The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-05-15
aENEnAL NEWS 1Tnlss.

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since Saturday night.
| The police had battle with ten
tramps ut Mattoon, H., OH Saturday,
and shot two and captured seven.
| The German Reichstag OH Satur-
day, by a vote of 189 to 157, passed the
anti-Socialist bill to second reading.
The striking cotton spinners Mt
Fall River on Friday asked to be taken
back. They were referred to the over
scers.
"A bill legalizing marriage with O
deceased wife's sister passed the British
House Of Commons Tuesday by vote
of 238 to 1877.
The Narragansett Suspender Fac
tory at Canton, Mass, was burned on
Saturday night. Loss 100000. In
surance $4,000.
The Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company on Saturday dis
charged over 200 workmen from their
shops.
Charles O'Conor, tho celebrated
lawyer of New York, was reported on
Saturday to be dying. He has been
very feeble for many months.
Mr.. Parncll left London on Tues
uay Tor Nice upon receipt of the news
that his sister, Mrs. Thompson, had
died there suddenly.
| The sta tue in honor of Chief JUS
tice Marshall was unveiled, with ap-
pfoPrlate ceremonies, at Washington
OH Saturday last.
| -ireat distress has been caused in
South shropshire, Eng, by the slop-
page of work at the Tankerville lead
mine, the largest in the kingdom.
"A riot occurred at Quincy, Ill.,, on
saturday, between the strikers and
somc non-union moulders. Several of
the latter were seriously injured.
The strike at Fall River is practi-
cally ended after fourteen weeks. The
manufacturers decline to take back the
strikers and are supplying their places.
The President has nominated Jos.
II. Speed, of Alabama, to be United
States marshal for the middle and
southern districts Of Alabama.
=, This week will probably close I'D
the coal trade of the Monongahela
river; Over eight thousand miners
VIII DC thrown out of employment.
Tho eighth annual New York
show of dogs opened Oh Tuesday in
Madison Square Garden. It was LARGO.
ly attended, and the exhibition was
fine one.
In hut at Mobiles dynamite fac
tory, i'll Ayrcshire, England, on Fri
DAY, cartridge exploded, blowing ten
women to atoms and seriously wound
ing two others.
"A riot occurred between Standards
aEd British subjects at Baracoa, on
April 26, i'll which two men were killed
ana several wounded. The British
TOOK refuge on an American schooner.
Tho report of the Utah commission
recommends the Enactment of law hv
Congress giving to the first or legal
wife the right Of dover as at common
law, or other interest in the real estate
OF the husband.
Tho Cottonsecd Crushers' Associa-
tIon met in st. Louis on Tuesday.
tltty-threc representatives of mills
operated in the Southern States were
present. Eighteen new mills were re-
ported.
Jay Gould aud other New York
friends OF General Grant are raising q
1und with which to place the General
on his feet. 1t seems that the liab;Ii.
ties of the broken firm run up into the
millions.
The committee appointed by the |
Legislature to investigate the charge of
corruption in the late Kentucky Sena- |
torlal election reported on Friday that
no candidate gave or offered money to
secure an election.
.During the trial on Tuesday of the
Nlhllists called the Black Band, a prs-
oner named Dubetzki and his daughter
attempted suicide. Dubetzki succeed |
eu in inflicting Il mortal wound. and
his daughter dangerous one.
Miss Celia Enright, TELEGRAPH
operator at Toledo, Ohio, was shot on
tuesday and severely wounded bv the
wife of j.. Ii. Wright, al insurance
agent. The affair grew out of trouble
IN the Wright family, in which Miss |
Enright was involved.
The House judiciary committee
has reported tavorably the new Fiji. |
tcenth Amendment, which prohibits
discrimination, in tho matter of suf.
rage, OH account OF race, color.
mdttvtty, or previous condition of
servitude.
"A special dispatch to the Columbia
ItegiSter from Sumter says Captain
Il. M. Andrews, aged ninety-thrce,
started ON II thursday for Boston, Mass,
on pedestrian tour. He expects to
make the entire journey Oh foot and is !
confident of his ability to do so.
Great excitement was created in
the Sharon divorce case i'm San Fran
cisco on Friday, by negro woman,
who had sworn to the marriage license
produced by Miss Hill. she acknowl-
edged in court that she had periurcd
herself. She said the license had only
been shown her few days before.
.-Gcneral u. S. Grant was member
of the banking firm of Ward 81 Grant.
in New York, which was overwhelmed
by the failure of the Marine Bank Inst
Tuesday. II is said that tho Generals |
losses will be so heavy as to sweep
away everything he has exccpt the
Ss2hN 900 IruSt fund suh;nL X..a..