Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-29

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ings and state, territorial and foreign
buildings, grounds, statuary, and la
goons and about forty views of Mid
way Plaisance. The book can be OBJ
tanned by sending address, with 90
cents, the price, and cents for post
age, to w. G. Rinearson, general pas
senger agent, Cincinnati, o.
Later reports from Ohio say that
the Army of the Commonweal left
Massillon on schedule time, with
about seventy-five men in line, and
went into camp at Canton with fifty.
At night the majority of these applied
for and obtained lodgings in the city
prison. The avowcd object of the
movement is to petition congress to
employ the idle IN building roads, and
to issue money direct to the people in
payment for public improvement.
Maj. Thomas II. Dunn, wel-known
IN Georgia and Alabama as member
OF the firm of Dunn Bros, contrac-
tors, who constructed large part of
The Georgia Pacific railroad, and built
the birmingham water works, was
Killed by robbers near Llano, Texas,
while going to Oliver mines, of which
he was manager, with money to pay
OIL the hands. +. j. and Il. G. Dunn
or Birmingham, brothers of the de-
ceased, on receiving the sad intelli-
gence. left for the scene of the
| crime.
Ten men were killed and thirty ill.,
Jured by am explosion of dynamite in
tho harbor of Sanlander on the coast
OF Spain. Divers were engaged in
raising the cargo of steamer sunk
last November. The cargo included
many cases of explosives, but they
were supposed to be harmless after the
loEg submersion. Three divers were
at work and boat with ten men
noatcd over the spot, when the explo.
sion occurred. The boat was torn to
splinters and seven of its occupants
Killed. OF course The three divers
persisted. Thirty men along the quay
| were injured.
Near Finlay station. on the Ell Pasc
division of the Southern Pacific rail-
road, members of the so.cailed Indus.
trial Army broke the switch lock and
turned the next eastbound train on a
siding. The mon, about 700, climbed
upon the cars and were carried to Fin
lay, when the conductor tied up to
await orders. lie got orders to re.
main tied up and all trains that reach
Finlay are ordered to tie up there, as
the company is determined not to haul
the tramps, who will not allow the
trains to depart without them. But
Finlay is an isolated place, here they
must very soon starve out.
j.. s. Willis of Homer, Ga. was
killed by his 15-year- old daughter.
J The killing was made known several
days after its occurrence by son of
Willis, only IL years of age, whose
| statement implicated the wife also.
Mother and daughter were arrested
and upon preliminary trial, in which
the state was represented by II. B.
Russell. solicitor general, and defend
ants ny competent counsel, they were
both discharged. 1t seems that Willis
went home drunk and was choking his
wife when the daughter cane to her
defense with razor, with which she
cut his throat, aud then finished the
work with an axe.
AT Lees store, near Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Henry Hugo shot and killed
Fred Watts. Watts had gone to the
nome OF the Hugos and finding Edith
Hugo. a lo-year-old daughter, there
alone, had assaulted her, and forced
her, under threats OF killing j. she
revealed the crime, to swear that she,
would not disclose it. The girl was
taken ill, and growing rapidly worse,
was sent. TO st. Vlncent's hospital,
where the attending physician discov-
cred the crime, and promptly reported
it to her parents. Mrs. Hugo went to
the store, and, finding the young fiend
there, sent bullet from her pistol
into his miserable carcass, and put an
end to his career.
Additional particulars of the ruin
left in the tracks of the late storms
that swept over the southwest are
published. At Nacogdoches, Texas,
cyclone in the evening was followed
by tornado i'll the morning, rain
falling in sheets. Every house of a
negro colony near that place was
blown away. Dan Grimes, eight
miles away from there, was killed
aud his wife fatally injured. In
settlement two miles east all the
houses were wrecked, and two per-
sons killed. At and near Lufkin
many houses were destroyed, many
people injured and their household
goods scattered everywhere, leaving
them no shelter from the downpour