Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-07-07
ALABAMA STATE NEWS.
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
EPIToMIZED.

About Uniontown corn and oats are
II a splendid condition.
The Standard Oil company will
rect anks at Huntsville at once.
The Alumni society of Oxford col
lege elected DR.. B. Dudley Williams
president for the next year.
A two-story brick market house
will replace the old structure which
has just been torn down at Huntsville.
An attempt was made to rob j. E.
Whaley's store at Alfalfa Monday.
Green Lowery, colored, was arrested
i'll the act.
The Washington aud Lee University,
of Lexington, Va, has conferred the
degree of Doctor of Divinity on Rev,
j. A. Preston, of Jasper.
Cotton worms are seen in spots
around Uniontown. One merchant in
town sold 100 pounds of paris green
to oneplanter last week.
New life has been given the coal oil
region at Hartselle 1t is believed by
the people that we'll of at least 100
barrels per day was struck Monday.
Ernest Whisenaut, one of Calhoun
county's young and prosperous far
mers, has beautiful lake sixteen
miles from Gadsden where he has 5000
carp.
Tuscaloosa University exercises
commenced Tuesday. Bishop o. p.
Fitzgerald, of Nashville, Tenn,
preached the commencement sermon
Sunday.
The Sixth Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church, col
ored, of America, is in session at
Huntsville. Bishop w. II. Miles is
presiding.
1t was developed at meeting of
lumbermen in Montgomery that the
demand for lumber was on the in
crease. No mills will be shut down
as contemplated.
There will be reunion of the sur
viving members of the Thirtieth Ala
bama Regiment, Confederate soldiers,
at Jacksonville, August IS, with all
others of Pettus' brigade.
DR.. Niles j. Green, grand sec rotary
of the Grand Lodge of Alabama, and
one of the most prominent Mas ons in
the state, died suddenly at his home
IN Montgomery Monday.
The trustees of the Goodwater high
school have elected Prof. #. w. Dunn,
of Fredonia, Ala, principal, and Prof.
&. ). johnson, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college, assistant.
oxford lays claim to having the
largest boy of his age in the state. His
name is Louis HUMPHREYS, son of l..
=. Humphries. He is nine years old
and weighs 112 pounds.
j. W. Harrison raised this year on
his farm below Lafayette 5000
bushels of oats on 100 acres of land
81 bushels per acre. This land last
year yielded a bale of cotton to the
acre.
Mi. f. A. Barnes, Jr., and Miss
Maggie Gordon, of Eufaula. were
united in marriage on the 4th of
April last. He is 20, she 49, Thew
Kept the marriage secret until Tues
day.
The petition of the Tuscaloosa Ca
diets to have the annual hop reinstatcd
as feature of the commencement ok.
ercises has been granted. There is
great rejoicing at the university and
by the fair sex of the Druid CITY.
Master Ed Tucker, of Eufaula, shot
aud killed a very large blue crane ~
Sherry's lake on Friday afternoon
last. 1t measured six feet from tin to
TIP OF wings and when standing erect
was over five and half feet tall
N. Z. Mckay, of Florence, ia the
inventor of bread-kneading machine
which is neat thing in its way and
does very effective work. 1t consists
OF two rollers, which are turned bv q
crank, and through which the dough
is run.
A gentleman named Robinson
living in one of the Goldsm ith COT
tages on Madison street. Hnntsv;ne
shot and killed xearling beifer thai
was afflicted with rabies. This was
the second calf that was afflicted " ;n
inns way, the other dying few DAVIS
Robert, the 1s-year-old son of 20,
Robert W. Price, of Demopolis ono
OF the wealthiest and most prominent
men in this county, stabbed naoro
boy in the heart last Saturday at Hsu
ton' killing him ms family. The naaro
BOY was about the same age of yonno
Price. " young
AT Mobile, the jury in the case "a
Edward Taylor aud Watt Gamhrou ~
charged with conspiracy to foros
teorge Bennett, postmaster at Catbon
ne, Ala, to resign by force thrne..