshlng of French as the official :
language in the northwest territories.
Inns action will create considerable
disturbance in conservative circles. as I
The mover is leading supporter.
1t is reported that the plans to form $
Inc type foundries into trust have /
oeen perfected. English capital is q
behind the scheme. One-third of the I
purchase price of each foundry is to 9
De PAID outright in cash, one third in | {
preferred stock of the combined cor G
poratlons, and one-third in ordinary a
stock. The total valuation of all the j
companies whose options are now Z
held will reach $15, 900, 900. /
Mrs. Bull, Of Tuscumbia, Ala. !
sister OF Congressman Hilary A. Her.
bert, chairman of the committee of
naval affairs, is patient at the Pas
leur institute in New York city, with
ner son Herbert, who was recently
bitten by mad dog. Mrs. Bull be-
came inoculated with rabies poison &
through sucking the virus from her t.
sons wounds, she having an abrasion f
II the lip at the time. The patients d
ire reported to be both doing well. /,
AT New York, Edwin FL. Conger. r
United States Minister to Brazil, has 9,
arrived on the steamship Finance from q
Rio Janeiro OH a two months trip, y
Speaking about affairs in Brazil he a
laid: "The people of Brazil are set q
ling down into condition of peace
md prosperity, There have been no h
political disturbances of any conse- /,
luence for long time. There is no s
with the present form u
# government and all classes seem to y
nj ksar. Of L.,