The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
White Caps are terrorizing the vicini-
ty of Sardinia, Ohio.
The exposition at Richmond, Va,
has been brought to asuccessful close.
Thomas Garnett died at Muscogee,
Fla, November %, aged 120 years.
The canals of the State of New York
will be closed at midnight, November
90th.
Timothy Comey, while working on
a building, fell hundred feet and was
killed instantly.
Judson Female College, Marion, Ala,
has been burned. Loss $l0G,Ge0; in=
sqrance S25,90Q:
Elijah Halford, of Indianapolis, has
been rendered the private Secretary
ship by Gen. Harrison.
At Knoxville an injunction has been
granted against the lease of the East
Tennessee to the Richmond and Dan
vile,
Capt John Spence died in Accomac
county, Virginia Monday. He was
born in 1776, and voted for Thomas
Jefferson.
Immense rocks threaten to crush out
the existence of the town Of Leaven-
worth, Ind. High cliffs overhang the
city, and particles of these are turning
I loose.
Mr.. A. v. Williamson, Philadel-
phia's aged millionaire, has selected
seven trustees for his ST., ,0O0,000 train
ing school,
A railroad combine in Chicago is su-
! ing newspaper for libel, for exposing
the bribery of city council by the rail-
road ring.
The expenses of the postal service for
| the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890, are
estimated at S66,8l2,073, and the postal
revenues for the same time at S62, $685.
65s.
Richard Carr, who shipped the first
load of grain to England from Cali
fornia in the ship Great Republic, died
last week aged Il years.
BROOKLYN, November 23-Michael
Ward, while at work in Brooklyn
this afternoon met with frightful
death by falling into pot of boiling
tar.
Advices received by the steamship
Rio De Janeiro, from China, are that
the first railroad in tue Chinese en-
pire was officially opened on the 9th
instant.
A suit for $1,000 has been decided
at Little Rock, Ark, against five in
surance companies who refused to pay
for cotton burned, which has also been
insured in marine companies.
The President is at work on his mes
sage. The latest report is that it will
be devoted to a treatise on civil service
reform, and it will startle the country
fully as much as his famous tariff mes
sage.
| Lord Sackville and Mr.. Chamberlain
and their friends left New York on
Saturday, which happened to be cele'
brated as the anniversary of the evacua
ton of the city by the British in 1888
the real anniversary occurring Sunday
| WASHINGTON, November 23-Con
gresham Randall, of Pennsylvania
writes that his health is so far rimproveo
that be expects to be in his seat at the
assembling of Congress.
At the knights of Labor convention
T. Y. Powderly was reelected grapc
master workman by vote of ia t
q for Hanley, of New Jersey, represen
tative Wheat, Of Iowa, was elected
grand worthy foreman.
| About 1,7O00 bales of cotton aboard
the steamer Elphinstone, loading fol
Bremen, were damaged at Charleston
S. c., while'a fire in the vessels hol(
was being eXtinguished. The cargo
was insured partly in the Atlantic Mu
tual of New York and partly abroad.
The bursting of the blowing trough
at Whitney's glass works in Soutf
Camden, n. j., released forty tons O.
molten glass, which ran in fer.
stream, setting the works on fire ant
causing CONSERVATION among the work
ingmen. Their escape was almost mir
aculous.
In the case of McMurray and other
against Emmerson, of Boston, canned
goods manufacturer, to secure royalty
> on soldering iron, the jury has rendered
verdict for the former for S9,375. Thi
verdict opens the way for suits agains
all canned goods men in the country
and it is estimated that the royalt!
would aggregate fifty millions.
Advices from Panama state tina
there is revolution in Bolivia for tn
purpose of over throwing Presiden
Arce, and making Gen. Comacho Pres
ideut. Several towns have been oc
cupied by the rebels. \ fight tool
place at Catagaita, in which the gov
: ernment party were successful, maxim;
Gen. Camacho prisoner. The rebel
are still active.
The Fort PAYNE Coal and iron com
pany, of Fort Payne, Ala, has organ
lied with a capital of $5,00O,O0O. Th
company has purchased $4,000 acres O
valuable coal, iron and town site land
at Fort Payne. One million dollars o
:, the capital stock will be held in til
1 I treasury. In addition to coal and irol
| industries, the fire brick, lime, silic
and granite properties in which tn
tract abounds will ultimately be de
veloped.
/ Death of Col. A. d. Frederick.