Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-08-03
ALABAMA ITEMS.
A Careful Summary Of the Weeks News
Served In Brief Form.

A Careful Summary Of the Weeks News
Served In Brief Form,
Snaak thieves are at work in Eufau-
la.
Birmingham has given up her base
ball franchise.
Many communities are suffering for
want of rain.
The Florence Times wants Lauder
dale to have fair.
1t is reported that Jacksonville is to
have another paper.
Miners are out on a strike at Bloss-
burg. They want more pay.
Gold is said to be found in paying
quantities in Marshall county.
Thirteen of tho Cherokee Whitecap-
ers were found guilty as charged.
Emanuel McCauley fell through an
elevator at Huntsville and will die.
A negro man near Greensboro mort
gagged his crop to buy himself bicy-
Gle.
Lauderdale county is getting the oil
fever. Three more wells are to be
bored.
| DR.. E. T. Taliaferro, one of Msdi-
son county's most prominent citizens
is dead.
Harry Heath an ex-editor of Mobile
has been placed In the asylum at Tus-
| caloosa.
Robert Hudson is on trial at Mobile
for murder committed twenty-four
years ago.
There are very few workmen in
Admission who are Idle Tor the lack Of
work to do.
At Montgomery negro girl jumped
into well to escape a whipping and
was killed.
The Etowah County Grand Jury ex-
amined 121 cases and returned seven
ty-five true bills.
A half breed Indian woman is dig
| gipg for treasures at Dadeville and
exciting the natives.
The United States Car Company at
| Admission Is now turning out eight
complete cars day.
For the week ending the 22nd, the
Madison Probate Judge granted thir-
teeu marriage @icenses.
BY the capsizing of the schooner
Char les A. Swift at the entrance ia
Mobile Bay, Capt. James johnson was
drowned.
James II. Baldwin has retired
from the editorial chair of the Sheffield
Reaper and will be succeeded by e. o.
Comstook, ST.
The Hardee Light Infantry of Sell
ma, carried off the prize as the best
drilled company at the Third Regi-
ment encampment.
A man called himself Pickard OF
Pickerel is doing Alabama towns in
sAO AAbCiO ot VI tuC lu. VI IA LIZ ~
advertised as an impostor.
Miss Julia Woodruff, a prominent
society young lady Of Eufaula, ran
away with Mr.. Busch, OF New York,
and were marriad in Georgia.
Rapid progress is bcipg made on the
Cherry Cotton mills at Florence. The
contract calls for the work to be I'm
ished by the 1st Of September.
A negro woman named Caroline
Lee, living in Sumter county, beat an
| orphan boy who was under her charge
so that he died from the effects.
There was terrific cloud burst on
the Mobile s. Montgomery, R. r.. near
Brewton. Several yards of the Lou
isville and Nashville track were wash
ed partly up.
Charley Davis, colored was shot al
Brookside, while helping himself
without leave to w. j. Early's water,
melons. The wound is painful bui
mot dangerous.
Y The Jenifer Iron Company, has
| passed into the hands Of receiver
The liabilities are about 800, COO; the
assets are estimated to be considera.
bly, in excess Of this.
Carbon Hill has elected new City
officers. A Mcdonald was elected
Mayor and with e. w. Goss, d. Nc.
Donald, Lewis Lillick, John Townley
and r. q. Cary as Aldermen.
Joseph H. Parker, a lineman in
Mobile, received shock from crossed
wires while on top of an electric ligh,
| pole. He fell headlong to the ground
and was almost instantly killed.
The police department officials are
trying to get possession of the pistol
with which Guiteau shot Garfield to
add 1t to the museum Of such articles
already collected and on exhibition.
Deputy Sheriff Bush shot and killed
negro by the name Of CLANCY at Gal
loway. Bush was trying ts put o
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