Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-29
GENERAL NEWS.
General Summary of the News of the Week
Gathered from Every Quarter.

Cameron, Texas, has had a $50. 600
| fire.
| Fort Worth, Texas, has had $3.50.
900 fire. ~
Congressman w. l.. Wilson is re.
ported still convalescent, and able TO
sit up in bed several hours.
Maj. w. s. Farrell of Thacker
w. Va, was called from his residence
and shot fatally at midnight.
The jury in the case of the State va.
katliff, who killed jackson at X osins-
ko, MISS, brought in verdict of not
guilty.
Charles w. Williams, son of a New
York banker, while hunting near Fe.
iicia, Texas, was accidentally shot and
killed.
The Drake Bank of Centorville, Ia.
was robbed of 100000 which had
been kept out of the bank to paw off
the miners at neighboring town.
Henry Jackson, negro, in the act
Of stealing fowls about 8 O'Clock on a
vecent morning, was shot and killed
by John Hostetter, at Lexington,
Ky.
William Hill, 5-year-old boy, at
Knoxville, Tenn. while playing with
a gun, accidentally shot and fatally
wounded a 4.year.o.i playmate, vii.
liam Pruett.
A large body of natives attacked the
Spaniards on the island Of Painter in
the Malay archipelago. They were re-
pulsed with loss of 700 killed, the
Spaniards losing one man.
The body of J. 7. Anderson, one
of the two young men drowned at
Rome, Ca, was recovered at Ce-
dar Bluff. sixty miles below the point
where the fatal accident happened.
An @rounaut went up at Cannes,
France, swinging on ropes attached to q
balloon. At the height of 1900 feet
he fell and plunged down into the bay.
from which his lifeless body was
taken.
The supreme court of Colorado has
decided against Governor Waite on
the questions submitted relative to his
power in removing or appointing mem.
bers of the fire and police boards of
Denver.
Congressman Wilson, the author of
the tariff bill, has arrived at San An.
tonic, Texas, very feeble and much
emaciated, but convalescent. His
physician reports that, with prudent
care, the congressman's recovery is
now assured.
Inlthe Pulaski circuit court of Ar.
4 KANSAS, ]. S. Macarthur was con-
vlcted ON the charge of slandering
/ Miss Pearl Jones, a young lady Of 16.
The penalty is from six months to
three years in the penitentiary, at the
discretion of the court.
The Howard, Harrison Iron com.
pany OF Bessemer, Ala, has shipped
/ twelve car loads of iron piping to
Philadelphia, Pa, the first instalment
OF 10000 ton contract they have with
the Quaker City for iron pipe to be
used in the water mains Of that city.
The jury of inquest on the death Of
Robert Ross killed on the day of the
late election, at Troy, New York,
found that he died from gunshot
wound from pistol in the hands Of
Bartholomew Shea, and the coroner
issued a commitment for the detcn.
ton OF Shea on the charge of murder
AT Brownstown, w. Va, Charles
Rice and Bah and Lundon onodgrass,
in Laydon's saloon, were fighting.
Laydon attempted to separate them
and was fatally shot and cut. Rice
was shot and cut, and it is thought his
wounds are fatal. The Snodgrass
brothers rode away, and a posse was
organized to pursue them.
The grand jury of Shelby county,
Tenn, has returned true bill against
the man, Charles Crawford, alias Joe
johnson, who abducted Viola Lilly
from her fathers honseboat on the
Mississippi river, and is now in Jail at
fernando, Miss, The governor of
Tennessee has been asked to issue a
requisition for the prisoner.
AT Little Rock, Ark, the convict
gang was going out to work, in citi.
zens' dress, when eight of thcm made
break Tor liberty, running down an
alley. Four negroes escaped; the
guards recaptured the others, after
firing volley which brought down
two white boys, Dan Smith and Jim
Kelly, the latter MORALLY wounded.
Harry Albury, IA years of age, was
sent by his father from Key West,
Fla, to Brooklyn, N. Y, to be treated
for skin disease. There it was de-
cided that the disease was leprosy,
and beyond medical skill, and the boy
was sent to the home of a brother-in-
law in Dayton, Ky. The citizens
there, greatly excited, have appealed
to the state board of health for his
removal.
| In Matagorda county, Texas, mob
Of fifty negroes went to the house of
II. u. Bouldin and shot him 10 death.
DULY one white man resides in fifteen
miles OF the place. Constable Hunt
of Wharton raised posse and arrest
ed-the report isays sixteen OF the