The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-24
News Items.

County, died on the 10Th.
Mr.. Geo. L. Dial, of Columbia, S.
| c., died at Madison, Fla, on the 18th.
The union passenger depot at Dal-
ton, Ca, was burned on the night of
the 18th.
Mr.. Thomas Keen's physician says
that he will not be able to pla" again
this season.
Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour was
buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, in
Utica, n. Y, on the 18th.
J. B. Cough was attacked with a
stroke of apoplexy while lccturing in
Philadelphia on the evening of the
18th.
R. J. Marshall, postmaster at Fort
Dade, Fla, was arrested on the 18th,
charged with embezzliug money order
funds.
The Grant monument fund stood
on the night of..the 18th at S112,195.
The fund for Mrs. Hancock at
s25,565.
A slight earthquake was felt on the
18th along the Tombigbee river in
Sumter, Marengo and Choctaw Coun-
ties, Alabama.
The Boston Lancers visited
Charleston during the week COM
mencing February 18th and ending
February Oath, 1886.
The Mccormick reaper works of
Chicago, Illinois, closed down on the
morning of the 10th, throwing 1,400
employees out of work.
Attorney General Garland has de-
cided to give up his stock in the Pan
Electric Telephone Company, and
will remain in the cabinet.
Postmaster General Villas has re.
fused to accede to the request of the
postmaster of Baltimore to allow a
Sunday mornings delivery of mail
by carriers.
The bill to increase the number of
the railroad commission from one to,
three has been defeated in the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates by vote
Of 45 to 43.
Charles Luling, of Mamtowic, Wis
consin, has been nominated by the
Republicans to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the death of. Congressman
Joseph Rankin.
A girl living near Hartford, Conn,
has been kept by her parents in a
close windowless room for twenty
years to prevent her marrying the
man Of her choice.
The gauge of $4,000 miles of rail-
road will be changed on the first Of
June next, from five feet, the present
width. to- four feet nine inches, the
width adopted by the railroads of the
country.
The street car drivers Of New York
struck on the 18th, and demanded
that the agreement to pay them two
dollars day for twelve hours be en-
forced, their demand was acceded to
and travel resumed.
The Guernsey herd Of Mr.. D. R.
Flenniken, ,'of Winnsboro, S. c., has
been purchased by Mr.. John G..
: Mobley, and placed on Mr. Stacks
farm, La Grange" on the edge of
Richland and Fairfield Counties.
The Senate has confirmed the fol-
lowing appointments of postmasters
in South Carolina: S. S. Crittenden,
Greenville G. H.; J. E. Crosland,
Aiken; w. H. Gibbes, Columbia; c.
w. Webb, Anderson c. Il.
) George Q. Cannon, the leader Of
the Mormon Church, was arrested at
Winnemuca, Nevada, on the 14th.
: The prisoner had been hiding for
nearly year. A reward of $500 had
been offered by the U. S. Marshal
for his arrest.
James Eple, his wife, father and
!, three children and Mrs. Kinney, per,
ished by the burning Of Eplc's resi-
dence in the town of Greenbush,
Wisconsin, on the morning of the
10Th. The hired man alone escaped
5 and it is thought that he fired the
! house.
A scoundrel threw open the throttle
of an engine at Parkersburg, West
Va, which ran into freight twelve
miles from this place, smashing up
|. both engines and the freight cars and
i wounding every man on the train
a The fireman fatally and the engineer,
/ conductor and brakeman all badly
: hurt.