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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

In 1883 there were employed in the
fisheries of the Pacific States 1879
vessel fishermen, 1904 shore fishermen
and 1867 shoresmen and factory
hands, making total of $3.50 per-
sons. The capital invested amounted
to 90, 498, 1889. of which 81, 6s2, $40
represented vessels and their outfits,
e591 1885 boats, $1,194, 1916 apparatus
OF capture and 90. 0S2, 9l4 shore prop
srty and circulating capital. And
now let us see, observes the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, what was the result of
California fisheries alone for the year
1888. OF miscellaneous fish there were
taken IL $50, $50 pounds, valued at
e942 ,306; Of miscellaneous fish sailed
the product was 6,442, 692 pounds,
valued at $149, 002; of oysters there
were taken 90, 900 pounds, valued at
e6O9, IT'S, and of the humble shrimps
and prawns there We're caught 4, 1902
500 pounds, valued at $l41, 688. The
clam, too, 10 not to be despised when
Il il known that 2.396,4l5 pounds OF
him we're captured, worth $7S, 2S4,
nor II the terrapin and frog branch Of
the business to be overlooked, with its
10000 pounds of delicacy, valued al
$4,000. The aggregate of thu
tishefies products Of California fol
1883 was So, 26l, 7o6 pounds valued
1t ~. 468. 1863. but in this is included
over 81, 900, 900 worth Of fur sea
pelts and about $500. 900 worth Q.
whalebone and ivory. Oregon's pro
duct was 25, S9l 1881 pounds, valued
It u, 08s, 674, and Washington's 81,
86l,411 pounds, valued at $500, 500
The fsberies' products, then, Of thes'
fbree Pacific coast States aggregated
Tor fke year 1888 50, 516, 94s pounds
valued at 96, s87, 8oS, which must dis
pose Of the erroneous idea that tht
industry Is Of little value Or impor'
tanca Il really ranks third among
Tia az great coast sections, and \
making str4pg be for second place
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
THE STRIKE IN TEXAS.
All the Particulars in a Nut She'll
Trouble in a Railroad.

The entire San Antonio and Arkan-
sas Pass railroad system is tied up, as
the result of strike. Operators claim
they have been poorly paid and that
the system of removals and reductions
have been inaugurated by the new
superintendent, George Sands, late Of
the Texas Pacific. Several station
telegraphers' salaries having been re-
duced and fearing other reductions
the Order of Telegraphers appointed
a grievance committee to secure the
signing'of a contract by the manage
ment of the road maintaining the pres
ent operators, during good behavior,
at existing scale of wages. The man
agement refused to meet this demand,
but claimed that no general reduction
of wages was contemplated. The de-
mand of the railway photographers was
backed by all other operatives, who
on this particular road are federated
for concentrated action. The paraly-
sis extended over 665 miles of the
system. One operator went to work
at Bearene, but quit after receiving
curt message. The conductor and en-
gineer offered to take the mail car out,
but Superintendent Sands refused to
let them do so, unless the entire train
was taken. District Superintendent
Evans threatened to prosecute the
officials of the road if the mail is not
carried. Nothing approaching set
tlement has been reached. Receiver
Yokum is in Galveston and Receiver
Mcnamara is in Mexico. Business is
blocked on the entire road and $50
men are ont.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
THE YEARS FAILURES.
Greater in Number Than in Any
Previous Year.

greater IN NunDer Indu IN An
Previous Year.
Mercantile failures for the year
1891, as reported by the mercantile
agency of r.. G.. Dunn Il Co., are
1928 in the United States, against
1906 in 1890. Failures in 1891 are
greater in number than in any pre-
vious year since the record has been
kept by this agency, running back to
1857. The amount of liabilities,
however, is almost precisely the same
as the previous year, amounting to
$199, OO0,0 900. The amount lost,
therefore, does not exceed that of the
previous year, while the average of
liabilities of failure is SIS, All in 091
against $17 ,406 in 1890. The distri-
button of loss in geographical sections
shows that the liabilities of failures
in the eastern states in the year just
closed were $40, 900, 900 against $27,-
900, 900 last year.
In the Middle States the liabilities
were S67, 100000 against S75, 100000
in 1890. In the Southern States
marked increase in liabilities is noted,
as they amounted last year to $44, 000,-
900 against $27 100000 in 1890. In
the Western States there is decline
Of $2,900,000 in liabilities, which
amounted in the year just closed to
$48, 900, 900 against $50, 100000 in the
year previous, while on the Pacific
coast, in 1891, the liabilities amounted
10 SO 900, 900 as against $780, 900 in
1890.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
THEY WILL NOT SUBMIT
To the Granting of Pension to Mrs
jefferson Davis

Commenting upon the fact that a
committee has been appointed in Mem
pals, Tenn, for the purpose of urg-
ing the various southern legislatures
to vote pensions to Mrs. Jefferson Da-
Wis, The Evening Ledger says;
Should such resolution be offered
in the Mississippi legislature it will be
knocked skyhigh. Mrs. Davis is no
pauper. Indeed it IS understood that
she is well fixed in life. She owns
two fine plantations, valuable and
delightful home on the coast, and the
titles to her work and that of Mr.. Da-
Wis, from which source she receives
enough money to comfortably supper
herself. Dississippi has done enough
for the Davis family, and it is time te
call halt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
The Mileage Record.

The Engineering News, in its an
nual summary of track laid in the
United States, says there has been
1900 miles laid of new railway dur
ing the current year, bringing the
total mileage in the United States to
$4,000 miles. a falling off of 1900
from the increase of the previous
year. Georgia constructed $50 miles,
and is second on the list. followed by
Washington and South Carolina with
22O and 219 miles respectively.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
Rev. w. H. Morris Pardoned.

Rev. w. H. Morris, of Greenyille,
Butler county, was convicted last
week of enlightenment of school
funds as county superintendent Of
Butler county. Upon recommends
ton of the Alabama Methodist Con-
terence OF preachers and many other
citizens from various localities, he
was pardoned Wednesday by the gov
ernor; criminal intent not having
satisfactorily been shown.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
Converse College Burned.

A Spartanbntg, s. c., special says:
at midnight Sunday Converse College
was discovered on fire and the main
building destroyed. An alarm saved
the lives of about seventy inmates.
nifty OF whom We're pupils. The col
lege was mile from the town, with
no adequate water supply. The loss
Is Soo,ooO; insurance, $4,000. The
college is in its first year.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
Spontaneous COMBUSTION.

A hire accredited to spontaneous
combustion occurred in Brooklyn Sun
day evening, destroyed the four story
grain elevation of Francis G. Pinto q
Sons and causing loss of 800, 900.
Inc iiames spread to the grain storage
warehouse and its contents were dam
aged by water.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

No more than one house in ten is
finished at the time mentioned in the
contract, asserts the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, and half of them
are completed from two months to a
year behind time.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

Peter Henderson of New York has
standing premium of 1000 for a
blue chrysanthemum, says the Brook
lyn Citizen. and all the hybridizers are
persistently at work trying to develop
or originate that novelty.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

Three thousand operators Of the
Elgin National Watch company stand
ready to strike and only wait the
signal TO do SO. Several hundred
workmen in the department wake q
ont Saturday.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
HAS COME TO STAY.

The Sub-Treasury plan has arrived at
that stage of existence where it is per-
fectlY able to care for itself, says the
National Economist.
1t is no longer wearing infants cloth
ing, but stalks forth in garb of manhood,
ready and anxious to meet all corners. 1t
viii be sad and wiser individual who
seeks to bar its onward march by an at
tempt to supplant it with something
more palatable for the two old parties.
The great common people and the Sub
Treasury plan are in perfect accord and
will submit to no interference. Let nc
one be alarmed about the ub-Treasury
plan being preserved intact. 1t is the
bulwark of the Order and is so recognized
by every candid member of the Alliance
This fact has become so firmly rooted and
grounded that no innovation ever sc
trfiing will be permitted Progressive
Farmer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

The RECEIPT stir in the freight lines
Of steamers caused by the trip of the
whale back steamer Wetmore to
Europe has been extended to passen-
ger boats for ocean service; and re-
cent designs for vessel carrying 800
passengers have been made, which is
expected to cross the ocean in five
DAYS.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

IN no part of the United States was
there more interest felt in the out
come Of the Gillian episode, maintains
the New York Commercial Advertiser,
than in the lumber producing regions
Of the Northwest, where the market
has been seriously affected.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

Bsn Butler says he acquired his
great fondness for Revolutionary his
tory in the long winter evenings when
the family gathered round the blazing
fire on the hearth in his boyhood
home, and to the accompaniment of
hot cider and roasted apples told sto-
ries of the battles with the redcoats.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

The military training of the Chica
60 police force will in the future be
in accordance with the new "Army
Drill Regulation for Infantry" adopt
ed by the War Department on Sep
TENDER 20.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

The morbid spirit of bravado which
eliminated in Bridgeport, Conn.,. in
the formation of Suicides Club
with twenty members has so exercised
its sway over the weak minds of these
men that seventeen have already
killed themselves.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

The exorbitant freight tariffs on the
various railroads has caused Califor-
fcrnia fruit growers to reduce the
quantity or fruit shipped to Eastern
markets, and large factories for dry
Ing and canning the fruit are being
mafla-
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

A good formula for layer cake is as
follows; One cupful of sugar, one-half
cupful OF butter, one half cupful of sweet
milk, the beaten whites of four eggs.
two cupfuls Of -four and heaping tea
spoonful Of baking powder.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

The German army has swimming
school for troops where every one
must learn to swim. The best swim
lmers are able to cross stream Of
several hundred yards width, even
when carrying their clothing, rifle
and ammunition.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

- is proposed to build up diamond
cutsing industry in the Kimberly dis
trict, South Africa, By placing an export
duty on the rough stones and paving
bounties on the cut goods,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
PACIFIC SHED STORMS.
Snow Twelve Feet Deep ON the Level.
Heavy Gales.

The rain and snow storm which has
ragged for over twenty-four hours Oh
the Pacific Coast, is the worst in years.
Reports received by the Southern
Pacific officials show snow in Shasta
and Siskinyou counties, the deepest
ever known since the building of the
road. Actual measurement gives it at
twelve feet deep on level from
Siskinyou mountains, near the Oregon
line, down to Mount Shasta. The
wind is now blowing a gale.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

A curious instance of the perversion
Of popular pronunciation is found in
the word Rickreal, the name of little
river in Oregon. Its original name,
given it by the French, was La Creole.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07

There is big boom in the lobster
fisheries OF Nova Scotia, the crustace-
ana beng more plcnliful than ever be-
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
THE SNOW BLOCKADE.
Passengers by Rail are Held PARKWAY
Homes Barricaded.

The Santa Fe and Atlantic and
Pacific railroad are seriously, blockaded
by snow drifts. No eastern mails
have arrived over the Santa Fe for
four days. A number of engines are
OIL the track in the blockade, and pas
sengers are blockaded in the Ration
mountains. Villagers in the mountain
country are suffering.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
STRANGE.


We fail to see how it is that certain
people are continually cryingeout that
1.-THE Alliance must not go into third
party" and in the same breath yell Justify
that it should go into the Democratic
party. Keep cool, gentlemen. The AL
lance is not going into any party. 1t
will not be made the tail to any political
party's kite. 1t will remain, as it has
been--a great educational force and
maintain its integrity and organization,
as such. Its members can go where they
please. If they want to stay i'll the old
parties, it is their unquestioned right to
do so. If they have lost faith in both
the old parties and feel it their duty to
go into a new party, they have just as
much right to do so, and no one nor no
party can prevent it, So be quiet, gen.
tlemen. This is yet free country, and
the members of the Alliance will not
forget it. They are free to act with any
party they choose. -Progressiv Farmer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
TOILING ON.

Under the above suggestive caption the
Alliance Advocate, Louisville, Tenn,
says; The masses of humanity to-day
are toiling, and pinching, and saving,
from one years end to the other, and
they receive only a miserable pittance
upon which to subsist, and nothing is
laid aside for rainy day. We see this
in our own immediate cighborhoods-
men with families to support, who barely
earn the food they eat, and are unable to
procure sufficient clothing to keep them
comfortable. The outlook is dark to
them, and that their children must in
herit only hardship and toll grow
ing more severe with each succeeding
year. Where shall relief be found9
VIII the plutocrat release his grip on
the throat of the toiler, or the bonds.
man grow weary of turning into his
Golfers the earnings of his slaves2
Shall we look to the men who have
brought degradation and poverty to the
toilers to remove the burdens they them
selves have imposed upon them2 History
hits lit warning voice, crying from the
shores of Ireland an alarm made more
terrible by contrast with the happy past.
Pauper labor prevails throughout the old
countries, and the tendencies in this
country are in the same direction. Aliens
are constantly securing immense tracts of
land in this country, and every effort is
being made TO control legislation in the
interest of the plutocrat, and against the
farmer and laborer. Toiling on, day after
day, the laborers have allowed these
wrongs to pass unnotjced, until now
their removal will require herculean eff
forts. The wisest counsels must
prevail. and organization must be
perfected, and educated up to the
needs OF the hour. There is no call for
anarchy. The American people have
weapons all powerful in the ballots they
are as yet permitted to cast. 1t is no
longer question of whetherthis or that
party wins, but human liberty is at stake,
and revolution must take place in order
that labor may receive the hire of which
1t is deserving. Laboring men-before
you is struggle as sure to come as the
revolutions of the earth. Bare We your
arm for the work now; to delay means
the awful arbitrament of force. Wait
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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
THE QUESTION SETTLED.

After two days. consideration by the
committee appointed for that purpose at
indianapolis, they reported unanimously
in favor of the Ocaca demands, changing
only two words to make the meaning of
the Sub-Treasury plank palmer. This
report was unanimously adopted by the
Supreme Council Thus we are sure to
have union of sentiment throughout the
entire nation in the ranks of the Alliance,
North, South, East and West. For the
present, therefore, we may settle
down to the con clusion that
the battle is to be
fought on the line of the Ocala platform
The objectors have totally failed to pres
ent at any time ''the something BETTER"
that we have hitherto said that we would
accept instead of our own plan, if it was
offered to us. But as those objectors
were those, who for one reason or another,
are satisfied with the present state of
things, it is hardly to be supposed that
they would furnish more efficient rem
edy for the ills of the farmer than the
plan organized by the Farmers Alliance.
Peninsula Farmer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-07
What is Being Done in theAVarious
Sections For the Advancement
of the Great Orpapixation-

There are now about 800 labor and re-
form papers in the United States and they
publish truths and facts that the monop-
oily press dare not initiate.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09
LIE moRoAN sHoRTAeE.
County Treasurer S-aton's Matter Ex-
planned Length.

County Treasurer S-Rton's Matter Ex-
planned Length.
MARTINSvILLE, March g. Special. +
For some days there has been a current
rumor here to the effect that there was
shortage or defalcation in the county
treasurer's Office which is alleged to have
occurred during DIR. Charles Seaton's (re-
publican) term of office. A friend OF DR..
Seaton cards today's Reporter as follows:
AS friend to DR.. Seaton and also as one
who has the welfare OF the county at
heart, l wish to say that DIR. Seaton
claims an error in the settlement
and that he is entitled to certain cred
its. The board of county commissioners
has ordered an Investigation, which in
vestigaton is made at the expense OF Dr.
Seaton. the county being in no wise obi
gated Tor one cent of it. He pays the
entire cost OF the whole matter to find out
and successfully account for this apparent
shortage. If the investigation finds him
the necessary amount OF credit TO cover,
what Is claimed by the county. well and
good If not, he will then make the county
whole. No taxpayer will lose a cent, or
be called on for a cent OF extra tax to de-
fray part OF the expense OF investigation
or apparent shortage. l ask for Capt
Seaton suspension OF the popular YER
dict until the investigation is completed
DIR. Seaton has been a resident of this
city for number of years and held the
| county treasurer's position from 1885 to
1889. He is known here as an industrious,
honorable, Christian gentleman. John
W. Coons, an expert accountant of In
dianapOlis, recently spent several days in
going over the books kept from the time
OF MIR. Seaton's acceptance of the office
up TO time of the discovery of the error
by present Treasurer Sanders Hubbard.
A thorough examination has now been
ordered. taking the books for some years
prior to DR.. Seaton's term of Office. The
amount OF the shnrtare is g 216OS
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09

myself About ten or twelve months ago,
and in the presence of patent right man,
a stranger, whose name / do not know, 1
let Mr.. Charles Abel have a knife, which l
am sure is the identical one found under
the window on the morning OF the Marsh
murder. / have talked with Mr.. Abel
about the matter in the presence of David
l. Montgomery. He Mir. Abel admits
that ne got a knife from me about ten or
twelve months ago, but gays it was not
the knife which was found under the
Marsh window. l think Mr.. Abel
is honest in his opinion, and
l do not believe he had anything
to do with the murder, for he is not that
kind OF man. but l am sure he is mistaken
about the knife. ! carried it in my pocket,
and used it every day for long time. L
recognize 1t from its peculiar shape, con-
struction and battered rivet, and GER
ta:nly can not be mistaken"
The city council. by preamble and reso-
lutions, last night heartily Endorsed the
work of Mr.. McGovern. and instructed the
city attorney, O. II. Montgomery. to assist
in defending him in the damage suit for
$4,000, brought by the gambler, George
Kirby, who McGovern arrested at Rover
ton aud brought here haDdcuffed. 1t also
asked Kirby's attorneys OF this county to
proceed no further against the defendant,
and pledged itself to do all in it's power to
rid the city of thieves, thugs, blacklegs and
1nurdarpra
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09
a HoTLY CONTESTED SUIT.
The Tcagarden Cass Ends ut Rockville
After Long Trinl,

The Tcngarden Case Ends mt Rockville
After Long TrinL
ROcKvT lie. March IL Special. l-One of
the most interesting and holly contested
lawsuits ever in this court was terminated
today.
The case was Trial Deer's administrator
vs. John r. TeagarleD. The object of the
suit was to compel Teagarden TO cover
back into the estate oil Deer certain
moneys which, it was alleged, were OBJ
tanned from Deer. who was seventy wears
old and OF unsound mind, by undue in
huence. The case turned upon the in
sanity of Deer. There were 100 witnesses,
and the trial lasted twelve DAYS. The
ultimate object Of the suit was to obtain
for Job Deer OF Kansas, son of Trial Deer.
his share OF the estate, which amounted
in all TO about $4,000. Judge Rhoads of
Terre Haute presided. The Hon. Peter
S. Kennedy and Mr.. Wilmington OF Craw-
louisville, Senator Marshall of Covngton
and :. ID. Putt of this city were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Messrs. Bingham
and McCabe of Covington and Exon
gresham James 7. Johnston of this place
for the defendant The jury, after being
out about twelve hours. returned a verdict
for the plaintiff in the sum OF 1857. The
verdict gives universal satisfaction in this
community, and will be we'll received in
Fountain county, from which the case was
brought to this court on a change OF
venue,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09
MASHED.

The Romantic Experience of = Young Lady
Homewnrd from Indianapolis
CRAwFoEDSvILLE, March >. Especial. +
Miss Jean Henrique, a handsome brunette
of nineteen summers, living with her
parents in this city, while returning from
Indianapolis via the Big Four, had a very
romantic experience. When she entered
the car at Indianapolis every seat was
taken. She stood with her pretty jeweled
hand clasped on a seat by her side, anx-
iously awaiting a place TO sit down.
Presently some one tapped her gently on
the shoulder She turned suddenly around
and saw tall, handsome man, elegantly
dressed, who was motioning her to be
seated. She sat down and thanked him
kindly for his courtesy He seemed de-
lighted to meet her and gave her his card
IL was but short time till ne became en-
thusiastic in his admiration and asked il
he might call on her at home. She Of
course refused 10 grant his request. He
insisted and declared that he must have
an interview. but the young lady declined
saying anything further. At last he be-
gan crying bitterly and she left him weep
ing when she arrived at her destination.
The next day the young man appeared at
the home of Miss Henrique and demanded
her hand in marriage, and upon her re-
fusal be excitedly exclaimed: If you will
not, then l shalt die by my own hand"
He then disappeared. and since that time
he has not been seem