Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-10-25
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OUR NEWS GATHERER IN HIS OWN
COUNTRY.
Newsy Notes from Various Parts of tho
south-Cream Of the Specials.
ALABAMA.

ALABAMA.
DIR. Stcrnberg, the United States off
cial. known as great fever expert, is in
Decatur, and his presence is an inspira-
ton to the people.
Owing to the recent interruption of
travel by guarantees in several Southern
States, the management of the Alabama
State Fair Association decided to post
pone the date of the opening of the fair
from October 90 to November 10.
Twelve horses, in the livery stable Of
Folmer g. Sons, in Troy, were poisoned
by some unknown person and at last ac-
count three of them had died. There is
no clue to the perpetrator of the act, and
no reason can be imagined why it
should have been committed.
Abe Christopher, OF Gadsden, has sold
fourth interest in $50 acres of iron ore
lands near Rces station, Etowah county,
to I. c. Galloway, for $4,000. The
Etowah Mining company have leased the
land and will commence delivering ore
to the Gadsden Furnace Company.
Two fatal accidents occurred at the
Henry Ellen coal mines, 16 miles from
Birmingham. John Armstrong, white
miner, while STOPPING to drink from
spring ut the mouth of slope, was
crushed into shapeless mass by falling
rock. Some of the timbers supporting
the earth and rock above the mouth of
the slope had given way. A few hours
later, another miner named Howser,
was blown to atoms by premature blast
in the shaft He had been arranging
the blast, and his lamp going out, he
struck match, and by accident dropped
it in the powder.
NORTH CAROLINA.
James b. Woods was put into the
penitentiary at Raleigh, who was, up to
few weeks ago, a practicing attorney in
Iredell county. His crime is forgery, and
he is to serve three years sentence.
At Dallas CASTOR county, G. M. Bow
ers was arrested ona capias from CASTOR,
charged with criminal libel. He lived
in that county last year, was a member
of the Knights of Labor, quarreled with
them, attacked them in the papers, and
charged one of their leaders with having
stolen the leather of tanner.
Druner s. Allen, the largest dealers in
general merchandise at Wadesboro, made
an assignment Tuesday under peculiar
circumstances. Last Saturday they bor-
rowed $4,000 and intended TO use this
sum and $4,000 more in meeting some
pressing claims. On q recent night some
bold thief forced their safe and got safely
away with the $1,000. The result was
that an assignment was necessary. The
firms liabilities aggregate about $40, 900.
In the trial of Cross and White, ex-
president and cashier of the State Ma
tional bank at Raleigh, there was some
new and important evidence admitted to
prove that Cross and White did not in
tend to plumber the bank, because they
left SIG, 900 in silver in the vault The
Judge admitted evidence for the prose-
cution, that Cross and White had OBJ
tanned $4,000 from the State bank of
Richmond, like sum from the Norfolk
bank, and S., 900 from Cashier Belvin,
of the National band at Raleigh. 1t was
proved that White got the money from
Belvin only quarter of an hour before
the closing time of the bank on the after
noon that Cross and White fled for
Canada.
TENNESSEE.
Probably the youngest convict in the
United States is now in the State prison,
Nashville. His name is Dan Jordan, and
he was sent from Memphis. He is less
than eleven years old, and is small for
his age. He was convicted of having
stolen SIS, and sentenced to three years
in the penctentiary.
Robert Harris, prominent Young
man, was killed Tuesday on the standard
gauge railroad running up Lookout
Mountain at Chattanooga As the train
was coming down the mountain he was
struck by brake on one of the cars and
Knocked off on the track and several
wheels passed over his body.
The 18th regiment of Ohio decided to
hold their next reunion in Chattanooga,
in September, 1889. This regiment be-
longed to the Fourteenth army corps,
and at meeting of the survivors of that
corps, held at Columbus, Ohio, during
the Grand Army encampment, it was de-
cided that the entire corps should hold
its reunion in Chattanooga next Septem-
Der.
Will Mckinney, of Murfreesboro, died
of yellow fever He went to Decatur
some weeks ago to work in printing Of
fee He returned home when the fever
became epidemic there. He didn't re-
main there long but went to Louisville,
KY, and returned home again
sick. He grew gradually worse
until the time of his death. The family
have been c1osalv confno1 ~ tba;r ,os;