The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-12-17
NO. L..
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Interest, Gathered from, YarioiIds
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Hawkins 81 Sons, cotton spimers.
| OF Preston,' England, have ,,daiieds
Liabilities G79,00O. 900. ,..,a ..rl +, 4.
President Cleveland's message TO
! Congress-, read OH the 8th inst, is gen
orally regarded as an unusually able
| paper. -.sal
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, has
been nominated for Vice President bvg
an Indiana Clergyman Of the Northern
| Methodist church. ........., s''..
Gen. Don Crrlos Buell., well known
as CommanGcr Of the Army Of the
Ohio, HAS been appointed Pension
Agent at Louisville, Ky. D.. .....i,ac. =.
Nelson Stewart and Anderson
Davis, colorcd, convicted Of burglary,
We're hanged within the Jail enclosure
III Charlotte last Wednesday.
AT Northampton, Mass, Allen ].
Adams, for the murder Of Moses B.
Dickinson, of Amherst, ten years ago,
was sentenced last week TO be hanged
on March y, 1886. ..... .s'.r\
AT Akron, Ohio, last week, a
| sewer being constructed caycd in,
burying seven laborcrs. -Four were
crushed to death and the other three
were fatally injured. ...l.-. IA
The buildings Of the Southern Illi- nj
nols pcnltcntiary at Chester, Ill. were .
badly damaged and some of the in
mates seriously injured by Il. cvclonc
on Tuesday night, Nobody killed. 1',@
The tcn-ycar old daughter of p
James Dunn, of Nenia, Ill.,, died last
week from trichinosis. 1t is said that
TWO weeks ago the girl ate raw pork.
and that her death resulted thercfrom.
Tho house Of Wesley Greer, at
CannonsburG, Pa, was blown up 'bvt
"9tural gas Tuesday morning and the
occupants, Greer and his wife and
TWO ch'ldrcn, severely but not fatally
injured.
The faculty &C Vanderbilt Univcr-
Sity on Tuesday ADOPTED resolutions of
respect to the memory of the patron Of
lnc University, William FL. Wander ?
Dllt, and suspended exercises in tho
institution for one day.
An explosion of Natural GAS .oc-
cured nt the supply station Of the
Philadelphia Company, at Sandy
Creek, Pa, last week. The explosion
was followed by Il fire which DESTROYED
the building. No one was injured. ;. =
Last Tuesday evening, at the
crossing OF the Texas Central Rail.
way, at Bryan, Texas, the Rev. III. r.
wilson and two daughters were killed
by all engine drawing paw car. Wheir
horses were killed and their wagon
was demolished.
"A special TO The CHATTANOOGA Times
says that w. -. Kcllctt, Unite d States
deputy marshal for the Northern dis.
Irlot OF Georgia, was waylaid onLooIk-
out Mountain, thirty miles from Chat
lanoo1%a, last week bymoonShiners aud
murdered.
-Damcl McSwccncy, the Irish "sus-
pcct," who loomcd UP in the last
i'rcsldcnual campaign, and has since
haunted the Administration, for, re-,
ward, has at last received an inspnc-
l0rship in the San Francisco Custom
liousc, worth 81 500 q year. This
place was created for him, but does
not Dy any means come up to his ideas
OF what he ought to have had ....
The cases Of the Louisville, Ky..
Law and Order Club against the gam
piers were on TRIAL in the Circuit Court
last week, and fifty indictments against
eighteen local professional gamblers
were Indefinitely continued In te,ru-
rcns, on the gamblers confession of
gullt and their promises never to en-
gage in the gambling business again.
Flncs to the amount Of $4,000 were
assessed against the above gamblers.
AT Richmond, Va, last week, the
caucus OF the Democratic members of
me General Assembly rc-nominatcd
inc heads Of State departments. The
only change made was in the Office Of
State treasurer, for which "A. w. Har-
mon, OF Ruckbridgc county, was nom
mated in place Of Isaac r. Barksdalc,
the present incumbent. The Hon
Jno. W. Daniel will succeed Riddle
berger i'll the United States Senate. 81