Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-21
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events Of the Day Boiled Down
Into Few Lines For Busy People.

Timber fires are raging in South Da
kota
Baby Rnh's little sister and ih
mother are doing nicely.
Two new cases of yellow fever are
reported from Brunswick.
The National Convention Of tho
heeley Leagues meet in Chicago.
The number of idle industries re.
Stunning operations is increasing week
ly.
A gas well with $4,000, 900 cubic
feet per day, the largest in the world,
was struck near Findlay, Ohio, few
days since.
The national Convention of postof.
ice clerks while In session at Chicago
the past week, discussed such legisla.
ton as they desired enacted into laws.
Idle iron industries continue to re-
sumo in the Pittsburg district. Not
less than 1000 idle men have been
given employment the past week in
that section.
A coal miners strike has been inau-
gurated in the Pittsburg coal fields
and about 4, 800 men are idle as a re-
suit. The strike is confined to the
railroad mines.
All the big wooden mills in Rock
vile, Conn, nine in number, have
closed for the entire week, something
that never occurred before. Only two
mills in the city are running.
About 800 of the Chicago's unem.
ployed were put to work on street
cleaning and 900 on the drainage ca
mails. United States citizens will be
given preference hereafter in securing
work.
The national convention of business
men convened in Washington the past
week. About 100 representatives were
present, representing the boards of
trade and commercial interests of the
country.
Fifty-four convicts refused to work
In the Lone Rock mine, Tracy City,
Tenn. They were Immediately taken
to the stockade and when their supply
OF food became exhausted they con-
clnded to surrender.
The First National Bank of NASH
vile, Tenn, resumed operations the
other day. There was rush of de-
posts the sum total aggregating near
ly 100000 while the Withdrawals
were less than $4, 1000.
The executive council of the Ameri.
can Bankers association have deter
mined to hold the deferred nineteenth
annual convention of the association
at Chicago on Wednesday and Thurs
day, October IL and 10.
Frederick l.. Ames, of New York,
vice-president of the old colony rail
road and millionaire, was found
dead lying on his face on the floor In
a state room of the steamer Pilgrim
He aied of heart diesase.
The dronth which has prevailed in
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and
Michigan for nearly three months has
at last been broken by copious rains.
1t came too late to be Of benefit to
crops, but will greatly improve fall
pasturage.
Uriah Huff, of Wabash, Ind, got
scared of the banks and drew out
his little roll of 900 and hid it for
safe keeping. A few days afterward
his team ran away with him and he
was killed. Relatives are now search.
ing for the money.
Twenty armed men held up an ex.
press train on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railway out from
Chicago. They blew open the United
States Express car with dynamite and
dynamited the safe and shot the engi-
neer. 1t is said that the safe contain
ed $780, 900 in gold, being shipped
east by q Chicago bank. 1t is thought
that the robbers got away with about
$50, 900, though the express company
claims that the loss was not SO heavy
as that. The passengers were not mo-
Tested.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kas.,
says: ssaeports from nearly every
town and village throughout this Sec
ton are full of complaints about the
depredations wrought by boomers
bound for the Strip. Horses have
been stolen by scores, cattle killed and
taken away, hogs taken, grain bins
despoiled and hen roosts ransacked.
There were ten horses stolen from
here last night, three of which had
bnggies attached, from in front Of
one church. The Sheriff during the
day received forty postal cards des-
cribing horses stolen from different
points south and west of here. The
city council tried to hold a meeting
tonight, but it developed that eight
out of the twelve councilmen had left
for the Cherokee Strip.