Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-05-31

ton sent them a greater variety OF sup
plies than they had befQ received
since leaving MassiIlon, Of4b.
Miss Lillian, daughter 6f General
J. B. Hood, who upon the death of
her father twenty years ago, was, with
her twin sister, adopted by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thatcher M. Adams. whose
name she now bears. is to be married
to Mr.. William Stone Post. Tho we'd
ding announced to take place in Trim
ity church, Lenox, suburb of BalG-
more, Md, on June 14th.
A detective named Weber, was
killed and deputy sheriff Smith seri-
ously injured in riot at Forest City,
Ark, growing out of the arrest of
prominent citizens Of st. Francis
county on the charge Of whitecapping
upon evidence supplied by Weber.
Frank German, q merchant of Pales-
tine, is charged with shooting the de-
tective and has been arrested.
In a riot at the Polish Catholic
church at Freeland, Pa, two Poles
were fatally shot and two others Sc
riously wounded by the police, and
Chief Jas. j. Challenger and Officer
Jones of the police were cut and in
jured by stones thrown by the mob.
The riot grew out of differences be-
tween the members and the pastor,
whose enemies undertook to prevent
him from entering the church.
D. 5. Shelton of Hot Springs, Ark,
is under arrest charged with having
shot and killed VIII Newsome. Shell
ton and Constable Afford had arrested
Newsome on a warrant and was con-
veying him to town in a buggy, when
he grabbed at Shelton's pistol, but
missed it, and lcaping from the buggy
started to run. Both officers fired at
him and he was killed. 1t is alleged
that the fatal bullet was from Shell
toms pistol.
The main building of Clemson col
lege, the South Carolina agricultural
and mechanical school, has been de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was a handsome
three story brick structure, and the
fire having begun in the third story,
much of the college property was
saved. The site of the college, two
miles from Calhoun, was the birth
place of John C. Calhoun and was
devised to the state by his son-in-law,
Thos. G.. Clemson. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000, with about 500, 900
insurance.
Five years ago some hot headed fell
lows attacked a squad of United States
marshals in Florida, wounding several
of them. All but one of the assail.
ants were arrested soon afterwards,
tried and sentenced to the penitentia-
ny at Columbus, Ohio. A. J. Steven
son, alone avoided arrest at the time
and has ever since eluded the officers
of the law, until few days ago when
he was arrested near his house at
Westville, Fla, by United States mar
shals, Ward and Watts.
Five men entered the First National
bank of Longview, Texas, at three
O'Clock in the afternoon, and ordering
the president and cashier to hold up
their hands, robbed the bank of 50, 500.
Several officers and citizens Intercepted
the robbers and fight ensued, in
which two citizens, Geo. Buckingham
and j. w. Mcqueen, were killed, and
Marshhal Muckelroy badly wounded.
One of the robbers, small dark COM
plected man, was killed. The others es-
capped, taking his horse and gun. A
large posse went in pursuit.
An express and passenger train on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, while
going at sixty miles an hour near
lockwood, Pa, ran into landslide.
The engine was thrown down into the
creek, and the engineer and fireman
killed. The mail and express cars
were mashed to pieces. Fortunately,
the passenger cars. which were well
filled, did not leave the track and not
passenger was hurt. Messenger
S OIL was rescued from the pile of
burning debris, seriously injured.
The body of Fireman Rhinehard, az
ter five hours work was found und, +
the engine one foot entirely burhe, :.
What remained of the body of Eng :
neer Nicholson was found later. The
greater part of his body had been con-
sumed.
AT the Victor mine, four miles
from Cripple Creek, Colorado, twen-
ty of a company OF seventy deputies,
sent to guard the mines, were sur
rounded by strikers and disarmed
Twenty-thrce deputies reached
Independence mine. Next day they
were surrounded by 800 strikers who
offered them the choice between un-
conditional surrender and being blown
up with giant powder which had been
placed in beer kegs with fuses attached.
The deputies agreed to leave and
were permitted 10 do so, On the
same day the strikers blew up the
shaft house of the Strong mine with
giant powder. The machinery was
ruined and the house burned. just
as the explosion occurred train ar
rived from Denver with 225 deputies,
WHO disembarked and proceeded to for
tifv themselves in camp. There are