Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-15
GENERAL NEWS.
Wholesale Summary of the News Of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter.

INh"ob OOttOh NOluPIGSS
hes gone up in flames.
Lawson Warren has been arrested
at Savannah, Ga, for passing raised
bills.
The residence of Col. w. s. Lowell
OF Palmyra, Miss, is reported
burned.
James Nugent, in Minnesota, while
drunk, shot and killed his 14-year-old
daughter
Congressman George w. Hank of
Ohio dropped dead from heart disease
at Washington.
About 400 people responded to
recent call at Augusta. Ga, for a
meeting Of the unemployed.
In Walker county, Ca, colorad
whitecaps recently whipped a worth
less negro and advised him to leave
th county.
AT Augusta, Ga, Nelson Williams,
colored, shot and killed his wife. A
coroneps jury held it to be willful
| murder.
The legislature of Mississippi has
appropriated $500 to the Vicksburg
hospital for each Of the years 1894
and 1895.
AT Decatur, Ga, j. II. Galloway,
while practicing with a parlor rife,
accidentally shot and killed Ed Dab
ney, a negro boy.
The postoffice at Newport News was
burglarized. The robbers blew open
the safe and took out about 81, 900 in
money and stamps.
a late telegram says that the unem-
ployed of the city of Boston, to tho
lumber of $4,000, gathered to hear
an address on political economy.
Hon. A. G.. McLaurin has been
nominated by the democratic caucus
Of the Mississippi legislature for
United States senator to succeed Sem
ator Walthall.
Gen. Lucien B, Northup. who was
Commssary General of the Confeder-
ate army, is dead. He breathed his
lssst at the Confederate Soldiers home
at Nkeville, Nd.
Tour attempts by miscreants tc
burn the worlds fair buildings at Chi
caKO were made within twenty-foul
hours recently, and frustrated by the
Columbian guards.
The Arkansas liver is rapidly rising
The Cumberland river is booming and
has reached the danger height at Nash
lille. Hundreds of families are NOV
ing to higher ground.
A London man died of alcoholism
It was disclosed at the coroner's in
quest that the proprietor of the bar he
had chiefly patronized held an insur-
ance policy on his life.
In fight with moonshiners on
Black Allegheny mountain, W. Va,
two United States marshals and two
distillers were killed and one man
MORALLY wounded.
The Bib Manufacturing Company,
of Macon, Ga, whose cotton factory,
one of the largest in the State, has
been running on half time all winter,
has resumed full time.
The grand jury at Lafayette, Ind,
has returned four indictments against
two directors of the defunct Com
mercial Bank of Oxford for granc
larceny and ENLIGHTENMENT.
l.. Sheffield, the first man to maxi
iron rails in the south, and who made
much OF the steel armor for the Con
federate navy, died recently at his
home near Memphis, at the age of 80
In Denmark the value of zeal estat
has increased 100000 pounds il
tnirty-seven years; result due II
bceaking up large estates and thei
division by sale among the peasan.
try.
Advices have been received froI
Buenos Ayres to the effect that a plo
to assassin 4te President Peixoto ha
; been discovered at Rio, and that sew
ersl of the plotters had been arrested
and shot.
John w. Love, cashier of the First
Rational Bank of Watkins, N. Y, has
Disappeared and $50, 900 (estimated)
of the banks fund are missing. The
bank is closed and great excitemen
prevails.
N OuA COutdAui uS VVOs oADopPo"aS~
from Collector Trammers room in the
Urited States Gust ON house in Atlanta
and after two days hunt was found
by detectives in vacant room Of thu
Building.
The rapid rise in the Mississippi al
Memphis is causing alarm among plan
ters of the lower valley. 1t rose ovel
three feet one day, passing the 10 feet
stage, which beats the record for this
season of the year.
G.. n. Henson, a prominent banker
of Chattanooga, shot and killed j. Is.
Vert, an insurance agent. The aflail
was result OF a recent divorce suit,
In which Henson was the plaintiff ant
Vert a correspondent.
The country bridge across Illinois
Bayou, near Russelyille, Ark, wa
swept away and two trestles of thu
railroad bridge broke loose. FIT
boats of the pontoon bridge at Darda
nellie were carried away by the Hood.
Ben Davis Of Pensacola, Fla, has