Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-11
OUR SOUTHLAND.
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A Carefully Selected Budget Of South
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Kirk in the breast, near the heart. Kirk
is not expected to live. Whiskey was
the cause.
Carrie Rose, the ten-year. old daughter
of Rev. w. l.. Rose, rector of ST. Mary's
Episcopal church, was burned to death
in Birmingham, on Tuesday. She was
playing near the CRATE and her clothing
caught fire, and she was fatally burned
before assistance reached her.
A party of bankers and capitalists from
Vienna, Austria, will spend several days
looking at Birmine ham and surrounding
country, They come on the invitation
of President Schiff, of the Queen & Cres-
cent railroad, and they will be entertain
ed by that company during their stay.
1t is said the party represents nearly 800,
900, 600 capital, and they are looking for
investments in Alabama.
Extensive experiments in steel making
are to be made in Birmingham. Jacob
Reese, of Pittsburg, is there, backed by
strong company, to test what is known
as the ''Duplex SYSTEM" a combination
of the Bessemer and the basic processes
James Henderson, inventor of the basic
process, which bears his name, is on hand
as the representative of New York COM
pany with million dollars capital, which
proposes to thoroughly test the Hender-
son process.
A case involving the title to over two
million dollars worth of real estate in
Birmingham, is now on trial in the Uni
ted States district court in that city. 1t
is suit brought by the heirs of Jordan
Timmons against the Elyton Land Co.
to recover possession of 100 acres of
land. All of it is inside the city limits
and very valuable. Jordan Timmons
died in 1866 and decided to his wife the
farm, situated in Jefferson county, Ala,
and containing 100 acres. This was the
only description of the property given in
the deed. On this, the title of the Elyton
Land Company rests.
C.sFestout, city marshal of Aberdeen,
Miss, arrived at Birmingham on Sunday
from Edgefeld, S. c., in charge of L. 4.
Smith, detective, charged with the
murder of Siin Ward, colored. The ne
gro, Sim Ward, was one of the murder
ers of Col. Hamilton, at Aberdeen, last
December. Smith was employed to
search for him, and about month ago
arrested the negro in East Alabama. He
started with his prisoner to Aberdeen,
but at a secluded spot in the woods, shot
the negro and left him lying by the road
He lived long enough to crawl to house
a mile away and tell the story of the
crime. 1t is said the Negroes ears were
| cut Nff and he was otherwise mutilated.
|
The Chamber of Commerce of Norfolk.
directed its president, Col. William Lam
by, to request the Secretary of the
Treasury to have the Cape Charles light
ship returned to her anchorage as quick
ly as possible. as its absence is endanger-
ing life and property.
The steamship Old Dominion, from
New York, reports at Fort Monroe the
Delaware light ship aud Cape Charles
| Old Dominion sighted to the southwark
of Cape Henry what appeared to be a
light ship in tow of a sailing vessel. with
mast partly out of the water. 1t is in
the track of vessels bound in and out of
the capes, about five miles west of Cape
Henry.
Magruder Fletcher, a colored man
| charged with crime about white woman
| at Tasley, was lynched by party of
men, Jailer Samuel Metzon was aroused
| at midnight by party of masked men,
| who demanded the keys of the Jail.
Metzon refused to give them up. He
was told that if he did not, his house
would be burned. The lynchers went to
the cell of Fletcher and told him he was
wanted. He was at once released, and
was carried out. He made no demur
| whatever The doors to the Jail were
fastened by the lynchers and the keys
turned over TO the iailer. The negro
was then hurried off and hung to limb
of Il pine tree on the edge of the road.
A verdict was rendered that Fletcher
came to his death by being strangled and
shot by persons unknown to the jury.
Fletcher had four bullet holes in him.
His neck was not broken.
KENTUCKY.
The prisoners in the Jail at Jefferson
vile made wholesale attempt 10 escape
Wednesday evening at dusk. Ed. Pow
ell, a river pirate, had sawed out several
bars of the large cage, which surrounds
the cells and thus set nearly dozen pris-
oners at liberty, two of them being muir
derers. A little girl saw the men COM
ing out on the roof of the Jail and gave
the alarm to the sheriff, who is also
jailer. Sheriff Hay seized revolver and
ordered the prisoners to return to their
cells, but they refused, and Powell slid
down the pipe and escaped. The other
prisoners were huddled together under
the skylight and the sheriff, to frighten
them he said, fired at them. Dick Jones
received the shot just back of the left
shoulder and fell, and the others then
returned to their cells.
FLORIDA.
Frederick s. Pinckery, editor of the
american Angzer, died in Jacksonville.
He went there to write up the health
situation in Jacksonville for the New
York Times. His disease was organic
malady of the heart.
Ex-President Cleveland will pay Jack
sonville visit on their return from
Cuoa. Cleveland is very anxious to try
his hand at tarpon fishing, and inquired
all about Charlotte harbor, the famous