Iuka reporter., 1893-04-06
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
Epitomized and Grouped.


Six negroes are to be hanged at
Chester, 5. c., May 18th.
Bloody battles are being fought in
Honduras,
A big lot Of forgeries in whiskey
warehouse receipts has been unearthed
at Louisville.
H. w. j. Ham, the famous Geor-
gia cracker, is fast making money in
the lecture field.
A dispatch from Scranton, Miss,
states that thirteen business houses
were destroyed by fire.
A talc trust mas been formed. One
of the principal uses of tale is for
making toilet powder for babies.
English capitalists have had agents
in Mexico for several weeks, seeking
to obtain control of all the iron indus
tries in Mexico.
The corner in May wheat collapsed
in Chicago Wednesday. Cudahy. the
millionaire packer, unloading four
million bushels on the market.
The Presidential Inauguration COM
mittee paid back all the money sub
scribed as a "guarantee" fund, and
paid q IS, 900 surplus over to charity.
The legislature of Tennessee has
passed an act allowing the remains OF
ex-President and Mrs. Polk to be
buried in the State Capital grounds at
| Nashville.
Thirty-eight mining companies paid
dividends in March Of S260, ,250, and
since January l, $2,S7O,420 In the
column for the quarter the Mollie
Gibson leads with $45O,O0O
| The New York Times Publishing
Company has been incorporated with
| a capital stock of $780, The COM
pany is formed to publish the "New
York Times" and other publications.
President Carnot Of France has re-
quested M. Meline to undertake the
formation of cabinent. He is an
opportunist and in 1888 was named
president Of the chamber of deputies.
A disastrous battle was fought near
Tatumbia, Honduras, several days
ago. Gen. Alfonso has been sent to
the front with large body of Gov
ernment troops to intercept the march
of the revolutionists.
Rev. Thos. Spurgeon, son or the
late Chas. Spurgeon, hiss been invited
to officiate in the pulpit Of his father,
for the next year with view to be.
coming the permanent pastor of the
congregation. He will begin his
duties in June.
The case against Lille johnson, who
was charged with murder along with
Alice Mitchell, who killed Freda Ward
in Memphis several months ago, has
been dismissed. Lille johnson is ex-
pected to die at any day with consump.
tion.
The appearance or several cases OF
genuine spotted fever in Elwood, Ind.
has given great alarm lest it should be-
come epidemic. The city is an awful
sanitary condition arising from the
fact that with 1000 inhabitants there
is no garbage furnace where accumu-
lated filth can be destroyed.
| Prof. NJ. P. Venable, of Bristol, it
is said, has invented machine which
will solve the summer ice question
when it gets on the market. 1t is in
the nature of an attachment to be fixed
to an ordinary refrigerator which re-
duces the temperature to the desired
point by chemical action.
1t is estimated by the information
bureau of the Worlds Fair that 40,-
900 editors are coming and each one
wants q free ticket for himself and
family. Already $500 have applied
for season tickets, $4,000 for monthly
tickets and 5000 for tickets that will
hold q week. The management ia at
loss to know what to do about it.
The women of Kansas are taking a
| great interest in the spling elections.
| In Topeka there have been 4,C00
women registered voters; in Leaven-
worth, 1854; in Emporia, 1888; in
Fort Scott, 1885; in Lawrence, 1000 4;
in Atchinson, 329 and in Wichita,
2,464. This will make the election
very interesting in these Kansas cities.
J. M. Burlz, at Canton, Ga, wants
information Of Salanthial Martin, who
left Cherokee County, Ca, about 1S45
and went to Talladega county, Ala.
He went to the Mexican war and was
in the Confederate army in the late
war in the Western army; not heard
from since. Information of his pres
ent abode if living, or the time and
place of his death will be literally re-
warded by this enquirer.
A real estate syndicate of New York
purchased fifteen acres north of
Haverhill, Mass, and started house
boom. They have named the locality
"Whittier Heights" after the poet,
and advertised extensively that no
negroes or Italians need apply. The
colored people called an indignation
meeting and protested against the
same as an Insult to Whittier's