Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-16

Current Events Of the Day Boiled Down
Into Few Lines Fer Busy People.

There have been few over 900
cases of yellow fever up to date al
Brunswick, and $50 deaths,
The country is being flooded with
variety of cranks similar to the one
who killed Mayor Harrison of Chioa.
go.
Serious trouble is anticipated in
portions of South Carolina when an
attempt is made to enforce the new
dispensary law.
AT Mexico, NO., while at the table
ex-Congressman Buckner suffered a
stroke OF paralysis. His condition is
regarded as extremely critical
Rev. Mr.. Bingham, one of the old
est Presbyterian ministers in Pennsyl
vania, while preaching to his congre.
CATION, was stricken with paralysis.
The next worlds fair will be held
IN Paris in 1900, and that city intf
mates that the affair shall even exceed
the great Columbian exposition in
grandeur and magnificence. Maybe
so,
Prendergast, the murderer of May
or Harrison, will appear in the courts
IN Chicago on the 9th inst. He mas
oeen examined by three insanity ex-
perts, bnt they decline to give an
opinion, as they expect to testify in
the case.
A fire in girls home In England
had somewhat alarming origin. The
sun shone through a water bottle on a
cloak hanging over bed. The acct
dental burning glass set the cloak af,re
and the flames quickly spread through
the house.
A new southern base ball league
has been formed, includining New
Orleans, Nashville, Mobile, Atlanta,
savannah, Augusta, Charleston and
Memphis. Considerable dlssatisfac-
ton is expressed by omitted cities and
another league will probably be organ
lied as result.
Reports say that 5000 unemployed
men are ON their way east from Cali
fornia. They are in squad of from
500 to 500 men, and take possession
Of freight trains at will. Already
several squads have reached Texas,
but are continuing their journey east
ward.
The South Fork Fishing Club, who
are the proprietors of the Johnstown
lake, has been sued for 1926, 900 dam.
ages by Mrs. Ann Jenkins, who lost
her father, mother and brother in the
great Johnstown food. This is the
first suit that has begun against the
club on account of the disaster.
Colonel w. D. Hill, and old and
prominent citizen of Washington
county, Miss, shot and Instantly Killed
MS nephew, young man named Fow.
Ter, the past week. Fowler began
shooting at his uncle first and wounded
him quite seriously, when that gentle
man drew his pistol and with unerrine
aim Shot him dead liz his tracks.
The death is reported near Denison,
Tex, of Delt Williams, from the eff
feet of a snake bits received eight
years ago. The snake was copper
head, Every month since he was Bit
Ten, at the full of the moon, he has
had a violent attack of commissions; at
all other times he enjoyed excellent
health and worked as farm hand
when the periodic commissions came
on this month he died in them.
The total number of admissions to
the Chicago exposition from first tc
last was 7.494 ,99S This number is
three times as great as the attendance
at the Centennial, and only about
1000, 900 behind that of the Paris ex-
position. The exposition company
paid out $50, 55S, S49.01, or three
times the amount the managers ex.
pected to spend when they began. The
stockholders will receive 81 for every
So paid i'll.
Advices from Denver, Colo, says
that in the local election in that coun-
ty there are eleven tickets in the field
and cxactlr $50 candidates, which
beats the record Of any county in the
west. The tickets are as follows:
Democratic, republican, peoples par
ty, free coinage democracy, independ.
ent citizens, straight peoples party,
prohibition, independent peoples par
ty, independent free coinage party,
and independent free coinage democ-
racy, liberal free coinage party and
independent republicans.
The train robbers who recently he.
up train on the Iron Nj ,untain road
in Arkansas are in hard luck. Sever
al of the robbers have already been
arrested and others are corralled in
the caves along the banks of the White
river. Several bloody fights have al
ready been had, but the bandits in
more than one instance have been
forced to alb ndon their horses and
booty aud take TO tile woods on foot.
The officers are receiving reinforce
ments every day and say it is their in
tention to starve them out of their
Businesses.
Among the 81, 1000, 000 people in the
United States there are probably not
300 outside of the locality who are
aware that at the mouth Of the Miss
issippi there is little village built