The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13

BUSINESS failures throughout the
country, during the seven days ended on
tho 9th, numbered: For the United
States, 1T9; Canada, 20; total, POS, com
pared with 2fs for the previous week.
For the corresponding week Of last year
the figures were 200 in the United
States and 25 in Canada 81
The Indiana Democratic State CEN
trail committee met at indianapolis, on
the 9Th, and fixed the date Of the State
convention for August 2S, against the
protests Of a majority Of the candidates
who began their canvass months ago in
the expectation OF July convention.
THE Masonic Grand Lodge at OF
tumwa, Ia. on the 9th, disposed Of the
Cerneau question by ordering members
to withdraw from that body or have
charges preferred for expulsion. The
vote stood 5s3 for and AIS against the
resolution.
Two deaths from smallpox have oc-
CURED at Hillsboro, N. M. The quar-
antine laid by the citizens short time
ago was declared off and the guards
taken away from the infected families,
which seems to have increased the
spread of the disease.
/ THE streets of Salem, Mass, were
flooded and many Of them washed out
on the 9th, by the heaviest thunder
storm of the season. Half OF the tele-
phone boxes in the town we're burned
out
THE Ames' Threshing Machine and
Reaper Works, situated in the outskirts
of Oswego. N. Y, we're struck by light
ming, on the night Of the 5th, and
burned; loss, $40, ZOO.
BY the breaking of the fiange OF
wheel a passenger train was thrown
from the track Of the Chicago & North
western road at the edge Of Rockford,
Ill, on tho 9th. Engineer f. w. Brais-
dell, who had run on the road thirty
six years, and section men Augusta John
son, John Gustapson, Emil Anderson
and Miles Anderson were instantly
killed Fireman Secor. of Freeport,
was terribly injured and may die.
DANIEL Wilcox jumped from the
Newport railroad bridge at Cincinnati,
ninety feet, into the river, on the 8th,
fell on his stomach and was SO badly in
jured that he died half an hour later.
lie held a medal given by the United
States Government for saving eighteen
lives during the food Of 1888. He was
thirty-fve years old.
JAMES BARTON and VIM. Johnson,
cattlemen Of Cheyenne, Wyo., who
have been active in the campaign
against cattle thieves, were ambushed,
on the sth, by George Mcdonald and
companion named Sinscum, the leaders
Of the cattle thieves. Barton was
killed at the first fire, but johnson es-
capped uniniured.
THE saw-mill and sash and door fac
tory Of the Zacto Manufacturing Com
pany, at Bucoda, Wash, we're totally
destroyed by fire. on the 9TH, together
with three million feet Of dressed lum-
Der. The fire spread to other houses in
Bucoda, and the whole town, which has
about 100 inhabitants, was threatened.
THE Minnesota editors with their
ladies, to the number Of $50, arrived in
Washington, on the 9th, on special
train over the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road for four days visit An elabor-
ate programme for their entertainment
was prepared.
REV. J. II. KNEIsT. aged fifty-hve,
died, on the sth, in his pew in the
Emanuel Lutheran Church in Philadel-
phia, the pastorate Of which he re-
signed two years ago after paralytic
stroke. He was for twenty-three years
pastor Of the Reformed Lutheran Church
in Buffalo. He was vice-presidento OF the
general synod Of that church in Amer
lea and had written a number Of works
on theology. a4t