Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-28
over his head, 1t was thought both
would die.

over his head. 1t was thought both
would die.
Rev. B. b. Swatzbar, native Of
Morocco, who was member OF the
celebrated Livingston's African ex-
ploring party, was arrested in Cincin-
natti on charge of murder, said to
have been committed in Chattanooga,
Tenn, two years ago. On being
locked In cell he cut his throat. lie
was conveyed 20 the city hospital,
where, at last advices, he was lying
in critical condition.
At Carrabelle, Fla, few days ago,
two men called on DR.. Christie, whose
dwelling and drugstore were burned
ZONE time ago, aud demanded 5000 as
hush money, saying they would pre-.
vent his getting the insurance money
IL he refused to pay them. There are
three young men under arrest,
charged with robbng the store and
burning it. The town is in state OF
terrible excitement about the affair.
Jake James, Jr., and Jim Coleman,
being at tho house of Mitchell Scott,
near Greenvile, Miss, James and
Scott, renewing an old difficulty, en-.
gagged in fight, James was getting
the worst of it and drew q big knife,
made from an old sword. and cut
Scott's throat, killing him. Judge
Black, a friend Of Scott, Oh seeing the
knife. started TO interfere, when jim
Coleman covered him with pistol
and made stand off until the job was
finished. James escaped and Coleman
is in Jail. All negroes.
young woman, claiming to be
from Rome. Ga, having little blue
eyed baby, took rooms a few weeks
ago on Carter street, Chattanooga.
The other day she disappeared The
baby didn't. But baby seemed to be
lonesome in the large room by itself,
so the police took charge of it. They
IRE now hunting the mother. 1t has
ranspired that. before leaving,
she told another women in the fiat,
that baby's father was prominent
gentleman of Rome, Curious that
The father of baby of that sort Is
nearly always a "prominent gentle.
man" of somewhere.
Miss Wimberly, a young lady living
near the village of Apex, N. c., left
home in the afternoon, accompanied
by her uncle, George Mills, to go to 6
neighbours for some flowers. Mills
returned about midnight and reported
that when mile from home they wer:
attacked by two men, who assaulted
Miss Wimberly and ordered him tc
leave, which he did. Search was
made for the girl and at daylight SHE
was found in vacant house, her skull
fractured in several places, still alive
! but unconscious. Suspicion restet
upon Mills from the fact that severa
hours elapsed before he returned ant
reported the facts, and blood spot
were found on his shirt, and he wa
J arrested,
DR.. Gustavus Drolshagen came from
!, Norwalk, o., to Lawtey, Fla, -four
teen years ago, accompanied by Louis
Glausmann. lie is said TO have bee
Catholic priest and she nun. The.
had lived together about nine years
: when Hedwig Glausmann, a sister o
Louisa, came from Germany to Wis
them. Soon after her arrival she an
the doctor married, and some thre
years after this marriage Louisa died
Last Thursday night an assassin en-
tered the Drolshagen residence an
murdered both the doctor and his wife
Hedwig, by crushing their skulls wit
an axe, as thcy lay in bed. 1t is evi
dent that robbery was the motive, a
drawers and trunks were broken ope
and everything turned topsy-turvy.
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