The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters. '-.

murdered in Sumter County on Thursday
last.
The Chicago strikers arc still defiant and
The police stand their ground
armed with Winchester rifles.
The manifesto of the Comtc dc Paris |
meets with adverse criticism from the Ger
man Liberal press.
Murat's sword handle, set with precious
stones and gold, was sold in London the |
other day for G250.
The rains have done great damage In |
Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and |
South Carolina.
A TeXarkana cotton buyer has swindled |
Eastern purchasers out Of $35, 900, selling
them by sample from st. Louis.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of
the President, will become editor of Liter
arg Life, and make Chicago her home.
G. A. Kinnear, o local mail agent NJ
Lynchburg, Va, was arrested Saturday on
tho charge Of robbing tho mail.
The redoubtable General Chalmers offers
himself as an independent candidate for
Congress IN the Second Mississippi Dis
trict.
G. D. Graham, a young cooper of Phila-
delphia, has determined to shoot the Niagra
whirlpool rapids in cask on Monday,
July 5.
John ID. Saunders of Hobol1cn, N. Y,
and his wife and two children were pois-
oncd on Sunday from eating canned string
beans. They arc getting well.
Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, one of the
wcalthicst widows in the United States, is
worth $4,000, 900. She was Miss Fow-
lcr, of Detroit.
Peter Harrison fatally shot Henry Frccr
i'll Charleston yesterday morning. Both
parties colored. They quarrclcd over ton
cents while gambling.
Alex: Kennedy, who lives near Knox
vile, Tenn, is said to be the only living
| eye witness Of the battle of New Orleans
which was fought in 1915.
Deputy Marshal Mcdonald shot and
| killed j. a. Brown and wounded Joe Over
ton, both moonshincrs, near Atlanta, Ga,
Sunday.
1t is said at the Treasury Department that
the public debt statement for June, will
show reduction for the month of about
$1O,0O0,O 900.
Two brothers, Adam and Alphonsc Reed
who live near New Orleans, had duel with
shotgun5 Sunday, in which Adam was
fatally shot.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan IS
800 miles; its greatest breadth, 1903 miles;
mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, 5OG feet;
area, 23, 600 miles,
The outlook is squally in Chicago The
strikers have thrown u freight train from
the track and the officers of the law and
the railroad authorizes arc deticd
! The first consignment of fire crackers
| that Chinese workmen had manufactured
arrived in New York Sunday. They were
| made i'll the ancient city of Canton.
The Southern Lutheran Convention
which has been in session at Roanoke, Va,
for week past, adjourned Saturday to
meet in Savannah, Ga, next year.
Mrs. Rose McrkihoiIcr of Brooklyn gave
| birth to baby boy which had whiskcrs
hall an inch long on each side Of his face.
1t died three hours after being born.
There are $50 ocean steamers CARRYING
| tourists from America to Europe, and not
one of that number flies the United States
flag. The moro we look at our shipping
the smaller it gets.
Congressman GrOSvcnor Of Ohio, char
actcrlZCS BOStOnCSc culture as 1.-THE over
educated provincialism of the East" This
will strike the 1IubitcS between beans and
water.
The Roanc Iron Mill, at Chattanooga,
the largest in the South, which has been
IDLE for the past five years, decided Thurs
day to start up, and will manufacture steel
rails.
The contract for supplying 100 900
pounds Of tobacco for the use of the navy
during the next fiscal year has been award
cd to Meyer Bros. IL Co., of Richmond.
Va, ut p cents pound
Stone Bascmorc, of BERTHE County, N.
G., had quarrel with his father Monday.
and shot him with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot. lie then broke open the safe
and took thcrefrom $500 and fled
ROsSctte whose nomination as postmas |
Ter at Dckalb, ILL.,, was rejected by the |
Senate, is the man who said editorially in |
his paper that he was glad that Grant was |
lead, and hoped he was in hell
The striking switchmen of the Lake |
Shore Railroad in Chicago still hold out.
They held a meeting Wednesday evening
and decided not to extend the strike to |
other roads.
Certain Southern Democratic Senators
10 not take kindly to Governor Thompson's |
and are inclined to complain of
the distinction South Carolina is receiving
at the hands of this Administration.
A grand gathering of church dignitaries
at the cathedral in Baltimore, Wednesday, |
the beretta on Archbishop Glib. |
bons, the new American Cardinal. There
were many distinguished preiates present
Rev. Father j. f. O'Sulllvan, formerly
Catholic priest in Camilius, N. Y, found
guilty of outrage on Abbic O'Connor, for.
mcTly domestic in his house, was sentenced
to eleven years in Auburn State prison.
st. John is delivering prohibition speeches
in prohibition Maine. This, following the
attack by the clergy of Portland on the
open Sunday saloons in that city, is an in |
dicatiOn that prohibition does not prohibit.
1t is proposed to supply the city of Chi. |
cago with water by means of shafts sunk to
the limestone strata which underlies the
city at no great depth and the outcrops In
the bed Of Lake Michigan about two miles
from shore.
The Cotton States Life Insurance of
Macon, Georgia, has come to grief. There
have been grave charges broug against it,
and bill asking for the appointment of
receiver has been filed.
The tricnnial encampment of the knights
Templar for the United States meets in St
Louis next September. One of the features