Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-02-16
qELEGRAPHIC news ITEMS.
condensed R0tes From ali Sections Of tht
United States and Europe.

| i"u'ohou az Dahl, Me.
The twenty-seventh victim of the
Wann disaster died Saturday.
Millionaire John Huntington of
! Cleveland, left over $1,000 900 to
science and charity.
The various branches of the Popu-
list party will meet in conference AT
Washington February 90.
-Four sec ton hands on the Central
hudson at Syracuse, N. Y, were run
down and killed by train.
Memphis gamblers propose to open
an emporium on boats anchored to
the Arkansas shore across the river.
In the Homestead riot and murder
trials at Pittsburg Judge Stowe ruled
that the Pinkertons had right TO use
force.
Judge Allen, independent caucus
nominee, came within one vote of be-
ing elected United States senator from
Nebraska.
AT Louisville, KY, an electric light
wire fell to the street and negro
walked into it. He was instantly
killed, his neck being almost severed
by the wire.
The Huntingdon, Pa, reformatory
has been condemned in an opinion of
Judge Hare in the court Of quarter
session as an ill-managed Institution.
the Babcock 81 Wilcox company
has secured an injunction restraining
the Columbian Exposition company
from putting Sterling boilers in the
main boiler room of the fair.
The Home Benefit Association of
New York, with an insurance depart
ment attached, is $4,000 in debt,
with assets of only Sl1,S74. A re-
ceiver has been petitioned for.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife of
the ex-secretary of the navy, died at
her home, No. 2 West Fifty-seventh
street, New York City, at 3 O'Clock
Sunday morning of heart disease.
AT Ottawa, Ont, John Charlton has
given notice in the house of commons
of motion in favor of the closing of
the Canadian section of the Worlds
Fair on Sundays.
At Boston a quantity of wool which,
it is expected, after being cleaned,
will be worth 100000, has been
taken from the ruins of ilecht Bros
building, which was the center of the
recent Federal street fire.
The people of Columbia appear 10
imagine that the United States is yery
anxious to get. hold of the Panama
canal and they express an earnest de-
sire to know the nature of the propo-
sitions the United States will make.
At Chicago, Treasurer Michael
Schweistat, who failed in the banking
business some time ago, was arrested
on a warrant charging him with
criminally resolving money for de-
post at his bank when he knew it was
fnsolvent.
William B. Warning, New York
lawyer, 81 years old, married an
actress In Vienna ten years ago, then
squandered a snug fortune left him
by his father, took to excessive drink
and the other day shot himself through
the left breast.
The ways and means committee of
the Worlds Fair has decided to recon-
mend to the executive committee tie
rejection of all bids for the privilege
of selling cigars and tobacco at the
exposition, and that new specifications
be prepared.
The North German Lloyds will run
a fast weekly steamer to Quebec du-
ing the coming summer for the con-
venience of the people who come that
way and return VIA New York, doing
the Chicago exposition and tho west
in the interval, and on return
ticket.
At Kansas City, the Winner proper
ties were sold at auction Saturday and
were purchased in the interest of
those bondholders who desired to enter
into the plan of reorganization. The
Chicago, Kansas City and Texas rail-
way was sold for $75, 900 and the
Winner bridge for 1925, 900.
The Whitney syndicate, which re-
Gently purchased nearly all the coal
mines in Cape Breton and Nova
Scotia, sent big contingent to OF
tawa. The object of their mission is
understood to be to reassure the Do
minion government regarding the
danger Of a MONOPOLY m the maratime
provinces.
AT Patterson, N. j., the strike of
the female silk winders at II. H.
Adams mill has been settled by the
state board of arbitration, the firm
agreeingto pay the same prices as are
paid in Doherty & Dodworth's mill,
which is the best paying establishment
of the kind in the United States.
AT Topeka, Kan, building occu-
pic by five weekly newspapers and
the Smith Trust company was de-
stroyed by fire Friday night. The
neWS naners which were hnrna1 ort