Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-22
GENERAL NEWS.
General Summary Of the News Of The Week
Gathered from Every Quarter.

Chief Justice Benjamin J. Lea of
the supreme court of Tennessee is
dead.
A negro woman was burned to
death in her cabin near Shelbyville.
Tenn.
sam jackson, a negro, wanted at
Columbus, Miss, for mule stealing,
was arrested at Birmingham.
A late dispatch says that Congress
man Wilson had left Guadaiajara,
Mexico, for San Antonio, Texas.
Another suicide in Atlanta, Ga, is
reported. Cora Punkett, a girl of 10
years, betrayed by her lover, sought
refuge from shame in death.
II. w. Page, formerly president of
the Merchants National bank, Fort
Worth. Texas, shot and killed A. b.
Smith, formerly cashier of the bank.
Charles Crawford, who abducted
the II year old daughter of Mr.. Lilly
from a house-boat on the Mississippi.
carrying her of in her fathers skiff,
bas been arrested, with the girl, at
Rosedale, Miss,
AT Woodward, o. t., Station
Agent Rusk was taken from his room
about 10 O'Clock at night by two rob-
bers and forced to go to the depot and
open the safe. They took away over
$4,000 in money.
A gang of ninety unemployed men,
who have been subsisting upon the
charity of the San Antonio relief So
ciety for several weeks, took posses.
sion of westbound Southern Pacific
freight train and left for California.
At the mines near Middleboro, Ky,
Ike Miller. labor union man, shot
and killed non-union man named
Hill; and, on the day before, Bill
Lazly, a knight of labor, shot and
seriously wounded non union labor
er named Collins
1t has been ascertained that the shot
which killed j. w. White, an account
of whose murder while fishing on
Newnan's Lake, Fla, has appeared in
our news columns, was fired by Tom
L. Boulware, and a subscription has
been raised to prosecute the murderer
if caught.
AT Kye, Texas. c. S. Tetze, mer-
chant, was about to close up for the
night on a recent evening about 9
O'Clock, when some one entered the
store and deliberately shot him dead.
The affair is involved in mystery. No
money was taken, although the safe
was standing open, nor anything dis
turbed.
An eastbound freight train on the
Southern Pacific railroad was cap
tured by gang of unemployed work
men west of Maria, Texas. A tele.
gram was sent to the sheriff of Pre-
sido county, and when the train
reached Maria, he, with large posse,
arrested the train captors.
A good looking young man went
from house to house along Borean av-
enue, Atlanta, Ga, offering for sale a
large Bible which he said was the last
of his stock. He found a purchaser
at last, receiving the price, $1.75, and
departed. 1t was afterward found to
be the pulpit Bible of the 5th Baptist
church, which had been Stolen.
Whitecaps have inaugurated reign
of terror in the vicinity of Bells De-
pot, Tenn. They have killed Lawson
Gregory, a negro, and warned num-
Der of whites to leave if they would
not share the same fate. g. P. Sulli-
van, his two sons and one Beasley
have been arrested, charged with the
murder of Gregory.
A cyclone swept over Long View,
Texas, leaving devastation in its
track. Six miles east of that place
it struck large country house in a
grove of twenty large oaks. Every
tree was uprooted, five persons killed
and eight badly hurt, most of whom
will probably die. Hail as large as
eggs fell for several hours, and it is
said that the destruction wro ught is
indescribable.
Mr.. John p arrot, Forest Hill, Ky,
found his ten-year-old son dangling
from the limb of tree by rope
around his neck, blood gushing from
nostrils and mouth, and he uncon
scious. Cutting him down and APP
plying restoratives the boy was re-
vived. He stated that two other boys
one of whom was Dan Slavin, becom
ing cnraged at him, had taken thi
method of wreaking vengeance.
Our news columns have already re-
ported the case of the two young mer
whose failure to return from boal
ride at Rome, Ga, had caused SO
much anxiety. We now have later
news, to the effect that the body OF
one of them, Charles Bennett, was
found in the Coosa river, half mile
below the shoals and two and half
miles below the city. The search for
the body of Anderson continues.
Ten thousand dollars of the money
taken by robbers from the depot agent
at Woodward, Oklahoma, belonged to
the government and was intended to
pay the soldiers at Fort Supply, Lit.
Kirby Walker, with twenty cavalry
men, has been sent in pursuit of the