Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-28
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The hall in which the national re-
publican convention will meet at
Minneapolis is almost ready.
AT Chicago the Single Tax club held
a banquet Thursday night to celebrate
Jefferson's birthday. A number of
Fire at Martinsvile, Va, caused O
loss of $4,000. Several stores, the
postoffice and saloon and hotel were
destroyed.
The opening of the st. Lawrence to
navigation is impeded by the ice Jam
at Quebec, which may delay the open.
ing for some time.
AT the City of Mexico 1t is reported
that Jay Gould's representative has
asked President Diaz for an important
railroad concession.
Queen Victoria, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice, visited Toulon Wed
nesday. She was received at the sta
ton by cheering crowd of citizens.
The Bulletin of the American iron
and steel association says that the
furnaces are now carrying the largest
stock of unsold pig iron in their his
tory.
No doubt is felt at the City of Mex
leo that the nominating convention to
be held on Saturday, the 10th instant,
will unanimously nominate President
Diaz for reelection.
The large factory of the Brooklyn
sash and blind company on Flatbush
avenue, Brooklyn, was destroyed by
fire the other day. The loss is esti-
mated at $50, 900.
An epidemic of black smallpox is
raging in Poland, especially on the
Galacian frontier. The disease is very
fatal, most of those who are attacked
dying on the third day.
appropriate addresses were made.
Letters of regret were read from
many well known people, among them
being Grover Cleveland, Senator
Palmer and Jerry Simpson.
A tremendous and disastrous prai-
rie fire is raging in northwestern Kit
Carson county, Colorado. The region
is thickly settled with ranchmen and
the damage will be heavy.
At Lynn, Mass, the police have
arrested three of the leading tailors on
warrants charging them with main
tanning lottery schemes. The three
arrested have been forming suit clubs.
At Uniontown, Pa, it has been dis
covered that mine fire started twenty
years ago, a1d supposed to have been,
extinguished at the time, is still burn
ing, and has consumed at least five
acres Of coal.
The report that the Reading railroad
has secured control of the Pennsyl-
vania, Poughkeepsie and Boston rail
road company is not absolutely correct,
but it Is understood that negotiations
for that effect are pending,
At Reading, Pa, Harry and How
ard Hoyer and Lewis Bright, boys IA
years of age, have been committed to
prison In default of bail on the charge
of attempting to rob passenger train
on the Reading railroad.
The agent of an American syndicate
is in the City of Mexico for the pur-
pose of arranging for the establish
ment of steamship line to ply be-
tween the United States and Mexican
and Central American ports.
At Yokohama sentence of sir
months imprisonment at hard labor
has been passed on M. Nakamira, one
of the members of the Japanese par
Lament, charged with libeling the
cabinet in his public speeches.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, considerable
excitement prevails in and about the
Lehigh Valley shops over the orders
issued by the Reading combine, under
which many hundreds of workmen
are to work only half the time until
further orders.
Capt. A. d. Yokum, who killed
Myron Vanfeet, the correspondent of
a sensational sheet at Omaha, for
slandering his daughter, and who was
Friday sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary, was pardoned by Gov.
Boyd.
Father Kenny, Of Kenosha, Wis,
has written letter stating that he ia
in receipt Of q communication from
Archbishop ireland, in which the latter
states there is no foundation in the
report that he is to be made a cardi.
nal.
A Quebec special says alarming re-
ports are current regarding the condi-
ton Of Cardinal Taschcrau. His
physical strength appears to be unim-
paired, but there are indications
his mental balance is gradually being
unstrung.
Herr Jauer, medical student, and
aaron Forster, young student in the
University of Halle, Germany, fought
a duel with rapiers, Jauer being
fatally wounded. Forster gave him
self up to the police. The nature of
the quarrel has not yet transpired.