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

THE fast stock train on the Illinois
Central railroad was completely
wrecked, on the 4th, by washout near
Ackley, la. More than 100 head Of cat
tie we're killed. The train men escaped
uniniured.
MRs. SMITH, Of Middlebury, Conn,
rushed into pond, on the 9th. to res
cue her two boys whose raft had cap
sized, and getting beyond her depth
perished with her children.
THE Car Of Russia has issued a ukase
ordering the abandonment Of the Rus
sian anti-Jewish policy for one year.
This measure is understood to have
been taken in Difference TO the numer-
Gus protests against the recent whole
sale expulsions of Jewish merchants,
lawyers and other prominent Hebrews
which have taken place in Russian Po-
land. Southern Russia and other parts
Of the Empire.
FIFTEEN children were rendered un-
conscious by stroke of lightning
which struck the Blissman school-house
at Flandreau, S. d., on the 5th. All
subsequently recovered.
THE first reception OF the newly
formed Northern Society was held at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 5th, and was
largely attended by Northern-born and
Southern-born Georgians. Interesting
speeches we're made by prominent citi-
Gems. The society is on the same gen.
eral plan as that of the Southern So
cietv of New York.
OK the 4th George Hale, aged forty,
fell from the roof Of house at Elm
Grove. w. Va, and was impaled on the
sharp points of a picket tence. One
picket tore open his abdomen. His
wounds are probably fatal.
Ok the 4th the Republican conven-
ton at Montgomery, Ala, nominated
the following State ticket: For Gov
ernor Noble Smithson; Secretary of
State, w. II. Vernon; Auditor, e. Il.
Jennins; Treasurer, T. ID. Booth: Sup
erintendent of Education, Amos Towle;
Attorney General, John I. Ezell.
AMONG the cabin passengers Of the
City Of Pekin, which arrived at San
Francisco from Hong Kong on the 4th,
were Count and Countess Yaumda, Of
Japan.
ROB LYONS, gambler, known all over
the West as Diamond Bob" shortly
after midnight on the morning Of the
4th, was saved from the bullet of a
ST. Paul Mimi burglar by two poker
chips which he carried in his pocket
and which stopped the deadly missile.
DURING a quarrel, on the 5th, over a
trivial matter while engaged in laying
carpets, Fred Hundley, aged sixteen.
of Huron, s. d., drew a pistol and shot
and instantly killed his father, Zach 4.
Hundley, a prominent lawyer and we'll
known citizen.
THE lottery people seem to be gain
ing ground in the Louisiana Legis-
lature, and are in very confident
mood. They desire to force vote as
soon as possible. The opponents Of the
lottery attribute this to the lavish use
of money.
A cLoUD-BURsTs struck near Brookline,
Ont, on the 5th. swelling the creek to
tha proportions Of river. Six bridges
snd nearly all the mill dams in the
township we're swept away. The rail-
road was washed out, cutting of rail
communication. Several barns and
other outbuildings went down in the
food, and great amount OF damage
was done all through the township
The loss is estimated at $4,000
THE seven Belgian glass blowers who
arrived at New York on the Umbria,
recently. and were detained on suspi-
cion OF having come under contract to
work for the Warwick Glass Company
of Now Jersoy were, on the 9th, or
a.raa In be sent back to Belgium.