The Port Gibson reveille., 1908-06-25
LATE NEWS NOTES.


The courts at Verviers, Belgium,
have put ban on gambling at the
race tracks The decision has caused
a sensation, as 1t threatens the exis.
tence Of racing in Belgium.
Fifty fishing boats have been wreck
ed off the coast of Kashima, Japan,
and $50 Of the crews have been drown.
ed.
The sixth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers associac
tion is in session at Minneapolis
MINI. William Irvine, of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, president of the organiza-
ton, delivered an address. Nearly
100 delegates from various parts of
the United States were in attendance.
Two large waterspouts were passed
at close range by the Clyde line steam
er Huron, en- route for Jacksonville,
Fla.
Charles w. Morse appeared in the
criminal branch of the supreme court
at New York and pleaded not guilty
to the three indictments against him.
Two of the indictments charge him
with grand larceny and the third with
perjury. All of the indictments grow
out of his connection with several
banking institutions.
The physicians of Governor Dawson
of West Virginia have informed him
that he has developed tuberculosis. He
left for Ashevil.e, N. c., where he will
spend several months.
Judgment for s485,1 was rendered
in the law and equity court at Rich.
mond, Va, in favor OF Thomas Stokes
against the Chesapeake Western com
pany, a lumber and real estate cor.
| poration, chartered in Virginia, the
principal officers of which are in New
York city. Stokes sued for $500,000.
He was stockholder and director in
the company, and sued to recover the
value of the company's notes held by
him. No defense was made.
The collapse of a ladder of an aerial
! truck during a fire department test at
Haverhill, Mass, caused the death OF
| one fireman, Alvano l.. Blackley, and
| the injury of three others, one OF
whom, Neal Owens, is in very crfh-
cal condition. While, four men wehe
! on the ladder at a height of sixty-1Ve
! feet, the ladder broke near the base,
All four were carried down, striking
heavily on the pavement.
Spirit-driven and believing that
death is only an earthly manifesto
ton of the entrance into the real
world of spirits. Mrs. Aida Pittmanr
| suffering under the delusion that she
had received a message from the spir.
! if world to kill herself, drank guam
| tity of carbolic acid with fatal erect
at Washington, d. c.
Two thousand officers and delegates
of the International Association OF
Sunday Schools in session at Louis
Vile, KY, elected John Sites of Louis
Vile, KY, president, succeeding ], ].
McClaren of Toronto, Ont. An enroll
ment increase of million scholars
was reported.
Despite the preventive measures
taken by the authorities, wild disorder
and rioting is threatened in connection
with the lockout of 1000 men by the
Milani Paper company of Fabrian
Ohio. They complain that the de
mands of their employees were exag
gerated.
Gilbert Wadsworth Marnard, well
| known to the Masonic fraternity OF
Chicago and the United States, died al
his residence in Chicago, Ill, after q
lingering illness of several months
Heart disease was the cause OF his
death.
An Injunction has been granted re
straining the police from interfering
with betting at Sheepshead Bay.