Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-05-19
LIGHTNING FLASHES.
INTERESTING SPARKS FROM
EVERYWHERE.

Luz rrehcn drtlstS Will make line
display at the Chicago exposition.
In baseball row in Calhoun, KY,
three men were fatally wounded.
Twenty-seven horses were roasted
to death in New York livery stable
fire.
! The Tennessee Confederate Soldiers
Home at the Hermitage was opened
Friday.
AT Fairview, N. B., 40 buildings
were burned Monday and 5s families
made homeless,
The capitol building at Santa Fe.
N. M, was destroyed by fire Friday
night. 1t cost 81 100000.
In boiler explosion in Midland,
Mich, Friday three men were killed
Several Others were fatally hurt.
Deputy Postmaster Wood, of La
porte, Ind, has been arrested for en-
bezzling $4,000 of postoffice funds.
Governor Flower has vetoed the
bill appropiating $40, 900 for improv-
ing and increasing the lockage and
capacity of the New York canals.
The Chicago anarchists have decided
to engage lagal counsel and bring suit
agalnt the city for tae recovery of the
red banners taken from the parade on
May day.
The Argentine government has
bought a cruiser,from Armstrong. In
Is OF speed of "a knots an hour. The
price is 1926, 900. The armament of
the ship is included.
Fifty contract laborers who had
been collected at Ellis island from
various steamships were sent back
Friday to their own country. There
were also thirty-six other contract la
borers debarred from landing.
The influx of Chinese into British
Columbia is assuming large proper
tons. The majority of the new arri-
walls, after paying the dominion poll
tax of $50 head, disappear and are
Struggled across the line into the
United States.
Twenty-six Italians who arrived at
New York on the steamer Styria from
Genoa. under contract to work in the
mines at Brazil, Ind, and the vine
yards of California, will be returned.
Also six Englishmen and four Swedes.
Eighteen thousand women have
memorialized the Dominion of Canada
Parliament to be enabled to vote for
members of the body. Prime Minister
Abbott has informed Mrs. Mary Nc
Donnell, of Toronto, the woman's
representative, that their request will
be granted.
Rudolph Jaeger, the defaulting
chief cashier of the Messrs. Rothschilds,
the great banking house at Frankfort
on-the- Main, Germany, whose flight
was made public on April goth, was
arrested Tuesday in hotel at Ramleh,
Egypt. His defalcation is estimated
at 1905 900 German marks.
At Philadelphia, after suffering two
weeks from burns received at the
Central Theatre fire, Amer Hinchcliffe,
10 years old, died Tuesday morning
at the Pennsylvania hospital. Hinch-
cliffe, who is the thirteenth victim,
had escaped by leaping through the
flames and was burned internally by
inhaling them. James Pigeon, IS years
old, one of the audience, is momenta-
rilv expected to die.
The members Of the Spanish press
OF New Mexico, sixteen papers being
represented, have organized a press
association and elected permanent offi-
GERS. The members decided not to
accept any but Spanish written adver-
tisements and protested against dis
elimination by the railways against
their members. The association de-
mands that laws be enacted to allow
the Spanish language in judicial and
legislative printing.
At Chicago the hearing of the SEN
sational suit of the Charles Durkee
heirs against Franklin Head, the Chi
cago manufacturer. began Tuesday
before Judge Gresham. Durkee was
II resident of Kenosha, Wis, who
amassed a large fortune and became
territorial governor of Utah. Head
was the administrator of the estate,
and after lapse of many years is
charged with having conspired with
Harvey Durkee to deprive, the bene-
ficiaries of the will of their rights by
paying the widow paltry $4,000
and afterward causing her incarcera-
ton in an insane asvlum