Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-26
STATE NEWS.

in Columbus.
Oxfsrd, had a $4,000 fire on the
18th.
Only 8 miles OF railroad was built
in Mississippi during 1892.
Holly Springs wants a Canning Fac
tory.
| Batesville, has organized canning
! factory company and will establish
plant.
A firm at Holly Springs, sod 700
bales of cotton to one buyer, recently.
Nancy Garrison u colored woman
near Holly Springs, has hair eight
feet long, which she wears in three
plaits.
Mrs. S. r. Howell. of Corinth, fe
in the snow and received injurie
which caused her death. Mrs. join
Butler while on her way to Mrs. How
ellis fell and broke her leg.
A Crystal Springs firm recently re-
ceived payment from q railroad COM
pany for two carloads OF tomatoes,
which were lost in 1890.
Mr.. Henry Herman. an old citizen
of Vicksburg, was shot in cold blood
by j. M. Mcclure in that city ON the
18TH inst.
Deer Creek Pilot; Ex-Treasury
Hemingway has charge of the tailor
ing establishment in the penitentiary.
He cuts out the stripes and four women
convicts make the suits.
All the saloonists of Jackson has
been indicted for selling liquors to
minors. except Michael Hart and n.
Bervouich.
On the 22d, IL w. Hunter, an enter
prising farmer living two miles from
Water Valley lost by fire his barn aud
stables, all OF his corn, fodder and hay
and ten head of mules and horses.
The fire was discovered too late to
save anything.
An alteration in the Illinois shops
at Water Valley between Dave Gala
han and H. NJ. Butterfeld, resulted in
Callahan getting his skull fractured
and collar bono broken
The celebrated Chislom-Adair White
Cap case is to come up at New Albany
this week, attracts considerable atten-
ton.
On the 21st the sinking of willow
mattresses was completed at Green
vile, to prevent the future caving Of
banks at that place.
GIN the 21st, Gov. Stone appointed
Hon. Frank Johnston. attorney-gen-
eral Of this State, vice Hon. L. M.
Miller, resigned.
jeff Gibbs one of the ringleaders in
the recent murders and robberics in
Copiah county, is under arrest at New
Orleans Requisition papers have been
issued for his return to this state.
A pitiable object was in Holly Springs
the 20th-a negro man with both feet
frozen. He had walked twelve miles
through the suow with scarcely any
covering on his feet. 1t is feared that
both feet will have to be amputated.
The Suquelana school building. ten
miles from Meridian, Miss. under
charge of Prof, w. P. Dabbyns, burn
ed Sunday. Loss $1,000.
During the year just closed the
penitentiary borad OF control at jack
son puid into the State treasury $24,-
911.14 In cash, besides having made
brick amounting to $1,681 for the lu-
matte asylum. These amounts repre-
sent the earnings of the penitsntiary
for the year, after having paid all
expenses.
The report that there is typhoid
fever at the penitentiary at jackson
is entirely without foundation. SUI
perintendent Jenkins told South
ern Press News correspondent that
there was less sickness there now than
he had ever known; that there was
no man in the penitentiary uneable
os
i. J.. Worrell, rich lumberman of
tho State of North Carolina. after hav-
ing examined investments in various
other States, has concluded thu most
promising one he can find is in the
pine lands of Newton county, Miss.
He will accordingly put large sum Of
money in them.
Henry Jacob Sanderson, editor and
proprietor OF the Clarksdade Banner,
died on the 18th OF this month, with
Catarrhal fever.