The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Intercst Gathered from Hnrious
Quarters.

OF boats at Cologne and caused the SuspCn-
sion Of navigation on the river.
A special from Beaufort, N. c., says tho
! business portion Of that town was burned.
Loss about $50, 600.
At MadisOnvillc Tex, on Tuesday night
PERFORMERS" shot one man and hanged two
| others. The sheriff has called for troops
heavy snow storm prevails in Bulga.
ria. Railroads arc blOckrdcd and mails
due in Sofia on Saturday have not arrived
Judge A. u. Aldrch contraClicts the re
port that he has contemplated rcsguing.
lie says he will serve out his term.
The Birmingham England) Canal burst
| yesterday at point near Dudley. Hun
| drcdS Of families were rendered homeless
| by inundation.
| The Democratic primaries III New Or
| leans resulted in the election Of fifty-six
| Nichols delegates and forty eight McEncry
| delegates.
| a call has been issued from Boston for
| the sixth annual meeting Of the National
| Law and Order League to assemble in
Philadelphia on February 81 and % next
Az Los Angeles, Cal, on Tuesday the
Workshop Of the Los Angeles Furniture
Company was burned. Loss 5000, 900; in
| suranCc 100000
1t is reported that the British Govern
) per cent stock guaranteed from repay
| mcnt at par for at least twenty-five years.
| The managers Of the Cincinnati Base
Ball Club have decided to have the club
spend the winter praCticing and giving cN-
! hibitiOn games III the South.
The Court Of Claims has dismissed the
| claim of the Mississippi Railroad Company
| az INST the United States for compensation
for carrying the mails before the war
| The residence Of DR.. J. }. Dustin at
| MI Willing WAS burned on Monday morn
| Ing, together with all his household rurni,
| tu:C.
| Coal dealers in Philadelphia arc raising
| the price Of coal fifty to seventy five cents
| per ton, and many of them announce that
they will sell only one ton on each order.
The meeting of the ladies Of Trinity
Church called at the request Of the Rector
To meet this afternoon, has been postponed
| until next Monday afternoon at 30.
Senator Blair's bill to aid the Colorcd
| National Industrial Exposition appropri-
| atcs 5000, 900, to be expended under the di-
| rcctiOn OF n board Of commissioners to be
| appointed by the President
| An 500 ton bark. believed to bc an
| AncriC'm vessel, has been wrecked at the
| entrance of Waterford (Ir,lAn,D harbor.
| Tier crew, consisting of twenty-five persons,
| were all drowned.
The report of the arrival Of the steamship
| Fonawanda, from Savannah, which was
| reported in distress OIL the New jersey
| coast, in New York is an error The vessel
| is still missing.
a special from the City of Mexico says
| that an earthquake three seconds in dura-
| lion was felt Tuesday night at O'Clock in
| McXcaam, GuCrrOro, and one Of two sec
ond8 yesterday morning at 8 O'Clock in Tc-
| nncingO, in the same State.
Senator Sherman has introduced Il bill
nnprOpriating $500, 900 to reimburse dcpos
| ilO!S for losses sustained by failure of the
| FrcCdm0ns Savings and Trust Company.
no part of the money however, is TO be
paid to aSSigncCs of dcpOsitOrS.
John Foley, aged 30 years, has Just been
arrested in New York for the murder Of
| Denny kC0rncy on Christmas day, 1886.
lie confcsscS the killing, but says he acted
| in sclf-dcfcncc.
a violent storm has been raging in the
Irish Channel, and great damage has been
| done to property and shipping. 4 portion
of Fa8tnct Rock has tumblcd into the sea.
| a large vessel has been wrecked off Dun
cannon and all hands arc believed to be lost.
| The steamer TOnawanda from Daricn,
ca, December 20, with lumber was towcd
into New York last night from Brigantinc
L,
N distress with her piston rod broken. She
hati lost her first mate and Onc seaman
| n party of negroes were digging q grave
lusl week near Robbins, in Aiken county,
and one of them, Handy Sweat, was sent
on spirited horse for an axe to cut Il root
that impCdcd the digging. The horse threw
its rider, killing him almost instantly.
AT Lafayette, Ind, Judge Nint0n, sitting
in the Circuit Court has decided that tcc
phone companies doing a general telephone
business were compelled by the statute to
| furnish Instruments at the legal rate of So
a month, whether they wished to do so or
not.
| 4 large dcfalcation, covering u number
of years, has been discovered in the firm
Of Il. j. Allen, Son & Co., wholesale deal
crs in OILS, alcohol and chinawarc, in Phila-
delphia. The dcfauItCr is Henry H0Opcs
who has been in the employ Of the firm
since boyhood.
| A special from the City Of Mexico says
that tho earthquake felt there Monday
morning was pcrCcptihly felt throughout
southern Mexico, and at the city of igua.
lnpa il was quite severe. Some damage to
property, consisting principally in the
cracking Of walls, is reported, but no loss
of life.
| Mr. Ammi Baldwin, late cashier Of the
Fidelity National Bank, died suddenly of
paralysis at his residence in Cincinnati yes
tcrdny. Mr.. Baldwin was indicted with
other officers Of the Fidelity Bank. blt for
some reason his bond was placed at $l0,-
600 and he was able TO secure bondsmCn
and has not been in jail.
The strike among the flint glass workers
has extended from the Western TO the East
ern factories, and men who left work in
fifteen factories in Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
New Bedford, Boston, and Corning, n. V,
have failed to return to work, with two
out.
| Two express trains on tho Dutch State
railway, Holland, came into collision near
Mcppcl yesterday, while running at high
rate Of speed. The engine and cars were
totally wrecked, aud twenty six persons
'wcre killed. The number Of injured Is not