Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-03-09
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events OF General Interest
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him i'll his financial troubles. The
Governor says he is "no beggar.D
The Imperial Infantry and Cavalry
Bands of Germany, composed of 100
men, each of whom stands six or more
IN height, has made an engagement to
play at the Worlds Fair.
AT Centralia, Ill, the strike which
has been on for twelve weeks impn-
eating 400 miners has been declared
OIL, the men returning to work on the
terms dictated by the operators.
At Battle Creek, Mich, there are
1901 women taxpayers. Their prop
erty is assessed al s46S, 200, of which
1854, 1898 is personal property. Their
total tax amounts to over S12 900.
At Boise City, Idaho, forty Japan
ese from Nampa, on their way to
work on the Rayetta canal, were met
by party of unknown men and
warned to leave the country, which
they did.
The Vesuvius Rolling Mill, of
Moorehead, Pa, has been shut down
Indefinitely, and the 500 employees
discharged. The cause of the shut
down is not known, but is believed to
be on account of lack of orders.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, although
an artist, has absolutely no taste in
dress. Her favorite blouses appear
even on occasions of full dress, and
they are, as some one graphically de-
scribes them, ..such blonsy blouses,
too"
At Chicago the prospects of the
police force being represented in the
trade and labor assembly is one of the
possibilities of the near future. The
project Is In the hands of Officer Ward
Mccain, who says he has been an
preached on the subject by prominent
labor men.
AS a memorial given to her mother
Mrs. A. Mankly is to build and main
tain home for destitute women in
the city of Washington. She is also
to give the Children's Aid Society
$50, 200 to erect a home in memory Of
her husband
Official figures show the exports OF
cattle TO Great Britain from Canada
last year, amounting to SO, 755 head. a
decrease of 10000 as compared with
the previous year. The exports of
sheep from Canadian seaports fell of
from 80, 700 head to 10000.
The Canadian government has
taken no action in the matter of
American silver Clarke w. Hace.
controller of customs, says that no
prohibition has been placed on it in
custom houses; it is taken readily.
but subject to the current discounts.
The Gladstone company, composed
of Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis
capitalists, with a capital of $1,000
GOO, has just completed the purchase
of about G,000 acres of land on Little
Bay D'Noc, Mich, including nearly
all the unimproved lots in the city of
Gladstone.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, four of the ten
Duquesne strikers, convicted of riot,
were sentenced from two TO six
months to the workhouse. Their
names are: Hogan, Noler, Kennedy
and Wiper. The other six failed to
appear in court and their bonds were
forfeited.
John w. Mackay of ssBonanzan
mine fame, promoter of the Mackay-
Bennett cable and one of the wealth.
lest men of the West, was shot and
seriously wounded by an old man at
San Francisco, the assassin immedi-
ately putting a bullet into his own
body, over the heart.
AT Cleveland, o., at meeting of
representatives of the manufacturers
in the Western Wire Nail Association.
it was decided to advance prices in
general at the rate of about so per
ton. This is the third advance decid-
ed upon during the past month, the
total increase being about IS per ton.
A car load of the new decorative
stone, "Rose Garnet" recently dis
covered by William Niven, New
York mineralogist, was shipped to
New York from Mexico last week,
and three car loads will be forwarded
for exhibition to the Chicago Worlds
Fair within the next week.
Sevcnty-one New Orleans ladies
nave formed league with this pledge
rs its basis: eve, the undersigned
ladies of New Orleans, promise never
to wear a hoopskirt. If we break this
pledge we will pay 80 to the Picayune
to be turned over to the ociety for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Child
rem"
Miss Ida Lewis, of Newport, r. l.,
has declined pressing invitations from
the Worlds Fair management to ex-
hibit trophies and medals she has re-
ceived for saving lives. She hates
publicity, and does not care to aban-
don her work, in which she is com.
pletely absorbed, for even a brief
period.
A sensation has been created in the
business and financial circles of Mexi-
co by the report that the OBJ iect Of