Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-03-02

Current Events OF Gene raj Interest
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ing at the worlds fair.
Secretary Noble has authorized the
payment of S125, 900 preserved
claims" to the Chippewa indians of
Minnesota.
The Arizona legislature has passed
a bill authorizing reward of $4,000
for the body of Kid, the renegade
Apache, dead or alive.
At St. Petersburg the bank titled
land owners has recently foreclosed
81 baronial estates whose owners have
recently become bankrupt.
A negro women who died her Rich
mond, Va, Friday, was said to be
100 years old. She was of the family
who had seen George Washington.
AT Philadelphia, the common conn
Gil has passed an ordinance prohibit
ing the employment of contracts on
municipal works of other than Amer
lean citizens.
The dogs of North Carolina tax the
owners and sheep raisers somewhere
near So. 100000 annually, or about
double what / 100000 people pay for
public education.
The conductors and collectors of
the Kentucky 81 Indiana bridge COM
pany have been requested to resign.
1t is alleged that they have been "hold-
ing ont" fares Oh the company.
A. Vancouver, B. c., a motion Sat-
urday to further restrict the imnigra-
ton Of Chinese by increasing the poll
tax from $50 to $500, was defeated by
one vote in the provisional legislature.
Mad dogs in Bryantsville, Ky,
have been doing much damage. Six
members of one family were bitten,
and dogs, sheep and cattle have died
from the bites of the rabid animal.
DIR. Blount, State quarantine inspec-
tor at Galveston, Tex, has received
telegram from DIR. Swearingen, Texas
health officer, directing him to inspect
all trans Atlantic steamers for cholera.
Signor Grimaldi, Italian minister of
finance, says that the monetary con-
ference probably will not assemble next
May, as European governments are
convinced that nothing would come of
it.
The United Ireland, Parnellite or
gan, expresses the opinion that the new
home rule bill is inferior to the home
rule bill of 1886, which Mr.. Parncll
did not regard as complete settle
ment.
Preparations are being made by 20
leading wine manufacturers of Chill,
to send exhibits to the Chicago Fair.
Among the exhibits from Chill will
also be many valuable mineral speci-
mems.
The South of Wales mine owners
have restored the sliding scale of wages,
with notifications, which include the
men in the anthracite mines. All but
two Representatives of the operative
miners have accepted the scale.
Premier Cuero has warned the edi-
tors of newspapers in Colombia that
in the future they must not criticise
public officers in their publications.
Even the local police are not to be
criticised by the newspapers.
The Duke and Duchess of New
castle will start for Canada and the
United States about the middle OF
April, and subsequently will go to
Honolulu. 1t is probable that they
will visit the Worlds Fair.
Chicago is 10 have al exhibition of
the tactics aud mancuvers of the Brit
fish army during the Worlds Fair,
given by 200 or 800 soldiers of the
Queen, armed and accounted as they
were when they were in her service.
One of the most notable banquets
given in Chicago in many years was
rendered Saturday night to Judge
Henry w. Biodgett, who recently re-
signed from the Federal bench to be-
come one OF the counsel in the Behr-
iag Sea controversy.
Mr.. j. j. Grinlinton, special COM
missioner from Ceylon to the Chicago
exposition, who arrived in New York
Thursday, has gone to Chicago, where
he will be met by so native Singalese,
who are now cnroute to that city from
San Francisco.
The striking cotton spinners in
Lancashire have agreed TO accept a
2 1-2 per cent. reduction in their
wages. The master cotton spinners
will hold meeting to consider
whether they will reopen their mills
at the reduction.
Bowling Green, KY, is put to II to
find place big enough TO hold AL the
people who are expected to flock to
the Sam Jones meetings to be held in
that city in April. A committee is
considering the advisabiliry of erect
ing o tabernacle for the purpose.
A Louisiana man is hard at work on
flying machine. It is said that re-
Gently, in experimenting With his ma
ceine, he succeeded in making it fly
ten feet In the air for distance Of