The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Intercst Gathered from yarious
Quarters.

Quarters.
A terrible storm prevailed on the 10th at |
Newark, Ohio.
There is genuine smallpox scare in the |
Eastern District of Brooklyn.
Saturday Representative Morrison made |
an unfavorabc report on the tariff bill
Hugh w. Brooks, alias Maxwell. has
been sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of |
August.
Terribly destructive storms passed through |
the Knnkakcc, ILL.,, section Friday and Sun |
day nights.
Farms were laid waste, buildings un-
rooted and crops scattered TO the winds by |
storms in Illinois, Wednesday.
The rug wcavcrs who have been on u |
strike at Philadelphia, have returned to |
work under protest.
One hundred houses have been DESTROYED |
by fire in kodcn, Poland, turning 800 fami- |
lies out of homes.
The strike at the Knights cotton mills at
Matte, II. l., extended from 175 weavcrs to
90 other hands Tuesday,
Alta Chicago boarding house fire Tuesday
several people were injured by jumping
from second story windows
The Sultan has declared for peace, and
has ordered that the army and naval re-
serves disband
Gallo, the man who fired revolver in
the Boursc several months ago, has been
sentenced to twenty years penal scrvitudc
1t is again reported that Sartoris and his
family arc shamcfully treating Nellie Cen.
Grants cup Of sorrow was full when he
| died.
One hundred and twenty cOnvictS, in
Dadc coal mines, Ga, have barricadcd
themselves in building and defy the au-
thoriticS.
Serious rioling broke out in Belfast, July
| l3, between Catholics and Protcstants.
Many persons were injured and sent to hos
pitfalls.
| The Victoria election returns indicate
| that the members of the new Parliament
are, with two or three exceptions, Govern.
| mcnt men.
The report that the Car, the Emperor
William and Emperor Frances Joseph will
meet during the coming autumn at KoDigs-
berg or kicl has been revived.
Rumor has it that Gen. Gordon would
have been favorably considered for the
| Cabinet, but was ''toO near Wall street. -
How about Manning and Jordan?
About II miles from Elmira, New York,
in Wynkoop Creek section, the farmers
were exhausted Wednesday night, having
been fighting forest fires since Friday.
Captain Potter Van Pcit Monday ended
with his own hand long career of useful
ness and moi a little distinction as ship news
reporter for the News York UerHi0
The citizens Of Augusta have sent TO the
Rev. DIR. OReilly, Treasurer, $500 for the
Parliamentary fund. Augusta sent in Jan
uary abor' 5000 for the same purpose.
EXShcrlf John Rcnoc, Of Sumter
| County, Tenn, was taken from Jail at
Livingston on Tuesday by mob and
| hanged, for the attempted murder Of his
brothcr.inlaw.
Mrs. Caroline Benedict, well-knOwn
woman, who for many years has resided in
| the little village Of Mottville, in the town
| of SkaneatclcS, n Y, died recently after
fast extending 53 days.
| One Of the deputies at the Lake Shore
yards, Chicago, Tuesday shot and tried to
Kill man who remarked that his gun
looked rs if it had come from a pawn shop.
| Trouble WAS narrowly 0vertcd
! An epidemic Of typhoid fever has visited
| the little village of Waterford, situated in
| the Northwest corner Of Racine County,
| Wis, remote from railroads and entirely
isolated.
Small poX of a very malignant type has
| broken out at Santiago, Chilli The dis
ease, which is epidemic and becoming
worse every day, proves fatal in 20 per cent
OF the persons attacked
The LondSdalc Companys cotton mill,
ut Ashton, II. l., shut down Tuesday in
| consequence of Il strikc-2S Spinncrs lock
ing out 800 employees. sc-insuificicnt
| pay and the discharge Of an Ovcrsecr for
! ncOmpctCncy.
Mrs. Mary J. O'Bricn, the wife of John
| j q iSrlpn chief nf thn H,rnon /,fE
ions, died OF blood poisoning after Il pain
III! illness lasting over ten weeks, mt her
home, n. y.
The grand jury have indicted Bernard
j.. Verne and William uogarty on the
charge of keeping their BARRIERS shops open
in violation of the Sunday law, in Boston
These will be test cases.
The reported purchase by China of / GOO
tons Of German stnc rails has caused many
conflicting rumOrs in England regarding
the intentions of the Chinese to immcdi-
ntcly construct systems of railways.
On Saturday last puma, which has been
infcsting the ncighborhood Of Pilot Grove,
Texas, for several weeks, tore to pieces and
dcvourHd the ouG year old child of n farmer
living on Burnss tract.
The old sugar commission house Of J. de
Rivers ~ Co. has suspended, and Henry c..
de Rivers, the head Of the firm, is missing.
II is thought that his mind is unsettled and
that he wandered away, not knowing where
he was going.
a soldier attempted suicide in Rome
Sunday, and among his effects was found
paper declaring that he had been designated
by secret society to kill the King, but that
he preferred death rather than do as in
structcd. lie would not bctray the society,
Judson {. Clements is the first Congress-
man from Georgia to secure renomina-
tion. Eight years ago Judson Clements
defeated DIR. FELTON,, the famous Indcpcnd.
cnt, who had wrcStlcd the Seventh District
from Tic Democracy
The aged mother Of Congressman Cole
was informed of her sons death i'm Bati-
more on Friday last The shock completely
Frustrated her, and she died Sunday after
noon, couple of hours before the funeral
Of her son took place.
The sensational reports put into circula
tiOn as 10 difficulties between Russia and
The bowers rppDr1inr RrtOu,n l,o,n Ioo,