Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-06-29

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has been inundated the past three
weeks.
A man has been found on the PEN
sion rolls, the cause for which is the
loss of hair.
Lizzie Borden has been acquitted of
the murder of her father and step
mother.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
in parts of Georgia and South Caro-
lima the past week.
Knoxville, Tenn, had disastrous
fire the past week. The worst that
has visited the city in ten years.
Two Dunkard preachers were ar
rested in East Tennessee for making
and passing counterfeit money.
CALIFORNIA; many times a million
aire, Senator Sanford, is dead. His
death was very sudden and unex-
pected.
An enterprising genius in Hawkins
vile, Ca, is manufacturing bicycles
out of wagon wheels with hickory
spokes.
William Mutchler, of Easton, Pa,
Democratic member Of Congress from
the Eighth District Of Pennsylvania,
is dead.
Mad dogs are said to infest some
sections of Arkansas. Fifty dogs
with hydrophobia were recently. killed
in one town.
State elections will be held this fall
in Massachusetts,, New York, Pennsyl.
vania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Mis-
souri, and Iowa.
Complete official returns show, that
out of ITO, 900 Chinese in the United
States, only 1919 have registered as
required by the Geary act.
Reichsanzeiger announces that the
army bill that will be submitted to
the next Reichstag will be virtually
Hume compromise on the old bill.
West Virginia now comes to tho
front with wild man. He is said to
live in the hollow of a tree, and runs
shrieking at the approach of any one.
Minister to Liberia, w. D. Mccoy
is dead. This is the fourth of Uncle
Sans ambassadors to succumb to the
Liberian climate within the past
twelve years.
Two United States marshals were
shot in McNairy county, Tenn, by
moonshiners. One of the officers was
killed almost instantly and the other is
mortally wounded.
The very destructive cyclone passed
through parts of Kansas and Missouri
the past week: A great many people
were killed and the damage to prop
erty and crops was incalculable.
Peary sails this week for the ufitrod
lands Of the far north. He is going
to take some carrier pigeons for mes
senger service, though he fears the
gyrfalcon will prove bird to modest
his carriers.
Large sums of money have been
telegraphed from New York to San
Francisco during the past week. The
money is for banks who are preparing
for runs that may be made upon
them.
The formal opening of the camp
meeting station at Asbury Park, \.
j., were rendered noteworthy last
Sunday from the fact that the national
services in the afternoon were led by
Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary Of the
interior.
Miss Julia Force is on trial in At
lanta, charged with killing her two
sisters, Minnie and Florence. Miss
Force is connected with some of the
best blood of Georgia. The defense
will try to save their fair charge on
the ground of lunacY.
The greatest number of destructive
forest fires that ever ragged simulta-
neously in Colorado are now in pro-
gress in various parts of the State.
The town OF Bachelor, one of the big
towns of the Greed community, is now
in danger OF complete destruction.
Thomas q. Sample of Pennsyl-
vania, has been elected supreme treas
urer of the Knights of Pythias, to sue
coed s. J. Willy, resigned. 1t is be-
ileved the order will get back very
little if any Of the $1,000 deposited
in the Washington bank.
AS the result of the swapping of
governor belt on an engine ae&he cleo
trio light works, in Chattanooga, a
a fly wheel burst. II. b. Sweet, an
employee, had a leg broken, and So, 900
damage was done the machinery.
Heavy pieces of iron few hundreds
of yards, and several miraculous es-
capes happened.
A gush of gas was struck at Iron
City, Tenn, few days ago. and it is
claimed that the pressure is immense.
1t raised The drill and 200 feet of iron,
q combined weight of 5000 pounds.
and sponted water fifty feet in the air,
shaking the derrick until IL was ax-