Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-01
GENERAL NEWS.
Wholesale Summary Of the News Of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter.

on Sand mountain near Fort Payne.
The Normal Industrial College for
girls, at Millegeville, Ga, has 800
students.
A fire at Chattanooga, Tenn, de-
stroyed the entire stock of j. A.
Waudlaw II Co., leading grocers.
Simon Kinnebrew, a negro, was
getting out sand for brick company
at Chattanooga when bank caved in
on him. He was taken out dead.
The steamer State of Missouri sunk
in eight feet of water in New Madrid
Bend, seventy miles below Cairo, with
700 tons of freight. No lives lost.
Ut. Walter L,Taylor of the U.S.army,
who is a Georgian, has been detailed
by the secretary Of war, to the chair
of military science in the University
of Alabama.
The Skeletons, who haye been under
going preliminary trial at Scottsboro
for the killing of re. Ross on Febru-
airy 4th, were admitted to bail in the
sum of $1,000 each.
The asylum for the insane, at Roch-
ester, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
The inmates were removed without
loss of life. 1t was a state institution
and not insured. Loss 100000.
AT the recent election in Pcnnsylva-
mia for congressman at large, to fill
the unexpired term of Gen. VIM.
Lilly, Galusha A. Grow, republican,
was elected by plurality estimated at
100000.
A company has been boring for oil
on the Suits farm near the Tennessee
line. The work has been recently
moved to the Kennedy place ten miles
from Florence, where there are said
to be fine indications of oil and gas.
James Minks was fatally shot by
Chas. M. Fuller at Brookwood. The
former was drunk and undertook to
| force the latter to drink, following
him up with an uplifted ak, threaten
ing to kill him if he refused. Fuller
turned and shot him in the neck.
Private Harvey Mockbee of the 9Th
U. S. Infantry, convicted of desertion
and sentenced to two years in the u.
S. prison at Leavenworth, Kan, has
| been brought from Mt. Vernon to
Mobile, Ala, ell route for his place
of confinement.
Mr.. Bishop Harris was shot by Mr..
| Poole at q race track near Roanoke,
Ala. The ball passed through his leg
| and killed his horse. The shooting
was the result of a quarrel about
horse race, and number men became
| involved in the row. All the parties
were arrested and put under bond.
Miss Matte Arnold, who was keep
ing house for Mr.. and Mrs. b. e.
OVERLY at Watkinsville, Ca, suicided
by taking strychnine, Miss Arnold
came to Watkinsville four years ago,
but whence she came, or who are her
relatives no one seems to know, nor
is anything known of what caused
her fatal act.
Erastus Wiman, manager for r. G.
Dun ~ Co.'s commercial agency, New
York, has been arrested charged with
| forgeries and embellishments, amount
ing to 1929 900, and committed to the
Tombs. His felonious acts, as set
forth in the complaints, begin in 1888,
and extended to Feb. 20, 1898, when
they were discovered by Mr.. Dun,
who then discharged him.
The death of Joseph Keeppler, edi-
tor and part proprietor of Puck, is
announced. He was born in Vienna
February 1, 1929, and first showed
his art talent in the ornamentation of
| fancy cakes in his fathers bakery. He
studied two. years i'll the Academy of
| Fine Arts, and very soon his work
was in demand among all the Euro
| pean illustrated journals. Later he
| essayed the role of an actor, came to
America, became stage manager and
bankrupt. Then he failed in two
comic newspaper enterprises, and, re-
turning to his first love, was employed
on Leslie's Illustrated Weekly in New
York. Here he met Adolph Schwartz
man, with whom he established Puck,
introduced colored political cartoons
and attained world wide celebrity.
He died of heart failure resulting
from complication of spinal and
lung troubles, aggravated by over work
in the preparation and publication Of
the Worlds Fair edition of Puck.
| PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO.
The Square Miles Contained in Each In.
corporation.
A correspondent asks the Chatta.
nooga Times:
"Will you kindly state the number
of square miles contained in the in
| corporations of PHILADELPHIA and