The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-23

The Madrid government has decided
to send no more troops at present to
Cuba.
The National Woman Suffrage con-
vention mt Salt Lake City, Utah, came
to sudden end. on the 18th, by Miss
Anthony's being called TO return home.
ADMIRAL NORM. italian minister of
marine, In a speech at Spezzia, on the
18th, said the total retrenchments in
the Italian navy department for the
current year would be 5000. 600 lire,
and boasted that II would be the most
cheaply administered marine estab-
lishment in Europe.
COL JUDsoN ID. BINGHAM. assistant
quartermaster general, was placed on
the retired list OF the army, on the
10th, having reached the age of Ga
years.
The British steamer Billion, from
Langkat, was reported burned outside
Of Penang, Malica strait, on the 10th.
All on board were supposed to be lost.
The powder factory at Dollar Bay,
Mich, exploded on the 18th. Fred
Shepard, the only man in the mixing
house, was killed by the explosion.
The works were badly damaged. They
had just been rebuilt, having been
blown up with loss of life at the noon
hour two months before.
JONES & LAUGHLIN, operating the
extensive American iron works at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th volun-
tarily advanced the wages of all their
skilled workmen 10 per cent The
wages of laborers remain at Sl.20 per
day. About 1000 men participate in
the advance.
OWING TO an epidemic of rabies
which prevailed in that state the house
of representatives Of Florida passed a
bill. on the 10th. putting the control
of animals affected with hydrophobia
in the hands Of the state health officer.
The one hundred and seventh gen.
eral assembly Of the Northern Presby-
terian church opened its sessions in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th, in the his
toric Third Presbyterian church, with
the customary ceremonies. DIR. Robert
Russell Booth, OF New York, was
chosen moderator.
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH of Batten-
berg and party arrived at Chicago, on
the 10th, from San Francisco and spent
day or two in looking over that city
before proceeding eastward.
OK the 18th the Swedish chambers
jointly voted 100000 kroner to the
government to supply its immediate
wants in the event Of possible war, OF
to send Swedish troops to Norway in
case of a revolution there.
GEORGE J. BOALs, very prominent
attorney of Denver, Col, was taker
with convulsions in his Office, on ths
morning of the 18th, and died at noon
THE appointment of Count Col
chowski to succeed Count Kalnoly a:
imperial prime minister Of Austria
was gazetted in Vienna on the 18th.
1T was stated at the interior depart
ment, on the 18th, that the Siletz In
dian reservation in Oregon will b'
opened July 25 next.
THE Spanish steamer Gravina, will
her cargo, was, on the nth, lost of
Capones in a typhoon- Only two o.
her crew were saved.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the nth
said the Spanish government was max
ing arrangements to send 1,500 cavalry
to Cuba.
FREDERICK CLEVELAND. distant rel
ative Of the president, died at Phelps
N. ", on the 18th, Of Bright's disease
aged 7s.
EDWARD PAYsoN PITCHER, prineipa
of a New York city grammar school
died suddenly in Newburg, N. Y, OF
the 10th, eight hours after his mar
riage. Organic heart trouble was the
cause.