The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from variou,
Quarters.


Quarters.
France fears a Socialist invasion.
Secretary Manning's condition re-
mains unchanged.
The English Government is going
to experiment in tobacco growing,
The great railway strike came to
an end on Thursday, but the men arc
dissatisfied.
1t is estimated that the public
debt was reduced $l4,25O,OOO in the
month of March
The riots in Belgium have been
suppressed and some of the rioters are
returning 10 work.
john and Sam Lovin, mail car
ricrs, have been arrested for robbing
the mail near Asheville, N. G.
II. II. White, prominent and
wealthy merchant of New Orleans,
dropped dead in Staunton, Va, on
Thursday.
The heavy rains Of Thursday and
the day before extended GENERALLY
throughout the South and West.
"A tornado swept over Helena,
Ark, and vicinity on Thursday, de-
stroying a number of buildings and
other property.
-Gcronimo and three other Apache
chiefs, with twenty SHINE bucks and
forty-ci9ht squaws, have surrendered
Internationally to Gen. Crook.
China has ordered two ironclads
from Stcttin, to carry four Krupp,
seven Hotchkiss and four torpedo
guns.
John Timmons, an old Kentucky
gambler, committed suicide in Lead
willie. He was in destitute circum-
stances.
Fired Villarosa, an Italian who
ieionnonsly assaulted young girl, was
taken from Jail in Vicksburg, Miss,
and lynchcd.
--Ihc Northern Pacific Railroad
locomotive and Car shops at Brainerd,
Mimi, were burned on Monday; loss
over 100000, fully insured.
Two negroes who murdered
| Daniel Guthrie, prominent citizen
OF Crockct county. Tenn, were taken
from Jail aud lynchcd.
Woods cotton press in New Or
leans was fired by lightning and eight
| hundred bales of cotton was badly
damaged; .oss about 500, 900, insured.
Augusta was within five feet of
being oycrtlowed on Thursday. Sew
eral streets in the lower part of the
city were under water.
"A decision Of the Secretary of the
Interior restores nearly $500, 900 acres
OF land along the line of the Atlantic
" Pacific Railway to the public domain.
County Treasurer Gourty, of
| Granger, East Tennessee, was shot
dead rs u burglar " lille attempting to
rob his own house Of s., 800 tax money
deposited there.
Three New York aldermen arc
now il custody on the charge of hav-
| ing been bribcu in connection with the
Broadway railroad -Jarhuc, Kirk aud
| Pearson.
The bill for the erection OF II mnu
uucmt in Washington TO the IN, m0Iy
OF Abraham Lincoln, at Il cost Of half
million dollars, has been PASSED by
the House.
-Gcorgc Shelton, of Lebanon, Iuh.,
put Il bar Of lead in quart Of water,
boiled and drank ii As a cure for bDilS,
and died from its effects in few DAYS
in great pain.
The opposition to Col. Trenholm
is baecd On his anti silver views and
Is nGi likely TO bc successful. So says
the Washington correspondent of the
NeWS and COUrier
"A passenger train was di,chcd
near Parsons, Kansas, and Il number
Of persons were badly hurt. Drlcc-
tlvcs have a clue az to who the train
wrcckcrs are.
"A cotton factory at Pratviilc, Ala.
was undermined by the high water
and is Il total wreck; two hundred
hands thrown out of employ employ
ncnt; loss about $50, 900.
The steamer B,umOrc, while
saving the cargo and machinery of the
! Wd'Y LetCiS, exploded her boiler near
New Orleans; four men were killed
and five badly injured.
-Aldrrmrn Henry Douglass, of
Laredo, Texas, WAS killed in IL saloon
by man named Menly. There is
much excitement and threats of lynch
ing are freely made.
"A cyclone in Bullock county, Ala
bama, struck negro church in which
u funeral was going on; the building
was o'oh IL 'loWui l)uf persons killed.
and ten badly injured.
The steamer baltimore exploded
her boiler last Tuesday on the Missis-
sippi River, near New Orleans. Four
men were blown overheard and
drowned, and five others were badly
injured.
The Brookhaven, Miss, Leader
says it has authority for saving that
5. III. Whitworth, formerly of Brook
haven, but now of Lcflorc county, led
the armed mob that did the killing al
C2rrollton.
AT Henderson, North Carolina, on
Friday morning, freight train ran
over Thomas Arlington, u veteran
conductor, and cut Off a portion of his
foot, and inflicted injuries on his head
which may prove fatal.
The principal part Of the town Of
Key West, Fla, was burnt on Thurs
day, involving loss Of fully $780,
600; insurance small. A number of
persons were injured, but no lives