Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Current Events of the Day
Epitomized.
A Concise Review for the Week of
Doings from All Over the
World.


EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in tally and
New Jersey the other day.
JOHN and Jim Richards killed Dave Far
mer near Knoxville, Tenn.
ALBERT FREIGHT, negro driver at Nor
folk, Va, was dragged to death while trying
| to stop his runaway team
MRS. DUNCAN, who wus recently murder
ously assaulted by her husband at Betoes-y-
Coet in Wales, is dying.
In Atlanta, s2s 900 has been subscribed for
the new prohibition paper. The Anti-Pro-
hibitionists are also preparing to start an Or
/ gan.
ARTHUR M. SAYLEs, clerk in the dead
letter office, at Washington, has been arrested
| on the charge of stealing money from letters.
He confessed his guilt.
AT Williamsburg, KY, Sidney Lewis, son
of Judge Wilson Lewis, of Harlan county,
has been sentenc ed to the penitentiary for
life for the murder of his father in in Febru-
airy last
CoPIoUs rains have fallen in the Valley OF
j.
The area is not as large as last year. Oats
are below the average A large crop of
fruit is expected.
REWARD of 5000 has been offered by
the mayor of Philadelphia for the arrest and
conviction of G. w. Marsh, late president of
the Keystone National Bank, for alleged VIC
lation of the law.
dispatch from Iquique says, that in con-
sequence of Bolivia's recognition of the Chi
liam Congressional party as belligerants, the
Chilian Minister at the Bolivian capital has
demanded his passports.
ROBERT ScHILIdNG, secretary Of the new
Peoples Party. has issued call for conven-
ton of the party, to be held in st. Louis,
June 18th, to arrange plan of action for
the coming campaign
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has called
upon number of national bank depositors
TO transfer to the sub-treasury portion Of
the amount of public money held by them
and not needed for the transaction of public
business,
A DISPATCH from Guthrie, Ont, says Re-
ceiver +. d. Mix, of the Commercial Bank,
which failed some months ago. has handed in
his report to the court. 1t shows that the
bank from its inception, was run with a view
f. 70 take in all it could in deposits and ther
fait The defunct bank started in without q
dollar.
PARTS dispatch says: The race for The
grand prize of Paris Of 100000 francs, for
the entry Of colts and FLIES foaled in 1888,
the distance about one mile and seven fur
longs, was run and won by Edmond Black,
Clements, by Samur out of Princess Gather
me; the same owners Reverend, by Energy
out OF Recluse, was second, and M. p Allan's
clement, by Vigilant out of Chic, third.
FRANK A. MUNsEY has retired from tn,
New York Continent. Under an arrange
ment with c. P Huntington. Colonel Jobr
: A. Cockerill and syndicate have purchased
, the plant of the Continent and it's news fran
chises. 1t will be consolidated with tn
commercial Advertiser, and new journa
will be issued shortly from the Continen
building, at Broadway and Park place. unde
the name of the New York Advertiser
! will be issued each morning and evening.
/
Shepherd and Christian Furst, who murderer
Carl Pulsifer, December 10, 1885, and thel
robbed the body of 500, were hanged at Ere
mont. Shepherd nearly tainted on the gal
lows, but Furst acted entirely unconcerned
) When the men were asked if they had any
, thing to say, Furst replied "Nothing. :
) Shepherd said, 1--WE are the men who did tn,
deed, and therefore no one else can be &c
cused of it."
THE Gar of Russia has returned to St.
Petersburg.
} The Bath Iron Works, of Bath Me-, will
build cruiser No. IS.
ONE thousand men employed at Glasgow,
Scotland, as drillers by the ship building firm
ON the Clyde, have struck.
The contract for the construction of a
wharf and causeway at Dry Tortugas, Fla,
has been awarded to Collin NICK. Grau, of
Charleston, s. c., at $25, 135.
AT Columbus, Ohio, the Consolidated Oat-
meal Company has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $500, 900. 1t is a combine
Of all the oatmeal mills in the country.
FRED DOUGLASS, United States minister to
Hayti, wires this government that revolu-
ton has been attempted in that country, but
1t was suppressed Forty insurgents who
caused the trouble were executed.
i A CHICAGO dispatch says: At general
meeting Of five Central Labor bodies Of this
city, Wednesday, organized labor took a radi-
cal stand against any further move to give
public assistance to the Worlds Fair as long
as their demands for minimum are re-
fused
IHE store and stock OF A. strouse, OF
Aberdeen, Miss, was partially destroyed by
/ fire. The loss is not heavy.
IN Florida, an effort will be made to get
the governor to refuse Senator Gail, recently
elected, certificate.
JOHN KELLY fatally shot Otto Kahler at
Norfolk, Va. The latter had married the
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