Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-02

Current Events of the Day Boiled Down
Into Few Lines For Busy People.
The Worlds Fair has closed.

SanFranrisco had a Sl50,000 fire
the past week,
1t has been announced that the Cor
oett-Mitchell fight is off.
A Confederate monument has been
unveiled at GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
Two children were burned to death
in a fire that occurred at Pittsburg.
Jacksonville, Fla, is to be bonded
for 81, 900, coo for public improve
ments.
The farmers and ginners of North
Georgia are organizing to put down
whitccapis;n.
The earnings of the l.. 81 N. rail-
road system have decreased more than
G Gus s:ili0n sSS 81, since the first q
The numbN railroad wrecks tliI
past week have beeu very large and
the loss of life correspondingly enor-
nous.
From thirty to forty cases of yellow
fever ARE reported from Brunswick
daily, but the death rate is very small.
The disease seems to be under control
at Jesup.
A Wisconsin widow has sued the
city of New Orleans for $50 900 on
account of the death of her hubby,
who fell through hole in one of the
Crescent City wharves and was
drowned,
Secretary Carlisle has furnished
a statement which announces the start
ling information that the treasury
will be behind at least S73, 900 at the
end of June, 1894, unless something
is done to divert such calamity.
A party of whitecappers surround
ed the house of a negro near Ouachi-
ia City, La, and broke down his door.
They were received with load of
buckshot and one of the number, a
prominent man of the community, fell
mortally wounded.
Judge Broom, of Orlando, Fla, has
issued orders forbiddlng any one to
publish or report for publication any
of the evidence given on an important
murder case now on trial. The Judge
says he will send any one to Jail for
contempt to court who disobeys his
orders.
Miss Nellie Billiard, of Waycross,
Ga, pretty young lady II years of
age, has until recently been dumb. The
cause of her being speechless was a
cleft palate, a misfortune from birth.
The change has been wrought by
means of an artificial palate obdura-
tor, made of vulcanite and rubber.
DR.. Mccoy, of Alabama, caused an
excitement in Chicago by pronounce
ing the death of Marcus Conant to
have been from yellow fever. Conant
is Massachusetts, soldier who went
from Mayport, Fla, to visit the Fair
and who died suddenly after a visit
to Libby prison. Other physicians
were called in who disagreed with the
Alabama doctor.
A 16-year-old lad near Sparta, Ten
nessee, is possessed with electricity to
such an extent as to kill cats by sim.
ply siroking the felines with his hands.
1t is also stated that by rubbing par
ties suffering with rheumatism he
cures them entirely. A correspondent
of the Chattanooga Times has just
visited the young man and tells of a
number of remarkable cures from his
treatment.
Mysterious ghouls who desecrate
cemeteries and burn school houses
have been operating in three of the
most populous counties of Illinois.
They haunt the graveyards at night,
overturning stately granite monu.
ments. breaking urns and tombstones
and defiling the graves themselves.
They move in rotation from one town
to another, going as mysteriously as
they come. and leaving everywhere
trail of sacrilege and dissertation.
The treasury department has issued
an advance statement showing the i'm
ports and exports for the first nine
months of the present year. Daring
that period the value of imports was
1925, 1855 1928; of domestic exports
1867 04l ,462; of foreign exports, &c.,
122,72l; a total of exports S603, 1885,
1853. The excess of imports over ex-
ports for the niue months was 1922,
22l ,440. AS compared with 1892 the
relative situation has greatly changed.
An organization has been perfected
in Georgia, known as the Afro Amer
lean Association of Georgia, which is
composed of the leading negroes of
the State. The organization is pledged
to use every means to put down those
crimes among negroes that have given
rise to so many lynchings, The meet
ing was orderly and marked by the
earuestness and general air of deter
mination that pervaded it. Every
congressional district in the State was
represented.
Bill Wade, notorious desperate.
rode into the town of Webb, Miss,
armed with rifle, brace of reyolv-
ers and butcher knife. He soon
cleared the streets of everybody e.S-
J. NJ. Evans, a quiet citizen who was
citing in trout of his store. Wade
opened fire on Evans, .,ut the latter
Va f,,aoJ IN no hin ffa6 and ra.l.rnofI fl,o