Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-03-23
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
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gold to New York each day for the
past eight or ten days.
The statement of the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad for February shows
earnings 81 ,S46, 112 decrease $6S, 1855;
expenses 81 Ala, 1888; decrease $S1, 172.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone has
agreed to restore diplomatic relations
with the Vatican on condition that the
Pope use his influence in favor of the
Home Rule Bill.
Savannah's rosin receipts last Thurse
day passed 100000 barrels for tn
present season, this being the greatest
receipts in the history of naval store
trades of the world.
At Rock Springs, Wyo., 16 boys are
in Jail charged with stealing large
scale from bar-room and goods from
wholesale dry goods store. The
boys are from 9 to Is years old.
A telegram from Topeka, Kan,
says: Mrs. Mary E. Lease has been
elected President of the State Board
of Charities at the request of Gov.
Lewolling. She is now on tour of
State institutions with the four mem
bers of the board.
Engineers on the Panama Railroad
heve reached Panama. They will go
south from there, skipping the Darien
section, and renew the survey at
Atrata Valley. 1t is feared that their
party is too weak to repel the possible
attacks of the uaciyiiized Orien
tribes.
An official inquiry has been made
into the matter of the collision of the
Washington Express and freight
train on the Pennsylvania road on
February %, and resulted in the jury
finding that it was caused by the slip
perry condition of the track from sleet
and snow.
The British steamer Port Adelaide,
which has arrived at New York from
China, brought from Singapore for
the Columbian Exposition, large
collection of wild animals, among
which are three large elephants, a
tiger, tiger cats, monkeys and several
orang-outangs.
At Chicago, Jung Jack Lin, the
Chinaman who killed his cousin,
Lung Din Kok, some weeks ago, was
found guilty of murder and con-
demned to be hanged. No evidence
was offered for the defense, Jung
Jacks attorney trusting that the jury
would decide that he was crazy.
AT Paterson, N. j., Turner Hall
covering half block, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Four persons were
injured, and it is believed tina. two of
them will die. The loss is roughly
estimated al $4,000. The men who
were injured were firemen. They
were caught in the building when the
walls collapsed.
At Providence, r. L., resolution
providing for constitutional amend
Inent fixing plurality elections in the
State and also city, town and ward
contests has been passed by the Senate
by a vote of 30 to Q. The House re-
ceived thh resolution and referred it
TO the committee on special lcgisla-
ton.
At Boston, the Redpath Brothers
Manufacturing Company, boots and
shoes, who were burned out in
Fridays big fire, are financially Grip
pied and will assign. The body of
Lewis L. Cotton. who was last seen
on the roof of the Ludlow building IN
Fridays big fire, was found in the
ruins Wednesday.
1t is thought by many that the bill
recently introduced in the Legislature
al Springfield, Ill.,, to open the Illinois
exhibit at the Worlds Fair to the pub
lie OH Sundays will, if successful, re-
suit in opening the entire fair on that
day. The attorneys who drew the
bill for the secular union claim that if
the bill passes it will open the entire
fair.
AT Chicago the coroners jury which
has been investigating the fire of last
Wednesday morning, at which three
people lost their lives, have returned
verdict charging Steven j. Carter, the
owner of the plant of the Garden City
Molding Company, with arson. Car
Ter is now in the hospital suffering
with broken leg and internal in
juries.
An exodus of non-union switchmen
from Chicago occurred last Tuesday
might, when 120 of the men brought
here by the railroad compan es were
paid off and shipped back to Balti-
more, Philadelphia and New York.
The men returned to the East In a
haze of liquor. They were loaded
into train at the Union Depot and
moved out at 10 o'clock. They wero
escorted BY detail of police.
Arthur Letter, the chief commits.
sioner for the Kingdom Of Sweden to
The Worlds Columbian Exposition al
Chicago, and Axel Violin, Secretary OF
the Royal Swedish commission for the
Chicago Fair, are at the Metropolitan
Hotel i'll New York. They say the
Swedish exhibit Will be one Of the
finest at the Fair. Mr.. Letter saws