Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-14
GENERA
Wholesale Summary Of the 49,
Week Gathered from Every Quarter


Seventeen prisoners escaped Jail at
Chattanooga.
Another strike on the Lehigh road
is threatened.
The Worlds Fair buildings have
been offered for sale at 100000.
The latest news from Honolulu is
that Queen Lii can never be restored
except by force.
The postoifice at Danville, Ind,
was robbed of all valuables anh all
mail matter few nights since.
Trainmen OH the Louisville and
| Nashville railroad between Evansville
and Nashville are out on strike.
Joseph Jefferson and Stuart Robson
will Give n benefit for the starving
poor Of Chicago in that city next Fri
day. They will be assisted by all the
dramatic talent in the city.
AT Pittsburg the city officials have
decided to raise S1,000,000 by popu-
lar subscription to aid the unemployed
and deserving poor and use the money
for city and park improvements.
A passenger train OF the Southern
Pacific railroad was held up few
NIGHTS since and the express safe
looted of lis contents and the passen-
gers robbed of their money and other
valuabeS.
Morris Green was arrested in Chi
cago charged with running lottery.
and bogus one at that. lie claimed
to be representing an Austrian CONF
Germ and was reaping a harvest Oh
S2, 900 per month.
At Kokomo. Ind, the Diamond
Plate Glass works, employing SUI
men, will resume after seven.
months close down. The operatives
after long struggle, accepted cus
of % per cent. in wages.
Kentucky elected eight women as
county school superintendent at tho
recent election. One of them ~ u
widow, about As years old, and the
mkher of fourteen children, seven OF
whom are under II years of age.
ID. X. Perkins, of Chicago, has of
fered to give 1925, 900 to Dury college,
at Springfield, Mo-, providing $751;
| 900 can be raised from other sources,
} and he Will increase the gift to $780,
: 900 if an additional $4,000 can be
q secured
A number of school misses in PHIL
i adelphia made a gown for Vice-Pres-
ident Stevenson when he was elected
last fall, under the impression that
: when presiding in the United States
Q Senate he must be robed after the
], present fashion of justices on the SUI
Y prcme bench.
:" special session of the Mississippi
legislature is to be held, beginning on,
" the first Tuesday in January next,
Under the constitution the session can
u only last thirty days and act only on
y revenue and appropriation bills unless
the governor shall call its attention to
y other needed legislation and extend
its time.
. The pecan crop of southwest Texas
% this year has been the greatest ever
y known. During the past six weeks
forty-five car loads of pecans hayj
been shipped to st. Louis, Chicago
and New York. The total number Of
: pounds in these forty-five car loads is
over one million. The average price
a paid by shippers is three cents per
pound.
The Savannah, Florida & Western
: railroad company has executed mort
: gage to the Central Trust Company Of
= New York covering its entire prop
:. erty, all railroad lines, equipments and
y everything to secure an issue of $50, :
;. 100000 consolidated first mortgage 5
:, per cent. gold bearing bonds dated
) April, 1898, and to fall due April
. 1943.
= A bomb was thrown in the chamber
~ of deputies at Paris, but happily
without fatal results. The tiend who
threw the bomb was noted French
:. anarchist, named Valiant, who glo.
;. ries in his crime, and said after arrest,
~ that he only regretted that his hand
= swerved and that the bomb did moi
:. explode nearer his mark. lie claims
= to be the only guilty party, but it is
:. believed he has at least three accom-.
= plices. The bomb thrower lost his
:" nose when the explosion occurred.
>; The strike ON the Lehigh Valley is
- over. Strikers carry every point ex-
y cept the privilege of returning tt
~ work in body.
!. There appears to be determination
NJ upon the part of some one to burn thu
= Catholic churches in Chicago. Two Of
=. them have been discovered on fir
m within the past few days.
re A lightsnow fell at Vossburg, Miss.
d. the past week.
is Mrs. Casey Tincher, 80 years old
ST. who lives twelve miles from Carlisle
'e- Ky, walks to the city to draw he
tn pension. She doesn't seem any NOR
Ii. exhausted than woman of 80 woul
be. She walks to town at least ono
week.
/, The management Of the Souther
= Pacific railroad have issued orders tina
- no tramps be allowd to ride on freigh
10 trains. There are 1876 tramps camue