The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-04-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

well-to-do Chinaman. and NO. ..-..h'
So hlh In Justice Belts court In Kan
sas City, Kas. " nun
UNITED STATES CoNsur,-GrNrp. =
REL at ST. Petersburg renorts - "a ~,
state department that the Russian pov.
ernment is making strong efforts n
extend the cultivation Of tea in tbs
empire. wax
AN interesting bit of political news
Is the report that ex-Recorrler Frada,.,
lex Smyth is to be elected GRAND
sachem Of the Tammany Hall organiza.
tion in New York city.u
JoHN II. KNOWLES, a sailor who mad.
himself famous during the naval en-
gagement in Mobile bay between the
Hartford and Tennessee by lashinp
admiral Farragut to the rigging of the
hartford, died at Annapolis, Md. on
the 9th. He had been in the navu
forty-fve years.
lHE entire lower portion of the large
plant OF the Susquehanna Iron Co. at
columbia, Pa, was destroyed bv fire
at an early hour on the 10th. Loss.
500, 900; covered by insurance. The
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DURING practice firing at the Woo
Sung forts in China, on the 10th. n
magazine accidentally exploded kill
ing forty men and injuring many more.
IIiE steamer Dean Richmond, which
went down off Dunkirl5, N. Y, over a
year ago, with eighteen souls, drifted
ashore on the night Of the 9th.
The steamer Tartar Prince, with
Jabez Spencer Balfour aboard, sailed
from Buenos Ayres for London on the
10th.
A SPECIAL from Washington, on the
llth. said the Cuban revolutionists
would on that day formally announce
the independence of the island, estab-
lish a republic, proclaim constitu-
tion, name their officers and ask recog-
tion, first of the United States, and
then Of other nations.
STATE SENATOR GoEBEL shot and
killed Cashier John Sanford of the
Farmers aud Traders national bank
of CoyingtOn, KY, on the 11th. The
tragedy was the sequel of long
standing feud between the men, and
was the immediate result OF an article
published by Goebel about Sanford.
Sanford fired the first shot. After the
shooting Goebel delivered himself up
TO the police.
THE Cripple Creek and Grassy ex-
press wagon was held up, on the 11th,
by two men who had asked permission |
TO ride, and who, after beating him,
forced the driver to hold the horses
while they cut open the mail bag and /
rifled its contents. They secured one /
package containing $4,000 and prob
ably others and made their escape. A
large posse of men we're soon in pur-
suit.
The outbreak of the plague in
Macao, in the Portuguese settlement
in China. was officially announced on
the l1th.
FUNERAL services over the remains
of the late w. Jennings Demorest, the
well-known magazine publisher and
advocate of the principles of the pro-
party, were held in New
York city. on the 18th, and were large
ly attended by relatives, friends and
admirers of the deceased. The body
0dc lutChICu IL A1Ouub AcuAnCO CcAuc-
terry.
A DISPATCH received from Havana,
on the 18th, said the reports circulated
In the United States that meeting of
the insurgent leaders would be held in
Guatnaro, in the province of Puerto
Principe, for the purpose of promul-
eating formally declaration of inde-
pendence were erroneous.
A BAND OF $50 Cuban rebels entered
the camps of the Juruaga Mining Co.
near Santiago, on the night of the 10th,
and confscated all the arms which the
had.
A ST. PETERSBURG special says the
Inspector of prisons at Koonger, in the
of Perm. while drunk, or
iered that three prisoners who had
iried to escape be beaten to death by
.he guards with the butts Of their Z
-ifles. One of the prisoners was killed,
ind the other two were fatally in
ured.
IT was stated on good authority, on :
The l1th, that j. $. Clarkson is organ
zing a company to start a newspaper !
1t Chicago to be called the Register
after his old paper at Des Moines, Ia.
md that half of the capital had been
'aised. 1t will be free silver organ.
OFFICIAL advices received in Wash !
ngton from Japan. on the 18th, indi-
,ated that an understanding had been :
cached between the Japanese and Chi 1
lese plenipotentiaries, and that the
Jews of the definite conclusion Of a a
reaty Of peace might be looked for at 1
my moment. O
SAMUEL Il. KAN, farmer OF May '
own, Pa, climbed a tree. on the 18th, p
o cut a switch, when he fell to the
,round. "a distance of Is feet, and broke :.
lis neck. When he started to climb =
he tree he remarked 10 his brother 4
n-law: "I expect I'll fall and break
az neck" d
THE farm house of j. Gilmore.
niles north of Howard City, Mich, D
vas destroyed by fire ON the 18th. A v
-year-old son was burned to death;
mother, aged IL, will probably die, b
nd Mrs. Gilmore was badly bnrned. n
Ho=. JAMES CAMPBELL, who was min IA
,ter to Norway and Sweden under y,
Lincoln. died at his home in
Wayne. near Philadelphia, on the 18th, :.
ged 7a. =,
A coRoNER's jury in Covington. KY, :, =
a the 18th, found that the killing OF =
ohm t. Sandford by William Goebel, ~
he day previous, was done Ia self-de- 20
snse.
JAMES B GENTRY. the actor who shot p,
is fance, Madge forke. the actress, Ci
ladalnbia- on February 27. was Il,