Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
FROM ALL SECTIONS.
The News Of the Week Condensed
Into Short Paragraphs.
The Dalton Gang of Train Rob
bers Arrested-Oil Struck in
Tennessee New Postal
Money Order, etc.

Paul, Mimi, on Friday last.
The Iron Hall has made some prog
ress toward a Reorganization.
Fuller, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Vermont, was elected
by 1904 majority.
New Orleans had another disastrous
fire the past week-loss, 1925, 900 in
surance, 500, 900.
The grand jury at Madison. Ind,
found LOO indictments for selling
liquor, and is still at work.
Mrs. r. j. Pritchard, aged 81, and
her husband, aged 81, of Little Rock,
Ark, are the parents of bouncing
boy.
The Red Men held their annual
Great Council at Atlanta, Ga, last
week. The meeting was largely at
tended.
1t was currently reported last week
that New Orleans had four casas of
yellow fever, but the rumor was
without foundation.
The finest timber land in the North
west, between the Wind River and
Bear Prairie, Washington, is being be-
ing destroyed by fire.
The Army of the Cumberland re-
union at Chattanooga and Chicka-
manga National Park, during the past
week, has been grand affair.
1t is reported that Mrs. John A.
Logan has undertaken to raise 81 ,000,-
600 for the great Methodist University
to be established at Washington.
On account of Mrs. Harrison's i'll
ness Vice-President Morton will take
Presidents place at the Grand Army of
the Republic ceremonies next week.
Acting Secretary Chandler of the tres
ury department has ordered the pay.
ment Of 100000 to the Sioux Indians,
appropriated for this purpose some years
ago.
Lieutenant Perry, who just returned
from an expedition, says he planted
the American flag two points nearer the
north pole than was ever before reached
by civilized man.
The South Brooklyn ferry boat,
South Brooklyn, sank at her slip on
the New York side this morning after
very narrow escape from going down
with 800 passengers.
Petersburg, Va, was visited a few
days since by destructive cyclone,
tearing down houses, fences and doing
great damage. 1t is thought there
has been several lives lost.
Japanese advices state that 800 per-
sons killed ninety wounded in recent
gale in the Tokushima district. Twen-
ty thousand acres of land were devas-
tated by foundations and AZ, 900 houses
destroyed.
The Savannah GA News is author
ity for the statement that at Athen a
large number of English sparrows are
killed every day, cooked nicely and
sold at ten cents apiece. 1t is said
that they are fine eating.
A'St. Louis woman has made twen-
ty-seven desperate but unsuccessful at
tempts to commit suicide, having tried
everything from hanging to trough on
rats" and carbolic acid. Strange that
she hasn't thought of cigarettes.
The coffin manufacturers have Just
held meeting and decided upon an
advance of at least 10 per cent. on
prices. This is one of the most unfa-
vorable signs yet noticed for general
spread of the dread disease, cholera.
Joe j. Blankenship, farmer of
Monroe county, Tenn, tried to get his
wife to let him cruelty her for the sins
of the cholera sufferers. She refused,
whereupon the husband became VIC.
lentIy insane and had to be put in
custody.
Rev. DIR. Talmage and Mr.. Louis
Klopsch, who visited Russia to distrib-
ute the cargo of the Christian Herald
relief steamship Leo, in the famine
province, sailed from Liverpool for
New York on the steamer City of |
Paris.
A dispach received by the Indian
Bureau at Washington from the Choc-
taw country shows the situation there
again critical, that many Jones men
are dissatisfied with the peace agree
and are collecting in large armed {
bodies. a
Rev. Samuel Wakefield, d. D. LII. G
J.. is "a years old and his wife is but v
few years bis Junior. They were "
arried seventy-one years ago and
i've ten children living. No death
IS occurred in the family for sixty tn,
e years. Tu
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