Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-21
CURRENT EVENTS
Epltomized in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream of the General News.

VIM. Walter Phelps died at Patter.
son, N. j., at 1:15 last Sunday morn
ing.
The university of Tennessee, at
Knoxville, has passed its Tooth ami
versary.
| Geo. P. Wetmore has been elected
United States senator from Rhode
Island.
| The union stock yards at Eeamsas~,
d. c., near Washington, were aas1ea,
Loss Sla5.o0o,
/ About $4,000 geagae A,sve asea Of
the plague At llesg Neag, GiAssss, sad
about $4,000 hsve tasss ssesa sls,e city
Two ehSelVsa ef MIN. Esssy6eIs.
farmer OF Rsarisets,, \, ", we've SSQl,s,3
by LshEgh Valley train 81 Chapel
Crossing >asard;sy aighs.
! A Gre Il Panama DESTROYED aaere
than Toe houses, Estimates &c the loss
vary from sHs and quarter TO eae
and half million dollars.
The United States steamer. Mehicsu.
flagship OF the Behring sea squadron,
in live days cruise around Kodiak
island. captured two poschiag schoon-
ers, both from Seattle, equipped for
cstching seals.
The California orange crop Is re-
ported short on account of late frost.
The total product Of southern Califor-
mia is estimated at 10000 car loads,
which is said to be 90 per cent below
I tho vfai1 of last soarAn
Thomas j. Carney, of Pineville,
Tenn, was supervising the removal
of large block of stone from a car,
when the derrick ropes broke and the
huge mass fell upon him. Death was
instanteous.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, has
granted full pardon to ex-state treas.
urer, VIM. L. Hemingway. The
application for his paudon was signed
by thousands of prominent citizens all
over the state.
S. c. Griffith, young man of Tam
pa, Fla, was struck on the temple by
a base ball and killed. His skull was
fractured. He was at the bat when
hit, and the pitcher has not been ar
rested as it was purely accidental.
The convention of miners at Terre
Haute, Ind, after sitting with closed
doors from 1880, a, m. until late at
night, decided by an almost unani-
nous vote to remain out until they
can have work at 70 cents per ton.
w. G. Smith, who worked the
jackson, Tenn. banking company last
week on forged check for 1925, has
had his day in court, where he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for three years. His pal
escaped.
Benjamin G. Peters, assistant treas
urer of the New Central Coal compa-
ny of Maryland, whose principal office
is in New York City, has deserted his
wife and children and decamped with
pretty "school marin" and $4,000 of
the company's money.
When the roll of the miners was
called on the day after the explosion
and fire in the mines at Korwin, in
Austrian Silesia, last week, 2O4 failed
to answer. Ofthcse 100 were mar
ried men. 400 children were made or.
phans by the terrible disaster.
Three white men. Tom Moore, Eu-
gene Felix's and Thomas Westmoreland
and three indians, Emerson Allen,
Cephas w. Wright and Thomas Wade,
have been convicted of murder and
sentenced by the federal court in SEES
sion at Paris, Texas, to be hung on
September 28th.
Nose Prcwett, mail carrier on the
route north from Poplar Grove, Ark.
had quarrel with stave man about
the right of way, which ended with
the stave mars shooting Prewett.
What stave man is, and whether his
shot was fatal or not, the press dis.
patch leaves to the guess of the reader
One Hermon f. Wilkie was arrested
a few days ago at Columbus, Miss,
on telegram from Indiana. An
officer of that state, who came to take
the prisoner back, reports that Wikie
was lawyer, justice of the peace,
parson, forger, embezzler and all
around confidence man. 1t is said
that his forgeries amount to $4,000.
The Corean legation at Washington,
has received the following cablegram
from the Corean royal palace at
Seaoul "Rebals suppressed soon after
the arrival of Admiral Skerrett and
his United States steamer, who pro-
tected both sides. All people in my
country are now peaceful and happy.
Thank all the United States people"
The number of foreign immigrants
booked for passage by the ocean line
steamers this season is reported to be
60 per cent less than at the same time
last year, and by the official records
the number entering at New York
during the past three months was
1877 less than the number of arriv-
ais i'll the corresponding period of
last year.
The Russian government, alarmed
by the supposed discovery of prepara-
tons by the Caucasians to strike for
| indenen1ence and i'm view Of fha .lis-