Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-02-18

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twenty-one years old, shot and killed
his father. Family discord and Liquor
was the cause.
The survey for the electric railway
between Chicago and st. Louis is now
being made. The trains on this road
ere to run 100 miles an hour.
AT meeting of the McCarthyite
section of the Irish Parliamentary
party, Mr.. Justin Mccarthy was
reelected president.
The postoffice authorities have Or
dered reward of $1,000 for the
apprehension of thieves who com
mitted the recent postal bag robberies
at New York.
AT Findley, Ohio, jury gave Miss
Ella Johnson Judgment of $4,000
damages for injuries received in the
Hotel Marvin gas explosion about a
year ago.
Augusta Forth and Phillips Des
Jardine are held at Brunswick, Me-,
in ST. 900 each charged with defraud-
ing the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company of New York, by>securing
insurance on people living in Canada.
A gentleman has just arrived at San
Francisco from Nicaragua who says
hardly any work has been done ON the
proposed canal. He also says the
people in that country have no faith
In the scheme.
AT Kearney, Neb, Bank Examiner
FL. M. Wells has taken charge of the
Commercial Savings Bank. The de-
post ledger shows balance of $780,
900 in favor of depositors. The
assets amount to over $4,000, and
depositors, it is said, will receive 80
per cent.
The whaleback steamer Charles w.
Wetmore, which made the voyage
around Cape Horn with "a cargo of
machinery for Puget Sound, has
arrived at San Francisco with cargo
of coal. 1t is understood the steamer
will still continue in the coal trade on
the Pacific coast.
A SANDER suit has been begun in the
District Court of Faribut county,
Mimi, by Rev. Theodore Venn against
Rev. Robert Hughes, 500, 900 damages
being claimed. Both gentlemen are
priests of the Catholic church. Rev.
Hughes succeeding Rev. Venn in the
pastorate of that church in that city.
Near Daingerield, Texas, spotted
fever is raging. Five deaths have been
reported; more new cases are develop
ing and the people throughout that
section are greatly alarmed, while
some talk of leaving until the disease
passes over. 1t is in bad form, and
none have recovered. 1t is confined TO
small district.
The Crown Prince of Italy will
probably come to the Worlds Fair.
Director Higginbotham, writing from
Rome to Chief Fearn, says that the
Prince is greatly interested in the Ex-
position, and is now making plans to
be in Chicago in 1898. Mr.. Higgin-
botham also says that the attitude of
the highest Italian officials toward the
far is now extremely cordial.
The next novelty to be sprung on
New Workers is cake walk for the
championship of the United States. 1t
will take place in Madison Square
Garden on February 18th. "Polo
jim" will manage the details, and it
80 cd 40 tol-
part in the affair. The first prize is to
be grand piano. The judges will be
selected from the Manhattan and New
York Athletic clubs. Much local in
terest has developed.
AT Ottumwa, Iowa, twenty-five
saloon keepers are in dilemma. 1t
is alleged they have been violating the
Internal Revenue laws by failing to
destroy stamps on empty packages,
thus getting ahead of the government
80 cents on every gallon of whisky
sold. Revenue Collector O'Neill, of
Burlington, got wind of it, and secured
the necessary evidence to indict the
whole lot.
At San Antonio, Texas, Leon A.
Oregon, editor of Ell Cronista Next
cana, local Spanish paper, is raving
maniac, as the result of taking alleged
medicine prescribed for him by an old
Mexican woman. 1t was made from
poisonous Mexican herb called
toloache, and since taking it for the
grip, Obregon has been distracted.
The qualities of the drug are well
known in Mexico, where it is often
administered for malevolent purposes.
There is little hope of Obregon regain
ing his reason.
The order issued by Prince George
of Saxony, as inspector-general of the
German army and commander of the
Twelfth army corps, calling upon the
officers of that corps to stop the inhu-
man treatment practiced upon the
privates by non-commissioned officers,
is likely to result in the amelioration
of the coadition of the privates of the
whole army, and free them from the
brutal tyranny of low grade officers.
The matter was discussed by the budget
committee Of the Reichstag, and it was
resolved to favor greater publicity in