The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-04-19

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THE twenty-sixth annual roru,. :.
@ ane Society Of the Army of the Poto.
mac VIII be held in New London
Conn, on June Is and 10.
~ view ofthe approaching Nav dav
demonstrations. the Italian govern.
ment has ordered the arrest of ali Al.
cialists and anarchists whose name.
are entered upon the police records a,
dangerous characters
AT Shannonville. Pa. ON tha ,o,h
Matte Frets, the ll-year-oId daughter
., ., 'ohn trets, proprietor of the Weth.
iiis mansion, a well-known summer re-
Sort was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed By her sister Mary. aged
Is years. ~ 0u
EX-SENATOR GEORGE w. JoSEs NJ
dubuque, Ia, was 81 years old on the
iztn' but the anniversary celebration
was deferred to Easter Sunday. His
two surviving colleagues In the United
states senate, James w. Bradbury. of
Maine, and Alpheus Felch, OF Michi-
gan, were invited to dine with him
but both declined, owing to the in
firmities Of age.
On the 18th a son of John LYNN vva.
killed by lightning near Sturris. Nv.
The boys brother was on the same
horse, but, strange to say, he was not
killed, although somewhat injured.
They had just started for work. The
horse which they were riding was in
stantly killed.
CARL SHAW, treasurer of Blaine
county, Okla, is in Jail for embezzling.
lie was arrested on a charge Of embez-
zling the funds of his Office and the
grand jury has found five indictments
against him. Shaw's shortage is placed
at over $1,000, while his bond is less
than $4,000.
IHE war department has been Obliged
TO issue general order warning SOL
diers against burning their hands in
using the new small-bore rife. The
heat generated by firing the smokeless
powder IS so great as 10 require caution
in handling the piece.
OWING to the abnormal rise in the
price of meat, owing TO the curtailed
supply Of cattle, and the inability Of
the people to purchase, many Of the
New York butcher shops have been
compelled to suspend business.
SEVERAL districts of Sicily were
shaken severely by earthquakes on the
14th. The shocks were most violent
in the province of Syracuse. In Monte
rosso Alamo churches and other build
ings were laid i'm ruins. The garrison
at the barracks were alarmed after the
first shock and were marched out IN
haste, as the walls were cracking, and
the people OF the town were so badly
frightened that they refused to remain
indoors.
JAMES WILMoT ScoTT, editor and pro
prietor of the Chicago Times Herald,
iied' at the Holland house i'm New
York, on the 14th, of apoplexy.
THE pope's encyclical inviting Pro-
.estants to join the Catholic church
md directing Catholics to pray for
heir conversion was expected to ap-
,ear on the 18th.
PROF. JAMES DWIGHT DANA, author /
Ind scientist, died very suddenly at
New Haven, Conn, on the 14th.
TIE associated banks of New York /
.ity held Sl4, ,929, 7s5 in excess of TIE 25-
percent. rule on the 18th.
The murdered and mutilated body Of
Minnie Williams, a young domestic,
vas found in the study of Rev. DIR.
iibson, pastor Of the Emanuel Baptist
hurch in San Francisco, on the night
4 the 18th. On the 14th, another hor-
ible discovery WAS made of the dead
'ody OF Blanch Lamont, who had been
Missing since the 81 in small room In
he steeple of the same church. Sus-
'icion pointed to young medic Il stu
ent. and he was arrested.