Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-23
GENERAL NEW' ).
Current Events of the Day Bodies Down
Into Few Lines For Busy'Pe ople. 4

The Augusta Exposition is now in
full blast.
The new tariff bill will ! be made
public at an earlier date u IAN was
first anticipated.
A negro was lynched in arkansas
few days since, by an I'M suriated
mob of his own color.
The Coal 81 Iron Bank, the last
bank doing business at Midi lesboro,
KY, has closed its doors.
The steel rail trust has been broken.
The Carnegie mills have wit ihdrawn
from it and cut the price fro m $29 to
S24 ion.
The Atlanta journal sayfJ there are
nearly four hundred children and
youths of tender age in the Georgia
peni3ntiary.
The Convention of Christian Work.
ers, which was in session. in Atlanta
the past week, was one of the largest
gatherings of Christian people ever
held in that city.
Thurber, Whyland u Co., whole
sale grocers of New York, have made
an assignment. The debts Of the
concern aggregate $SO0,000
A cablegrsm from. London says that
5000 miners in the Lehigh district Of
Lancashire resumed work this morn
ing at the rate Of wages paid before
the great strike commenced
Memphis has j,ust been scourged by
a terrible fire, in which several citi-
zens lost their lives, among the num-
Der being the secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Yam Roberts hotel keeper at Rush
Hill, Mo-, hos fallen heir to 5000, 0O0,.
left him by John Bennett, who died
receIRtly. Wan Robert saved Bennett
from drowning in the Sangamon riv-
er tw enty years ago.
A. dispatch from GTeenville, S. c..
says, that the grand jury now in SEES
SION in that city, has so far thrown
out every indictment under the dis
| per lsary law, although some of the
cas- es Were very strongly supported
by evidence.
Capt. Tom Ryan, of Memphis, ran
lime of steamers on the Mississippi.
He was converted at one of Sam
JONES meetings, and ordered the bars
Ii his boats turned into chapes. In
me of these chpels he hung up Sam
Jones' picture as his guardian saint.
AT Memphis G. H. Van, an adver-
Using solicitor, and his wife retired
for the night in a folding bed. The
bed, by some movement, began to
close up. Mrs. Van started to leap out
but was caught. Van was crushed
SO badly that it is thought he will
die; at the least will be cripple for
life. His spinal cord was strained,
and he is paralyzed i'll the lower cx-
tremities. The wife is also badly
bruised.
Full returns, which will be but
little changed by the official figures
from all counties of Nebraska, give
Harrison (republican) for supreme
court, 1887; Holcomb (populisD
65,307; Irvine (democrat) 1864;
Bittenbender (prohibitionist) 7,45O.
Harrison's plurality is 7.242; the pop
ulists last year carried Al counties.
the republicans 40 and the democrats
9. This year the populists carried 81
codntics, the republicans 25 and the
democrats g. Nebraska's total vote is
| 1900 less than last year, the demo-
Gratis losing most heavily; only the
| proInibitiOnists gain.
"A Few days since, three robbers
rode into the town of Milton, Ore.
gon, and dismounted at the door of
the Bank of Milton. Two of them
entered the bank, while the third
stood guard outside and held tic
horses. President A. uopson, Cash
Ter N. A. Davis and Assistant Cashier
William Hopson were in the bank at
the time. The first intimation of the
coming of the robbers was when two
shots were fired by the intruders Re.
lore making any verbal demands.
Both shots took effect in President
Hopson's body, INJECTING painful
Z desh wounds. The revolver was held
80 close to the head of Cashier Davis
that the conclusion knocked him
down. The robbers then demanded
money of William Hopson. He hand
ed them tray containing $944.
Taking this they left without attelnpt-
ing to get the cash in the vault. The
noise of the shots spread the alarm,
and within five minutes an armed
mounted posse was in pursuit, but all
traces were lost after short distance.