The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-04-26
CURRENT TOPICS.


-" "'s Nurse on the 10th. He IN suf-
tering from concussIon of the brain.
Inc physicians. however, do mot h.
lievc that hislife is In danger.
lHE London Globe asserts In Ia in-
sue OF the 10th that Great britain
Aould refuse TO accept the answer AZ
the Nicaraguan government to the
British ultimatuin, and would talte
immediate steps to enforce her de-
mands. tsF1 II
DISPATCHES from Havana to the
Spanish government. on the 10Th. stat
ed that the rebellion ia Cuba was
spreading, but the insurgents are bad
~ armed and equipped. III the upris-
ing spreads further Gen. Martinez
Campos will ask for reinforcements.
In was rumored i'm Findlay. o.. on
the 18th, that C. G. Harris had sold
all his oil interests TO the Stand
ard OIL Co. for 100000. Harris refused
TO deny or affirm the report lie was
the heaviest producer in the Ohio
fields, aud controlled vast amount OF
good territory. +.
AS A result of the advance in the
price OF oil between 400 and 500 new
wells had been started in the Indiana
field in Blackforl. Wells, Adams, jaw
and Randolph counties, up to the 10th.
The Ontario Legislature was pro-
rogued, ON the 10th. with the usual
ceremonies. The lieutenant governor
in his closing address referred to the
electric railway act, and said IL would
no doubt encourage the construction
OF system OF light railways and thus
furnish cheap transportation for the
growing demands of the agricultural
and internal commerce of the country.
ARTHUR. son of President L. C. Clark
Seelye, OF Smith college, at Northamp-
ton, Mass, Harvard postgraduate
student, was found dead on the rocks
at the foot Of asteep bluff ON the south
end of Mount Tom on the 18th. Two
parties OF $50 men were out searching
for him. He had started out two days
before To explore the mountain.
Miss MARY VANCE, aged "a, who
during the war was an assistant nurse
TO Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix. sister TO
Gen. Dix, was reported, on the 18th, to
be dying as dependent at the home of
Mrs. Robert Williams, her niece, in
Pittsburgh, Pa. She was one of the
most noted nurses In the Union
service.
The 1t. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Franlkfurter Zeitung telegraphed,
on the nth, that the French and Rus
sian governments were about TO con-
yoke meeting OF the powers for the
purpose of revising the terms of peace
agreed upon by the Chinese and
Japanese representatives.
AT the meeting of the stockholders
Of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding
Co. held in Peoria. Ill, on the 18th, J.
B. Greenhut was deposed from the
presidency and expelled from the di-
rectory lie refused to resign, and
when deposed threatened TO take the
matter into the courts.
THE Cunard liners Campania and
Lucania have been added TO the list of
subsidized steamers agreed 10 be held
at the disposal of the British adj
miralty. In the event of war they
will be equipped with fve-inch breech-
loading guns and Nordenfcldtmachine
guns.
LAKE shipments from Chicago TO the
seaboard began ON the 18th, two
steamers leaving for Buffalo with
grain.
DISPATCHES from places In Bagot,
Stanstead. Shefford and other counties
east OF Montreal, Can, state that
severe shock of earthquake was felt
about 1880 "a. IN. on the 18th. No
damage was reported.
NOTICES were posted in the mills in
New Bedford. Mass, on the nth, of
restoration Of the former schedule of
wages, following the action Of the
Fall River manufacturers.
THE bill recognizing the board OF
public education In the city OF New
York, known as the Compromise
bill, A" passed the assembly at Albany,
on the nth, by vote of ~ TO 81.
The sailors Of the Spanish navy have
unanimously agreed TO contribute "a
DAYS pay to the relief OF the families
OF the men OF the lost cruiser Reina
Regenta.
DIR. JOSEPH NJ. DICKSON, OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, aged Az years, recognized
leader among the skilled surgeons or
the country, was stricken with paraly-
ais. on the 18th, and bis physicians did
not think he would live through the
night.
7nHE statement that the British for
ei0n Office declined 60 accept the reply
az Nicaragua To the British ultimatnm
was made, ON the 18th, upon official
authority.
The annual meeting OF the CONNER
cial Travellers Homo ABs0clatlon OF
America. will be- held at Buffalo N'
Y.. October o.
THE steamer ciudad de Cadiz' with
s0B troops on board arrived mt havana
from Spain on the iSth-
MA -GEH. McCooK, commanding the
darartn,ett OF the Colorado, with head
Quarters at Denver, has been placed on
tl,a retired list. His retirement creates
! yacancv In the list OF major generals,
and I'M ease TX l. filed by promotion on
N nrifndier general two vmeM ncANS wall
.,snt IA that grade #
INV. ssrpmw III JoAmsrom. uploHeA, NaAs car
r,ed under by an alligator and lost ~
life at Green Cove Springs fla on
the 18TH. while endeavoring 20 recover
= rentleman'm hat which naa DioWn
~ A. noon ON the 18th President Dian
x nrn-ico. tn the presence CA full CAD
$50 aFrlomatfc corps and n large con-
.A.~ Z ,rsf tniiitarv4and civil personageHs
os'... t~aa Mathew wv. RANSOM the new
A...n,tnnn minister. The customary
rr,nachaH were exchanged
NP10e''~.' .,.vr ..nnnswnd frum Toxic pm