The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Quarters.
Dom Pedro is now considered out of
danger.
The food In the Mississippi River Is
alarming proportions.
Lord Stanley, of Preston, is gazetted as
Governor General Of Canada.
Three thousand persons were drowned
by the recent flood in the Canton River.
A train of empty %" cars was set on
fire Sunday at Chicago by strikers and
nearly consumed.
The Delaware Democratic Convention
endorse Cleveland and favors tho Mills
tariff bill.
The Emperor of Brazil is suffering from
pleurisy. Physicians attending him say
that his condition Is serious
The State mneralogist reports that Cali
fornia last year produced $13 3,O63, 929 in
ores and bullion.
A fire in Georgetown, s. c., yesterday
morning, destroyed property to the value
Of $4,000.
Lightning struck schoolhouse Wednes
day at Dayton, o., and two little girls were
fatally injured.
The President has nominated Robert Is.
Roosevelt, of New York, to be minister
resident of the United States to the Meth
| erlands.
The Brazilian Government has announced
| its intention to submit to the Legislature a
| project for the abolition of slavery in Bra
| I'll.
The President contributed $100 Wedncs-
day towards the building of an orphan
va. 'A '0f oo'0f'd children at hynchourg'
Forty-six thoroughbred yearlfnss vr-cro
sold at Lexington Ky, on Tuesday, for
$23, ,41O, an average of $487.
The Kansas Republican State Conven-
ton passed resolutions endorsing Plumb
and Ingalls,. The sentiment of the convcn-
ton was decidedly in favor of Blaine.
The Vatican has received dispatch from
the Papal Nuncio at Paris stating that the
disputes between France and the Vatican
have been satisfactorily settled
The schooner Ridgcwood, loaded with
lumber, was burned Wednesday below
Jacksonville, Fla. Loss on vessel and
| cargo $2S,000
Commodore Norman Wilson, one of tho
wealthicst men in the Northwest, died sud
denly yesterday evening on the train en-
route for his home in Minneapolis
Geo. f., Montgomery, of Vinccnncs,
| Ind, lumber dealer dealer, who has been
buying extensively in the South, has con.
fcsscd judgment in the sum of $2S, $40
The expenses of living in the city of
New York may be conjccturcd from re
mark in the Mail and Express that n man
on an inGifffiiee this side of $4,000 finds the
country healthier t.f 'e'tft9'c 'hf9 G.fJ e." --.~
The Republican newspapers North are
searching for something damag- |
ng to Mr.. Melville w. Fuller They saw
IjgpnvprpI hn |
&c famous "Pcace Legislature" of Illinois. (
Dennis Mclaughlin, of New Haven.
ged 80, hung himself in his barn ycstcr
ay. lie owned considerable property, |
disappointment at losing n situation in the
'eroy railroad shops is tho supposed cause.
Wm: Hopkins, who was to have been
ranged III Rnbun, Ga, has been rcspted
~ Governor Gordon. Hopkins is the man
VINO stoned stranger to death at a country
church because he wore a "bilcd shirt"
The National Bureau of Engraving and
PRINTING is engaged night and day in print
ng one and two dollar silver certificates
and to date has finished $2G 900 ,OUO of ones
and 1000, 900 of twos
Blakely Hale tclcgraphs to the New
ork Sun from Berlin that ct is not TO he
wondered at that his Ma ajcsty has detcrio-
rated IN health at Charlottenburg. The
place is little more than swamp.
The golden rose sent by Pope Leo 70 |
Miss Caldwell will be cercmoniously pre-
Sentcd to that lady at the laying or the
corner stone of the Catholic University in
washington, ID. c., on the 24th instant.
One thousand miners declined to renew
their working contract at Pratt mines
at birmingham, Ala, Monday, according
to the companys figures, and are now out
Of work
a riot occurred at Dunmany, Ireland
yesterday, as the police were removing
number OF prisoners to Cork. The police
IharSea upon The rioters, and used their
batons freely
w. &. Chamberlain, of Texas, who went
10 Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf
Dlte' returned to New York on the La Gas.
cogne Sunday, though man bitten bv
the same wolf has since died.
Sunday afternoon at North Bend, O.,
lurlng quarrel over game Of cards, in
which Lewis Brown, Joe Howard and
Harrison Stapleton were engaged, the lat.
er stabbed Brown in the heart, killing him
After one hundred and ninety days
voyage the schooner Edward e, Webster
arrived at San Francisco from Gloucester
hass, with her crew disabled with 2
strange disease, and no pro, isions on board
)ut musty flour.
Nathaniel Watts the last of the cold
defenders who defended Baltimore from
he British invasion in 1914, is diving Mt
ne residence of his daughter in Baltimore.
dc is 04 years of age
A terrible dynamite explosion occurred
Tuesday morning at Colly mine, Bessemcr
Mich, instantly killing Frank Robatslly
ND fatally inJuring three others. The en-
,ine house was burned to the ground
LOSS So, 900.
Three burglars entered the house of Mrs
'lary E. Reynolds, at Gresham. Pa on
londay night She was alone. but she
.ept the robbers at bay with a hatchct |
)ne OF them attempted to seize her arm,
phereupon she knocked him senseless TO |
be floor. ]
The Missouri Supreme Court has rc.
ersed Judge Noonan's decision upon the
aw OF 1857 Sunday law 1t holds that :
ne city government of st. Louis never had ,,
uthority to grant permission for the sale
wine or beer on Sunday.
twenty-five editions of the MAY number
the North American Review have been
sued. 1t was Mr.. Gladstoue's article on =
ol !ngersolls ideas that caused this un. :
recedented sale. Z
Between four and five hundred peonle i
n