Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
CURRENr EVENTS OF THE DAY
EPIToMIzED.
q Concase Review Tor the Wcek AZ
Doings from ali Over tho
World.

AT Chattanooga, Charles Werner, mem
Der OF the city ire department, WAS killed by
live electric wire
A CArgrowS Dispatch says the Portuguese
have fired on the British steamer Agnes con.
veying the willcagahy expedition, ana sessed
the cargo boats
NEAR Aspen, Col, ia silver raiae, BY
premature explOssca OF ayna1aise. Ell Reei.
Thomas Ksnuedy sni jack MaASaey were
killed and two ether men hzrr
A WASHINGTON alspasea SAYS Rsar As.
rnipal Alfred Taylor, Of the Unicei Ssases
Navy, retired. died here this afternoon frcur
pneumonia and acute bronchitis. falbowiss
the grippe. He was born in Fairfax county,
Virginia, in 1910 and entered the navy as q
midshipman in 1926
In Decembe. the Republican Nationsl
Committee will meet in Washington John
5. Clarkson viii succeed Senator Quay as
chairman and the call will be issued for the
National Convention, The present indica.
ton is that a date nearly month earlier
than usual viii be selected
day was the last day of the Legislature for
passing bills, and the session was long and
excited one, adjournment not being taken till
7oclock this morning. A great number Of
bills were not acted on. The new usury bill
was not taken up for action, and was thus
defeated, and the famous McHale anti-tights
bill was killed in like manner
AN Ell Paso dispatch says: General Rangel,
OF the Mexican army, has arrived in Ju
arez with his full staff, and with an escort Of
one company of artillery, cavalry and mil
itary band of forty five Instruments to par.
tlcipate in the reception to be rendered Presi-
| dent Harrison on his arrival here Tuesday
Governor Garlic, of Chihuahua, and staff
will arrive Monday, being ordered here by
| President Diaz in honor of President Harri-
sons visit. President Diaz himself wires he
| will be unable to attend
A RICHMOND, VA, dispatch says: The
grand jury brought in eight indictments
against E. Buford Grymes, late chief clerk in
the treasurer's Office, for altering records in
the auditors office.
| EXPERIMENTAL free delivery will be estab-
lished at Sedina, Miss, Weldon, N. c., and
cleveland, Tenn. This makes forty-two
towns in which the department will have
practically demonstrated the cost of an ex-
tension of the free delivery system to smaller
towns throughout the country.
A CHARLESTON, w. VA, dispatch saws:
Sim johnson, negro, who ravished Eva
Bailey, respectable white girl, was sentenced
| to-day to be hanged. After Judge Snyder
had pronounced sentence johnson made
desperate attempt to kill the judge. Officers
rushed in and after desperate struggle sue.
ceeded in dragging the negro away. The
judge is not seriously injured
I A SPECIAL from Lebanon, Ind, says: The
trainmen on the Indiana Midland, who went
on strike Saturday on account of non-pay-
ment OF wages overdue, have induced every
man on the road to join them, and not a
wheel is being turned, except on the engines
and mail cars No passengers or freight of
any kind are allowed to be carried No vio-
lent demonstrations are being made by the
strikers, but they are firm in their demands
Of a complete settlement of back wages
1t is likely England will go to war with the
country of Senegamba in Africa.
IL. ?. Thompson & Co., tobacconists at
Louisville, KY, have assigned Liabilities
$1500OO
The white men around Opelonsas, La, will
meet to protest against the appointment of
Harry Bloch, colored, postmaster
At Chicago fire in the furniture fatorv of
Wullweder & Co., on Randolph street did
damage estimated at 100000
J. H. Robinson, the oldest express messen.
ger on the Fort Wayne road was found mar
alyzed in his car at Pittsburg, and is dying
The American Car and Equipment Compa
ny OF New York is in financial trouble. The
liabilities will amount to several hundred
thousand dollars.
AT Nephi, Utah, George Whitmore, presi,
dent of the Nephi National Bank, was
bounced out of $4,000 by gold brick swim.
dlers who have disappeared
A Richmond, Va, dispatch says: DIR. Ell
Smith is dead. He was known throughout |
the South as surgeon at Chmborazo hospi- |
tai during the war He was consul to Naples
under the administration of Presidents Gar
field and Arthur.
Richmond Va, dispatch says the United
States District Court Judge Hughes presid
ing, ordered the indictments to be quashed
against II. NJ Smith, Jr., A. B. Gurin, Pres
ton Belvin, Edward Tate and others, ali well.
known citizens. They were indicted for al.
legged Intimidation of voters in jackson
ward, known as the black belt, some two
years ago, in the congressional contest be
tween Wise, democrat, and Waddell, repub-
lican.