The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-11

man at the head ofcounsel arrayed I'm
behalf of the people, aud Roscoe Conk-
ing leading the fight for the Boil
monopoly, will be yeritable battle of
the giants.
WIN. Heath, the we'll known
broker, whose failure last October
attracted so much attention, died at
his home in New York. there can be
no doubt that anxiety caused by his
financial disasters shattered his con-
st'tution and indirectly led to his
death.
AT Fayetteville, West Virginia,
last Friday, Frank McGonigle and
James Sheady fought forty-threc bloody
rounds for fifty dollars. The contest
is said really to have originated i'm a
long-standing grudge between the TWO
men. Sheady was SO badly hurt that
he has since died from his injuries.
Tho business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
week, as reported to II. e. Dan 81 Co,
number for the United States 2O7. and
for Canada 80, total 246; against 24S
last week and 2S6 the week previous.
Business troubles appear to be general
throughout the United States. Casual
-0ne of the most remarkable pic
lures in the Paris Salon this year will
be an episode Of the English campaign
III the Soudan. 1t represents the
Mahdi seated in his tent receiving the
homage Of chiefs, who have brought
with them load Of British soldiers
heads freshly decapitated.
j. N. Pickelseimcr, who claims TO
bc preacher and had been teaching
school on Marrowbonc Creek, w. ",
got drunk and attempted to enter q
place of amusement, but was refused
admittancc, when he fired through the
| door, killed Col. Rennct, the midget
and mortally wounded five persons.
! The murderer escaped.
Some time ago S. G. Wilson was
| lynchcd in Patrick County, Va, for
stealing mule. at the last term of
tie court, the grand jury found q bill
of indictment against all the parties
concerned in the murder. This is the
first time within recollection that a
| lynching party has been formally pre-
sentcd by grand jury for murder.
Senior Patricia Calderon, q promi-
nent politician and orator of Chill, is
dead. He was one of President Santa
Maria's most active followers, and
although he never held any official
position of Importance his influence
among the people of Chill was quite
extensive He was an effective orator
and shrewd manipulator of political
| wires.
Addison Tinsley's tobacco manu-
factory at Louisiana, Mo-, was totally
destroyed by fire last week. The
| building was large thrce-story brick
fronting 120 feet on Seventh street bv
l2O feet on Jackson, and employed 100
hands in the manufacture of chewing
tobacco. The loss is estimated at
$50, 900; insurance $4,000. The orr
gin of the fire is unknown.
| The debt statement shows the
decrease of the public debt during the
month of February to be $2,7OI, 1913.
81; cash in the treasury, 1894, ,589,-
| 865.52; gold ccrtiticatas outstanding.
1888, 1860, SIG; certificates of deposit out.
standing, $14,92O,0O0; legal tenders
outstanding, $346.730,696; fractional
CURRENCY (not including amount csti.
mated as lost or destroyed $995,653,.
II.
Andrew Hess died at Eria, Pa.
at the nge of 90. He served as an off
| Ccl Will Napolcon TWO years and unit
his exile in Elha. After coming t(
America he and eight others formed a
select circle, of which Hess was pres
dent. They met daily at their clul
room in Erie for over sixty years
Some time ago they began to die o
old age, and now only the secretary
Andrew Beer, a man Of 80, is left
Hess, who married early, leaves .
large family.
Agents who have been thorough,
canvassing North and South Caroline
for cmigrants say the colorpd exodus
from the Southern States to the cx
trcme Wesi has only fairly begun. A
least three thousand are reported to bt
now making arrangements to leave
during the present season, fully as
many having already gone. The,
state that they are going because the,
arc offered regular wages as farm
hands, and are becoming impoverished
in the South by high rents and hare
bargains.