The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-04-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Htoms Of Interest Gathered from Varlou
Quarters.

py Vote OF lO4 10 %, reJected proposal
to grant amnesty to political exiles.
Col. David Johnson, Jr., will deliver the
annual address at the commencement of
the Clinton Academy on June 21.
The Republicans of the Fifteenth Con
gressional District of Illinois have nomi
mated Joseph O. Cannon for reelection.
The upper Mississippi and its tributaries
In Wisconsin and Minnesota are at flood
tide and doing good deal of mischief.
The accounts of S. M. Wier, treasurer
of New Albany, Indiana, have been found
$4,000 short.
Winona, Miss, has voted donation of
$65,000 to the Georgia Pacific Railroad
Company, only three votes being cast
against it.
In expectation of the adoption by Par
lament of the bankruptcy clauses of Par
nells bill, Cork usurers are suing delinquent
borrowers without leniency.
The comptroller of the currency has ap-
pointed Clement Dowd, of Charlotte, to be
receiver of the State National Bank of
Raleigh.
So far this session of Congress about 8, 900
bills have been introduced in the House.
Of the bills passed 1877 were public and 222
private.
of Drake County, Ohio, has been sentenced
to six Years in the pcnitcntiary and to pay
fine amounting to about $48, 900 and
costs
After due investigation the Interstate
Commission recommends that penalty be
provided for shippers who, by underbilling
and other devices, secure transportation at
less than regular rates.
In Cornclsvillc, Pa, coke region all Of
the coke producers have decided to close
down their works. From 5000 to 1000
men arc thrown out of work by the shut
down.
During the first three months of this year
5,OOO more immigrants arrived at New
York than in the same time last year.
There were 29945 arrivals in March.
Ii is reported that Prince Alexander has
resolved to abandon his suit for the hand
Of the Princess Victoria, as the majority of
the members Of the Imperial family oppose
him.
For every one person in 1901 engaged in
making stockings by hand, ten are now
employed on knitting machines a third less
number of hours, and receive three to seven
times greater wages.
An artificial limb maker said recently
that "after the war it was thought that the
wooden arm and leg business was at an
end, but the locomotive and labor saving
machinery have continued to create aug.
mented demands"
The London Lancet says that the condi-
ton OF the Empcror's larnyX is unchanged
His general health has suffered from his
confinement within doors, which was
necessary on account of the weather.
Recorder Smyth of New York, has rem
r. II i,,t tl,n II O.
ter. lie denies the application to submit
the complaint of the Kansas Pacific stock
holders to the grand jury.
Latest reports from Conkling's sick room
are more encouraging. He has slept the
greater part of the afternoon and evening.
His principal physicians have paid but
short visits and the family and attendants
seem under no special concern.
a special from Ozark, Mo-, SAYS that the
jury in the Bald Knobbers' cases returned
verdict of murder in the first degree
against Dave Walker, and allotted short
| terms III the penitentiary to a number of
other members of the organization.
| The locomotives or the mountain division
of the Central Pacific Railroad, which
have been using coal, are being changed
to wood burners, and the company has
just let contracts for So 900 cords of wood
at from T4.25 to $3.50 per cord.
| According to the Rev. DR.. DeCosta, "thc
commander of the Pinkerton force car
! gather in days notice larger number OF
armed men, either in New York, Pittsbure
| or Chicago, than the General commanding
the army of the United States''
| The Emperor William, during his life
time, saw disappear from the scene six
Popes, eight Emperors, fifty-two Kings
|
-Four of these are still alive but the re-
naming cighty-nine are dead.
a special from Winnipeg says that the
number Of immigrants arriving is in2reas
ing rapidly and that upwards of 2, 900 have
reached that point since the middle OF
March. Many are farmers from Ontario
| who bring their stock and farming impli
ments with them.
| The Georgia Railroad Commission has
refused the request of the colored people
| that first and secOnd-clasS PASSENGER rates
| be established, and held that railroads must
furnish colored people accommodations in
every way equal to those furnished white
people.
There was filed yesterday in the New
Orleans Civil District Court an applications
for mandamus to compel Registrar Patton
| to give to the Republicans one commits
| sloner IN each precinct on election day. AS
it stands now the Republicans have only
| one clerk at each precinct, but no commits.
sioner. The matter will be argued on
Monday next.
The Master Brewers Association of New
York city publish an advertisement giving
notice that, unless the boycott placed on
them by the Central Labor Union of that
city is removed, they will "reorganize their
working force" by wedding out all NAL
contents, and they have opened an office
Tor registering the names Of applicants for
work.
The fcud between the Banks and Monroe
families has broken out afresh. In Writ
County, Va, Sias Banks, armed with
Winchester rifle, met the three Monroe
brothers, Eben, George and Lcmuel, who
had rcvOlyers, on the road near Laurel. At
least twenty shots were fired, resulting in
the death of the three Monroes, while
Banks received four wounds, none of them
fatal
A special from Youngstown, Ohio, saws
that yesterday morning fire started from
hatural gas in the foundry department of
VIM. AnsOn Woods mower and reaper
works, and the extensive plant is now a
mass of ruins. The concern employed 500
men. The loss is estimated at $3.50 (lUO