The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


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: surface and threatens to submeroa M
neighoorhood. 1t Is Thought the wa
'er comes from asubterranean river.
On the cath the president apnrovad
, 'he proceedings and findings of IN,
SourImartial which tried First Lieut
r. l.. Leveridge, Fourteenth infantrv
no vancouver barracks, on a CHARGE oi
drunkenness while on duty, and sen.
fenced him TO dismissal from the mill.
tary service. W NIL
ONE HUNDRED employees of the Ceve.
land CO) Ship building Co. went ont
on strike on the 5th. The companv
proposed to pay the old hands s.. AZ
ana new men So. 25 per day. The strike
was Tor a $3.50 per day rate. The
strikers were employed in the boiler
making department
MR. ROBERT r. HrrT. representative
IN congress from Illinois, who had been
dangerously III at his residence in
Washington, was somewhat better. on
the 22d, but not yet out Of danger.
EN-UNITED STATES SENATOR JAMES
4. WILSON died, after protracted ill.
ness, nt fairchild, Ia. on the 22d.
ANOTHER violent earthquake, accom-
panied with thunder, shook Laibaeh.
Austria, on the 22d. Eight or ten
buildings collapsed, and the few fani-
lies who had returned to their homes
ned back again in terror TO the fields
PUBLICATION of Kate Fields WASH
lngton, weekly paper established by
Miss Field in 1890, viii be suspended
until winter, owing to ill-health Of its
owner.
AT o'clock on the morning OF the
2Jd furniture wagon in which party
OF young amateur actors were return
ing to Providence, r. L., from the town
OF Pontiac, was run into and demol-
ished by an elecric car, and five of the
party were injured, one of them, il was
thought, fatally.
The Nicaraguan government was
advised, on the 23d, of the arrival of
three British war ships at Corinto TO
enforce the British ultimatum. Presi-
dent Seelaya cabled to Lord Kimberly.
British secretary of state for foreign
affairs, asking time. Much surprise |
was expressed that there was no Amer |
ican war vessel at Corinto.
JULIA GROSS, aged 16, whose parents
intended TO send her to the House of |
the Good Shepherd, jumped from a
fourth-story window of her home in
New York. on the 2Sd, and killed her.
self
CATHERINE ScOTT, the oldest woman
in Brooklyn, died, on the 23d, at the
advanced age of 103 years. She was
born in Ireland and came to BROOKLYN
seventy years ago.
OSCAR WHDE's valuable collection
of prints, Moorish pottery and bric-a-
brac was sold at auction on the cath.
The articles sold included Carlisle's
writing table.
Ar the London foreign Office it was
officially stated, on the oath, that the
three British war ships in the harbor
Of Corinto, Nicaragua, were there for
the purpose of enforcing the demands
Of Great Britain, set forth in the Brit
ish ultimatum.
RECIPROCITY between the United
States and Hawaii in shipping regn-
lations has recently been brought
about by the action of the treasury
in giving to Hawaiian
vessels the same advantages
enjoyed by American ships.
PETITIONS for rehearing of the in
rome tax cases will be heard in the
United States supreme court on May 8.
when. IL is thought, Associate Justice
Jackson will be present and break the I
lie.
INSTEAD Of a few thousand dollars. 4
rs at first supposed. the defalcation of
.he late Paul Schultz who was land
lgent of the Northern Pacific railroad
Il Tacoma, Wash, viii amount to
800, 900, and may be more by $780, q
100, according to the report of the ex- I
1erts who are engaged in examining n
he accounts Of the deceased. This
and disappointment in love 2
ire believed TO have led to his suicide. T
SIX TONS of nitro-glycerines in the p
actory Of the Ohio and Indiana Tor :,
,edo Co. at Lima, o., exploded, on the
4th. doing considerable damage in the
No lives were lost : Z
OK the oath the president made the
appointments in the army: =
srig. Gen. Wesley Merritt, to be major
eneral; Col s. L. Bliss. Twenty-fourth y
nfantry, to be brigadier-general; Col. n
ohm j. Coppinger, Twenty-third in h
antry, to be brigadier-general b
SECRETARY GRESHAM, on the cath, re- o'
eived a dispatch from Mr.. Hannis
'avlor. United States minister at Mad OF
id. assuring him that Spain would ac- W
ede to the demands of the United AZ
tates in the Alliance affair, and that
he commander of the Conde Venadito o.
,ould be- put ON trial for his offense :
,r firing at an American vessel outside
he zone. i.
FIRE at Sylvania, O.. ON the 24th, y
estroved seven buildings and at one u
me threatened TO sweep the whole y
,wn. Toledo's fire department went
, the rescue and saved the town from re
estruction- aE
MRS. ANN nj. STANLEY. wife OF Gen. w
:. Stanley, governor Of the soldiers dr
nme at Washington, ID. C.. died at
i Johns Hopkins hospital, baltimore, G.
4 the Esd, after long Illness In the 90
-esence of her husband and daughter 81
RESOLUTION, presented by MIR. O.
radv was adopted by the New York ua
,use OF representatives, on the Gath, II
voring the annexation OF the Domin-
n Of Canada TO the United States and ~
vitinp the Canadian people TO cast IN a. =
Leir lot with u.s.
Nv the burning OF McDonald's tobac-
factory. ia Herlga' suburb OF w
on trpal. the largest OF its kind IN aR
NADIA. on the 95th, large number aG
0irls employed therein were com
lrd 10 lump for their lives from the Ti
,nap tl6ors None we're killed out on
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