Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-07-28
LIGHTNING FLASHES.
INTERESTING SPARKS FROM
EVERYWHERE.

of Wight for the summer.
The business portion of Rio Vista,
CAL, has been burned. Loss $3.50, 900. |
In recent be tile in Morocco it is
said that 500 of the natives were
killed.
AT Chilkat, Alaska, six Indians have
been arrested for numbering a white
man.
The farmers of the northwest are
sorely in need of help to harvest the
wheat crop.
The anarchists who were concerned
in the May riots in Belgium are on
trial at Liege.
The flour millers of New York city
have gone into combination to pre-
vent competition.
Three hundred employees of the
Great Northern railroad have struck
for higher wages.
Near Valley City, N. D., Conductor
Sloe fatally shot two passengers for
pulling the bell rope.
The Associated Brick company of
New York will hereafter refuse to
recognize labor unions.
The steamer Leo, from New York,
has reached st. Petersburg with pro-
visions for the famine sufferers.
The section men on the Wabash
railroad, between Peru and Tolton,
| H., are on strike for higher wages.
The United States authorities ha We
organized rigid quarantine along the
Pacific coast because of the smallpox,
The Canadian government will com.
bat the grounds on which the United
States authorities seized the steamer
Coquitlan.
AT Winchester, Ind, $4,000 people
attended the unwilling of the Ran
dolph county soldiers monument,
Thursday.
J In Venezuela hostilities between the
government and revolutionary armies
have been suspended dur ing the nego-
tiations for peace.
The republican conve ntion of the
Eleventh Iowa district has renomina-
ted Hon. q. D. Harkins of Sioux
City for congress.
The municipal council of Paris has
approved the proposed vote of 200, :
900 francs for the expenses of Paris
representation at the Chicago fair.
Sunday night at Chicago the Cronin
committee met to consider certain new
evidence. 1t was decided 70 consult
an able lawyer before proceeding fur
Their.
Devoe u Co., of New York, the
largest paint dealers in the world, are
negotiating for the purpose of con-
solidation. To keep up prices is the
object.
The rye -four mill men of the east
will form combination to maintain
prices. They claim that this is made
necessary by the losses they have sus-
tanned.
Mrs. Lucy Fairweather, widow Of
the millionaire leather merchant, is
dead. As a result of her death $780,
900 will be divided among educational
institutions.
The Scotch societies of Chicaao
deny that Robert Burns Hutchinson.
the descendant of the Scotch poet,
has been wantonly neglected by them
as reported.
Jem Mace of London, England, the
retired champion pugilist of the
world, has applied to the Chicago
Athletic association for the position of
boxing instructor.
Charles E. Dackers who died at
Yankton, s. D., recently, from the
effects of injuries received in a wrest-
liny match, was son of Sir Charles
Dackers. of England.
Sir Charles Upper, Canadian high
commissioner to England, referring to
emigration, says that it is difficult to
induce persons of suitable character
to leave England.
The project of the Seine will ask
the Paris municipal council for vote
of 10000 franks to defray the ex-
penscs of the representation of the
city of Paris at the Chicago fair.
Capt. w. E. Andrews started on
his perilous voyage across the Atlantic
ocean in a sixteen-foot sail boat. at
five O'Clock Wednesday afternoon.
under the most favorable circum-
stances.
AL New York. Michael Varley and
his daughter were found asphyxiated
by gas in a bath room of his house.
Wednesday. 1t is not known whether
the deaths resulted from suicide OF
accident.
The result of the enumeration of
Chicago's population, which has been
going on for some time under the
auspices of the school census commit
tee, shows that Chicago has 1,44S, 1923
people within her gates.
A company has been formed in
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