The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-25

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF .Interes, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

States Senator from Mississippi.
The Ohio Republicans are organizing q
Sherman League.
At Brownsville, Texas, the mercury has
fallen to Is degrees, the coolest since 1880.
The old business part of Thomson, Ga,
was burned yesterday. Loss $40, 900.
Erening Star, made its appearance yester.
day. The issue was 142, 600 copies.
The trial of the Pickens lynchers has
been postponed till the summer term of
Court.
A young negro boy four years old was
run over on the Georgia Central railroad
yesterday and his body cut in halves.
The Turkish Minister of War has been
enioincd to hasten the completion of the
defenscs of Adrianople.
Governor Semplc has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the ONE of Washing.
ton Territory.
A meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati
has enthusiastically endorsed John Shcr-
man for President.
Malone has obtained control of the Re
publican League of Observation-Disclosures
being left out.
Eight suicides occurred in Vienna ycstcr
WY uiIobS lhCul Si'Itill bc>Nli'ilGl, VI
the Austrian navy, and Paymaster Fuchs,
of the army.
AT Birmingham, Ala, yesterday, II. II.
Scarbough, n detective, was dangerously
shot by Tom Ellis, editor of the Hornet, in
a saloon row.
Milton Young's stallion PiHarrc, by Ad,
Vcnturcr, dan Milcncr by R%ataplan, valued
at $4,000, died Wednesday night at Lex
ington, Ky, of pneumonia.
A fire at Fort Mackinway, Wyoming
Territory, destroyed 500, 600 worth of pro.
visions, and the garrison has been put on
half rations.
The Ashland steel works, about twenty
miles north of Baltimore, have stopped
work, the Reading strike causinga scarcity
of coal.
Fire at st. Pull, Mimi, yesterday de.
stroyed two buildings occupied by q large
wholesale grocer. Loss $500, 900. Insured,
Fire in Montreal yesterday morning dc.
stroycd 800, 600 worth of property. 1t
was so cold that the fire ladders frozc 10
tn walls.
The schooner Myra Pratt, Sherman mas.
ter, Of Mobile, was wrecked on TampicO
bar IN Sunday, and two lives were lost.
Part Of the cargo Of cross'ics was saved.
The Iowa Legislature, voting separately
yesterday, reelected Senator Wilson us his
w successor. The joint convention will
ratify this action.
The Delaware rolling mill at Phillips.
burg, II. j., shut down on Monday, owing
to the scarcity Of coal and dulncss in tho
iron trade. Three hundred hands arc thus
thrown GU of employment.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, on Sunday
morning. the thermometer stood so degrees
below zero, and yesterday morning il
ranged from s. to 90 degrees below.
The Charleston cotton mill was offered
for sale yesterday, but as nobody would
bid $50, GOO over the debts Of the concern.
the property was withdrawn.
The long strike of shocmakcrs in Rochcs.
ter, n. y, which has continued since No.
vcmbcr !, has collapsed, the men returning
to work on the manufacturers terms.
Both branches Of the Legislature OF
Washington Territory have rc-cnactcd tho
woman's suffrage law, but have exempted
women from jury duty.
The annual afternoon performance fol
the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum, at the Metropolitan Opera House.
New York, melted $40. 600. Every box
sold at SlS. -Four thousand people were
refused admission.
An old man named Tadgray, living
about SIX miles from Latonia, Texas. on
Saturday started home, facing the blizzard.
Ills horse went up to his gate and stopped.
The man had literally frozen to death in
the saddle and sat still and upright.
Mack Jones, colorCd, formerly an en-.
ploycc of the Savannah, Florida and West.
crn Railroad Company, sued the company
Tor five thousand dollars for the loss Of a
thumb. The jury give him one hundred
dollars.
Reports from different sections of Texas
note the cessation Of the blizzard, but the
temperature continues very low for tina,
latitude. The weather has been unprccc.
dcntcd, both in rcspcctto low thermometer
and snow and sloct.
Reports Of loss Of life in last weeks
storm in the West continue to come in.
One list now numbers 1913, and another
l54. 1t would seem probable that the final
summary, if such can ever be made, will
show quite 200 names.
Miss Gudi ia Bostic, q distant cousin
of Senator l. Ter, was married last night
ut ST. Johns Church, Washington, to En-.
sign WiikcrSon, of the vavy. a brilliant
reception took place aftcrward at the house
of the brides sister, Mrs. Charles Sydney
| Whitman. :
John Murray, of New York, 125 pounds,
and Ed. DAILY, of Providence, 1l5 pounds,
fought in New Jersey yesterday with bare
knucklcs for $500. AT the end of nine
pretty lively rounds, DAILY was knocked
s~cnsclcss by a right handler under the car.
Murray was declared winner.
At Butler, Pa, Wednesday morning
John Mathio, a Frcnchman, and a Belgian
named Alix, foreman at the Standard Plate
Glass Works, were almost instantly killed
while placing a sheet of glass in position on
the grind table. The wheel turned sud.
denly and they fell on it and were ground
TO death.
a shocking fatal accident occurred ut
Amick Brothers saw mill, in Lexington.
Charles QuailS, a young white man. was
moving u slab, which come in contact with
the circular saw and was thrown against
his body with terrible force, knocking him
down, breaking his neck and killing him
almost instantly. Quails was from Penn
sylyania, and was about ni9etcen years of
agc.
a collision between two snow plough
engines took place Monday ncar HOekinos