Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-11-01

Bloctou, went out on a strike against
reduction. The Cahaba Company has
been paying 90 cts per ton for mining
since the sliding scale was adopted by
the mines in this district last Summer.
They announce reduction of five cents
per ton and all the miners stopped work.
GEORGIA.
John w. hewitt, of Athens, 70 year
old and former resident of Savannah,
died ut Athens.
Bill Johnson, sort of tramp negro
employed by G. o. Newman, near Coch-
ran, was lynched by about 500 citizens on
Saturday.
Five prisoners attempted to escape
from the city prison in Atlanta on Sun
day, and were only discovered by acct
dent. They had easily enlarged a hole
in the planking, which had been started
by rat.
Col. j. G. Hiser, of Rome, has been
granted Il pension as Mexican veteran
He was surgeon in the 2d Kentucky in
fantry in the Mexican War, and COM
lnanded the Cherokee troops during the
last War.
The Spelling Bee" held in Atlanta on
Thursday night for the benefit of Jack
sonville, Fla, was attended by one of the
most refined and enthusiastic assemblies
of the season. A large sum of money
was realized.
Bill Lewis, the colored bill poster of
Albany, was burned to death on Sunday
The neighbors smelled burning flesh, and
broke into his room, the doors of which
were locked. They found him lying
dead with his head in the fire. He was
an epileptic, and fell in the fire while in
fit.
Angus J. Morrison, a Scotchman en-
ployed as granite miner at the Lithonia
quarriep bored three holes and filled
them with blasting powder. Two of the
blasts went off, and while examining the
third, to ascertain what the trouble was,
the blast suddenly exploded, taking
Morrison's head completely off.
The steamship Nacoochec arrived at
Savannah on Sunday, having on board
the captain, his daughter, and II lady
passenger and seven men, composing the
crew of the schooner Nava May. aban-
doned off Cape Henry, water logged.
The schooner was on voyage to Phila-
delphia from Patalico Sound, with a
cargo of lumber.
"The Gospel Army" is split from the
Salvation Army in Atlanta. A. j. Wilson
a special policeman is the leader and his
purpose is to be some day the general-in-
chief of some vast army, to lead move
ment to which not only sin and evil shall
succumb, but the churches and preachers
as we'll. He and his wife quit the Saliva
tionists for what he called their low
moral tone"
Maj. Ker Boyce, Augustus postmaster,
laid the first stone of the government
building on Thursday. It was solid
block of granite, two feet long and
foot thick, from the quarries of Newber.
ry, S. q. This stone is pronounced by
the government contractor to be the fin
est granite he ever used in government
buildings. Contractor Corbett says the
first story of the building will be up bv
the opening of the Exposition, and the
building ready for occupancy in sixteen
months.
NORTH CAROLINA.
AS passenger train was moving slow.
ly into the depot at Fremont, Stephen
Davis, white man got directly in front
of the engine, and was crushed to death.
No one saw him until the wheels had cut
him to pieces. 1t is alleged that he was
drunk at the time of the accident.
II n Doh;penp xyLo e.
years, had been manager of the Western
Union telegraph office, at Raleigh, was
displaced some days ago. He has insti
tuted suit against the telegraph compa-
ny for about six thousand dollars for
damages and services.
Police Detective b. F. burlington. of
Wilmington, was shot, probably fatally,
by negro burglar whom he was attemp-
ting to arrest on the street. The ball en-.
tered his jaw and ranged up. lodging in
his head. The negro would have killed
another man had his pistol not failed to
fire.
Raleigh was thrown into a state OF
great excitement ON Wednesday when il
was announced that Charles e. Cross.
ex-president of the State National bank.
just sentenced to convict labor for five
years, had sworn out warrants before r.
II. Burnett, United States commissioner.
against e. II. Stamps and w. S. Prim-
rose, the former at one time president and
the latter director in the bank. The
warrant charges Stamps with making
false entries on the back of certain dis
paper. 1t further charges that
,aid Stamps did, from time to time, dur
ing the years 1886, 'S7 and 'SS, make
false statements of the condition of said
bank, knowing them to be false. The
charges Primrose with making
'alse statements from time to time of the
condition of the bank during the wears
1884, 'S5, $50, 'S7, 'SS, he knowing said
to be false.
TENNESSEE.
Phe Brunswick Hotel, located in the
business center of Chattanooga on a wril
Of attachment issued by the CHANGER,
court on the application of w. p. Crow
y Son, the owner of the building. j. d.
Carlisle & Co., are the lessees of the
property.
The Broad Street Amusement Hall in
Nashville, the largest hall in the city. is
10 he purchased for a N md