Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-06
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of General Interest
Epitomized and Grouped.

India has suspended the free coin
age of silver.
South Carolina's new prohibition
law went into effect July 1.
Corbett and Mitchell are to fight for
purse Of $4,000 at an early date.
One thousand deaths day from
cholera occurred Mecca the past week.
The Block Drug Company of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, have made an assign
ment.
Anthony j. Drexel, a banker of
considerable note, died in Paris few
days since Of apoplexy.
1t is reported that the king of
Greece is contemplating resigning in
favor Of the duke Of Sparta.
An Arkansas man was recently
hung for the supposed killing of man
man who now turns up alive and
healthy.
Miss Ruby Hutsell, hotel waitress
at Albany, Oregon, has just fallen
heir to 5000, 900, left to her by her
grandfather.
Nashville, Tennessee, has a Law
and Order League, the object of
which is to suppress Sunday gambling
and drinking.
Marion county, Miss, has been Wis.,
tied by the white caps, who are be-
coming very common III many parts
Of the country.
Miss Julia Force, the Atlanta young
lady on trial for the murder Of her
two sisters, was acquitted on the
grounds of insanity.
The flood news from Louisiana is
again distressing. Places that have
heretofore withstood all the waters
have now given away.
The value Of the dry goods import
ed during the first six months of 1898
is $73, 637 isl, as against 1851 ,091 1856
for the first six months Of 1892.
Joseph P. Kilgard, an English cap
ltalist, proposes to invest $500, 900 in
beet sugar industry near Covington,
KY. The plant will employ about 600
hands.
South Carolina has just received the
last payment of $3.50, 200 the full
amount for her bonds. The State is
now in condition to meet her obliga-
tons promptly.
An East St. Louis men who drew
S1,735 from bank during the recent
furry hid it In stove. A fire started
by one of his children quickly con-
sumed the crisp greenbacks.
A large number of fire insurance
companies have withdrawn from Ten
nessee because of new law that re-
quires them tc file with the state au-
thorities copy of their charters.
The Joliet, Ill.,, steel mills, worth
about $4,000, 900, and when in full
blast employing about 2,70O men, are
now entirely shut down. The mills
will not open up until the markets
warrant it.
There will be an examination held
at Washington July l8 10 select Ii
brarian for the agricultural depart.
ment. A knowledge of German,
French and Italian is necessary. The
salary is 81, 800.
Last week S. H. Chapman of Phila-
delphia, bought the original half die
from which the Confederacy struck
its half dollar. For the same he paid
$31. Cancellation has been effected
by straight file cut across the face to
revent its further use.
The Ohio Prohibition State Lonven-
ton nominated the following State
ticket: Governor, Rev. Gideon B.
Macklin; acknowledgement, s. H.
Ellis; treasurer, Abe Ludlow; attor-
ney-general, S. E. Young; supreme
Judge, j. A. Allen.
The wages Of the workers in the
sheet mills of tine country for an
other year have been settled between
The manufacturers and the Amalga-
mated Association committees. The
present scale of wages is continued;S
but some trifiing adjustments are.
made.
The military departments of the
army have been so organized as to in
clude the department obColorado. con-
sisting Of Colorado, Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico, with headquarters
at Denver. General McCook has
been placed In command OF the new
department.
Secretary Carlisle says that since
the Sherman law went into effect that
there have been purchased 1876, GOA. 1859
ounces of silver bullion at cost of
$l47, l38,375. At the present price of
silver this is worth $92, 1872, 046, a net
loss to the government OH the trans
action of little more than $55, 000,-
600.
General Manager Carroll, of the
Queen s. Crescent, has directed the
various superintendent of the System
fc renort him the number or railway