Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-07

tp'tomiasd Ia Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream Of the General News.

relief committees are begging the
Farmers for supplies for them.
The California orange crop Is re.
ported short on account Of late frost.
The total product of southern Califor-
MA is estimated at 10000 car loads.
which is said to be 20 per cent below
the Yield of last season.
Two freight trains collided at Sha.
ron Heights on tho Providence diyis.
ION of the Old Colony road in Massa-
chusetts. One engine and three load
ed cars were wrecked. Three persons
were killed and two injured.
With the ell ding of may and the
beginning of June there occurred he
heaviest storm ever recorded by lnu
government signal service at the sum.
NIT of Pixies Peak. Snow fell ON ton
vt the mountain to the depth of seven
feet.
Andrew Dwight and b, Landry
were killed, and Arthur Stanly per-
haps mortally hurt by falling from the
top Of Newcomb College dormitory,
height of so feet, where they were
at work OIL the cornice, which gave
away and fell with them.
Near Eckhart, Texas, John C. CHS.
not shot and killed w. T. Evans,
while the latter was blowing in his
field. Chisnot then went home and
prevailed on his wife to take dose Of
poison. took dose himself and both
died. Cause: Jealousy.
Frank c. McDill, restaurant keep.
CT, lately of Of Fort Angeles, WASH.
has turned up as lost heir to an
estate in Chattanooga, Tenn, valued
at so, 900. He had been absent from
home 10 years, and several thousand
dollars have been spent in vain to find
him.
The rear coach of train on the
Albany " Columbia branch, of the
Southwestern railroad of Georgia, was
overturned by broken rail at Hollis.
Forty person were injured, two or
three of them dangerously. There were
100 passengers in the coach when il
rolled over down an embankment.
Mrs. Lizzie Lockner was shot and
XII led by her husband at st. Louis,
Mo. They were Hebrews. Lockner
left the house, after shooting his wife,
and has not been apprehended. He
had been out of employment for some
time and it is surmised that despond-
ency led him to commit the terrible
deed.
llillsboro, Texas, has been visited
by destructive storm, The Episco.
pal church and the residence of Mr.,
Morgan were demolished. The pump
house at Lake Park was wrecked and
the grand stand at the fair grounds
blown into the lake. A. number OF
dwellings were moved from thci,
foundations and badly damaged.
A dynamite bomb was exploded at
midnight almost under the house of
ID. q. Wall on Walker street, Atlanta,
Ca, shatterIng the side wall. A mar.
row alley separates Wallis house from
the Methodist parsonage. occupied by
Rev. j. A. Eakies. The bomb was
thrown from the street, and there is
doubt as to which house it was aimed at,
Orders have been cabled the flagship
Baltimore, of the Asiaticlsquadron, to
proceed with all possible dispatch,to
the coast of Corea for the protection
of American interests. The thanIs
OF this government have been sent to
the king of Corea for his timely war
ing of the rebellion of some of 10
subjects, endangering the America.
residents.
Harriet Hayden, q former save,
who, with her husband and child
gained freedom by escaping into
Canada efore the war, has recently
died in Boston, having survived the
other members of her family. BY
her will 5000 is given to Harvard
University to found scholarship for
poor and deserving colored students.
The scholarship will be open next
fall.
There seems TO have been sort of
epidemic of railroad disasters during
the last several days. There was ter.
rible wreck at Manvill, Wis, of
passenger train ON the Wisconsin
Central, and all the cars but two were
burned. Four men were killed, be.
sides an aged couple who were burned
IA the wreck and not identified. Eight
were injured severely. That SO many
seems miraculous.
A terrific explosion occurred in
distillery on the ground floor of ten
ement house in New York. Lizzie
Yeaga, a 4-year-old child was killed
and four Others were injured. A fire
Followed the explosion, cutting all
avenues of exit from the upper part
of the building which was occupied
oy 20 families. Fifteen children
were thrown from the windows. The
press dispatch doessnot inform MS by
What means the other tenants escaped, |
It at all.
Kelly's industrials, now at St.
Louis, Mo-, arc divided into factions.
About half have seeded with Col.
Speed, and they charge Kelley with
misuse Of funds, with running the
camps for his personal aggrandizc.
nent and with indlscrect relations
with one of his female secretaries.