The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-03-22
CURRENT TOPICS,
Personal AND GENERAL

NEWS was received from SHANGHAI
on the 18th, that Col Won Henelren
the German commander. had left tha
Chinese service.
ARTHUR SAUER, the booklseeper and
cashier OF the Defiance (O.) national
bank, who disappeared. January ~
was arrested, on the 1sth, In the Rre-
WORT house in Chicago, by Central de-
tectives who had long been on the
lookout for him.
JUDGE BAKER, of Chicago. on tbo
lath, discharged the last panel of TWEEN
ty-three jurors, after rendering a de-
cision that the system In vogue OF
drawing citizens for jury service IN
Cook county is illegal, and that every
jury serving In the courts to-day Is do
ing so on an unlawful basis, and that
nll verdicts rendered by them ARE.
therefore, illegal
FIRE in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, destroyed a four-story building
occupied by the English Supply Co.
dealers in engine supplies and wrought
iron materials, and a five-story build
ing occupied by the Western Newspa-
per Union and the Great.Wcstern type
foundry, causing total loss OF over
100000, about one-half covered by In
surance. f.
SIX ITALIANS and one American lad,
were killed (the last-named accident
allyl, on the 18th, by q mob In retalia-
tion for the murder of q saIoon-lxeeper
at Rouse, Col. 1t Is thought the Ital-
ians were all naturalized citizens
AN order issued by Supt James Z.
White of the railway mail service
denies postal clerks the privilege of
free transportation except over their
own routes. All commissions and
passes which have heretofore been is-
sued allowing clerks to ride free over
other lines have been called in.
Gov. MCINTYRE of Colorado received
telegram from Washington, on the
14th, asking him TO proceed at once
against the murderers OF the Italians
at Walsenberg.
AN amended bill TO abolish capital
punishment passed the Nebraska SEN
ate on the l4th. 1t had good pros
pect of passing the house, and the gov
ernor was said to favor IL.
Four men were buried under the
walls OF the Commercial Trading Co.'S
building in Laramie, Wyo., which was
destroyed by fire on the 14th. James
Foster was taken out dead, and George
Cordinier. a university student, was
fatally injured.
A PHENOMENAL vote was cast at the
republican primaries in Cleveland, o.,
on the 18th. the total reaching 23,332.
Many women took advantage Of their
recently-acquired franchise and at
tended the primaries. rr sew 80
CAPT LEONARD @. SHEPARD, chief Of
the revenue marine division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton city of pneumonia, on the l4th, af-
ter an illness of ten days, aged o.
A coNcURRESr resolution, proposing
an amendment to the New York con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote, passed the assembly on the l4th,
so 10 21.
A SYNDICATE Is forming in Belgium
to import Canadian horses into that
country. rs,
THE American loan opened In Lon
don, on the 18th, at SO per cent pre-
mium and closed unchanged. a.a.a
JUDGE L. Il. McKIsIcK, acting as
special counsel for the government, on
the 18th, filed his claim, involving $15,-
OOO. 600, in the case of the government
against Jane L. Stanford, executrix of
the last will of the late Senator Stan
ford, to recover from the estate the
pro rata Of taxes due the United States
from the Central Pacific Railway Co.
TuE women of Orange, N. j., will is
sue, on April 1, an extra edition OF the
Orange Chronicle for the benefit OF the
Orange free library. Preparations for
this edition are being made on very
extensive scale and il is expected that
this sample of purely women's work
will be one of the most unique OF It's
kind.
THE failures in the United States,
FOR the week ended on the 18th, as re-
norted bv R. G. Dun & Co, were 200,
/ AGAINST 264 for the corresponding
,yeel, last wear. For Canada the fall-
ures numbered 81, against 55 last year.
A1ors ForDL killed himself on Logan
avenue. a fashionable thoroughfare In
nerver. Col. on the 18th, by exploding
a dynamite cartridge about an inch
and a half in diameter and fonr '1nches
lonp. The entire left side OF his body
was blown into fragments
OrEEN VIcroRIA arrived at Nice,
rtalv ON the 18th, and was received
Will a great display Of ceremony oy
ar, ma gor and other municipal author
tiles. H..
Tur Red Star line steamer Fries
land. Capt. Nichols, having on Doaru
4sO American excursionists' arriVeu ~
SMYRNA on the l4th.
Trr California senate, on the laLn'
defeated the woman suffrage DILL
which had already passed the assem-
bly,. ,.,.o senate
- the watkins bill, abolishing
canital punishment. which had alreaoy
passed the house.
P'.',,, c,+r.r,rr any GRESHAM, in spite Of ms
sickness and che inclemency on .ne
weather. resumed duty at the state oc-
nartmerit Oh the l5th,r.
~ HuNo CHANG, China'a peace en-
- sailed from shanghai on the lotn'
~ ~ r.nan. with his suite OF forty per-
sons. Marshal Nc
r.ran arrested mt Meridian, Miss on q
l1'.s .ts.,-s "a ..extortion in Office, 2 came up
= the United States court on tne i1s", 49,.
,rhe prisoner pleaded guilty 70 'ne se
charge and received o. sentences Z. sn;1 sn