Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-05-31
CURRENT EVENTS
Epltomized ii Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream Of the General News.


while drunk, fatally shot e. B. Alex.
ander in the latters saloon.
Frank Latre, well known carpen-
ter OF Savannah, Ca, dropped dead
on the street from hemmorrhage,
tie was 65 years of age.
The great English ex- Premier. Glad.
stone, has had his right eye success
fuiiy operated on for cataract, and his
health is well maintained.
The men employed at the Southern
Marble works, Tate, Ca, are out on
astrike, following the the example of
those at the Piedmont works.
A severe hail storm swept over Cum.
berland county, N. c., beating ali
vegetation to piece and covering the
ground with hail to the depth of two
inches.
The 1000 miners of the Coal Creek,
district Tenn, who went out on q
strike April 81, have returned to
WORK, on the same terms and condi.
tions under which they worked before
the strike.
q. II. j. Taylor, negro, of Kan.
sas, appointed Recorder of deeds in
the District Of Columbia, through the
influence of Senator Martin of Kansas,
has been confirmed by the senate by a
vote of 81 to Is.
DIR. A. r. Griffith, who was shot
by W. l.. Stakely at Cleveland, Tenn,
on the day Of adjournment of the dem
ocratic congressional convention, died
at his home in Marion county, from
the effect of the shot.
Mr.. Benedict, public printer at the
national capitol, discharged 500 prin-
tiers from the government offices last
Saturday. He says he will further
reduce the force by discharging 500
more by the first of July.
The hotel and many other buildings
of West End, suburb of New Or.
leans, and one of the most attractive
and widely known resorts in the south
was burned last Wednesday morning.
Loss $4,000, largely insured.
In Pitt county, North Carolina, dur.
ing severe storm, three men sought
shelter in three story gin house. 1t
was blown down and two Of the
men were perhaps fatally Injured and
the other man had leg broken.
The British steamship, Ak aba, clear.
cd at the custom house at Pensacola,
Fla. with cargo of 2,021, 900 superb
cial feet of lumber and timber, for
London, England = the largest
cargo of the kind that ever left gulf
port.
AT Tampa, Fla, the Jail was at
tackled by mob for the purpose of
taking out Stevenson and McNiell and
executing them for murder of Mar
shall Whitehurst at Tarpon Springs.
Tie sheriff made such determined re-
sistance that the mob retired.
During a thunder storm at Albany,
Ca, the building of the colored nor
NAL school of that place was struck by
lightning and badly damaged. Sever
al students were knocked down, a
panic resulted and many were tram.
Piled on and hurtlin the stampede that
followed.
The boiler of mill few miles
east of De Funiak, Fla, exploded.
1t shot up through the roof and fell
200 yards away. The mill was
wrecked, j H Davis the fireman. was
killed and John Cody, mill hand,
probably hurt fatally. Several others
were injured.
In the federal court at San Antonio,
Texas. Jack PAWS, of Eagle Pass,
was found guilty of attempting to
oribe Bob Dow, custom house officer,
having offered him $50 per head to
'muggIe thirteen Chinamen across the
liver from Mexico. He wanted them
% pick cotton.
George Charest. professional wire
walker, attempted to carry his wife
ON a steel cable stretched across the
public square at Shelbyville, Tenn.
The cable snapped and they fell to the
steeet 30 feet below. Charest's hip
was broken and his wife, is expected
10 die from injuries received in the
terrible fall.
Zachery Parker. formerly of Ala
bama, who has posed as a methodist
preacher, has been sentenced in the
federal court at Paris, Texas, to ten
years in the penitentiary for defraud-
ing the government by means Of bogus
pension claims. He had been carry
ing on his refarious business 10 years,
when justice overlook him.
At ENID, o. T., the city officers
seized a Rock Island train for viola
lion Of city ordinance against run
ming faster than six miles an hour.
A fight with the train crew ensued,
in which one Of the officers was beaten
to death with coupling pin by q
trainman. The affair created great
excitement among the citizens.
In Harlan county, KY, three men,
James and Sinclair Middleton and r.
S. Shackleford, were shot aud killed
IN q fitrht with Gilbert Savior Rkvi