Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-05-24
CURRENT EVENTS
Epitomizsd in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream Of the General News.


ored M. E. church will meet next Yea,
at Charleston, S. C.
New York City has had 1900. O0t
hre. 90 horses were burned to death
and several persons injured.
The strike of the ribbon weayers OF
Patterson, N. j., is declared of, and
the looms are whirring again.
Gus Gudger, negro, shot and killed
Matthew Hardeman at the base bali
ground at Dalton, Ca, last week.
A barn was struck by lightning at
Sebrn, KY, and burned with IL mules
and large supply of corn and hay.
The mercury fell at Chattanooga ON
Sunday to 80 degrees, and there was
more snow on Lookout and Wolder's
ridge.
AT Union City, Tenn, George Carr,
crushed the skull of Dave Dean, with
a four pound weight. Both the men
are BARRIERS.
Mr.. w. Ii. Edwards, United State
Consnl-general at Berlin, died in that
city last Wednesday, after long and
severe illness.
A dispatch from Deunison, Texas,
says: "Nothing like the weather of
the past "a hours has been experienced
here for 90 years.
Jacob Coxey of the commonwealth
has been nominated for congress BY
the Populists of the 18th compression.
al district of Ohio.
Ten prisoners broke out.of jaillat Ra-
leigh, N. e., and got away, including
Orange Page, who was under sentence
of death for murder.
The residents in south "and east
Minneapolis, OH the fats, have been
driven from their houses by the rising
waters of the Mississippi.
J. H. Babylon of Richmond, Va,
aged 81, suspecting his wife, aged
s5, of infidelity. shot and killed her
and then shot and cut himself.
Geo. S. Lemon and Geo. Avery, of
Louisville, KY, met in duel at Falls,
suburb of Jacksonville, Ind, and
Lemon received bullet In his thigh.
Henry Scott, colored, arrested al
Jefferson, Texas, for the murder of his
6-year-od daughter, wss taken from
the officers by mob of negroes and
hung.
L The officials of the Ramsey Coke
company, of Uniontown, Pa, an
nounce that every foreign in their
employ will be discharged and their
places filled with negroes.
| Charles Edelman, alias Taylor, an.
other of tho alleged conspirators in the
Hardin express robbery, has been
arrested in Lexington, KY, and will
be carried to Nashville, Tenn, for
trial.
AT Collinsville, Pa, the Jackson
plant of Cochran & Co., was attacked
by mob of 800 strikers. The plant
was protected by armed deputies, who
succeeded in repelling the assailants
without firing shot.
DR. A L Griffith, delegate from
Jasper, Tenn, returning from the
congressional convention at Cleveland,
was shot and killed by John L, Stick
ley, a delegate from White county,
who was very drunk.
The motion for new trial in the
cases Of Coxey, Brown. and Jones in
the Washington City police conrt, was
overruled and Judge Miller notified
the defendants to appear, on a subse-
quent day specified, for sentence.
Henry w. Grady, son of the late
Henry Grady, has been admitted to
plead and practice law in Georgia.
1t is said that he passed most credit
able examination, and gives fair prom
Use of unfolding well the great name
he bears.
George w. Smith, was found dead
in his bed at his home near Hickory
Withe, Tenn. He was qniet christ
tian gentleman, "a years old. On the
day before his death he plowed al
day and was cheerful and apparently
well on retiring at night.
Fitzgerald, the leader of the New
England contingent of commonweal-
ers. is languishing in the common Jail
at Philadelphia, to which he was com.
mitted by Magistrate Kane, in default
of $500 bond, on tina charge of s.hold-
ing all anacrhistic meeting"
The British steamer, Dillingham;,
sailed from Fernendina, Fla, carry
ing 1890 tons of phosphate. for Copenha.
gen. She drew 20 feet and 8 inches
OF water and went over the bar with
out touching. The is the deepest
laden vessel that has ever passed over
the bar.
| Frank Bell, traveller, while in the
town of Barberton, o., foolishly .ex-
hibiied in several places large num-
Der of bills. At night no was set up
on in lonely place, beaten into insen.
sibility and robbed Of nearly $1,000.
Five men were arrested, charged With
the crime.
According to the report of the dis.
trict lire chief, after a poll of the
burnt district in Boston, OH the fire OF
last Tuesday, 1877 buildings were to.
tally destroyed, 20 partly burned,