The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-26
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
items OF .Intsrest Gathered from Variou
QuarteTs.
TO BE CONTINUED

| E. G. Walthall has been reelected United
States Senator from Glississippi.
The Ohio Republicans are organizing o
Sherman League.
| At Brownsville Texas, the mercury has
fallen to 19 degrees the coolest since $780,
The old business part of Thomson, Ga,
was burned yesterday. Loss $4,000.
A new Home Rule paper, the London
ECentng Star, made its appearance yester-
day. The issue was 142, 900 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
enjoincd to hasten the completion Of the
dcfenscs Of Adrianople.
Governor Semple has signed the bill
| giving the ballot to the women of Washing
ton Territory.
A meeting Of the citiztns of Cincinnati
has enthusiastically endorsed John Sher-
man for President.
| Malone has obtained control Of the Re-
| publican League of Virginia -Riddleberger
being left out.
| Eight suicides occurred in Vienna ycster
day, among them Captain Dcschauer, Of
the Austrian navy, and Paymastcr Fuchs,
of the army.
at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday, II. II.
| Scarbough, detective, was dangerously
shot by Tom Ellis editor of the Hornet, in
n saloon row.
Milton Ioung's stallion Pizarre by Ad-
Venturcr, dam Nlilcncr by Rataplan, valued
| at $4,000, died Wednesday night at Lex
ington, Ky, of pneumonia.
A fire at Fort Mackinway, Wyoming
Territory, destroyed 800, 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 causing scarcity
of coal
Fire at st. Puul, Mimi, yesterday de-
strQyed two buildings occupied by a large
| wholesale grocer Loss $500, 900. Insured
Fire in Montreal yesterday morning de.
stroycd 100000 worth of property. 1t
was SO cold that the fire ladders froZc to
the walls.
The schooner Myra Pratt, Sherman mas.
| ter, OF Mobile, was wrecked on TamDiCO
bar on Sunday, and two lives were lost.
Part of the cargo Of crossties was saved.
The Iowa Legislature. voting separately
yesterday, reelected Senator Wilson as hfs
own successor. The joint convention will
ratify this action.
The Delaware rolling mill at Phillips
burg, n. j., shut down on Monday, owing
| to the scarcity of coal and dulncss in the
iron trade. Three hundred hands are thus
thrown out of employment.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, on Sunday
morning, the thermometer stood 50 degrees
below zero, and yesterday morning it
ranged from 80 to GO degrees below
The Charleston cotton mill was offered
for sale yesterday, but as nobody would
bid $50, 600 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-enacted the
woman's suffrage law, but have exempted
women from jury duty.
The annual afternoon performance for
the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum, at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, ncttcd $4,000 Every box
sold at &lS. -Four thousand people were
refused admission.
Reports from different sections of Texas
| iio'S tilC NCooutioli VI lhC DllLLuItl, DuJ inc
| temperature continues very low for that
latitude. The weather has been unprcce-
dcntcd, both in respect to low thermometer
| and snow and slect.
Reports Of loss of life in last week s
storm in the West continue to come in
One list now numbers 1913, and another
l50. 1t would seem probable that the final
| summary, If such can ever be made will
show quite 200 names.
Miss Gudielma I}ostic, distant cousi
| OF .'cnituI DulIcr, was married last nighr
at Vt. Johns Church, Washington, to I'm
sig NilkcrsOn, of the vavy. a brllian
rec ptiOn took place aftcrward at the h0us,
of the brides sister, Mrs. Charles SydneN
| w Iitman.
John Murray of New York, 125 pounds
md Ed. DAILY, of Providence, 115 pounds
ought in New Jersey yesterday with bar,
inucklcs for $500. At the end Of min,
'rcIty lively rounds, Daily was knocked
cnSccss by Il right handler under the car
Murray was declared winner.
| VI n"tlnr, PA Wednesday, mornir
John Mathio. Frcnchman, and 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.
sh""hin" f. tai accident occurred at
Amicll Brothers saw mill, in Lexington
Charles Quais, young white man was
moving 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 nineteen years Of
age.
A collision between two snow plough
engines took place Monday near IIoskings,
Ncb., in which an engineer was instantly
killed and several other men injured The
engineer was working his snow plough in a
cut and got stalled. He thereupon backed
his engine and started down grade at a
rapid speed. a drag-out engine was
coming around the curve and they came
together. The other injured men will re-
cover.
TaImaGo on Newspaper Men.
The Rev. Mr.. Talmage wonders that
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