The Port Gibson reveille., 1908-08-13
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

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an earthquake in Algeria.
A cloudburst at Bisbee, A. T.,
washed away many buildings.
Assistant Attorney General Cooley
has resigned on account of i'll health.
Month by month the total excaya-
ton on the Isthmian Canal is increas-
ing.
w. ]. Bryan issued an appeal for
contributions to the Democratic cam
paign fund.
Forty-three political prisoners
were released by President Cabrera,
of Guatemala.
United States Senator w. B. ALI
son died suddenly at his home at Du-
buque, Iowa.
Twelve thousand men emp Dyed by
the Canadian Pacific Railroad went
out on strike.
Plans for a national Democratic
club were formed by Mr.. Bryan and
senator Taylor.
President Castro, of Venezuela, has
demanded an apology and an indem-
nifty from Holland.
The police jury of Lafayette par
ish La, voted against the calling of
prohibition election.
Mylus Ericsen, the Danish explorer
and two companions, perished in
snowstorm in Greenland.
The Panama Canal excavation for
July was 3,16S,640 cubic yards.
against 3,056,976 in June.
Count zeppelin. the German aeron
aut, made a successful trip of several
hundred miles in his airship.
1t was reported that $40 were kill
ed in the fighting at Tabriz, Persia,
during the last several weeks.
Count Zeppelin, it was said, would
be given sum by the German gov
ernment to rebuild his airship.
St. Louis politicians expressed dis
satisfaction with the working of the
Missouri primary election law.
The young Turks have completely
trMmphed, establishing a new Cab
met on a constitutional basis.
The suspension of Eastman & Co.,
brokers, was announced on the Con-
solidated Exchange New York.
Count Zeppeiins airship, after Gy-
ing over Germany nearly twenty
four hours, exploded and burned.
The Sultan of Turkey was stabbed
by would-be assassin, but a coat
of mail prevented serious injury.
New York had ten deaths from the
heat and Chicago two. There were
scores of prostrations in both cities.
Will Millans, a negro charged with
completely in dynamiting a house,
was lynched near Birmingham, Ala.
Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New
York announ ,ed the nameg OF the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Commit.
tee.
RaisuH, the bandit, with fifty
rode up to the the British
legation at Tangier and deliyered an
Charged with attempted criminal
assault, negro was taken from an
officer near Bethany, La, and .riddIed
with bullets.
AS a result of the unsuccessful |
against President Regas,
many prominent Colombians have
been arrested. =.
Dangerous adulterations were dis
covered in many food samples anal
yzed by the experts of the Depart /
ment of Agriculture.
DR.. Bryan of Chicago told the pure
food convention that of 121 soft |
drink samples he collected in Chicago
So contained poisons.
1t is rumored at Washington that
Wade H. Ellis, of Ohio, will succeed
Bonaparte as Attorney General after
the November election.
One person was killed and another
in battle between negro
picnickers and street railway en-
oloyes at Pensacola, Fla.
AS a result of the strike OF electri-
clans, the Canadian Pacific shops
we're in darkness. Strike-breakers
we're hurried to Winnipeg.
Numerous disorders occurred in
The mining strike district in Ala
oama. Governor Conner will order
more troops to the scene.
Considerable trouble was reported
rom the Alabama strike zone, in
Dluding the lynching of negro and
he dynamiting of several houses.
Judge Pardee, of the Federal Court,
dissolved the injunction issued by
Judge Speer and granted the rail-
oads an appeal in the Georgia rate
ase.
Citizens of Pointe Coupee parish
whipped two negroes for sending m
iulting letters to white men and
warned them rot to enter the parish
gain.
Confederate veterans at Mobile are
because a Citronelle peace
ustice committed Mrs. M. L. Powell,
O3 years old, and her daughter, Mrs.
larry Ward, "a, on the charge OF
agrancy.
William j. Bryan will make sew
raj campaign tours, which will en-
race nearly all parts of the country,
Deaking in most of the principal
ties between the Atlantic and Pa
fic coasts.
President Roosevelt y in a state
lent made It, clear that the entire
was his for the issu-
nee of the original order discharg-
p the battalion OF negro soldiers