Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-14

Well received painful hyies. A
case OF reckless running wiIibe made
against the motorman, E. Il. Max
well, by patrolman Hudson.
A Floyd county, Ga.,farmcr has
been arrested and committed by a
United States commissioner for pass
ing counterfeit nickels and having
such countcrfeits in his possession.
| His name Is A. N Turner, and he Is
supposed to he one of gang that has
been operating in that section during
the past year.
Three negroes, Austin Edwards.
John Perry and Solomon Nelson,
we're shot and killed by Edward Dan
iels, who claims that he acted in self
defense. He says the negroes tried
to whip his little brother, aud when
he demonstrated they cursed aud
abused him, as they had previously
done his father.
| A lunatic, found roaming aimlessly
about on Peters street, Atlanta, Ga,
was taken to police headquarters
where he gave his name as Robert
Phillips, and said he been confined
four years, or longer, in the state lu-
matte asylum, and that he made key
of bone with which he unlocked his
door and escaped.
! Pat Cox. a noted outlaw southwest
Virginia, was killed near Wise court
house while resisting arrest. A few
weeks ago he killed one of his cousins
and fatally wounded another. Being
surrounded, near an illicit still, by
posse conducted by deputy sheriff,
he fired on them, seriously wounding
two. The sheritf's posse returned the
fire and he was killed.
Col. Speed and his $50 seceders
from Kelley's industrials abandoned
their boats at Venice, H., and took
the tie route on the Vandalia rail-
road. Cairo has issued quarantine
order against Kelly and his men on
account of small pox. City marshal
Mahoney, of Cairo has in his hands
warrant against Kelly, for assault
with intent to kill one of his men.
The Yaqui Indians are depredatine
in Mexico. They attacked hacienda
near Nacoroy, and though it was well
fortified, they killed five of the de-
tenders, with loss of only three.
Another place in that vicinity was
attacked by the same band and all the
rancho buildings, with several thous-
and bushels of grain, were burned.
Several murders of white settlers in
Yaqui river valley are also reported.
Ed L. Smith, young man of IA
years, was drowned while bathing in
the lake at Ponce de Leon, Atlanta,
Ga. He was good swimmer, but
was seized with cramp while swim
ming in ten feet water and went
down. Mr.. j. w. Thompson went
to his assistance, and got hold of him,
but was dragged under, aud being
much exhausted had 10 abandon the
effort to save his friend. Smiths
parents reside at Lithonia.
A rebellion which has been brewing
some time in Corea, has assumed for
midable proportions. Having raised
an army of $4,000 men they have de-
feated the government forces in the
district of Tsingla, and issued man.
ifesto, in which, among other things
they say that foreigners must quit the
country. They are well provided
with arms. British war vessels are
on the alert to protect foreign inter.
ests, and an American ship has been
ordered there.
Michael MCGOWAN has sued the city
of San Francisco, Cal. He sets I'D
that the hospital surgeons of that city,
while he was in the hospital for treat
ment of an ulcerous ankle, put him
under the influence of an an@sthetio
and, without his knowledge or consent,
cut from his thighs seven strips of
skin an inch and half wide and
from four to eight inches long, which
they used to repair the faces of a
Frenchman and French woman who
had been badly burned. He further
complains that said Frenchman has
tainted him with his misfortune.
For all, which he asks the court to
give him judgment against the city
for $25, 1000.
The citizens of Round Pond, q. r.,
are making war on the Rock Island
railroad because the company estab-
lished depot at rival town and re-
fused to stop trains at theirs. They
placed wagon on the track to stop a
train. A stock train cut right through
1T, but was ditched further on where
the track was torn up, and twelve
car loads of cattle were killed. The
citizens are massing with arms to pre-
vent the repair of the track. The
company is arming its men and
lovely time is in prospect. The gov
ernor of Oklahoma has called for
United States troops to conserve the
place. Thirty railroad men have been
arrested and are guarded in Jail, and
train loads of armed men are rushing
to the scene.