Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-08-13
ALABAMA STATE NEWS.
Culled from Every Nook and
Corner.
News of Our Commonwealth Point
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The Knights of Honor lodge has been
instituted at Leighton, Ala, by A. W.
Wise.
Twenty-Five new houses have been
built at Ishkooda ore mines, near Ok
moor.
The Confederate Veterans of Lamar
! county, held reunion Thursday last at
| Vernon, and grand time was had.
| At Monte emery the handsome homo
| of Mr.. Ignatius Pollak, on Adams street,
has been bought by Bishop H. M. Jack
son.
The Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Rail.
road Company have settled upon grand
auction lot sale on November 10th to
18th coming.
Jasper Durham, Geneva county, and
William Drew of Henry county, have
been bound over in Montgomery on the
charge of illicit distilling.
The first bale of the new crop of cot
| ton was received at Montgomery the
other day. 1t was low middling, and
was sold at auction for 8 cents pound.
A special from Abbeville says 1t is re-
| ported here, on good authority, that
Judge Carmichaels health will compel
him to resign the judgeship of this dis
trict.
At Gadsden, the new dummy line to
the Falls and Belle View Highlands will
be completed by Saturday, and the first
trip will be made Sunday afternoon
over the new line.
Mr.. Livingston, proprietor of large
saw mill near Admission, dropped dead
with heart disease at Gainesville, Ga,
Thursday night. He had been sum
moned there as witness in court.
The Selma Baptist Association met
Wednesday at Mt Pisgah church, with
delegates in attendance from all the
churches Of the county. Hon. H. s. D.
Mallory was reelected president by &C
clamation.
At Gadsden the contract for the new
Methodist church, to be built on the
corner of Chestnut and Fifth streets, has
been let to Simpson g. Chadwick, of that
city. They will begin work in few
days.
A SPECIAL from Montgomery says
News has been received here Of the
death Of Mr.. Mason M Burks, broth
er Of Major W. P. Burks, of this city.
He died suddenly of heart disease at
Canton, Vanzandt county, Texas, on the
Gath of July.
The death rate in Conecuh county for
May was at the rate of S.2s per 1000
year.
w. 81. McKINNEY raised in Alabama,
Is editor Of the Pueblo, (Col.) Daily
Press.
HENRY BREWSTER is now in sole
charge of the Piedmont Post, r. P.
Brinley resting.
Rev. Joseph Shackleford has published
2 history Of the Music Shoals Baptist
Association.
AT Admission, Saturday was pay day
'or the Bedford Pipe Works. They have
nearly 200 men on the pay roll.
AT Admission, Mr.. w. A. Kirkpatrick.
IS organist and chcir master, took charge
i St. Michael's yesterday for the first
ime.
PROF. J. D. Duckett, the recently
lected principal of Piedmont High
'chool, has arrived upon the scene of
is labors.
Adler ALEXANDER, of Piedmont, re-
eived painful injuries by diving into 4
hallow stream and striking his head on
rocky bottom.
The Woodstock Iron Company has
losed an order with the Mingo Coal and
Joke Company. Of Middlesboro, XIV.
Or 100 tons of coke per day,
Ar New Decatur, Harvey Crocker 70.
ikned his position as deputy in the post
,hice on the first, and will 90 into the
furniture business with his father in De-
;atur
THE Decatur Cornice and Roofing Co.
naa secured the contract for the roofing
and cornice work of the new hotel at
Bridgeport, Ala. It will amount to
about $4,000.
IN Admission at the last meeting of the
City Council, an ordinance was adopted |
making It an offense for any one to OBJ
tam Tor or give an habitual drukard in
toxicating drinks.
AT Centreville, on Saturday, while Mr..
=. T. Cruise was descending from the |
upper starry of his gin house, the steps
broke down and inflicted injuries from
which he died in less than one hour.
CAPTAIN SAMUELs, of the Tennessee |
River Transportation Line, has gone to
faducah to purchase steamboat, said to
De larger than the Gunter. This boat |
Sheffield.
NEW DECATUR ADVERTISER Super
'ntendent VanDell, Of the Rolling Stock
y orks expects to receive orders every
law ofort No. ~ II