The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-12
~ GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,
Saets ofInterest, Gathered from ynrious
Quarters.

quarters.
-Ihcrc is snow fall Of ten inches
ana extreme cold weather in Dakota.
The Norwegian bark AuuiIa has
Iouhdercd off Gotcnburg. TWENTY-FIVE
persons were drowned.
Tho monetary conference in Paris
mas closed, ali the Powers rcprcscut,d Il
oAcept Belgium having arrived at an
agrccm tnt. '' "'
The coal operators of tho JT,cl.;uo
ana Supday Creek Valleys hov, rnri,S.
ed Inc demand Of The miurrc Crr 49,
advance OF ten cents per ton
johnson and Smith, s,r;l;,,r ooo,
od g.. q. l''Sourg, who were arrest
w iol tiYlhg to persuade non.tTnion
on tLn ,II ~ I''lC work, have been held
VII Tue chargc of conspiracy.
In Paris the drcssmakino trodo
represents the movement of, $4,000 006 @
so"l, "lti gives employment to sc. 900
Mo'hch' some of the society women
sPeiau sEoi rs much as $4,000 year on
thelr costumes. va
-Gcncral George B. Mcclellan wos
ourlcd ON Monday The 2nd inst, and
III, 1nc funeral was largely attended
thcrc were no military ceremonies
among the pall-bcarcrs was General
Joseph E. Johnston.
--Aalscr William, is not ONLY tho
oldest officer in the German ARMY in
age, but III service also. His commits.
SION as maJor-gcncral bears the date of
March 30, 1918, and he joined the army
as ensign OH March %, 1907.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific
Rallroad Company has sold TO one
Syndicate tract OF land Of lI3OOO
acres; that since its reorganization it
mas sold over 5,j0O,OO0 acres and that
other heavy sales are probable.
An agreement has been entered
into by Secretary of the NAVY Whit
hcy on the part Of the United States
and john Roach, under which the DOS
session OF the steamship Dolphin is
transferred to the Secretary Of the
Navy for the United States, with ,hc
right to take and deal with the same
as II title thereto was fully vested in
inc United states, the actual status of
thc property to be hereafter decided
by the courts.
The grounding of the Puwhatan in
Hampton roads, few davs 400. is
| said to be the third mishap of the Sort
which has bcfalcn government vessels
within the last two weeks. First, the
1antic, after delivering lis cargo of
silver dollars to the Treasury officials,
got out of the Potomac channel ON lis
way to NoriOld, and ran into the mud,
Then the sailing sloop Saratoga. bound
also to Norfolk, got ashore near the
Rip Raps, and now the numbering old
PoWhattan adds the third to the list
So wholesale was the dcad-bcatine
at Boston this year that the Amcrican
Board of Foreign Missions will no
longer send delegates and their tami-
lies INTO private families to be guests
during Convention week. This year
lhcrc were 1900 visitors that Cn0vcd
Tree board. Some pastors brought
large numbers of relatives and friends
SIX thrifty bridal couples spent Il week
OF their honeymoon SD. IT," where
tnrcc or 1our "dclcgatcs' were invited
SIX or eight came and SO on.
Six green Shelton people loaded
themselves into a wagon recently and
drove to New Haven TO visit. The
family visited, alarmed by the number,
got rid of them at light bv saving that
Sina:l'poX patient was in The house.
!hcY went to hotel, and all packed
into II single room. The olicia.jno
old woman hung her Old shoe over the
gas Jet to put ii out, and turned the
water faucet, having heard somewhere
that to put out gas Il sometime had
TO be turned. In the night the portcr
was alarmed by smelling cas-. lie
iounu the country people unconscious
IN tho room, and the floor was flooded
with water. They were saved.