The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-03-15

THE boiler I'm Kenney's sawmill. To-
Gated o miles cast OF Hillsdale. Mich.
exploded, on the 7th. demolishing the
mill and instantly killing Al Kinney,
the proprietor.
The big cordagc works Of William
Wall a Sons, on Bushwick avenue
Williamsburg, N. ", have entirelg
ahut down, all the employees being dis.
charged. The plant during the last
few years has been controlled by the
Cordage trust. 1t gave employment tc
nearly 1000 persons.
In the British house OF commons. on
the 7th, Mr.. Henry Gardner, president
OF the board OF agriculture, promised
that the government would make in.
quirJ into the alleged packing Of dis.
eased meat in Chicago for export tc
England.
AT Louisville, Ky, on the sth, the
steamer John *. Speed was blown
over the dam at the falls In the Ohio
river and considerably damaged. Had
she not righted quickly she would
have broken 20 pieces.
POLICE JUSTICE QUTGLEY. Of Brook.
lyn, was removed from Office, on the
sth, by an order handed down by the
special term OF the supreme court OF
New York.
liz was reported from Paris. on the
sth, that the difficulty between France
and San Domingo had been settled.
The woman suffrage bill was defeat.
ed in the California senate on the sth.
BURT AND WILLIAM COLEMAN, broth
ers, aged, respectively, 22 and Is, were
shot and killed near Ncwkirk, Okla.
on the sth, by Cyrus Cowan, a con-
testee for the claim occupied by the
two brothers. Cowan gave himself up
after the killing.
A CYCLONE passed over north Geor.
gia, on the night Of the sth, which is
reported to have caused much damage
in many localities.
HEALTH OFFICER WRIGHT, Of New
Haven, Conn, and DR.. j. p. c. Foster,
one Of the lecturers In the Yale med
ical school, gave orders, on the 10th,
that every student i'm Yale university
should be vaccinatcd at once unless he
could furnish proof OF having been
vaccinated within two years.
DIR. FREDERICK Cook, the well-lsnown
explorer, has come forward with q new
plan for accomplishing the conquest OF
the antarctic region. With a small
band of scientists he expects TO sail
from New York September next and
1t may be three years before the expe-
dition returns.
FIRE destroyed the shaft house Of the
Old Abe mine at White Oaks, N. NJ, on
the 10th, the flames communicating to
the shafting In the mine which was
also completely destroyed. Eight Of
the nine men at the time in the mine
were believed to have been suffocated.
PAT SULLIVAN. aged 50, Of Fall
River, Mass, went to bed with a silver
half dollar, a quarter and a nickel in
his mouth, all OF which he swallowed
during the night and, on the morniag
Of the 10th, was found by his wife cold
in death.
A WHALE about seveuty-five feet in
length and evidently an old settler was
killed Off Nahant, Mass, on the 9th,
by picked crew of experienced men
made up in Nahant for the purpose.
TIE Alice rubber mill at Woon-
socket, X. l., Of the United States Rub
ber trust. and the works at Millville,
Mass, resumed operations on the 11th.
The associated banks of New York
city held S22, ,7ss. .630 In excess of the
.5-per-cent. rule on the 9th.
THE Dominion comptroller of GUS
toms has decided that electricity gem
Grated in the United States for use 10
Canada, as proposed al Niagara, ia sub
iect to 20 per cent duty.