Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-05-05
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS
INTERESTING HOME AND FOR.
EIcN MATTERS.

AT Vienna the buildingl containing
the panorama of crucifixion has been
destroyed by fire.
Henry M. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, has concluded to stand for
parliament in the unionist interest.
The national convention of brewers
employees has petitioned Governor
F1fer, of Illinois, to pardon the an
archists.
The republican congressional con-
vention of the nineteenth Illinois dis
trict, has nominated Norman II. Moss
for congress.
Another plot against the life of
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has
been discovered. The plot, it is said,
originated in Russia.
A freight train over one mile in
length passed over the Central Hud.
son road the other day, the longest
train that ever passed over the road
At Baltimore the steamship Karls.
rube has arrived from Boston. She
brings 1900 emigrants, nearly 80 per
cent of whom are destained for eastern
states.
Fire at Mt. Sterling, ILL.,, caused a
loss of $4,000. While the fire was
raging E. F. Crane, president of the
first national bank, dropped dead from
heart disease.
The Anglo-Scotia mills and lace
factories near Nottingham, England,
have been destroyed by fire. All the
valuable machinery was ruined. The
loss is 100000.
Gen. Miles received a letter from
Gen. Schofield gracefully granting
Gen. Miles request for troops in Chi
cago during the four days in October,
when the dedicating ceremonies of the
worlds fair occur.
The Swiss government has officially
notified Director General Davis that
Mr.. Afford D. Clapperodo, the Swiss
minister at Washington, will repre-
sent the Swiss government at the
dedicatory exercises of the worlds fair
next October,
A special dispatch from Rome says
that petard loaded with dynamite,
scrap iron and stones was exploded in
Massienor palace. A similar petard
was exploded in the Cafe Rosini at
Farh. Arrests of anarchists continue
throughout Italy.
Near Brazil, Ind, broken journal
of freight train on the Vandalia
railroad caused a serious wreck.
Twelve loaded cars were derai'ed and
piled up in a heap, badly wrecking
them. Two of the train men were
injured. The wreck blocked the road.
for ten hours.
The amalgamated association of
iron and steel workers of Lebanon,
Pa, who undertook to regulate the
wages to be paid by the proprietors of
the rolling mills in that city, has gone
out of existence. The different
branches surrendered their charters
last week.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, S. s. Loewen-
berg and his wife were found dead,
lying in room at 561 Pine street,
Friday. having been accidentally suffo-
Gated by gas. Investigation showed
that the key in the gas jet did not
work properly, and that in turning off
the gas it was very easy to turn it on
again.
AT Boston, at the auction rooms of
z. +. Libbie u Co., copy of "Tam-
erlane," by Edgar Allen Poe, the only
known copy in existence, with the
exception of the British museum copy,
was sold for 81, $50 to Dodd, Mead &
Co., of New York. 1t is in 16 no.,
with paper covers, has 40 pages, and
was printed when the author was
mere boy.
AT Detroit, Mich, the journeymen
bakers have been pledged the backing
of the trades council in their strike
for changein working hours. AL
though all of the trades, which are
members of the council have decided
to boycott the bread made by bakers
who employ ''scab' men. THE strikers
say they have induced 2s0 grocers not
to handle the bread of these firms.
The minister of agriculture and
commerce of Italy has issued a circu-
lar announcing that the government
will officially take part in the Chicago
exposition through the various cham
bers Of commerce in Italy, but not
directly. The circular states the man.
ner and the extent to which the gov
eminent will commit itself, and the
rules and conditions to be observed by
the exhibitors.
Near Myrtle Point, Ore, the north
bound California express was wrecked
Friday morning. Two ties were
placed on the track by wreckers and
the engine, mail and express car
ditched, Engineer Morris and Fireman
Golling being seriously injured. A
tramp, who was riding between the
express and mail cars was badly hurt.
Robbery is supposed to have been the
object of the wreckers.
Six hundred coal miners in the Col
linsville, Ill.,, district, have gone on
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