The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

victed in the recorders court ut Detroit
OF willfully and fraudulently forQ-
ing and altering the tabulated election
returns OF Wayne county on the state
salaries amendment in 1892. Clark was
never sentenced.
The home of Stanford Kimely, In the
country near Atchison, Kas., was
burned, on the 30th, during the tempo
rary absence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimley,
and their two children, aged years
and Is months, were cremated. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
THE body OF DIR. G. s. Dixon, prom
inent citizen of Ashland. Wis, who was
lost in the woods last winter, was found
by searching party on the sOth.
A CRUCIAL test of Carnegie Harvey
lied plate armor took place at the In
dian Head proving grounds, on the lst,
in which, after all the required tests
had been successfully resisted by
plate l6 feet 01 inches long, feet
5 ll-16 inches wide. Of tapering thick
ness from Is to inches, and weighing
7g,s00 pounds, a l3-inch Carpenter
shell, weighing 100 pounds, dis
charged with velocity of 1910 feet
per second with striking energy of
$4,000 foot tons, was almost pulverized
upon the plate, which was penetrated
only to the depth Of 10 inches.
The Baltimore railroad tunnel. one
of the most remarkable engineering
feats Of modern times, built under the
city Of Baltimore. Md. from Camden
station to Bayview junction, on the
Philadelphia division Of the Baltimore
g. Ohio railroad, q distance of IL
miles, was formally opened for bust
ness on the 1st.
A NoRTH-BoUND passenger train on
the Chicago & Alton railroad was
boarded by three robbers at point
one mile north of Carlinville, H., on
the night of the 1st, and in the fight
which ensued with the train men,
Engineer Holman, one of the oldest
engineers on the road, was killed. The
robbers were pursued and captured.
On the steamer vigilancia. which ar
rived at New York, on the lst, from
Havana, was Ramon c. Williams, con-
sul-general of the United States at
Havana. Mr.. Williams declined to
say anything about Cuban affairs.
THE town OF Patterson, Kas., was
visited by death-dealinR cyclone, on
the 1st, which destroyed property to
the value of of 1925, 900 and caused the
death of many persons and injury to a
great many others.
GUATEMALA has united with Hondu-
ras in dispatch to Secretary Gresham
asking him to use his good offices to
bring about a peaceable solution OF
the Nicaragua dispute with Great
Britain.
LARIMER, small town in Union
county, Ia, was nearly wiped out by
fire on the 1st Seventeen business
houses were burned. The loss and in
surance are unknown. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
The bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer
Czizelx, of Mount Clemens, Mich, were
notified, on the 1st, that there is de-
falcation of funds amounting to about
$40, 900, and they are requested to make
the shortage good.
THE department of state received a
cable message from Ambassador Bay
ard. on the I'd. stating that Great
Britain had accepted the guarantee
made bv Salvador of the payment OF
the indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon
dom within fortnight and that SO
soon as Nicaragua should confirm the
guarantee and so inform the British
admiral the latter nao Deen inS'i ~ ''''
to quit Corinto. e,.a
Sing On. ~ state prison sent out invi-
tations to the witnesses selected 70 ae'
tend the electrocution OF Dr' bncnan,
an, the wlie-nnurusi - 80 ,,ost
whose execu tion had been Twice POSe
poned through efforts OF ms ATTORNEY
In his behalf
REPRESENTATIVES, Oh 1ne oooso p- o.,
dar mills. near Xenia, o., were In Gin
cinnati. on the 1st, arranging to shiT
fortv carloads of powder to Cuba
They would not say whether the or
der was from the government or tn'
insurgents.
LIEUT.. vALENT1N GALLEeE, who sur
rendered ifty Spanish soldiers to tn'
Cuban rebels. and who was afterware
arrested and turned over to the span
~ military authorities, was, aftel
trial Nv court-martial, shot, on th'
~ in The fortress OF Cabana at la
vana
SECRETARY CARLISLE, IL Is stated
sill enter the Kentucky campalgi
about the 18th Of this month"; anu -
liver two or more speecnes' a. poans,
vet to be selected In lasoi - S