Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events OF Gene raj Interest
Epitomizcd. and G rouped.

Kansas miners are on strike.
Edwin Booth is said to-, be dying at
his home in New York.
DR.. Briggs, after llong-winded
trial, has been suspended.
Bank failures the past week have
been unusually numerous.
The Wesleyan Female College at
Murfreesboro, N. G., was burned q
few days since.
The cholera scourge still holds a
footing in, Germany and may break
out at nyStime.
The Southern Oil company has de-
clarcd dividend of IL per cent,
payable Junep15.
The leaders,of the Populist party in
Kansas wants to change its name to
the ssNational Party"
Another crevnsse has occurred in
the Mississippi river levees fourteen
miles above Arkansas City.
Jim Hall knocked out Slavin in
seven rounds at London. The induce
inent was glory and, better S25, 900.
Heavy rains over the State, during
the past week, in' many places did
much damage to the growing crops.
Trouble has broken out in the Sal
vation Army in Canada, and several
~l.xx, Iar, Sr. hrs.
| tons.
The Prohibition State convention of
| Iowa has nominated Capt. X. w.
Brown for governor and full state
| ticket.
1t is reported that the Louisville &
| Nashville railroad has secured control
of the Newport News and Mississippi
Valley road.
Fire at Newton, Miss, destroyed
the principal business portion of the
town, causing lossSof CSC, 700, with
| $50, 900 insurance.
Sixty men were entombed in
coal mine near Eaglel Pass, Tex, and
| it is feared that they will be dead be-
| fore aid can reach them.
T. M. Scruggs has been appointed
| Judge to fill ont the unexpired term of
DuBose, who has just been suspended
from the bench at Memphis.
Twenty-Five men walled into Deca-
tur, H., a city of $4,000 people, and
strung up man on the principal street
without meeting any opposition.
The Carnegie Iron and, Land Co.,
| of johnson City Tenn, hslve made an
assignment. The liabilities are placed
at 1925, 900 and assets at s$600,000.
The walters of Kansas City are out
on strike, at least those who belong
to the restaurants. Their places were
refilled with non-union men and wo-
men.
The governor of Georgia has COM
muted to life Imprisonment the SEN
tence of death hanging over j. R.Von
Polnitz, convicted in Decatur county
of wife murder.
President Cleveland has returned to
Washington from his fishing trip to
Hog Island, and it is reported will at
once take up the cases of the Internal
Revenue collectors.
A severe storm passed over parts of
Arkansas and Mississippi few days
since and did great deal of damage.
To property at Roseda,e, Miss, the
estimated damage is $4,000.
Ten thousand people in East Carroll
and Morehouse, West Carroll and Mad
ison parishes, La, have been rendered
homeless by the overflow Of the Mis-
sissippi river, and there is great suf.
fering.
Furnaces at Rock Hill, Pa, have
closed down indefinitely because
of a strike which was brought about
by the refusal of the management to
reinstate several discharged leaders of |
the local labor union.
Col. Logan H. Roots, an Arkansas
millionaire, who died : few days
since, left 500, 900 to be used for q
hospital and park for Little Rock.
A portion of the hospital is to be set J
aside for old and destitute masons.
The mammoth Depaw plate glass
factory at Alexandria, Indiana, closed
down Friday for an indefinite period.
The cause assigned is scarcity Of
money, lack of demand for plate glass
and the uncertainty in the regard to |
the policy Of the government on the
tariff
The Queen and Crescent route will |
sell excursion tickets from all points
east of the Mississippi river to Cincin.
natl, o., and return for one fare for
the round trip, on all trains scheduled |
to arrive in Cincinnati June 18th and |
18th, on account OF the Mystic Shrine.
Rates open to all.
At the national session of the Feder-
alton of American Mechani cs recently
held in Indianapolis, John j. Lamb, Of |
Scranton, Pa, failed Of reelection
and absconded, 1t is alleged, with ali
the funds in his possession. amounting