Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-01-18
GENERAL NEWS.
Wholesale Summary Of the News of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter

The Kentucky General Assembly is
in session.
The situation. in Sicily is assuming
very grave proportions.
Two new cases of small pox have
developed at Chattanooga.
The whole of Northern Europe is
contending with terrible blizzard.
The large publishing house of j. w.
Burke & Co., of Macon, Ga, is in the
hands of a receiver.
Fire in the business section of Min
den, La, Monday night destroyed
property valued at $50 900; insurance,
5000.
Receivers have been appointed for
the Louisville. Evansville and st. Lou
is consolidated railroad company, and
also for the Ohio Valley railroad.
Justice Jackson has ordered the
Georgia Central and Southwestern
Railroad Of Georgia to be sold within
sixty days after the first day of June,
unless before that date the default on
the bonds shall have been made good.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga,
Tenn, one of the leading trade jour-
nails OF the South, has just issued 202
page number. 1t is one of the hand
soonest and most valuable publications
of the kind ever printed in America
Sam Lee, an industrious aud peace.
able Chinaman, of s 9 was called to his
door at midnight and fatally shot in the
stomach by negro who was caught
boring holes through the back door
trying to enter the house to rob Sam
Lee, and when caught fred. The
negro made his escape.
The case against Corbett and Mitch.
ell has been nolle pressed. The Club
now want to change the terms of the
contract with Mitchell to read instead
of "within two miles of Jacksonville"
to "within the State of Florida" at
first the Englishman fatty refused to
sign the new agreement, but after
some persuasion came over and did
so.
A hundred masked men came from
the mountains into Calhoun, Georgia,
prepared to have their way or trouble.
They were moonshiners whose stills
had been captured by revenue officers,
who also destroyed 1000 gallons of
beer. The men came after their stills,
etc., which had been loaded upon a
freight car for shipment to court.
They got them.
A crank carrying huge revolver,
and who said he was commissioned by
the deity to do good, appeared at the
county Jail in Chicago, and asked to
to see Pendergast, the condemned
assassin. "Five minutes talk with
Pendergast is all l want" said the
crank, "and he will walk out of pris-
on free man." His request was re-
fused and then pointing at his weapon
he said he would commit murder if
the Lord ordered him to do SO. He
was promptly arrested.
A dispatch to the London News
from Paris says excavation In Oisseau
Lepetit, department of the Sarthe,
have revealed a Gallo Roman city,
which appears to have been destroyed
by al earthquake. The city probably
contained some 10000 inhabitants,
but its name is not known in French
history. The ruins include great
temple, part of which is still standing;
also a theater and monuments. A
number of medals have been found,
which includes one Of the time Of EN-
peror Constantine.
AT meeting of the penitentiary
board of control Of Mississippi it has
been decided to substitute PROPOSE
ton TO work the MarceIlus plantation,
in Holmes county, owned by James
Richardson, on shares. There $500
acres in the tract. The board thinks
there will be enough convicts that can
not be leased to work most Of it. The
board is to feed and clothe the con-
victs, furnish guards and medical at
tention and Richardson is to furnish
the teams, feed for same, lands, etc.
The proceeds are to be equally divided.