The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-08-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.


The report of the marriage of Mime.
Nilsson is denied.
The now silver certificates arc not to be
issued before November /.
Inc President has gone to the Adirondac
Mountains Tor his summer vacation.
Dolores FOsta, widow of the famous
Mexican General Santa Anna, is dead.
In every part of eastern Texas complaint
is made OF the cotton shedding its forms. a
Since the riots at Belfast every Catholic
workman has been bounded Oft of Queens
Island.
james ONcill fatally stabbed his wife
ana mother-in-law, in Cambridge, Mass,
Wednesday,
Lock Langley murdered Thomas Mon
roe and his son Allen, last Sunday, in the
Cherokee Nation.
Andrew e. Warner, manufacturer Of sill.
Tcrwarc and jcwclry at Baltimore, has
made an assignment.
Pittsburg, Pa, had a $4,000 fire last
Sunday. The Black Diamond Steel Works
were burned
On Monday night tho business portion of
Tulorc, Cal, was destroyed by an inccndi-
airy fire. Loss $3.50, 900.
In Chicago, Monday, DR.. T.. L, Trow-
bridge was struck by Frank Packard, with
ms list, and died in two minutes.
Frank ShOuSc, of Savannah, Il brakeman
ON the Central road, fell from Il 1arThurs-
day morning and broke his lcg.
A terrible rain storm occurred in West
Virginia Monday, which turned brooks into
torrents, which drowned several persons.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Of WASH
lngton Thursday issued call for S15, 600 :
OOo OF bonds. The call natures October /
Parncll's banner for home rule raised by
the Chicago Convention: "Pcaccably if we
can, otherwise if We must"
The Michigan Democrats, in convention
assembled, adopted resolution approyinp
The policy Of the Administration.
Compulsory attendance by students ON
religious services has been abolished in
Harvard University.
John Boyd Shot VIM. b. johnson .
prominent citizen of Rock Yard, Mich,
through the heart Saturday.
\ double clopcmcnt occurred If Concord
n. H., Thursday, two married men clon,
ing with two mavriCd women.
18th all her talk of war, Georgia has q
militia force of 1881 all told, white and
coloTGd, infantry, artillery and cavalry.
Central Russia, and especially the Mos
cow district, has been devastated by lorna.
does and water spoutS.
An unknown tramp was lynchrd hy i'm.
HiGnaht citizens of Indiana for stnbbinp
|" ucatll Davis, the station agent at Huron,
l.. H. McCarron, Il barber in Providence,
H. l., cut the throat Of j. Crosby. Wc,Incs.
day, while shaving him. DEATH cnsurd at
once.
because OF sundry pcrfunctory convcn-
lion resolutions, the President is satisfied
that the South is Il unit for his civil service
REFORM
IL Is suggested that if the cutting in ocean
steamer rates continues, 4 Strcramc to Eu-
rope will cost a Tood deal less than stayiNm
at home. 9
Fred. Douglass removed the last rcathcr
from The Presidential camcl'S back when
III PUBLIC speech, he called Mr.. Cleveland
"GroVrr"
Mrs. George Dcakcrhort and her child
dlcd at Bakcrstown, Pa, Thursday, from
eating toadstools, which they thought were
mushrooms
1t is reported in London that tncrc is y
Chinese army Of 10, 900 men uiarcrcd ON
Ii'e ?lngari river, III Nanchoria, near the
Russian boundary
At indianapolis, last week. ljnhtnino q.
struck 4 house where man and bis wife
ana infant were in bed asleep and killed
INC Wlle; the other two escaping unhurt.
The Irish delegates to the Chicago Irish
N2ll League Mcssrs
y ljricn, Dca&Cy and R2dmOnd-arriycil in
New York Monday.
Six thousand cigar mal%crs went out ON =
strike for higher wages at Havana, Mon
day. The manufacturers have united tn
resist the demand.
By advice Of the Civil Service Commits
SION, 'hc President has amended the rules
so rs 10 prevent appointing officers from
knowing the politics Of applicants.
y heavy wind and rain storm Occ:rrcd
III ADcrdcen, Dakota, Monday, and swept
oyer a % miles radius. -Four persons were
killed outright.
J. ne lathcr OF the two Taylor brothers,
III Tennessee, is neither Democrat nor Re
puhllcan. lie is an ardent Prohibitions
ne can take the fence between All. and
Bob. '''>'
Chief interest in the Chicago Convention
ccntclS IN the fact that the Irish dclcralcs
have rc%Olutcly set their faces not only
against dynamite, but against violence in
any shape.
The Boston -idrc,li%cr says: "Gcorgia
men are burning with a desire to whip
McNico. What they really want, perhaps,
IS 10 &ct INTO country where there is no
prohibition"
The "old soldier" racket had no force in
Tennessee. Bob Taylor, who was too
young to go to war, easily defeated Gen
DlDbrcll, the hero Of hundred battles
and statesman of a high order.
The magistrates Of Belfast arc in culan
Diary as to how to proceed III view OF the
verdict Of willful murder found against
mnc policemen, committed during the re-
cent riots.
The report is confirmed that Krupp has
secured contract to supply 800 tons of
steel rails for the construction Of railroads,
to be used in the development of mining
industries in Ticntsin China
The Convention of the Irish National
League at Chicago endorsed Pilmcll and
his party despite the opposition OF Fincrty
and his followers. Gadstonc'S efforts in
behalf Of Ireland were approved.
The brother of Miss Belle CLAYTON.
daughter Of Il wealthy merchant at Maud