The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-15

WIN NlhCneSlcf fllle. lie was hur-
rlcd to jail to avoid lynching.
"A fire in the Central Railroad
warehouses at Savannah, on Tuesday,
destroy ed forty-tive car loads of corn
} and damaged three hundred bales of
cotton; estimated loss $4,000.
, The Mormons have just closed n
tour days session at Proro, Utah, over
ten thousand people being in attend
ancc. They have no intention of cmi
grating by wholesale from Utah.
The boiler of the British steamship
EnohdntrcSs, ashore on Frying Pan
Shoals off Wilmington, N. c., cXplod-
cd last week. Three wreckers were
badly scaldcd-ono 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 Il Knight of Labor and the
Mayor leans that way. Inccndiary
speeches were made at a recent public
meeting.
Louis =. Schmidt, Of Frccport,
Illinois, killed himself-driven to the
act, it is believed, through dismissal
from tho knights of Labor. lie was
charged with divulging the secrets Of
the Order.
"A fire broke out in lumber yard
in LII Crosse, Wis, Oh Tuesday, and
spread in different dircctions; fire
engines from adjacent towns had to be
called in. The loss will reach fully
81 100000.
Representative Samuel j. Ran-
dalfs admirers arc talking of him asia
:, successor to MIR. Manning in the
Treasury Department. Counting
chickcnS before they arc hatchcd is an
old habit of the sanguinc.
--lsadorc Scidcnbaum, a Young man,
went into the sleeping room of Annie
Roscntcin, a pretty girl of fifteen, in
Milwaukee, and killed her and tten
himself with u pistol. No cause is
assigned for the tcrl iblc act.
"A strike of cotton spinstcrs and
wcaVcrs against the lowering of wages
is III progress at Ensncdc, Holland.
SO far no disorders have occurred.
although the Socialists are urging the
strikers to resort to fOrCiblc measures.
DR.. Luther &. Rose, of PALMYRA,
ONO, claims to lUvc invented Il most
excellent telephone transmittcr. In a
test over %7S miles Of wire a whisper
, was heard distinctly, and also the tick
!; ing of IL watch held ten feet from the
. transmittcr
The report ofthc Royal Commits
y sion appointed to inquire into tho
y business depression throughout Great
q l'rltlan contains some very strong
statements about the damage to lh(
Y trade of that country by high tariffs il
+ the Uuitcd States.
d The Chinese Minister was prossl,
lnSultcd on his arrival in San FruEcisci
. last Tuesday. The Collector of Gus
+ toms refused to let him land, withou
, an inspection of his credentials. Tn,
- affair caused quite IL sensation, but this
has quietcd down.
o The month of March, with its dry
g winds, has always been IL disastrous
one in the fire record. The waste for
tins country and Canada for that month
has averaged $7,OO0,000. Last ycal
the March losses footed up $9,OOO,OOO,
and this year they were $10,65O, 900.
b. G. Coylc, respected citizen OF
Dalton, Ga, was taken from his home
and whipped severely by masked men.
Two young females were whipped BY
the same party. The whipped indi-
Vidunls are charged with reporting the
Whlppcrs for running illicit distilcrics.
Sheriff Slatch, Of Cochise county.
: Arizona, went TO Gen. Crook with q
: warrant for Geronimo and forty one
l "John Docs" Gen. Crook replied
, that the Indians are held as prisoners
of war under instructions from WASH
lngton, and he would not give them
f up.
One of the mail cars attached to
fast mail train No. 4, which left Chica-
go at $50 p. m. on Thursday on the
Lake Shore Railroad, was burned at
Oak llarbOr, Ohio. The car contained,
besides the mail, caskct in which
were the remains Of mother and her
newborn babe.
Illinois Republicans arc pluming
! themselves over ''patronagc" disscn-
} Sions among the Democrats in the
Eighteenth Congressional district of
mat State. or course the suggestion
IS made that these will cause Colonel
Morrison's defeat. Tho same thing
has been said before.
Mis-. Foster, wife Of the late Scna-
tor from Connecticut, who was the
acting Vice-Prcsidcnt and President of
the Senate pro tenn. from 1S65-G7, after
spending the winter in Washington,
has gone TO Beaufort, S. c., for a visit
to the family Of Lieutenant Lyman,
United States navy.
1t seems to be a general impress
sion in Washington Mr.. II. l.. Fortune,
editor of the Freeman, the indcpcnd-
cnt organ of the colorcd people, would
like to have the RcCordcrship Of Deeds
at Washington in case Mr.. Matthews
is not confirmed. Mr.. Fortunes
friends think he will get it.
Will. $. Hays, the poct,author,
docs not want the Louisville Postofflce
, and has tclcgraphed to Washington :
Tel President Cleveland for the
Lords sake not to appoint me Post.
master. | don't want to be annoved
by, 100000 citizens wanting places.
ia rather engineer batky mule"
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