The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-02-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Frank James has been sent TO
Huntsville, Ala, to answer the charge
of the Musscl Shoals murder.
Governor Hoadlv has issued q
to tho people of Ohio,
asking for aid for sufferers bv the
flood.
1t is estimated that 1000 persons
along the Ohio river, within distance
OF twenty-five miles, will have be fed
by charity for twenty weeks. ~
Tho financial report of the new
metropolitan Opera House in New
lork for the season ending February
shows deficiency Of $250,0OO.
The Bluff City Hotel, at Council
Bluff, Iowa, was burned on Tuesday
mght. Agucst, named Emma Niessen,
OF crown Point, was burned to death.
Wallace Brockman and Richard
CraiS, who went to bed drunk ut th'ic
ashland House Lexington, Ky., on
friday night and blew out the gas,
were suffocatcd to death.
A special from Plnqueminc, La.
says that ThoS. Benton, colorcd. was
hanged there Friday i'm the presence of
two thousand people, for the murder of
kobt. Duggan, OH Jniy 8, 1888.
The subcommittee of the Senate
under John Sherman's resolutions
commenced last Friday at New Orleans
the taking of testimony relative to thc
alleged outragcs in Copiah county,
Mississippi.
Tho result of the new registration
OF voters or Norfolk which closed Sat-
urday has been awaited with great in
tcrcst throughout the State. 1t shows
2,935 colorcd and 1922 white voters, a
majority of thirteen colorrd.
At Atlantic City, n. j., the beach
on Wednesday was strcwn with
oranges, lemons, apples, carrots, tur-
nips, onions and other fruits and veg
etablcs, but nothing has been found
TO indicate what vessel they came from.
On Wednesday afternoon w. w.
Drake shot and instantly killed Johm
a: Scarborough at the factory, four
miles north Of Columbus, Ga. The
ilfiiculty arose aboutan account which
owed Drake. Drake
himself to the officers.
Mrs: Stribling, the lady who was
assaulted near Montgomery, Ala, re-
'cht'y by negro, has died. Her
hr"at was cut by the man, and she
fingered in great agony two or three
weeks. The negro was hanged bv a
mob Il day or two after the outrage.
Thad,lcuS Avery cui his wifc's
hro&t on Saturday night at Chiccstcr,
y. \ :, aud then his own. The woman
s dead but Avery is alive. He con-
essed the deed and is under arrest.
jealousy was the cause. Both are
ioung. and they had been married
)nly about Il year.
The will ofWcndell Phillips leaves
ms entire property. valued ut from
S2OO,O0O to $250,000, Internationally
20 his wife. 1t spccifics} that should
She die before him the property shall
20 to his nephew, S. =. Bldgdon, of
New York, to be held in trust for the
wife of Gc@:gc 'W. Smallcy.
Dispatches to Brudstrccrs saw
that Edward Pillsbury's Sons, cotton
commission merchants, of New Or.
leans, have failed. Their liabilities
were reported at $14O 900. Their
assets arc not immediately available.
being scattered in Central American,
ports where the firm traded largely.
In the United States Senate on
Friday, Senator Allison, from the COM
mittcc on appropriations, rcportcd
1aVorabl y the House joint resolution
tur:hcr sum of $780,
900 IN aid Of the sufferers bv Ohio
Hoods. 1t was immediately read
three times and passed by the Senate.
On Friday Senator Hampton re-
ported favorably from the committee
on military affairs the bills introduced
Oy him to authorize the secretary of
war TO settle the account for arms be-
tWecn the State of South Carolina and
the Federal Government, and TO settle
the claim for rent alleged to be due for
the use and occupation of the Citadel
Academy at Charleston.
-Adviccs from Hampstead, Tex.
give some mcagrc details of Il fearful
on Friday i'm which ono man
was killed and two others were NOR
tally wounded. For some reasons not
stated VIM. Wheeler and John Ellison
late city marshal, began shooting at
each other i'm Howc's barruom.. Can't.
Jas. L. browning intcrfercd to make
peace. When the firing ceased it was
discovered that Browning was shot
lead, and Wheeler and Ellison were
n such condition that they will die.
The Democratic caucus at Rich
nond last week decides to extend the
session of the Legislature thirty davs
or to adjourn sooner If all important
measures are disposed of. The extern
'lon involves 10 expense to the State
Is the members receive no pay for an
'Xlra session unless called bv the Gov
'rnor. This action indicates that the
Democrats intend to perfect every
measure which will give them control
If all the election machinery Of the
state. agents of all the State institu-
ionS,. &c.
james w. Walker, formerly of
1ewbcrry, S. c., committed suicide
II tho Vaudeville Theatre, San Anto-
io, Texas, on the 9Th inst. Walker
urns out, by his own statement, to
ave been the man who, in January
ast, ran locomotive from Henderson,
lille, N. c., to Tryon City, S. c.,
whence the engine, being reversed, ran
,ack some distance and then exploded,
" alkop had n SnriOuc 1;0fo :. TN