The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS I'M BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ploded. on the 14th. wreching portion
Of the building and fatally scaldinQ
Theodore McHenry, visitor. James
Anderson, a machinist, was struck on
the head with a flying brick and badly
cut. He is also terribly scalded, and
his recovery is doubtful
fUENTEs, the New York newspaper
correspondent who was arrested in
Santiago de Cuba, and Richelieu, the
American sailor, who was imprisoned
for time on suspicion OF being impli-
Gated In the insurrection, sailed from
Santiago de Cuba on the Niaja, on the
l4th, for New York.
MENDAL HOWARD, the American re-
Gently arrested in London an a coun-
terfeiter, was again arraigned in the
Bow Street police court, ON the 14th,
when an official of the bank Of France
testified to the uses to which enlarged
envelopes are put in forging bank
notes.
On the 14th the president appointed
John 4. Connolly of Pennsylvania,
consul at Osaka and Hioga, Japan.
The hungarian house Of magnates,
on the 18th, for the third time, re-
jected, by a vote OF I10nto 115. the sec
tion of the ecclesiastical bill granting
equal right to persons who do not pro-
fess religion.
THE trial of messiah" Schweinfurth
Mt Rockford, ILL.,. was, ON the 18th,
postponed until the next term of court.
SHORTLY after midnight, on the 14th,
an explosion occurred in the new s24,-
600 school building at rSleepy Eye,
Mimi, and in an instant the structure
was in flames from foundation TO tower.
In the basement was the village cleo
trio plant. The total loss is $50. 500;
insurance, S23,500. The cause Of the
explosion is a mystery.
Ex-SEcRETARY HUGH MCCULLocH
was reported, on the 18th, as very III
at his country home, Holly Hill Farm,
Prince Georges county, Md He is suf-
fering from debility, due TO old age,
and from kidney trouble. Mr.. McCul-
loch is nearly 80 years of age.
Gov. EVANS of South Carolina has
issued a lengthy address TO the citi-
zens of the state in which he deals
very harshly with the recent decisions
in the dispensary and registration
cases. He refers to the political his
tory of the state and argues that the
state can conduct its business without
national interference.
CHARLES SIMMONS, aged As, was de-
capitated in the Gagnon mine Mt Butte,
Mout., on the 14th. The engineer mis-
took signal and hoisted before Sim
mons was in the skip. His head caught
between the skip and the shaft timber
and was torn almost completely from
the body.
THE president is said to be deter
mined TO punish Admiral Meade for
his alleged attack on the administra-
ton. but hesitates to order his trial by
eourt-martial because Of the difficulties
that might be found in proving that
Admiral Meade made use OF the re-
marks attributed to him.
The treasury deficit passed the $780,
DOC, 900 mark on the 14th, the exact
amount OF the excess OF expenditures
over the receipt since July 1, 1894, be-
ing $50, ,4O4, ,ss7. This is the second
year since 1865 that the expenditures
Of the government have exceeded its
revenues.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the 14th, ae-
.epte the resignation of Freiherr Won
Der Goltz, the admiral commander-in-
chief of the German navy. Admiral
yon Knors succeeds Admiral Won Der
Goltz as commander-in-chief.
A CABINET rumor is floating about
Washington 20 the effect that Secre-
tary Lamont is to resign and ex-Con-
gresham Outhwaite is TO be put at the
head of the war department.
CHARLES BAYARD, wealthy cattle
man of Arizona, was in Los Angeles,
Cal. on the 18th, and said he looked
for a big uprising of the Apache In
dians in the territory. He thinks the
Kid has rallied all the Apaches. and
the absence of the troops gives them a
chance to do great damage before they
can be reached.
THE Spanish government, having no
more soldiers to press into service, is
taking. convicts from the prisons and
enrolling them for active military
service. This is being done not only
in Spain. but also in Cuba A soldier
who enlisted with patriotic motives
may have to fight side by side with an
assassin, burglar or common thief
THE La Famn cotton mills, situated
near Monterey, Mexico, were destroyed
bv fire recently. They were the
largest in northern Mexico, and the
loss Is placed at sl25,0O0. A company
Of Monterey capitalists owned the
mills.
THE railways Of Mexico have not
been troubled during the last decade
with many robberies, but provision
Il 4be new constitutional amendment
authorizes the shooting on the spot Of
train robbers, If murder has been com
mitted.
THr senate Of the Breslau university
declined. on the 18th, to accede to the
request Of the German government
that disciplinary measures DC taken
AGAINST the students Of thatinstitutlon
who signed the protest against tns
anti-revoldtion bill
HoxoLULu advices by the steamer
Australia. which arrived at San Fran
.isco on the 18TH, state that the Ha
raiian foreign Office had made reply
VI the note OF Secretary Gresham OK
The recall Of Mr.. Thurston, whose
course IL npholds. -
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w Powder co. blew up on the l1tn
The shock was terrific. Channcel
Toanes. unmarried, was killed. nnt
Charles Clnm, who had q wife ans
xhree children, was fatally injured.
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