Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-12
PELEGRAPHIC news ITEMS.
Condensed Notes From all Sections Of The
United States and Europe,

Arizona wants to become a STATE.
Congress is again grinding away
al pcnsioning.
Hayti has completed its building at
Chicago.
Senator W b. Bate will succeed
himself from Tennessee.
Louisiana's sugar crop promises TO
be % per cent. short.
Senator Ken mas condition is thought
to be much improved.
Heavy ice in the Delaware is doing
great damage to shipping.
A cotton fire in Liverpool burned
up $4,000 worth of cotton.
Rev. J. l.. Burrow, we'll known
Baptist divine of Georgia, is dead.
A fire in Memphis S, Tenn, did a
quarter of a million dollars damage.
Knoxville. Tenn, annually handles
about 100000 pounds of tobacco.
!
The tobacco crop in South Carolina
is reported to be $3.50, 400 pounds.
Mrs. Lease has decided she does not
want TO be senator and has with.
drawn from the race.
A failure aggrcgating nearly one
1 million dollars is reported from Min
neapolis, owing to wheat speculation,
BY decision of the supreme court
Of Oregon, the populists get one cleo
toral vote in that State.
The Coal Creek, Tenn, miners are
again restless. The troops have been
fired on several times lately.
Tho Louisville & Nashville car
sheds at New Orleans were destroyed
by fire the past week. Loss, 5000.
The Alabama Great Southern has
finished its extensive shops at Merd-
ian, Miss, having cost about 5000, 900.
1t is reported that 154 carloads of
cattle were recently shipped from
Colorado, Texas, 10 Chicago in ole
week.
Two boys who "monkeyed" with
powder and matches at Providence, r.
l., were blown into the "kingdom
come"
Out in Washington State an ava
lanche of snow strnck snow plow.
making a complete wreck of it and
killing four men.
Ellsworth Wyatt, member OF the
Dalton gang of outlaws, has escaped
from jail at Guthrie, Okla, while the
Salvation Army was holding services
in prison.
A special from Anderson, S. c.,
says that about 1900 bales of cotton
OH the Richmond Il Dauyille cotton
platform were burned. Loss about
$4,000.
Mr.. B. N. Duke, of Durham, N. c.,
has donated $4,000 to Trinity College
to be used i'll sixty $50 scholarships
for aiding worthy and needy young
men in securing the advantages of a
good education.
| Texas is the largest wool growing
State in the Union, producing So, 2S1,-
225 pounds; California ranks next
| with 26, 559, ole pounds; Ohio third,
with 22,34o,4 S5 pounds.
LII Hamburg the cholera continues
its onward march. There is slow
but steady increase in The cases and
deaths and the disease is really worse
than it is reported, as the authorities
wish to prevent anything like panic.
The Cincinnati Tribune SAYS
"Less than fifteen years ago an adj.
ventur GUS grower brought 10 Cincin.
natl as an experiment less than a car.
load Of Florida oranges. Now single
firm sells here in one week $50 ,0Oe
worth"
The negro editors of Georges or
ganized State Press Association at
Augusta, GA. on the 26th ultimo.
Twelve papers were represented.
They denounced the lynch law, dis
commenced immigration and seperate
coaches. They advised cultivation of
friendly feelings with the white peo-
pie, recognition of the negro in public
offices. Temperance, sobriety' and
frugality were recommended