Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-28
CURRENT EVENTS
tpitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream Of the General News.

uruWH IRON Tue TaCc lot SONcTUOr VI
Georgia, leaving tho field to Atkinson.
The canvas Of the city of Chicago
/ for new directory has been complet.
cd and shows population of about
100000.
| Jim Smith, brakeman on the Ches.
apeake road, fell from train near
Covington, Tenn, and died next day
from his injuries.
Ed ODonnell, an electric liueman,
was killed at Louisville, Ky, last
| Friday. Ills remains were shipped to
Birmingham, Ala, where his relatives
live.
| Representative Izbar, of South Car
olina has introduced bill to appropri.
ate $50. 900 for the preservation of
| Fort Moultrio on Sullivan's Island
s. e.
Twenty commercial houses and fee
tories were destroyed by fire in the
! Finsbury district, London, England,
last Thursday. The loss is about
/ 81, 200,0 00.
The new Uunitcd States Cruiser. the
Monte omery, NV at the Norfolk navy
| yards, has been put in commission,
Lieut.. j. H. Bull has been transferred
trom the Alliance to the Montgomery
A dugout in which Benito Garcia,
| with his wife aud five children. was
rowing across the Rio Grande five
miles above Brownville, Texas,
,apsized, and the wife and three chill.
dren were drowned.
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 20 per cent below
the yield of last season.
A negro named Jackson was sho,
near Monticello, Fla, by young
white man, Hal Taylor. The shooting
was the result of dispute over the
cutting Of some timber by Jackson on
and claimed by Taylor's father.
The Choctaw treasury is empty. II
seems that the nation depends largely
Cor its supplies of cash on revenues
derived from royalties on coal. The
strike cuts off the source of supply,
land hence the whatness Of the which
Henry Carpers, negro, charged
with attempting to criminally assault
white woman near Magnolia, Ark.
was captured near the Louisiana STATE
line and taken back to the scene O
his crime and lynched. He was al
old offender.
Gen. Gordon has offered AL amend
ment to the bill relating to Atlanta
exhibition, now before the committee
Oh appropriation providing for thu
selection of q colored man as one O
the commisso ners TO be appointed by
the president.
Cashier Sattley, of the dcfumct saw
ings bank at Kansas City, Mo-, ha
been arrested on four charges, ant
committed to jail in default Of $500
bond in each case. 1t was feared tina
he was preparing for a sudden ext
from those parts.
During a thunder storm ut Archer
Fla, lighting struck the house of Mr.
Thomas Brown. Every ono OF tho
family was severely shocked, and one
daughter rendered almost Iisensible
losing her hearing entirely, and per
haps permanently.
Erastus Wiman. who it will be re-
membered was prosecuted on account
of crookedncss while connected will
r. G. Dun IL Co.'S, commercial agen
cy, New York, was convicted o
forgery in the second degree. He ha
been sentenced to prison for five year
and six months.
While the miners throughout south
ern Illinois are resuming work, tn
strike is still maintained at some lndi
ana mines. A committee of miner
from Alum Cave aud Star City Gale
on those at work at Star City an
drove them from their work. Th
mine was shut down.
| In the deficiency bill recently passe
$70S,272, were appropriated for ii
department of Justice. mostly for pay
ing fees in the United States court
Witnesses, jurors and officers VIII
have been paid of in scrip for service
in the federal courts of Alabama wi
probably get their money now vel
soon.
Three negroes, Archie, Bert an
William Haynes, came over frol
Ohio, into Mason county, Ky. to ste'
horses and sheep. For a time tlleyha
it all their own way. terrorizlng wit
pistols people whom they cllanccd
meet. Suddenly they fell into tt
hands Of mob and were left danglin
from a limb.
| The EclSinton, Washington Cit
suburban hotel. was totally destroye
by fire on "Wednesday morning last
A number of congressman were guest
of the house. The main buildin
was formerly tho old Gales mansion
occupied many years aYo by Joseph
Gales, one Of the proprietor. OF thu
National Intclligenscr.
Il The passenger train from Mllen
Augusta, Ga, was derailcd at Perkln
: ii consequences OF somc Coward
snelk's breaking tho switch lock
Engincer Clcm Star had leg broke
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