Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-18
OUR SOUTHLAND.
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DIXIE.
a carefully Selected Budget of South
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OUR SOUTHLAND.
NORTH CAROLINA.

'@S'Sa'h bSoulOiO SibiLcuS lldNG Detn
dealt with by the White Caps and are
staying at home nights. This is the
only county in the state in which the
White Caps have so far begun their
operations.
The State Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association, in session
at Wilmington, elected the following
officers: President, w. A. Blair, of Win
ston; vice presidents, M. NJ Hail. d. G.
Worth and w. S. Pryor; secretaries, j.
B. Whittake5 B. f. Jones and F. S.
Harris.
Six cars, filled with colored people,
left Raleigh on Monday, en- route to
Mississippi. The bulk of them came
from Selma and other points in Johnston
county. So far, some 10000 have left
the state, but rather more than half have
gone to Georgia to work in the turpen-
tine industry.
In Granville county, Spencer Weaver,
half-witted white man, killed his sis
ter-in-law by striking her on the neck
with a stick of wood. The victim was
Mrs. M. Longwis, who, having no home
OF her own, spent portion of her time
with her sister, Mrs. Weaver. She often
quarreled and fought with the man who
had killed her.
Fire was discovered in the basement
Of the residence of Col. w. p. Canady.
sergeant alarms of the United States
Senate in Wilmington. In the room
where the fire originated, was stored
lot of books saved from the fire in the
library in the basement three weeks ago.
Both fires are of incendiary origin.
Workmen were repairing the damage by
the former fire. Mrs. Canady is in Wash
ington, d. c., attending Mr.. Canady, who
is very ill, and the only occupant of the
hc,,en Nv?s . natchman.
A warrant was issued at franklin for
the arrest of Lee Lyons, a desperate
negro just out of the penitentiary When
Officer Porter presented his authority
for the arrest, Lyons refused to be taken
to the magistrate before whom the war
rant was returnable. The officer sum-
moned help and went back to arrest
Lyons, who stationed himself in corner
of room armed with hay fork, and
said he would kill the man who put his
hands on him. He said that he had a.
pistol, and under no circumstances would
he surrender. The officer used reasona
BILE efforts to make him surrender and
stand trial, and finally, after remaining
with him two hours, attempted to put
irons on the prisoner. The latter struck
at Porter furiously with the fork, when
the latter ordered him to be shot, at the
same time firing on him himself. Six
bullets were at once fred into Lyons,
from the effects of which he died.
MISSOURI.
A well-dressed man, apparently about
so years of age, went to the Hotel Parle
in st. Louis, accompanied by good
looking, neatly dressed woman, regis
tered as S. M. Waite and wife, of Flor
ida, and the couple were assigned
room. During the night, Waite drank
great deal of beer and had his supper
served in his room. The next morn ng
the woman left the hotel and did not re-
turn. Later, Mr.. Waite was found in
dying condition with bottle of NOR
phine near him. Soon after being taken
to the hospital, Waite died. The police
are looking for the mysterious oman,
and the body of IS. NJ. Waite, of Flor
ida," lies on slab in the morgue uni
Identified.
TENNESSEE.
Hon. John r. Neal, member of Con-
gress from the Sd Tennessee district, in
the 50th Congress, died on Tuesday at
his home, Rhea Springs, after an illness
OF two months, of consumption of the
bowels.
. McCurdi's Hambletonian, record 226,
died at Gallatin of congestion of the
stomach Pierce Howard, Miller 81 Co.,
had paid So, 900 for his services in their
stud for three months. His owner had
refused $40, 900 for him.
ALABAMA.
1t is given out at Florence, that a con-
trolling interest in the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railway Co., has been sold to
Abraham s. Hewitt, E. Cooper, M. Muir
ply and Others, of New York city. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Co.,
is the largest and wealthiest corporation
doing business in the South, being con-
solidation of the Pratt Coke and Coal
Co., the Coalburg Coal and Railway Co.,
and one or two other important compa-
MES. They own millions of acres of
coal and iron lands besides the famous
Pratt and Coalburg mines near Birming-
ham, also several important branches
and mineral railroads of Alabama and
Tennessee, besides large blocks of stock
OF several of the principal furnaces in
the two states.
John Purdy, a resident of Clay county
returned only a few weeks ago from Ar
izona. Purdy is about fifty-fve years
old, and his family consisted of himself
and five grown daughters. About two
years ago the entire family joined the
Mormon church, and last December they
went tc Arizona. The party were told
that they could secure government lands
which were very fertile and easily cult
waited. Purdy says that when he reached
the promised land he found it was prin-
cipaliy an arid desert with patches of |
timber here and there The unoccupied |
land was less fertile than the red hill |
side he had left in Alabama. Two of |
his daughters were made the third and |
fourth wives of one of the elders who
had accompanied them West, and the
other became the fifth wife of an elder
nearly sixty years old. His other two