The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-03-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PROBABLY the country viii hear mo
more extra session talk this wear. Am
the appropriation bills were passed AMI
signed and the president has gone on
ON his vacation.
lF France follows the example Of
uermany In excluding American dried
apples, the supply OF foreign CHAM
pagnes In this country may be con-
siderably disturbed.
PRENcEToN's football team reports
~ expenses last year at over s2e. 600.
OF which $70S was for drugs and doc
tors. An item OF 1880 for training
table" probably refers to the surgical
operations, and several thousand dol
iars under the head OF incidentals
doubtless went TO the undertakers.
Gov. SnEAKLEY of Alaska. who has
been visiting Washington to file his
annual report, says that the big terri
tory i'm time will be famous in many
ways, but most Of all In its mines.
Even now Alaska is contributing stead
NY to the worlds supply of gold.
1t was stated on authority. ON the
10th. that the international Pacific Ca
bic Co., which failed to get national
charter from congress, will go ahead
with its project of connecting San
Francisco, Honolulu and Yokohama bv
cable, acting under a state charter.
THE women of Alliance, O., held m
largely-attended meeting, on the 9th.
and nominated an independent ticket
for public school board. There was
great enthusiasm. At caucus Of the
populist party, the same evening, tho
women's ticket was indorsed unan-
imously.
News from Havana, on the 9th.
stated that the Guantanamo troops
had attacked and dispersed the insur-
gent band under Berez Brooks at Luzo.
Several of the band were wounded. The
troops captured all their arms, ammu-
nition, etc. The provinces of Puerto
Principe, Matanzas, Pinar, Rio and
Havana were quiet.
SOUTH-BoUND steamers arriving at
New Orleans, on the 5th, reported the
burning of the little steamer Laura
Banks In the Tennessee river with the
loss of several lives, the victims all be-
Ing negroes, excepting a lad named
knight, the 12-year-old son Of the cap
tain OF the boat, who was in the boiler
room when the fire started and could
not escape.
THE city of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
from a S4,000,OO0 confagra-
Lion, on the 9Th, and but for the as
rendered by sailors landed
from American and British ships in
.he harbor, the whole place would |
doubtless have succumbed TO the
DANES.
OTIs r. JOHNSON, the Wisconsin lum-
Derman and capitalist, died in Racine,
on the 9Th, aged so years. leaving an
estate estimated as high as $40, 0,O0O,-
700. lie was partner of the late Sem |
tor Stockbridge, of Michigan; Gen.
Russell A. Alger and ex-senator Saw
rer, OF Wisconsin. He owned millions
If dollars worth of property In the
california redwood country.
AN imperial edict has been issued /
Lbolishing the knout in the infliction
# punishment in Russia. Hitherto /
he peasantry have been completely at i
he mercy of the local judges. The is
uance OF this edict is due to the fact
hat statistics were submitted to the
zar, which showed that within the
asst ten years 5000 persons convicteda
i petty thefts have died from the ef-
ects OF the knout
on the 9Th the French government
eceived information by cable from
zanzibar that the French had seized
he island OF Nossivey, lying south
vest OF Madagascar.
HERR ScHSnELE, the German gov
rnor OF New Guinea, committed sui
ide at Batavia, Jamaica, on the 9th,
" shooting with revolver. He was
n his way to his home in Germany.
NoRvAL A. HAWKINS, ex-cashier Of
he Detroit (Mich.) branch of the
standard Oil Co., was found guilty by
jury, on the 9th, Of having embez-
led S2, 700 of the company's funds.
he defendant admitted taking the
money, but claimed that he had in
ested S3, 600 in the hope of. increasing
is earning capacity and squaring his
IL was claimed that he was
OF criminal, but falling debtor.
on the 7th Public Printer Benedict
ismissed 100 employees OF the govern
lent printing Office. the majority Of
hem being compositors. The remov-
Is were caused by the adjournment
congress, which made scarcity OK
-ork. Other dismissals will follow as
be work OF the bureau decreases.
GEORGE Il. SHoUP was reelected
-nited states senator from Idaho, on
10 7th, on the first ballot He re-
aived the entire Mormon vote. There
+as great rejoicing In Boise City after
le election, Senator Shoup being ex-
popular in Idaho.
THE steamer Rosedale sank In the
Tnbash river, near New Haven, Ill,
n thp ath. One deck hand was drowned
I'D 5000 bushels OF corn was lost
he seventeen passengers were res
ned.
AR South London, on the 7th, an un-
plasterer named Taylor !
avinR become respondent from long 4
Ileness. murdered his wife and five
,ildran and them killed himself.
AssrMRLYMAN B1AKE's bill abolish
n capital punishment I'm New YORK
as lost on final passage, on the 7th'
y vote OF ayes 26, nays g.
nou.ER at the III. n. Goodrich COM
anv'a mill at Akron, o., exploded. on y
NJ -+1, L{l1fnu John Vance and se-