Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-02-23
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS.
Condensed Notes From all Sections Of The
United States and Europe.

last week and forty-four lives were
lost.
The Duke of Marlborough left the
bulk of his property to the Duchess,
the late widow Hammersley of New
York.
The Harvard class of '55, with
which Phillips Brooks graduated, is
agitating 100000 memorial chapel
to the dead bishop.
The Evangelical Alliance of Boston
has petitioned congress to prevent the
sale of firearms and whisky to the ma
tives of the Pacific Islands.
The Russian colony near Chester
field, Mass, has proved failure, and
it is said that by the end of next week
all the farms will be deserted.
At Montreal live stock exporters
have received definite word from
Washington that Canadian cattle will
! not be permitted to be sent through
the United States for export to Great
Britain.
DIR. Severus La Chapelle, of Mon
treal, member of the Dominion Par
Lament, acting for Canadian COM
pany ,ihas purchased from DIR. Kelley,
of Dwight, the right to open Kelley
institutes in the Dominion.
| Frank Cronin has brought novel
suit for $4,000 against the Seventh
Avenue hotel, Pittsburg. He was a
conductor in the Pullman service, and
lost his position because the hotel clerk
failed to call him in time to take his
| car.
The Carbon Steel Company has
signed a contract with William Crump
u Sons for furnishing all the boiler
plates for three new Inman Line
steamships. The plates will be the
widest and heaviest ever made in
America.
Sixty leading French, Belgian and
German insurance companies having
formed a syndicate to insure European
visitors to the Chicago Worlds Fair
against death or disability OH the
journey or during the sojourn in Chi
cago.
The Worlds Fair Catholic educa-
tional exhibits committee has
issued communication against the
exhibit Of indecent pictures in the ex-
position buildings, and signatures are
being secured from all parts of the
country in support Of the movement.
The first section of the long-heralded
Krupp gun exhibit has arrived at the
Worlds Fair grounds. The INSTALL
ment required 81 flat cars for it's
transportation. The Krupp exhibit
Will be given q separate building re-
scmbling feudal castle.
A committee composed of Frank s.
Hambeton, John Gill, William A.
Fisher, Il. B. Sperry, of Baltimore.
and John 5. Williams of Richmond
has been organized for the protection
OF the bondholders of the Savannah.
Americas ~ Montgomery railroad.
AT New York a meeting of the Rms
sian Club has been held to protect
against the singning of the proposed
eXtradltion treaty between the United
States and Russia, !under which the
people who attempted the life of the
Car would be treated like common
criminals.
j. z. Lacome, who, with other pros.
pectors left Colorado Springs some
time ago to locate gold mines in the
reservation of the Navajo Indians,
mas returned. lie says they were
driven out by the Indians, who
threaten any and all invaders in their
gold fields.
Daniel Sweeney, an American mer-
chant who has returned on the steamer
Oity OF Panama from three montns'
trip through Central America, reports
that Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador
are under martial law and that it is
dangerous Tor a stranger to travel
there.
The civil service commission has
summoned Collector of Customs I G
Phelps, of San Francisco, to Washing
ton, Tor the purpose of answering
charges that ne removed certain Gus
toms employees because they refused to
contribute to the republican campaign
fund.
The first case ever recorded in New
York city of The suicide of a China
man was received at the coroncr's
office the other day. The man was
Clue Puoy, 10 years old, who lived at
No. % Mott street He took paris
green because his Chinese sweetheart
wo,,d not marry him.
The secretary of the navy approved
the findings today in regard to the
distribution of the Gillian award for
the families of those killed and Injured
at Valparaiso, October 16, 1891, in
the attack on the seamen Of the Balti-
more. The board arranged the cas-
ualties into four classes and assigned
a proportionate amount of the 49,
900.
At Toronto, Ont, at a meeting Of
the short horn cattle breeders associ-
alton it was denied that pleuro-nncu