Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
Epitomized and Grouped.

Col. c. C. Jones, Jr., historian Of
Georgia, is dead.
Cholera is rampant among the poor.
er classes in Moscow.
Atlanta claims to have the finest
new bridge in the South.
A fire at GreeRville, Miss, DESTROYS
$4,000 worth Of property.
Uniform legislation on fertilizers is
asked by the Georgia savants.
A fire at Hagerstown, Nd, destroy
ed 1926, 900 worth of property.
Texas has blighting drought, and
the cotton crop is nearly ruined.
vice-President Stevenson and party
received royal welcome at San Fran.
cisco.
An alleged deficit in the New Or.
leans mint has been ridigly investiga-
| ted.
George c. Perkins, Of California
has been appointed United States Sem
ator.
Losses by differentiation on tobacco
will aggregate 81 100000 al Philadel-
phia alone.
A serious strike is threatened in
southern Kansas. Bloodshed was mar
rowly averted.
Joseph Jefferson the great tragedy
actor, is not expected TO live longer
than a few days.
A negro Lee Walker was hung and
afterwards burned, at Memphis. The
same cause as usual.
A new comet has been discovered
and is now the object of much COZ
Germ to those interested in the like.
A terrible wreck to Sunday school
excursion train at Buffalo, N. Y.
Twenty probably fatally wounded.
A quarter Of a million miners in
England holly debated the proposed
strike without coming to decision.
The Siamese muddle assumes a DOS.
sibly serious aspect. Russia wall sup
port France, while China Will be with
Siam.
Denver, Col, has just passed
through terrible panic. Every bank
in the city was forced to suspend pay
ment.
Only four of the forty-four States
elect Governors this fall. These are
Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Massachu-
sets.
The Northern man who recently
started an alligator farm In Florida
now offers his interest for sale at a
bargain.
Gen. James T. Holtzclaw, late COM
mander Of the United Confederate
Veterans, died at Montgomery, Ala,
the past week.
In encounters between the French
and Siamese, 800 of the latter were
killed and 200 wounded without loss
to the French.
The army bill has been passed by
the reichstag by majority of sixteen,
the vote standing 201 in favor of the
measure to 1856 against it.
The Nashville, Chattanooga 8 St.
Louis Railroad company has declared
a dividend of one and one-half per
cent, payable August 1st.
A free for-all-tight was engaged in
at Scranton, Pa, between Polish and
Hungarian miners. Several partici-
pants were seriously injured.
Three South Carolina negroes pro-
proses to walk to the Worlds Fair
from Darlington, S. c. A $50 wager
is said to be the object in view.
A bill has been filed in the United |
States Court at Atlanta, Ga, to for
close mortgage of $14,5O0, 600,
against the Georgia Pacific railroad.
President Cleveland tips the beam at
500 pounds. This is ~ pounds more
than his usual weight. No wonder it
hurts when he sits down con felIer."
Near Richmond, Va, there lives an
old negro who is gradually turning
white. One-half of his face il per-
fectly white, and he presents ghost
ly appearance.
The Starr gang of despradoes are
terrorizing the people of Southern
Kansas. Their method of proceeding
is to 20 in party and as the saying
goes sdo up the town."
A man with broken neck was car
ried from Fort Monroe, Va, to Bal
timore to be placed in a hospital. |
Down in this country when they get
their nccks broke they put them away
Il q box.
Out in Wyoming the thermometer
has been at 112 in the SHADE. Not q
drop Of rain has fell in nine weeks and
the range is intirely destroyed. To
add to the discontinue, great forest
Tres are raging.
The striking situation In Southern
Kansas is serious. The old miners
say that they will shed their life blood
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