The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-04-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


IHE Commercial bank OF Cincinnati
M ,al@oe an assignment, on the eth, to w.
=. Campbell, its cashier, payment on
its paper having been suspended bv
.ne clearinghouse. 1t was the Oldest
banking institution In that citv. and
its failure is said to be due to long.
continued mismanagement.
AT the meeting of the Grand ARMY
OK the Republic, department OF Mich
igan, at Mount Clemens. on the 27th a
collection amounting to $500 was taken
up TO assist destitute veterans In
drought-stricken Nebraska.
A DISPATCH from Madrid. on the
9th, stated that the Spanish govern
ment had decided to send Martinez
de Campos with 9,700 additional troops
TO reinforce the army in Cuba.
AN American named Wendell Read
was shot three times and fatally in
lured in the Northern railway station
In Paris, on the 27th, by an English
man named 0Brien. Both men were
bookmakers, and the shooting was the
result OF a quarrel over money mat
ters.
THE Japanese loan of 8, ,O00, 900 ven TO
Corea has fallen through, owing to the
refusal OF Japan to grant Corea's re-
quest that the loan be kept standing
for fifteen years.
MRS. FRANK ANNIs perished In her
burning home, four miles north of
Fenton, Mich. early on the morning
OF the 27th. She was i'll and could not
save herself, although two young chill
dren escaped uninjured. Neighbors ar
rived in time to see her raise up in bed
as the flames enveloped her, but rescue
was impossible.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, was visited bv
most destructive confagration, on
the 2Sth, the flames spreading with
great rapidity because of the made
quate water supply. Forty-six resi-
deces and stores and many other build
ings went down before the all-devour-
ing element, while about 100 families
and many guests of hotels were rem
dered homeless. The aggregate loss
is estimated at $500, 900. All the
palmetto trees along the sea wall from
the fort to Baya lane were killed.
The United States troops stationed
there worked manfully to extinguish
the flames and to save property.
THE mayor of Columbus, Ind, on the
2Sth. ordered a court of inquiry, and
had all the ministers of that city served
with notices to appear and tell. under
oath, what they know about violations
of law. This was done In retaliation
for charges uttered from the pulpit by
John p. Quinn, the reformed gambler,
duplicating the mayor and other city
officials.
FIFTY-sIx buildings were consumed
and thirty-four families rendered home
less and desolate by flames which lev
eled almost the entire business portion
of the town of Canaseraga, N. Y, on
the 2Sth. The total loss is placed at
s135, 200, with insurance between $780,
900 and $4,000
SECRETARY CARLISLE left Washing
ton, on the 2sth. for Covington, KY, to
be in attendance at the bedside Of his
brother, George, who was critically
ia. Mr. Carlisle's absence, it was said,
might be indefinitely prolonged.
THE body of Michael Salmon, 20
years old, who had been missing from
his home in Cleveland, o., since Christ
mas, was found, on the 2sth, com
pletely encased, excepting one foot, In
a huge cake of ice floating in the lake
near the shore, which at times had
been driven many miles out into the
lake and back again by reverse winds.
WILLIAM p, CHALFANT and wife, who
left Pittsburgh, Pa, recently on the
return trip to Ichow-Fu, China, and
who were to have sailed on the steam
ship China, from San Francisco, were
by the mission board to re-
main in this country until matters
have become settled in China.
THE celebrated oil painting by Cas-
sidy Adams, Clusters Last Fight, was
to the Seventh cavalry at
Fort Riley. Kas., on the 2Sth, as a gift
from Adolphus Busch, of St Louis
The painting was acquired by Mr..
Busch several years ago, and is the
same that was exhibited for about ten
years in nearly all the large cities of
the country.
THE proposed loan of 1900, 900 yen
by Japan to Corea was. finally ar
ranged, on the 2sth, the latter govern
ment agreeing TO Japan's terms that
the loan shall be repaid in five years.
INan interview, on the 2sth, in Mad
rid. Senior Castillo said that the Span
ish government was satisfied with the
attitude of the United States In the
Allianca affair, and had ordered the
of Spanish cruisers and
the colonial authorities TO observe In
ternational usages in regard to mari
time action, with view to avoiding
conflict with the United States and
other powers.
THE venerable Mrs Haughey, moth
,r OF Theodore P Haughey, president
Of the wrecked Indianapolis national
bank. who is now serving five years
term in the northern Indiana prison,
died In Chicago, ON the 2sth. Mrs
was o6 years OF age. She
never knew of her sons disgrace.
LrEur. YBARRA has been relieved
from command of the Spanish cruiser
ronde de- venadito, which fred upon
Tho American steamer Allianca- Capt.
Mateuy has been appointed TO succeed
Lieut. Ybarra.
I'm the Brooklyn city court OF oyer
and terminer, on the 29th, Justice
BROWN entered an order dismissinG
All the pending Gravesend indictments
found at the time John \. Mckane
was indicted for ofKenses against the
elective franchise, except those against
McKnue and Kenneth II. Sutherland.
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