The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-18
GENERAL NEws NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Late developments bring an carly settle
ment of the Reading Railroad difficulties
entirely within the range of probability.
At Cork, Ireland, yesterday, DR.. Philip
Cross, formerly surgeon in the SD rcgi-
mcnt, WIS hanged for the murder Of his
wife by poisoning.
Eve lost my grip" sadly sighed a pen
uilcss commercial traveller when the hotel
proprietor seized his valisc for non ply
mcnt Of board.
The convention for securing cheap rail.
road excursion rates to the South for per
sons prospecting with a view TO settle is in
session in Chattanooga.
The New York jury, in the case of Miss
Campbell against Coffee Merchant Ar
buckle, for breach Of promise of marriage,
returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum
of $40, 900.
A Shanghai dispatch says that a fanati.
cal outbreak has occurred in the province
of Tukien. Twenty Christian churches
have been burned and the converts massa-
cred.
Eight armed men stopped the Mexican
Central passenger train on Tuesday even
ing. 300 miles south of Ell PasO, Texas,
III 1oODSN b"S SNliSSS S' tNS'Oeg 90
hurt.
An Iowa prizc,fghtcr had a rib broken
in q bout recently, and tainted. Adam
lost a rib, and VIC are not told that he
tainted. Perhaps he did't know what
trouble the loss porten led.
Sickcl, HELEN & Co. of Baltimore, no.
tons and white goods, have made an as
signmcnt for the the benefit of their cred
itOrS to William j. Dixon. The bond of
the trustees is $500, 600.
At Chattanooga yesterday, during q
quarrel between Lew Owens and j. D..
Barnes, the former was shot three times by
Barnes, who was cut 10y Owens. The
wounds of Owens are mortal.
A local passenger train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was dcrailCd by snow
drifts near Grey Cliff, Montana, on Tues.
day evening. The engineer and fireman
were killed; no one else was injured.
An epidemic of crysipclas has broken
out among the Indians at Poplar River,
Montana. Abou; twenty have died. The
cause is close confinement and bad vcntila-
ton.
a dispatch from Gainesville, Ga say
that n solid vein Of black lead ore, more
than 200 feet wide, has been discovered
neal there, and that it is The largest de
IoSil oiuN cuSJ VI VIC iNoCNy Niouu'hihS.
An express train running from Boston
for Portland was wrecked on the llavcr-
hill bridge, over the Mcrrimac River, yes
tcrday afternoon. Seven persons were
killed and fifty-two wouudCd-fOurtcen of
them very seriously.
One of the Reading strikers, at Norris
town, on Monday night, attacked an en-.
| ginccr upon his locomotive and Knocked
HIM down with a coupling pin. and il took
farce men to- dive the riotur from The EN-
gjuc and arrest him. He is now locked mp
awaiting trial.
Governor LauGbcc Of Ohio, in his bian-
mis-! message TO the Legislature, says that
the enforcement Of the prohibitory law
has been 50 efficient in reducing crime that
he recommends The consolidation of Judi
ciai districts so as To reduce the number Of
Judges from forty-four TO forty.
ScnatOr EdmundS, from the Judiciary
Committee, has made an adverse report on
TIC nomination Of l.. &. &. Lama. TO he
Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court,
uUd senator Pugh, on behalf Of The minor
iiy ni the same n.;tcc, submitted 4 ia
No:abic report. The reports We're placed
on The calendar.
y. dispatch from San FrauciscO says that
an accident occurred on thc Southern Pa.
c'IlC Railroad, near Sumner, in Kern coun-
~, about midnight of Tuesday, which re.
suited in the burning of several passengers
and serious injury otherwise to many
others. a rear car full of sleeping emf
grants brooke loose and ran down a steer
grade, and over an eighty foot cmbank
mcnt, and in Il momcn was a mass of
flames.