Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events Of the Day Boiled Down
Into a Few Lines For Busy People.

Into a Few Lines For Busy People,
They are going to play game OF
freeze out in the Senate.
Yellow fever is on the increase at
Brunswick.
The American Keel Yacht outsailed
the English Gutter last Saturday by
eight minutes.
f. L, Greenhagle has been nomina-
ted by the Republican party of Massa-
ch1setts, for Governor.
Henry Lack, of Savannah, asserts
that he can certainly cure any and every
case of yellow fever without the use
of disinfectants or drugs, but he de-
clines to say what his remedy is.
The restitution along the Gulf coast
In the track of the late storm is impos-
sible to estimate. Relief parties are
doing all in their power to relieve dis
tress and help is being forwarded
from all directions.
Whi.ecaps continue to post gins in
many parts of Mississippi and carryout
their threats by barning those who
dIsobey their mandates. Who are
these outlaws? 1t does seem like some
Of them would be detected.
Miss Sarah Carmichael, poor, de-
pendent young lady of Ripley, o.,
advertised for well-to-do husband
and as result is now the happy
bride of Arthur Nelson of st. Peters,
Mimi, a farmer with 500 acres of
rich land. 1t pays to advertise.
The breach of promise case of Mrs.
Anna ID. Van Houten VS.. Asa p.
Morse in the Boston courts has ended
and verdict for $40, 900 has been re-
turned. This is the case of which the
Judge ordered that no newspaper re-
port should be made until the conclu-
sion of the trial
Washington's hop crop this year is
one of the largest and finest ever
known. 1t is estimated at about 50,-
900 tales. Germany reports the short
est hop crop for half a century, and,
while the Washington farmers are not
rejoicing in the German hop growers
misfortune, they think it is an espe-
cially fine season for American hops.
Some smart storekeepers at Tacoma,
WASH, hit on the happy idea of adj
vertising their business by sticking
little wafer posters on coins, like la
bells on pill boxes. They securedi a
sure and wide circulation for their al
vertisements and the scheme worked
well until few days ago, when the
treasury department notified the local
authorities that the practice was lille.
gal, and it was stopped.
The latest move of the whitecappers
is to post notices that they will kill
any one found picking cotton for less
than stipulated price which they
name in their notices. A special from
Grenada, Miss, states that a negro al
work ''picking cotton on Capt. Curt
Gays place, ten miles of Grenada,
was shot from ambush with buckshot.
He had been guilty of nothing" Sc
the dispatch continued to read, "bul
gathering cotton and whitecaps is the
only explanation"
1t is claimed that new national
party is in process of formation. The
Pan-American Convention which met
at st, Louis last week, is now given
out TO have only been the prelude to 9
series of conventions which are to re-
suit in the formation of new party
in the south and west. Free silver
will be the leading issue. At a meet.
ing of the executive committee tht
chances of success in breaking the sol
id sonth were discussed, and Alabama
was the state decided upon to capture
A convention is to be held in Atlanta
GA, in December to perfect plans fol
the campaign.
Further Details of the Terrible Storm
A special from New Orleans says
on the return of several of the relief
parties from the storm-stricken dis
tricts Of the state fully confirm thu
news of Wednesday as to the list o.
those drowned or killed. A correc
list swclls the total number to 2,541
This will be increased some 200 or 2Ul
when news from the Louisiana coas
is all in. Additional losses reported
are: Rigslets, 10; Biloxi, and Chan
deleur, 10; near Grand Bource, TO-
from vessels, 93. The loss Of life a
Cheniere Camilida is now known tt
be / ,250, instead of 1,040, as first re
ported AT Bayou Andre ~ perlshe
instead of 40, and at Grand Isle "a in
stead of 10.
An Important Decision.
The postofiice department at Wash
ington has ruled that the writer has
right to regain possession of a lette
providing he can prove to the satisfaC
ton of the postmaster at the ofic
fromwhich it was sent that he was tn
writer of, it. Even after the letter liza