Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
EPITOMIzED.
q Concise Review for tho Week II
Doings from all Over the
World.

REAR ADMIRAL R. w. SHuFELDr is dying
at Washington.
The safe in the county clerks office at
Benton, Ark, was robbed.
The president has been invited to visit
Victoria, British Columbia.
THE North Carolina Legislature has passed
law against ticket scalpers.
THE Kentucky Constitutional Convention
has completed the new constitution for that
State.
The remains of Gen. ]. E. Johnston will
very likely be removed from Baltimore to
Richmond.
H. CLAY KING is on trial at Memphis for
the killing of David Posten, and has been re-
fused change of venue.
Pensacola, fired three SLOTS at ]. f. Alexan-
der in row over the senatorial fight None
of the bullets took effect
A STEAM pipe in the main boiler house at
the Washington Navy yard blew up, seri-
ously injuring Lieutenant Pendleton and j.
/ " 1ldIuoStci, uii tuS lie teuueT.
AT Seattle, WASH, mob broke into the
! jail and shot to death Rose and John Dow,
ards, who were convicted of the murder of
| Hans Frederickson and his wife and were
confined in jailawaiting new trial.
| AT Stave Camp, Miss, eight men drank
too much whisky and then quarreled over
what remained in the jug. A man named
| Anderson ran amuck with a knife and began
badly cutting the men, killing one named H.
| ]. Moore. Steve Ross, foreman of the camp
| then killed Anderson with Winchester
| Ross was one of Anderson's victims, but is
| not fatally hurt. Two otners are probably
injured fatally.
A TALLAHASSEE, FLA, dispatch says: In
letter to the Floridian this morning, John
F. Dunn formally withdraws from the
| United States Senatorship contest. The let
ter was written last Thursday, Immediately
after the defeat of his followers in organic
ing, but was withheld from publication I'M
| til to-day. He says that he finds that his
| connection with national banks initiates
against him among Alliance men. The anti
Call men will put exGov Bloxham and in
sist upon the two thirds rule.
AT Cedar Rapids, Iowa, John Tarkel while
insane from grip blew his head off with
gun.
The president has appointed Evans H.
Nebecker, of Indiana, treasurer of the
United States.
THE president has appointed c. F. A.
Belly, of Florida, to be a commits sioner Of
the Worlds Fair from Florida.
In the Connellsville, Pa, coke regions the
coke workers and operators have not fully
agreed yet and not SO many men have gone
to work as was expected.
In New York, while P. Lewis was crazy
from grip, he jumoed from fifth story win.
dow and was killed.
The body of a man supposed to be priest
was found in mud hole in Newport, KY,
whore he had evidently fallen from the side.
walk. The body was identified as that OF
Rev. McGoren. from some point in the South,
not yet ascertained. He had been visiting at
the cathedral. The place from which he fell
was wholly unguarded and poorly lighted
He was not drowned, but was suffocatel
from falling head foremost in the deep mud.
In Kemper county, Mississippi, Constable
Wilson had arrested negro, and while on
the road to the county seat, one Sanford, the
employer of the negro, demanded his release.
Officer Wilson refused to release him. San
ford then started to unite him. Wilson told
Sanford to desist, and made motion as If to
draw weapon. At this juncture triangu-
lar fight opened between Wilson and Sanford
and Sanford1 friend, one Payne. The result
was that Wilson was killed and Payne shot
in the neck and shoulder. 1t is also said that
TIE Mississippi State board Of health met
| IN Meridian Wednesday
A LONDON dispatch says the WEIGH tin
| plate works will close their works for a time
until July, on account of the American tariff
law.
A COLUMBUS, MISS, dispatch says: Judge
Wood, chief justice Of the supreme court Of
this State, has granted an injunction restrain
Ing the city council from the enforcement Of
the ordinance recently adopted requiring all
dogs running at large to be muzzled.
A TOPEKA, KAN, dispatch says: Frank
McGrath, president Of the Alliance of this
State, has addressed letter to the Southern
Alliance, urging them to attend the Cincin-
natl convention and be prepared to act with
third independent party. He intimates
that unless the Southern branch Of the order
takes this step, the Northern States will 90
back to the Republican party.