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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
CYRUS w. FIELD PENNILESS.
His Son Literally Robbed Him OF
Every Dollar He Had.

81 am as poor as the day came in
to the world" said Cyrus w. Field to
an old and intimate friend of his to
whom he told the story of his sons
deceit and ingratitude. Ed. M. Field
appealed to the father, Cyrus w.
Field, recently for assistance to pre-
vent the failure of the firm, all Of his
resources having been used up. His
rather consented TO assist him, and
authorized him to take certain Sc
curlty from his strong box, or safe
deposit vault, for that purpose. The
son. however, took every negotiable
security there was in the box. but
that even did not prevent the FIRMS
downfall. 1t is believed that all that
remained of MIR. Fields once great for
tune before this fresh trouble did not
exceed $1,000, 900, and of that not 4
dollar is left. How much I'd. NJ
7 succeeded in getting from his
rather IN the manner described is NOT
SHOWN, butts said 10 have been $500
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

The Adams Express company. it is
now stated, will lose about s75 900
by the robbery of the Frisco" night
express car near Glendale, Mo-, by
six masked men, and the bold sshold
up is rapidly developing into Grim
inal sensation of the first order.
Inc safe OF the expreas company
was completely r,fed, and although
Yesterday, Superintendent DamseI
placed the loss in the neighborhood Of
$4,000, It Is now known that the safe
contained far moro than that amount.
Superintendent Damsef refuses to de-
ny or confirm the story that the total
loss will exceed $75, 1000, but that II
exceeded the amount he first gave out
as the company's loss. There is still
no clue to the robbers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

Wurtemberg, whose king has just
died, is one Of the minor German pow.
ers who owe their dignity as kingdoms
to the grace of the great Napoleon.
Wurtemberg joined the Confederation
of the Rhine, which he set up and pro-
tected, and its duke, as the price of his
services, was given kingly crown by
'the Corsican parvenu," who just then
was giving away crowns. The kingly
title of Bavaria dates from the same
time. Among the memorials of the
great Napoleon's overlordship of part of
Germany is the enhanced dignity which
many German prince to-day wears. 1t
is humiliating fact to the German peo-
pie, remarks the Boston Transcript, but
the princes bear it with princely equa-
! nimity.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
THEY TOOK A TUMBLE.
A Railroad Train Goes Down an
Embankment.

A passenger train with 200 passen-
gers ON board, was wrecked twenty
miles north of Charleston, S. c., on
the South Carolina railroad. One man,
a fireman, named Parks, was buried
under the tender and crushed to death.
Baggagemaster Anderson, Express
man Person and three passengers
were seriously injured. There were
five coaches on the train, including a
Pullman. All were thrown fifty feet
down -ombankment to swamp and
wrecked, except the Pullman, There
were upwards of 200 passengers on
the train, and the light list of casual
ties is regarded as miraculous. The
passengers discovered undoubted evil
dence that the wreck was calmly, de-
hberately and skillfully planned. One
of the fish bars joining the rails was
loosened, the bolts being drawn and
the spikes that held the rail being also
drawn. The fish bar and the wrench
which was used to remove the bolts
being found lying alongside the track.
All evidence points to the fact that it
was the work of an experienced rail"
road hand. Detectives are out search
ing for the tiend.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
DUN's TRADE REVIEW.
Iron Market Improving---The I'm.
mense Cotton Crop.

mense Cotton Crop.
Business failures occurring through.
out the country during the last seven
days, as reported by r.. G, Dun q Co.,
number for the United States 304,
Canada 26, or total of $50 against
295 last week.
The only change observable in the
condition of business is a gradual i'm.
provement. One sign of unfavorable
character is that collections at. some
points are slower and harder than
usual. particularly where the low priGa
of cotton leads holders to defer selling
as long as possible. But at the prin-
cipal Western points collections are
very satisfactory, the larger trade
centers reporting most favorably in
that respect, and there is less difficulty
at Eastern cities, though about the
same embarrassment continues.
Money is not particularly stringent
anywhere, though rather close at
Nashville and Montgomery.
Speculative markets have tended
downward on the whole. Cotton has
again declined sixteenth, to 8,06
cents, with sales of 653 900 bales here,
and port receipts still far exceed the
extraordinary receipts of last year.
Southern markets are overloaded, and
the stringency at some points is caused
by the delay in realizing, prices being
unsatisfactory low. At most South
ern points the low price of cotton
causes a setback and bushes is oaly
fair, though at Richmond it is inn
proving in the tobacco sections.
There is little new in the great in
dustries, for while the tone of the
iron markes improves and there is
more inquiry for rails and bar iron,
with larger sales of pig, prices are
depressed by the attempts of some
Southern markets to realize.
Trade in cotton goods is perhaps
shade better, and in boots and shoes
the factories are well employed.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
FATHER AND SON DEFAULTERS.
Long Time Trusted Employees Have
Gone Wrong for Years.

s>oA6 AAAAAo ATustcA EuplOy6S nave
Gone Wrong for Years.
1t has been discovered by the Con-
cordia Publishing Co., of st. Louis,
printers of books, that Martin c..
Barthel and Martin H. Barthel, father
and son, two of its most trusted en-
ployes, are short in their accounts.
Martin H.. received an order for GER
tain publications which he filed, but
neglected to turn over the cash, which
brought about an investigation reveal
ing the fact that the speculations of
both were very large.
The Justification of books has been
going on for number Of years.
Martin c. has been manager of the
concern for twenty-five years, and
while the investigation into his
sons affairs were progressing, was alb
sent on vacation. On his return, he
at first denied the charges, but after
wards broke down and admitted his
guilt, turning over $50, 900 in real
estate TO cover the shortage. The
son has disappeared and no trace of
him can be found. Officers of the
company say that the property turned
over more than secures the present
defalcatiOn.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

Ida Hewitt is a young woman who runs
locomotive on the Cairo Short Line in
West Virginia, which is a narrow " gauge
connection of the Baltimore and Ohio.
She is twenty four years old, and is said
to be very prepossessing in appearance.
Miss Hewitt is the daughter of one of
the chief owners of the Cairo Short Line.
The machine-shop OF the road stands
near Mr.. Hewitt's house, and Ida, when
a child, played around the shop, and
learned about the mechanism e.
t;ves II hacar-&--P passion with her TO
.---sneni. She even learned the use
of the tools that are used on locomo-
tive. A few months ago the single
engineer of the road fell ill, and Ida
volunteered to do his work at the lever.
The man died, and Miss Hewitt. having
run the engine up and down the line to
everybody's satisfaction, was made the
regular engineer. She is blonde, and
wears cap over her hair, suit of blue
cotton good, heavy shoes, and gloves.
Her locomotive is much neater than when
a man was the engineer, and she has
been behind time only once. Mrs. w.
Newton Lynch, West Virginia's repre-
sentative on the Board of Lady Managers
at the Worlds Fair, discovered this fair
phenomenon. Miss Hewitt will be in
vited to take train loaded with West
Virginia's mine and forest products to
Chicago.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

by Flfe ANWR-
Report OF terrible mine disaster
comes from st. Ebienne in the depart
ment of the Loire and the center of
one of the richest coal fields in France.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
at one of the numerous coal pits in
that region and many Of the workers
were unable to escape from the mine.
According to advices so far re-
ceived, eighty men persisted in the pit.
Immediately after the explosion dense
volumes of evil smelling smoke issued
from the mouth of this and the con-
Meeting pit, and in short time crowds
of relatives aud friends of the impris-
oned men gathered about the entrance
of the pit and prepared for the work
of rescue.
1t mas been ascertained that seventy.
five miners have persisted. The wives,
children and relatives of the entombed
miners still surround the mouth of the
pit, and the most heartrending scenes
are witnessed as the bodies of the
victims are brought out.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10


There is neither law nor court house
in Labrador. True, it is Canadian
territory, and the lighthouse upon the
coast and through the Straits of Belle
Isle are under the care of and supplied
by the Colonial Board of Quebec. but
there has never been any attempt to
establish courts, build schoolhouses or
in any way to interfere with the do
nestle or political relations of the in
habitants. There are no taxes there.
Every man does as he pleases, SO far
as fear of the law is concerned, but
notwithstanding there are but few bad
actions on the part of the people. Fish
and seal abound there.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
Five Rascals tousted

Five mercantile appraisers Of Phila-
delphia Patton, Houston, Crawford,
Bell aud Hunter, indicted for fraud in
once We're sentenced to dismissal from
pfhce' and the costs Of prosecution are
assessed against them.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
Lottery Men Under Bond.

President Conrad, Secretary Horner,
and eight employees of the Louisiana
State Lottery company, appeared be-
fore United States Commissioner
Wright to answer an Indictment found
against them at San Antonio, Texas,
upon charge of violating the anti
lottery law. They gave bail III $1,000
each to appear at the next term Of the
United States court in San Antonio.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

" 1o0dt about 5000 copies of the
live stock premium list to the various
fair and breeders associations of the
country, and is receiving responses which
show that the live stock exhibit at the
Exposition will be something tremend-
Gus. Besides the large premiums Of
fered by the Exposition for live stock
exhibit, all the various breeders associa-
tions are offering large prizes, notably
for shorthorns, Herefords aud Jerseys.
As an evidence of the widespread inter-
est taken in the live stock show A., e.
Mansell, of Shropshire, England, offers
sprize Of $500 for the best American
bred Shropshire ram. The State Of
Illinois offers $40, 900 IN premiums for
live stock; the Clydesdale horse breeders
offer $4,000 extra prizes; the cattle asso-
Citations offer extra prizes as follows:
Galloway, $4,000; shorthorn, $4,000;
Hereford, $4,000; Jersey, $40, 900, and
Holstein, $4,000. The swine, sheep
and dog breeders also offer extra money
prizes. The money prizes to be paid for
live stock will amount to $3.50, 700 or
more, which, of course, includes the sum
of $3.50, 600 voted by the Exposition
Company for premiums in that depart
ment. The Exposition buildings for the
accommodation Of live stock will cover
thirty acres.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
GERMANY WILL EXHIBIT
Appropriations For the Worlds Fair
Berlin Wants One.


The budget committee of the
reichstag has voted 900, 900 marks to
be devoted to providing proper
German exhibit at the Chicago Colun-
bian exhibition in 1898.
Won Boetticher, secretary of the i'm
perial home Office and representative
OF the chancellor, speaking in sup
port Of the proposal to appropriate
this sum, said that the interest shown
in Germany in the undertaking was
most satisfactory.
The subject of organizing an exhi-
bition in Berlin was also discussed.
Won Boetticher said that although the
government was not disposed to take
the initiative step in this matter, it
would in no way oppose any action
taken by private parties looking to the
holding Of such an exhibition.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
NEW LOAN COMPANY.
Admission has a New One to Advance
,i Money to Farmers.

The Farmers and Merchants Loan
association of Admission, Ala. has been
chartered and the organization will
be effected at once. The authorized
capital stock is $10,000,000, divided
into shares of $50 each.
Such prominent men as William A.
scarborough, Col. A. Lockc,C. Cofield,
NJ. +. McCarty. Z. D. Woodruff. d
G. Blackwell, j. f. Rogers, ID. +
Constantine and j. T. Dcarman are =,
the head Of the organization. The OBJ
iect of the association will be to nd
vance money to farmers and mer.
nhauics.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
The South's Steady Progress.

The Manufacturers Record, of Bal
timore, in reviewing the industrial
progress of the South for the past
week, says:
"The general growth of the South
goes on with no material change; but,
taking look over the whole field: it
will be seen that the progress which is
being made is of the most substantial
character, and that it will add vastly
to the wealth and progress of this sec
ton. The industrial growth is being
supplemented by a most astonishing
rate of increase in foreign trade from
Norfolk, Newport News, Savannah,
Charleston, New Orleans and Calves
ton. One after another of the great
manufacturing plants tha IT., last 10 or
anoer conss are being completed and
g6ng into operation. The iron pipe
works at Radford, Va, will commence
work about December 10Th, with some
400 hands; new furnace has lust
been blown in at New Birmingham,
Texas, making the third one there
the furnace company at Jefferson,
Texas, will build a cotton tie and roll
ing mill; work has been commenced
on the construction of a 1000, 900
bushel grain elevator at Galveston,
Texas, and another of SOC, 900 bushels
capacity will probably be built;
company has been organized in Lon
don with reported capital of SIS ,O00,-
600 to purchase and develop large
mineral and timber properties in the
South; 81 900 900 company has pur-
chased 5000 acres of coal land in West
Virginia, and will develop on large
scale; factory to make fertilizers out
of basic steel Stag is being built in
Chattanooga. Among other causes re-.
ported for the week are Sas:goo
compress company a 1s,,.sssn Yin -
Ga; 800, QQQsseNe1 ss .45fS sicetric
Montyansssl 4 N ss.s psily IN Texas;
= I = ~ 866 phosphate company in
l71sBsfdas $4,000 ice factory and
machine shop company at Deland, Fla.
a 500, 900 mining company at Sails
bury. N. c.; water works at Milledge-
vile. Ga; $50, 900 leo and electric
company at Velasco, Texas; a $780,
600 lime works at Chattanooga, Tenn.
a $4,000 engine and machinery COM
pany at New Orleans; 500, 900 fer
tilizer company at Baltimore, etc.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10
Dynamite FACTORY Exploded.

Inc dynamite factory at Haverstaw.
~ q. was blown up. The shock
was felt for many miles. The engin-
Ger and three workmen employed in
inc building were blown to pieces ard
another man who was in u boat on the
river some distance from the wrecked
building was also instantly killed.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

Our meat and dairy products, declares
the Farm, Field and Stockman, rank third
in the matter of exports, cotton and
breadstufTs alone exceeding them in
value
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

Yuma County, Arizona, will soon
have fine irrigating system in opera.
ton, Two irrigating canals will be
taken out below the town Of Yuma to
irrigate the thousands Of acres Of rich
hnttom lands-
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

At the International Statistical Con-
gress in vienna, DR.. William Ogle
read some interesting statistics on the
condition of the working classes of
London, collected by means Of printed
cards from nearly $1,000 men repre-
senting, with their families, about
100000 persons. OF these 80, 900 men
less than II per cent. were unmarried,
an extraordinarily small proportion
of bachelors. Tho families of the
married men averaged five in number
Imam and wife and three children.
More than half the families had three
or more rooms at their disposal, rents
varying from rs cents to &c.
st,s was about vi. oO.
Wages varied from S1.75 to $3.50 a
week, % per cent of the men receiv-
ing this latter amount. The average
earnings amounted to little more
than Sc. DR.. Ogle says that English
men marry at an earlier age than any
other people in Europe, except in
Russia, and that of all Englishmen
the working man marries the earliest.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-10

The proportion of railway capital
represented by stocks is 46. so per cent
of the total railway capital. The
amount of stock per mile of line is
S2S, 1922, and the amount of outstand-
ing obligations, including bonds,
equipment, trust, obligations, etc., is
S29,262.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-27
w aShln-fnn.

THE cruisers Philadelphia ami San Fran
:isco have been formally accepted by the
Secretary of the Navy.
SECRETARY OF WAR PEoCroR has de-
.ided to enlist two thousand Indians as
soldiers
SECRETARY BLAINE received cablegram
from Toxic announcing the Death of John +.
Swift of California, United States Minister
to Japan.
THE State Department at Washington has
prepared a classification of the LATIN Ameri-
can Departmentfor the Worlds Columbian
Exhibition. This classification Is divided in
to five groups.
THE President has appointed James III.
Beatty, of Idaho, United States District
Judge for Idaho
THE remains of Senator Hearst were re-
moved from his late residence TO the car
prepared for them, and left Washington ON
a special train over the Pennsylvania road
for California. The train is composed Of
five Pullman sleepars and day coaches,
besides the car in which rests :he
casket upon a catafalque deliberately
draped with mourning embiems.
THE War Department has definitely de-
cided to bring colored troop of cavalry-L
Of the Ninth-to Fort Meyer, Washington,
as a reward for its services in the recent
Indian campaign.
THE President left Washington for few
days duck shooting on Chesapeake Bay,
near Bengies, Md. He was accompanied by
ex-senator Sewell, ot New Jersey.
TIE amount OF AZ per cent. United States
bonds redeemed to date is Sll, S7S, 900.
LORD SALISBURY has replied to Secretary
Blaine's document on the Behring Sea con-
trOverSy. He admits Great Britian's Will
ingnesss to arbitrate most of the questions
presented, and every thing points to a favor
able settlement.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-27
Foreign.

THE CHILEAN insurgents have been de-
feated at Ovale and have retreated on Lasa-
rena.
THE suicide is reported from London, Eng
land, of Robert l.. Aptrobus, member Of
the banking house of Coutts & Co.
TERRIBLE weather prevailed in the
North of England. The snow is from SIX to
fifteen inches deep.
THE house OF John Babcock at Bay Rob
erts, New Foundland was burned. Mrs.
Babcock went through the flames six times
for her children, rescuing one each time and
then she had to leave one to its fate and
lump breaking one of her legs. She and
several of the rescued children were severely
burned.
THE French expedition had n severe battle
with the natives at Diena, on the Niger
River IN Senegal, Africa. The French
carried the native positions, eleven sharp
shooters being killed and many wounded
Six hundred natives were killed, among them
being the leader.
A TERRIFIC blizzard prevailed throughout
the southwest part of England. The storm
is the severest on record in that part of the
country. Many small vessels have been
wrecked Off the coast. The loss Of live stock
is heavy. Hundreds of Sleeps and lambs
have persisted in the storm.
LIONEL CHARLES DRUMaoND, OF the Lon
don tEngland) banking house Of the Messrs.
Drummond, commltted SUICIDE Win re-
volver. The cause was trouble arising out
of a lawsuit with friend. A verdict was
rendered of temporary insanity.
1dE Grand Duke Sergius, brother OF the
Russian Car, has been appointed Governor
Of Moscow.
By the ignition Of fire damp in the Mon
opole pit at Camen, Westphalia, Germany,
six men were killed.
SEVEN persons were killel at Glasgow,
Scotland by the explosion of an ammonia
condenser in Dixon's iron works, and a num-
Der were injured.
BRAZIL has accepted and promulgated the
new treaty G reciprocity with the United
States.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-27

which her Lord should descend, and be on
one of them and she ON thu other should start
for jerusalem, the city OF the Great King.
1t was fenaticism and delusion; but there
was romance, and there was splendor, and
there was thrilling expectation in the dream !:
All. my friends, we need no earthly pal
freys groomed and saddled and bridled and
caparisoned for our Lord when He shall
come The horse is ready in the equerry OF
heaven, and the imperial rider is ready TO
mount. And | saw, and behold white
horse, and he THAI sat on him had bow;
and crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conqueriug and % conquer. And
the armies which were in heaven followed
Him on white horses ard on His vesture and
on His thigh were written, King OF kings,
and Lord or lords" Horse men of heaven,
mount! Cavalry Of God, ride on! Charge.
charge! until they shall be hurled back on
their haunches-the black horse of famine
and the red horse of carnage, and the pale
horse of death. Jesus forever!
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-27
South and West.

JOHN OSCAR BURLINGTON was hanged at
Bonneville, Mo, few days ago for the muir
der Of Sheriff Granger, of Cooper County.
His neck was broken.
NEAR Emmett, Mich, Daniel Mcmahon,
a farm hand, cut the throat of Annie Muir
ply, daughter of his employer. She was
found dead in her room. He then cut his
own throat.
JAMES CRUMP, colored desperate from
West Virginia, was shot and killed at Rad
ford, Md, by Town Sergeant Hardwick
after duel at close quarters. Hardwick
was slightly wounded in the arm.
THE court house at Archer City, Texas, has
been burned, together with nearly all the
county records Loss estimated at $50, 900.
The suit of Hope & Co., the Amsterdam
bankers, to compel the Board of Liquidation
to fund over 81, 100000 Louisiana State
bonds has been decided by Judge King in the
District Court at New Orleans in favor of
the Board of Liquidation.
The North Carolina Legislature has re-
districted the State, making eight Demo
cratic and one Republican district, and has
appropriated S25, 900 for an exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
W. W. BARKEHURST, sixty years old,
who has not lived with his wife for some
time went to her residence at Tuscola, H.,
and told her to make her peace with God.
He then fatally shot her through the head,
self and inflicted slight wound.
An epidemic of pneumonia is raging among
the members of the South Dakota Legsla-
ture, at Sioux Falls Three have died, and
twenty-five are seriously i'll.
THE hardware store of c. w. Russell, at
Shelbyville, Tenn, was destroyed by fire
Loss $50, 600.
JOHN JACKSON, Of Arthur City Tenn, up
braided his brother William for drinking,
and William shot him dead.
The printing house of Gibson. Malt Mil
Ter & Richardson, at Omaha, Neb., was de-
stroyed by fire, caused by boy smoking
cigarette in the press room. Loss S2OO,OJO.
THE epidemic OF trichinosis in the German
settlement at Ida Grove, Iowa, continues,
and two more deaths have occurred, making
five deaths in all.
Two children, a boy and a girl, age four
and six wears. of William Brinkman, were
burned to death at West Milton, Ohio, in the
absence of their parents.
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN and his son were
instantly killed, and Mrs. Mclaughlin
fatally injured by passenger train near
Shaftsburg, Mich. The family was driving
home from visit to relatives.
THE Alaska shaft, with the Back Ridge
and Bear Valley colheries of Shamokin
Penn, and the Mount Carmel coal mine have
suspended operations indefinitely owing to
the depressed condition OF the coal trade.
Over a thousand miners and laborers have
been thrown out OF employment.