The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-02

DISPATCH from Vienna rnvs fba,
sne hussian government has expeier
Mime. Modjeslxa, the well-lxpo,vp !.
sIcas' from Warsaw, owing to violent
speech she made against Russia IN ch,
cago. Nine. Modjeska has also beer
notified that she may not again appea,
on the Russian stage. rS~'
MRS VIRGINIA MARSHALL. Dpov.
mas been granted divorce from Archi.
Daiu DIXON Brown, at Louisville. XIV.
Inc defendant is Gov. John Youno
browns son and secretary. and tbe
Pia'ntiif is a member of one of the
most prominent families in the state.
WHILE trying TO escape from pursu-
ing officers at Buckhannon, w. Va.
on the 25th, Everett Miller. n green.
goods man, jumped into the river ana
was drowned. His partner. c. ID. Lew
is, was arrested.
JOHN McCABE. 90 years old. ex-chief
OF the New York fire department. COM
mitted suicide in the Milholland club
rooms New York city, on the 25th.
oy shooting himselfin the right temple
with revolver.
lHE Nicaragua canal board met at
the war department. on the 25th. and
organized. No officers were elected
as Col. Ludlow, it was understood. will
act as chairman and disbursing officer.
Application will be made for the at
taching to the commission of a naval
surgeon.
The complaint sworn to before n
Justice of the peace on which Lord
Sholto Douglass was arrested for in
sanity at Bakersfield, Cal, was with
drawn, on the 25th, before the case
was called up in the superior court.
and the judge at once discharged the
prisoner.
EMILY THORNTON CHARLES died al
her home in Washington city, on the
25th, in her fifty-sixth year. She was
native of Indiana, having been born
and reared at Lafayette, in that state.
She was writer of much force and
poet of no little merit. She wrote al
most exclusively under the nom de
plume of Emily Hawthorne"
JOHN PERKPILE, shot and killed his
wife at Sydney, o., on the goth. Mrs.
Perkpile had been arrested, in com.
pany with several men, and sentenced
to fifteen days Imprisonment. Perk-
pile went to the Jail to pay her fine,
and calling his wife to the bars drew
a revolver and shot her dead.
A WAGON load of nisro-glycerine, con-
tanning 200 quarts, exploded 3 miles
from Bluffton, o., on the Goth, with a
shock that was felt for forty miles. |
VIII Elmer, the driver, was blown to |
atoms, and of the team only part Of |
one horses neck could be found.
DURING the week ended the Goth |
failures in the United States, as re-
ported by r. g. Dun & Co., were go,
against 179 for the corresponding week
last year. For Canada the failures
numbered 81, against 26 last year.
FIRE, on the Goth, destroyed the
greater portion of Minnewaulan, in
lorthern North Dakota. near the Man
toba border Only two business
houses were left The aggregate loss
S $40, 900, with SIS, 200 insurance.
AN explosion of fire damp took place
n colliery at Denny, Clustering,
on the 26th, while III men
we're working in the pit. Thirteen Of
he number were killed and several
we're injured.
AN attempt was made TO wreck
santa Fe east-bound passenger train
lear Pasadena, Cal, on the night Of
he 25th. A bowlder and plank placed
cross the track were discovered by
'oung lady named Wilson, who dashed
nto her house, seized a lamp from the
able and succeeded in tagging the
rain just in time TO avert a catas-
rOphe.