Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-04-26
GENERAL NEWS.
General Summary Of the News of the Week
Gathered from Every Quarter.

Tenn.
The house of Van M. Keel, Texas
county, Missouri, was blown down by
q cyclone and his wife and three chill
dren killed.
The Pollard Breckinridge case re-
suited in a verdict of Sl5, 900 in favor
of the plaintiff against the defendant
for breach of promise.
One of Coxey's recruits has been
identified as the man who murdered
Engineer James Paddock in the Con.
bellsvlile riot. and has been arrested.
The surrender Of Mcllo, the head
OF the Brazilian instruction, has been
announced. But there is usually
some uncertainty about Brazilian
war news.
Jack Oates, freight conductor,
was shot through the arm by Will
Jones, a gambler, at Little Rock,
Ark. They fell out over game of
craps.
Some young men were shooting in
the woods, near Huntington, Tenn.
10 brighten Will Harper. A bali
from one of their guns struck and
killed him.
The supreme court of South Caro-.
lima, Justice Pope dissenting, has de-
cided that the dispensary law of that
state is unconstitutional, because it
creates monopoly.
The president has issued procla.
nation granting the site of old Fort
Bliss cemetery, tract of twenty
acres, to the city of Ell Paso, Tex,
for public park.
A terrific wind and rain storm
swept over Bullets Bayou, La, com
pletely demolishing the residence on
the Wentworth plantation and fatally
injuring its occupants, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne.
Workingmen (?) held meeting al
Salt Lake City, Utah, and decided to
raise an industrial army to 90 to
Washington. About 200 enlisted
Another meeting was to be held, a
which they expect to get thousand
recruits.
Mr.. A. j. Bowden, of Sylacauga,
was killed during the storm last week
III Coosa county, by tree falling on
his wagon. His son, Johnnie, boy
OF 8, is thought to be fatally injured.
Mr.. jeff Baker and others, who were
in the wagon with Mr.. Bowden, were
also seriously hurt.
AT Perry, 0. T., the rain poured
down for two hours, raising the wa
ter to the depth of foot on the floors
OF dozen stores; city bridges were
wrecked; people living OH low lands
on Cow creek were driven from their
houses, some of which were waist
deep in water. Two horses were
drowned in stable. The rain occurred
Just after midnight. No lives lost. A
large store building, incomplete, col
lapsed.
The supreme court of Kansas has
decided that the action of Gov. Waite,
in removing two members Of the DO.
lice board of Denver aud appointing
two others to take their places, was
legal. 1t will be remembered that
the resistance of the two deposed
members, Martin aud Orr, came very
near precipitating a conflict of arms
between the state militia and the sher.
lfl's posse, who sustained the rebel
lious members.
The confederate veterans of Colum.
bus, Miss, secured q pass, through
the Kindness of Georgia Pacific Off
cials, for William Cunt, of Indanola,
Miss, to attend the reunion at Biz
mingham. Cunt was the servant OF
General Albert Sidney Johnston dur
ing the Mexican war, and was with
him OH the battlefield at Shiloh when
he was killed, and assisted those who
helped the great captain from his
horse and into the ambulance.
Henry Morley, Murray County,
Ga., farmer, was shot dead while plow-
ing in his field. Morley was formerly
member of the white cap gang, most
of the leading members of which are
moonshiners. Suspecting him of
treachery, they took him out last week
and strung him up. One of the gang
slipped knife into his hand and he
cut himself down aud escaped. No
doubt is entertained that his murder
ers are members of the same gang
lie was witness in a case against
while caps now pending in Murray
superior court.
The detachment of the industrial
~ army, led by one Grayson, had
hard time in getting away from Dem
yer, Col. Marching out through
snow and slush, at late hour they
tried to capture a train and failed.
After spending the night at the Union
Pacific round house, they boarded
freight train Of that road, which was
being made up in the yards, where
upon the switchmen broke up the train
and shifted the cars about. They were
finally ordered by the sheriff to vacate
the yards, Grayson gave the order for
marching and they set off through the
mud and siush toward Sand creek.
At Meridian, Miss, Bob Belk and
Dudley Scott, two young men who
were reared in the city were detected
u the ncr or setting fire to school
house, and arrested. There had been
five firoc ~, fh<. <1n.. 1.