The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-03
anNEnAL 8 NEyys ITEnIs.


e ''lls s'lssE Eis.A EA 2 NEWS rrEpIs.
Facts of ntsfost, Gathered from ynrion.
0uarters.
a --France fears a Socialist invasion.
Secretary ManniDg's condition re.
mains unchanged. =
The great railway strike came to
an end on Thursday, but the nen are
dissatisfied. t2. $50 q
lit Is estimated that the public
debt was reduced $14, 1850 900 In she
mouth Of March, y. =.
The riots in Belgium have been
suppressed aud some of the r.oters are
returning to!work.
---John and Sam Levin, mail car.
riers, have been arrested for robbing
the mail neat Asheville, N. q.
IT. Il. White, u prominent and
wealthy merchant of New Orleans,
dropped dead in Staunton, Va, on
Thursday
Tho heavy rains of Thursday aud
tho day before extended generally
throughout the South and West.
"A tornado swept over Helena,
Ark, End vicinity nn Thursday, de-
stroying anumber Of buildings and
other property.
,.-Gcrossib8 and three other Apache
zaSswe navs sin9 snr1snarsd 1@s' a"d
Internationally to Con. Crook,
Two Aegroes ;, who murdered
l,a,ucl GSaRrie, q prominent citizen
from Jail sNs iynched.
Woops cotton press in New Or
leans was Ged by lightning and eight
hundred >ss1les of cotton was badly
damaged; :ess about $2O, 900, insured.
-Augustga@as within five feet of
being overfiowed on Thursday. Sev-
oral streetsSn tho lower part of tho
city were lttldcr water.
ga decision, ofthe Secretary Of the
nltesv0r lX98fes nearly 100000 acres
of land along the limo of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railway to the public domain.
"A passenger. train was ditched
near Parsons, Kansas, and a number
OF persons were badly hurt. Dctec-
tiyes have q clue as to who the train
wreckers are.
The steamer Burm0re, while
saving the cargo and machinery of the
Mdry Leaois, exploded her boiler near
New Orleans; four men were killed
and five badly injured.
| -Aldermrn Henry Douelass. of
Laredo, Texas, was Killed i'm a saloon
by man named Menly. There is
much excitement and threats of lynch
ing arc freely made.
| "A cyclone in Bullock county, Ala
| -,
funeral was going on; the building
was blown down, four persons killed
and ten badly injured. =.
Tho principal part of the town of
Kcy West, Fla, was burnt on Thurs
day, Involving loss of fully $780,
OOO; insurance small. A number of
persons were injured, but no lives
were lost.
"A fire at Bronson, Michigan, de-
stroyed now block of brick stores.
Mrs. Timothy Hurley, wife of a baker,
with her 15-year-old daughter, wore
burnt 10 death, and the father and
three children badly burnt.
ALI the alleged filibusters captured
on tho steamer City of Aferico and
carried into Key West, except two.
have been released, and there is no
spron918ov9eas1oa AHainaf avan thnnA
two ''T - ....,. 49,
-Ex-Judges Thomas Ruffin and
David Schenck recently came to rough
words and blows in q case being tried
at Guilford, N. c., befors Judge Wal
ter Clark. who finod each of tho bel
ligerants $100.
.--Krnpp has completed his second
giant gun for the Italian Government;
Its length is AZ feet and its weigh. l25
tons; charge 10, 1000 pounds of powder.
1t throw shells weighing about 20, 900
pounds.
"A consignment of Russian arms is
to be sent from Odessa to Antivari.
The Emperor has also Lromised the
Prince Of Montenegro 1000, 900 rubles
from the privy purse and has sont an
ipstalmcnt Of 100000.
The German steamer Europa and
the Now York and Hartford line
steamer Capital City are ashore on
Long leland. The vessels will likely
70 TO pieces, but no lives were lost.
The services of the life-saving crow
were called into requisition.
Two strikers ditched freight train
near Kansas City and demolished sew
eral cars One of the men was arrcs,-
ca by al officer, but tho other refused
to stop and was shot in the thigh.
There ~ much excitement among the
strikers in consequence.
destructive floods have occurred
IN Tennessee, Alabama and North
Georgia. a number OF railroad and
other bridges were swept away and
much loss of life is feared. A con-
strpctioa trair!with an engineer and
flfeen laborers, went down in tho
Iallapoosa River, near Qpelika, and
1t Is feared they are lost. :