Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-15
GENERAL NEWS.
General Summary Of the News Of The Week
Gathered from Every Quarter.

A late Turin dispatch stated that
Louis Kossuth was rapidly sinking.
The barn and other outhouses of r.
H. Drake, near Griffin, Ga, were
burned.
A large part of the city of Dead
wood, s. r., was burned. The fire
started in n saloon.
Vice-president Stevenson is so1ourn-
ing at Asheville, N. c., with his wife,
seeking rest and health,
A wild engine cosided with the en-.
| CINE of Central passenger train at
Griffin, Ga. Bosh engines were
/ smashed
1t is announced that the new battle
ship, Indiana, has started from
Cramps ship yard, Philadelphia Pa,
on her trial trip.
A bill which forhitls the sale of imi-
tation butter having eoloring matter
I in it has passed tho Ohio senate, and
the farmers rejoice.
I Lewis Guild, aged IS, was killed
( at Columbus, Ga, by the accidental
/ discharge of his gun as he was land
ing from batteau.
During q gale which swept over
the northwest, one man was Killed
aud two seriously injured by timbers
blown from unfinished buildings at
I Chicago.
The marriage of Robert Z. Lee,
son of the great Confederate leader,
Of
Miss Julia Carter of Virginia is tho
happy bride.
Later advices from Rio de Jan GIRO
report the death of Signor Bertol, the
Italisn consul, of yellow fever. The
disease consinues.to spread, and 200
cases are reported.
At Portland, w. Va, four dyna mite
bombs, with half burned fuse at.
tached, were found in the basement
under hall whae 100 people had at
tended ball the night before.
The thirty negroes, who were men.
toned in our news columns as having
left Atlanta, Ga, for Africa, sailed
with ten others, from New York on
the American Line steamer, Chester.
The orphans home of Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, has under its protection So
children, and the average number
for last year was 81. Sixteen have
been placed in families and ten sent to
the Industrial school at Nashville.
Mr.. d. II. Lee, formerly a railroad
conductor, but now out Of work,
tainted in tho rotunda of the Kimba!l
house, Atlanta, Ga, from starvation.
A collection was hastily taken up for
him and he was sent to the Grady hos
pital.
John Peters of Etna Mills, Cal,
and Randolph Jenkins of Weberville,
and John Harrison, mail carrier,
were caught in snow slide on
Salmon Mountain. Peters and
Jenkens were killed. Harrison es-
capped.
Governor Foster of Louisiana has
accepted the resignation Of Senator
White, lately appointed justice of the
supreme court. and has appointed N.
e. Blanchard. now in the house, to
the vacant seat in the United States
senate.
The war ship, Montgomery, has
been completed and accepted by the
secretary of the navy, to be delivered
by the builders as soon as practicable
ut the Norfolk navy yard, where she
will receive her armament and be put
in commission.
1t is stated that Lord Roseberry,
England's new premier, is a large
stock holder in the Southern States
Land and Lumber company, an Eng
lish corporation owning large mills in
this country, with general offices at
Pensacola, Ella.
1t is estimated that the tariff bill, as
amended by the senate finance com.
mittee, including revenue from all
sources, will yield $400, 100000,
which is 100000 more than was
derived from all sources last year
under the Mckinley bill.
A largo amount of counterfeits of
silveridollars and halves, and of nickels
has been put in circulation in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. The police have de-
tected two parties attempting to pass
spurious dollars but have been unable
to discover whence they came.
A fire at Ripley, Tenn, destroyed
four buildings on the public square,
in one of which was the office of The
Peoples Party Advocate. An cxplo-
sion of powder in one of the buildings
shattered the glass all over the town
and shook the earth for miles around.
he stock ranch of Pedro Sanchez,
fifty miles west of Durango, Mexico,
was attacked by brigands, who after
three hours fighting, were driven off,
leaving four killed and five wounded.
One of the ranch hands was killed and
three wounded. Sanchez was slightly
wounded.
The steam yacht Natalie, twenty
four tons burden, was captured by
Haytian gunboat and her crew shot
by order of President Hippolyte.
She was purchased in New York and
laden with arms and ammunition to be
used by General Magail in an attempt