Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-04-20
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
Epitomized aud Grouped.

to make any changefrom miners'wages
as paid during the year ending May /,
1898
The city stables of Atlanta, Ga,
were destroyed by fire Sunday morn
ing aud 140 mules persisted in the
flames. Loss, $4,000; Insurance,
| $40, 0VU
Au lilor Alderman has made re-
port showing that the building of the
Worlds Fair has already cost SIC, 7oS,-
S25, twice the sum expended for the
Paril Expositi,n, and more must yet
be paid out.
AT st. Louis the threatened roofers'
strike did not materialize to the
marked extent expected There are
21O men out. In a number of III.
stances the firms have granted the de-
mand of the union roofers for an in.
crease of 25 cents per day.
The Providence & S,onington Steam.
ship Company intends to make an ex-
| hibit at the Worlds Fair at Chicago,
designed to show the historical growth
and development of stsam navigation
on Long Island Sound and the con-
lSxsts between the ancient and the
modern vessels.
Mrs. John Budner of Beaverbroek,
near Blairstown, n j., gave birth to
four children last Thursday morning.
Two Of the babies are boys and two
girls. Mrs. Budner is the wife of =
young farmer and is but is years of
| age. Both mother and Children are
doing well.
1t would seem that cycling enthu.
siasts have gathered all their strength
for one grand bathurst during tho in
ternational tournament, which is to
be given in Chicago in August. The
best men in the world, it is believed,
will be drawn into competition, and
there is talk that the mile record will
| go as low as $50.
AT Buffalo, N, Y, the A. S. Holmes
! Oil Refinery, covering ~ acres of
ground, was destroyed by fire together
with 20 freight cars and train of oil
cars. Thirty thousand barrels of oil
were also burned. The loss will reach
into the thousands.
AT Halifax, N. S., the council of
the board of trade has passed resolu-
tons in view of the danger that
cholera may gain an entrance, demand
ing thar the Dominion government at
once make the necessary improve
ments to the quarantine station at
| T,aWle5S leland
While the Difficult ties presented by
| the Australian financial condition have
been well understood in New York,
the suspension of the English, Scot
fish and Australian came as q good
deal of surprise. 1t is thought, how
ever, that no New York bank will DO
seriously involved.
j. G. Stubs, third vice-president
and traffic manager of the Gsogia Pa
cific, announces that on account of
ocean competition, his road will make
further reduction in freight rates as
soon as he can get permission of the
freight rate committee, which will be
within Is days.
sation was caused Thursday by the
announcement by A. w. Morris, con-
sentative member of Parliament for
Montreal in the local Legislature, that
the only solution OF Montreaps strained
relations was for the city and Island
to secede from the province Of
| Quebec.
The trouble which has been brew.
ing between the HuDgarians and Ital-
ians of Mllnesville, Pa, and vicinity,
for some time, terminated Saturday
night in bloody battle. As q result,
two men are dead, two missing, sup
posed to be lying at the bottom of a
mine hole, and three others seriously
injured.
AT San Francisco the Columbian
| Steamship Company, in connection
with the Panama Railway Company
and the North American Navigation
Company, has issued new tariff on
| west-bound shipments, affecting sew
eral hundred kinds of manufactured
goods. The new rates are very much
lower tnan has been the case before,
either by rail or isthmus.
At New York the general appraisers
have acted on information from the
treasu5 department that it would &C
! quiesccs in the decision of the APP
pellee court of Chicago in the case Of
Marshall, Field Il Co, against the
collector al Chicago, on the classical
ton for duty on silk nets, veiings
and drapery nets. The collector as
sessed them at COO as lace nets. The
inn orters claimed duty at so per
cent, and on appeal, won the case.
At Chicago, through the exertions
of Miss Jane Adams and c. S. OAR
row, a public meeting has been ar
ranged at Central Music Hall to pro-
test against the treaty with Russia
lately ratified by the UnitedStates Sem
ate. Judge Tulley will preside and
addresses are expected from Miss
Adams. Mr.. barrow, Prof. David