The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-04-14

-Wm. Ellis, of st. Francis, Ark, q
hard drinker, who habituallv beat his
wife, shot her and her infant fatally
with Winchester rife. He was hui-
ried to Jail to avoid lynching.
"A fire in the Central Railroad
warehouses at Savannah, on Tuesday,
destroy ed forty-five car loads of corn
and damaged three hundred bales of
cotton; estimated loss $4,000.
The Mormons have lust closed q
four days session at Proro, Utah, over
ten thousand people being in attend
ancc. They have no intention of emf
grating by wholesale from Utah.
The boiler of the British steamship
EnchdntreSS, ashore on Frying Pan
Shoals off Wilmington, N. c., cxplod-
cd last week. Three wreckers were
badly scaldcd-one dangerously.
The Republicans have elected the
Mayor of Madison, Wis, for the first
time since 1880. Racine aud Kcnosha
also elect Republicans. The entire
Republican ticket was elected at La
Crosse.
In the recent municipal election at
Fort Worth, Texas, every Alderman
chosen was Knight of Labor and the
Mayor leans that way. Inccndiary
speeches were made at 4 recent public
meeting.
Louis p. Schmidt, Of Freeport,
Illinois, killed himsClf--driven to the
act, it is believed, through dismissal
from the Knights of Labor. He was
charged with divulging the secrets of
the Order.
"A fire broke out in lumber yard
in La Crosse, Wis, on Tuesday, and
spread in different directions; fire
engines from adjacent towns had to be
called in. The loss will reach fully
$l,500,O00
Representative Samuel j. Ran
dalFs admirers arc talking of him as a
successor to Mr.. Manning in the
Treasury Department. Counting
chickens before they arc hatchcd is an
old habit of the sanguinc.
-lsadorc Seidenbaum, Il young man,
went into tho sleeping room OF Annie
Rosentein, Il pretty girl of fifteen, i'm
Milwaukee, and killed her and ttcn
himself with n pistol. No cause is
assigned for the terrible act.
"A strike Of cotton spinstcrs and
wcavcrs against the lowering of wages
is in progress at Ensucde, Holland.
So far no disorders have occurred,
although the Socialists arc urging the
strikers to resort to torciblc measures.
DR.. Luther &. Rose, of PALMYRA,
Ohio, claims TO liuvc invented most
excellent telephone transmittcr. In a
test over S1S miles Of wire a whisper
was heard distinctly, and also the tick
inc Of Il watch held ten feet from tho
tranSmitter.
The report Of the ROYAL Commis-
sion appointed TO inquire into the
business depression throughout Great
l'ritian contains some very strong
statements about the damage TO tie
trade of that country by high tariffs in
the United States.
The Chinese Minister was grossly
insultCd on his arrival in San Francisco
last Tuesday. The Collector of Gus
toms refused to let him land, without
an inspection of his credentials. The
affair caused quite n sensation, but this
has quictcd down.
Tho month of March, with its dry
winds, has always been il disastrous
one in the fire record. The waste for
this country and Canada for that mouth
has averaged $7,000,0OO. Last year
the March losses footed up $9,0O0,OO0,
and this year they were SIC, $50, 900.
b. G. Coyle, respected citizen of
Dalton, Ga, was taken from his home
aud whipped severely by masked men.
Two young females were whipped bI
the same party. The whipped indi-
viduals are charged with reporting the
whippers for running illicit distillcries.
Sheriff Slatch, of Cochisc county,
Arizona, went to Gen. Crook with a
warrant for Geronimo and forty. one
"John Does" Gen. Crook replied
that the Indians are held rs prisoners
of war under instructions from Wash
ington, and he would not give them
up.
One of the mail cars attached to
fast mail train No 4, which left Chica-
go at 5.30 p. m. on Thursday on the
Lake Shore Railroad, was burned at
Oak Harbor, Ohio. The car contained,
besides the mail, caskct in which
were the remains of a mother and her
newborn babe.
Illinois Republicans are pluming
themselves over "patronagc" disscn-
sons among the Democrats in the
Eighteenth Congressional district of
that State. OF course the suggestion
is made that these will cause Colonel
Morrison's defeat. The same thing
has been said before.
MIS-. Foster, wife of the late Sena-
tor from Connecticut, who was the
acting Vice President and President of
the Senate pro tenn. from 1865-67, after
spending the winter in Washington,
has gone to Beaufort, S. g., for visit
to the family of Lieutenant Lyman,
United States navy.
1t seems to be general impress
sion in Washington Mr.. Il. l.. Fortune,
editor of the freeman, the independ-
cnt organ of the colored people, would
like to have the Recordcrship of Deeds
at Washington in case Mr.. Matthews
is not confirmed. Mr.. Fortunes
friends think he will get it.
Will. S. Hays, the poot.author,
does not want the Louisville Postoffice
and has tclegraphed to Washington: !:
"Tell President Cleveland for the
Lords sake not to appoint me Post
master. l don't want to be annoyed
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