Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-05
CURRENT EVENTS
Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream Of the General News.

Duckie Breeding, a soiled dove, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, took 20 cents
worth of morphine and died.
Frank Boughur, shoemaker at
Aurora, ILL.,, installing his wife for q
burglar, shot and killed her.
An explosion has occurred in the
mine at Legalidad, in Spain. Eight
dead bodies have been taken out and
81 are missing.
Mr.. Harry w. Fuller. general pass
enger agent of the Richmond n Dan
vile railroad, had both legs broken
in a collision at Rapidan, Va.
A telegram from Columbia, S. c.,
says 100 negroes from the lower part
of the state passed through tina. city
going to Alabama to take the place Of
the striking miners.
The spoke factory at Humboldt,
Tenn, which has been shut down
during the hard times, has resumed
work, gladdening the hearts OF its
numerous employees.
Caleb Cooley, mulatto, was hang
ed by mob near Bowling Green,
KY, after confessing that he had at
tempted to assault the wife Of his
employer, Mr.. w. P. Coleman,
n John Knight, young farmer living
IL miles from Franklin, Tenn, while
hunting, fell down and his gun was
discharged, wounding him fatally.
He leaves wife and two children,
Ed Heckle and Henry Nichols,
negroes, were gambling in an old
blacksmith shop near the city limits in
Augusta, Ca, and in dispute over
the turn of card, Nichols killed
Heckle.
All the business part of the city Of
Bayou Sara, La, was destroyed by
fire last Sunday. The residence Of
Col. Thomas Irving and the old rail
road depot on tho river front were
also burned.
A negro convict trusty, named
Aston, at the South Carolina state
farm near Congaree, stole the clothes
of a gaurd and escaped. lie wa,
overtaken and badly shot in the legs,
and captured.
The California orange crop is re-
ported short on account of late frost.
The total product of southern Califor-
mia is estimated at 10000 car loads,
which is said to be 20 per cent below
the yield of last season.
Policeman Joe Huffman, of High
Point, N. c., was cut in ten different
places by Joe Jackson whom he at
tempted to arrest. jackson walked
off through the crowd, threatening to
shoot anybody who touched him.
Mrs. l.. E. Cannon died at Wash
ington City from an overdose Of
laudanum administered through mis-
take by her brother.in-law aud he,
hearing of his fatal error, attempted
self destruction. lie was taken to
Providence hospital for treatment.
j. e. Curry, said to be prominent
saIoonist, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,-a
tough and a buly,-shot and mortallp
waunded Riley Hutchinson, defence.
less negro hackman, at the corner Of
Broad and Ninth street. The coward
ly murderer was arrested and is III
Jail.
There has been a disastrous blow in
eastern Arkansas and Western Tennes.
see AT Memphis trolley and tele.
phone wires were torn down, boats
were broken from their moorings and
set adrift on the Mississippi, and
barges at jackson mound park were
sunk.
John Peggram, the seven-year- old
son of j. b. Peggram, of Yorkville,
5. c., while playing on an old turn
table in the Chester Il Laurens rail.
road yards. Jumped from the table
while it was in motion, fell OH hia
heal and broke his neck, dying in
about an hour.
John Clemens, a negro convict, was
killed just outside the city limits Of
Atlanta, Ca, by the falling in of
bank under which he was digging. Ho
made an effort to jump out as the mass
of earth came down. but was caught,
and when taken out few minutes
later, 1t was found that his neck had
been broken.
G. w. A, Jones was drowned in the
Chattahoochee river at Columbus, Ca,
last Saturday. With other young men
he was in bathing at the famous Low.
er's Leap. lie was caught In cur
rent and, though all athlete and q
powerful swimmer, was carried rapid
" into whirlpool, from which rescue
was impossible.
AS the train was leaving the
sMarching" club of the Cook county,
,lll..) democracy pulled into Bloom
ngton a box of fire works which /
lad been placed on the rear platform
# private car for III, purpose of
giving a display in honor Of MIR.
scott, exploded. Mayor hopkins had
lis hands and face burned and seven
'ihers were more or less burned.
Here are some quotations of prices
It Chicago that indicate lie effect of
he great strike inaugulatcd by the
American Railway Union in support
Il the strike of the employees Of the
pullman Car Company: Lemons,
Usually sold at 50 nor box. $40: ice.