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


to grant amnesty to political exiles.
Col. David johnson, Jr., will deliver the
annual address at the commencement Of
the Clinton Academy on June 81.
The Republicans of the Fifteenth Con-
gressional District of Illinois have nomi-
mated Joseph @. 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
$40, 900 short.
Winona, Miss, has voted "a donation of
$65,0O0 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.
j. S. Simon, the dcfaulting cx-Treasurer
Of Drake County, Ohio, has been sentenced
to six years in the penitcntiary 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 undcrbilling
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
5000 more immigrants arrived at New
York than in the same time last year.
There were 2S, 045 arrivals in March
1t 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 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 Emperor'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
| dercd his decision in the uld-Sage mat
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. lie has slept the
greater part Of the afternoon and evening.
Ills principal physicians have paid but
short visits and the family and attendants
seem under no special concern
A special from Ozark, Mo-, saws that the
| jury in the Bald Kuobbers cases returned
a verdict of murder in the first degree
against Dave Walker, and allotted short
terms in the penitentiary to a number, of
| other members of the organization.
The locomotives on 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 1926 to 81. 80 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, Pittsburp
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
Popcs, eight Emperors, tifty-two Kings
SIX Sultans, and twenty one Presidents
| ~ fhnnn
naming eighty nine are dead
A special from Winnipeg says that tho
number of immigrants arriving is increas
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 colorcd people Nc ,OmmOdatiOus in
every way equal to thoto furnished white
people.
There was filed yesterday in the New
Orleans Civil District Court an application
Tor mandamus to compel Registrar Patton
to give to the Republicans one commits.
sloncr in each precinct on election day. As
| IL StithdS now the Republicans have only
one clerk at each precinct, but no commits.
2ioner. 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
for registering the names Of applicants for
work.
The feud between the Banks and Monroe
families has bloken out afrcsh. In Writ
County, Va, Silas Banks armed with a.
Winchester rifle met the three Monroe
brothers, Eben, George and Lemuel, who
had rcVOlvers, 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
natural gas in the foundry department of
VIM. AnsOn Woods mower and reaper
works, and the extensive plant is now q
mass of ruins The concern employed 500
men The loss is estimated at $3.50 900
Insurance $50, 900, divided among Eastern
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