Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
eENERAtNEws.,a
Wholesale Summary Of the News Of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter.


Jas. J. Corbett, has moved with his
family to Mayport Fla.
The Augusta Exposition 10 over. II
was decided success in every partic.
ular.
Mitchell, the pugilist, will train neai
Jacksonville, beginning about Decem.
Der 28th.
Atlanta, so the Constitution says is
going to have another big exposition
next year.
The thermometer registered 40 de.
grees below zero, in Vermont, during
the past week.
Sixty-three per cent. of the prizes
awarded at the Worlds fair were cap
tured by foreigners.
Two hundred and seven men were
examined before jury was secured
for the Pendergast trial.
An earthquake shock felt in Illinois
and Indiana the past week was Of suf-
ficient force to shake goods from
| shelves.
The citizens of Waco, Texas, have
!, resolved to build cotton palace upon
an elaborate scale, TO be opened Oct,
l6, 1894.
The strike of the freight trainmep
OH the Henderson division of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad is at
an end, and trains are running as
| usual.
At Lauren's, S, c., the state dis
pensary one of six stores opened by
f. w. Wagner e Co., of Charleston,
valued at $40, 900 was burned; insur-
ance, 5000.
Sidney B. Wood, a wholesale gro.
Ger, of San Antonio, Tex, has sued
the Bradstreet Commercial agency for
500, 900 damages for the rating that
agency gives him.
AT Jackson, Miss :, the state revenue
agent has filed suit in the circuit court
against the Illinois Central and Miss.
issippi Valley railroads for about
100000 ad valorem and privilege
taxes for 1892.
The acquittal of Patrick Meehap
from the charge of the murder OF
Robert Mcbride in the Fulton county,
Ca, superior court coBcludes one OF
the most exciting trials that has been
held in Georgia for long time.
| A Mexican name Pancha, 11S years
old, and totally blind, was burned to
death in his home near San Diego,
Cal. He was left alone in the house
with some cigarettes and matches, and
it is supposed he set the place on fire.
| The business of G.. Aultman & Co.,
Of Canton, o., manufacturers of en-.
gines, threshers, and other farming
implements, is in the hands of re.
ceiver. The company is solvent. As.
sets not far from S2,700,G00, liabili.
ties about 81, 100000.
| Horace q. Allis, expresdent of the
First National Bank of Little Rock,
Ark, and who has been on trial 70,
several days, charged with violating
the United States banking laws, has
been found guilty and sentenced to
the penitentiary for five years.
The II. P. Nail company of Cincin.
natl, one Of the largest manufacturers
of nails and wire rods in the country,
will close down in all departments for
an indefinite period within a few days,
and 700 men will be added to the ar.
my of unemployed in That city.
A horrible accident occurred III
Louisville Friday last when the Lon.
isville and Jefersonvillc bridge which
is in course of construction fell, car.
1 ruin Hnvrn oil
workmen who We're on it. Twenty.
one are known to be missing.
| It is estimated that the number of
unemployed men in Chicago is nearly
117,000. Their suffering has become
so great that the Illinois Conference
of Charities has appointed a committee
of one hundred citizens to proceed at
once in the endeavor TO raise charity
fund of 81, 200, 900.
AT meeting of the Southern Cotton
Yarn Mill in Augusta committee to
advance the interest of the industry in
the South was organized. Temporary
officers were elected as follows: G.
Ii. Franklin, Union Springs, Ala,
President; w. B. Moore, Mount
Holly, N. c., Secretary.
The Pittsburg Pa, Post says: at
is announced that Alabama capitalists
who own iron ore beds in Cuba are
preparing to develop them and ship
the ore to the Birmingham district for
admixture with Alabama ore for the
purpose of making steel. BY new
| process, it is said, that by the use of
this Cuban ore, mixed with the Ala
bama product, steel can be made
direct from the improved iron fur
naces."
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