The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-02-25
NO. 81.
GENERAL NEWS rrEsas.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered fronl varions
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Crime is on the increase In New
York. fsi
A revolution has broken out IN
Uruguay. $
The Socialists in Europe are urg.
ing revolution.
The car drivers Of the Fourth ave-
nue line in New York are on O strike.
-J"hn Dillon declares that an Irish
Parliament is thing of the near
future.
There are said to be 100 houses
'enHnllcsS in Chicago because they;are
said to be haunted.
1t is understood that the telephone
suits will be brought to trial In Co
IumbuS, Ohio, before jury. b..
1t is estimated that. the depredaA
tlons OF British sparrows in England
last year will reach 81 100000. go
Tho breaking up of the ice gorges
at the North will cause the loss of 3
millions OF dollars worth Of property.
-Busincss is quite bisk i'll Savannah
III nearly all lines Of trade, wholesale
merchants being as busy as bees. ssi
A steam velocipcde has been in.
vented in switzerland which attains n
speed of 124 miles an hour. 'r3E
Riots have occurred in Leicester
and Yarmouth, England. The un.
employed wolkmen are becoming des-
p rate.
Two Americans have been ex.
p He'd from lInlstrim, Prussia, for
"naving made themselves troublesome
to the authorities"
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Delaware peach growers that the buds
have been almost entirely DESTROYED bv
the cold.
Lula Hurst's magnetism drew
SlO0.0OO into her pockets and now she
i taking an education at Shorter Col
legc. r.
Serge 1vanhoff, recently arrested
by the Russian police, was one of the
Nilili>ts concerned in the murder of
Alexander III. .'a..
-Jnmcs Madison Wells, q famous
Rrpuhlican politician OF the Recon
slruction era OF Louisiana, has become
old, poor and blind. ..r p.
jefferson and Sumuel7Ellis, broth
crs, had Il quarrel in Chattanooga,
Tenn when the latter was shot through
the hcud and killed.
"A light shock of an earthquake
was iclt along the Tumbigbee River,
Alabama, OH saturday, but no damage
was done.
-Ilrnry Sullivan, colorcd, was
crushed to death between two cars in
the Central Railroad freight yard in
Augusta Oh Tuesday.
-tiuvernor Knott, of Kentucky.
says the S,ale ilnu>t have more pulris-
tentiary room, and have it al once too.
without any more fOoling.
In the Mississippi Legislature on
last Saturday, in Il contested case for
seat in that body between @ negro and
white man, the negro was seated.
Geo. r ,bnson and S. j. James.
c"iorrd dcsperadocs, were lynched in
Louisiana on Thursday ono at Mon
roe and the other at Bcauregurd.
- During the Presidential reception
on Friday night, Mrs. ex-Goyernor
Gr"omr, Of Mary land, lost Il valuable
diamond earring. 1t was not recover
ed.
Two colOrcd convicts were killed
and others severely injured by the
explosion ofa b!aston the SpartanburQ
nhd Asheville Railroad, on the 18th
inst. ..
John IIalford, his wife, sister and
four children, of ST. Legar, NO., were
caught IN heavy snow storm and 30
badly frozen that their lives arc des-
paired of.
John b. Cough, the renowned
temperance advocate, was struck with
paralysis in Philadelphin, while lcctur-
my last week, aud his condition is
considered AcIi )us.
-Thegrcat Mccormick reaper works
at Chicago closed down last week and
400 e'npln, e are idle. A strike was
thr"a'emcd unless five non-union men
were dismissed.
james a Deland, of New York.
aged lhiryty five years, Superintendent
OF the Boston Art Club, shot himself
at the club-room, dying instantly.
He leaves Il widow and seven children.
Two miners, Perry and Gleason.
had Il difficulty in Red Cliff, Colorado,
and the latter was killed. A mob
afterwards took the murderer from the
Sheriff and hung him from railroad
water tank. a.
"A revolutionary conspiracy, with
ramitications in Barcelona, Malaga,
CaitloVa and Seville, has been discOy-
cred in Madrid. a quantity Of dyna.
mite, revolvcrs, etc., was captured.
-James EhIe, his wife, father and
three children and Mrs. Kinney per-
ishcd in their burnt residence i'm Green
bush, Wis, The hired man escaped,
and he is suspected Of setting fire to
the building.
"A drunken hrufa told Mo NEortbo
johnson, of Pownal, VT, lady rs
years old, that her son had dropped
uead in the street. The story was
untrue. The old lady went into con-
vulsions and soon died from the shock.
1t is a notable fact that on Monday
before last the period of mourning in
the army prescribed for tho late Gen.
Grant ceased and, on Tuesday came
orders to put on badges Of mourning
for Gen. Hancock, who had died that
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