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

Dom Pedro is now considered out of |
danger.
The flood In the Mississippi River is |
assuming 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 90" 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 mineralogist reports that Cali
forDia last year produced $13, 3,063, 928 in
ores and bullion.
A fire In Georgetown, s. c., yesterday
morning, destroyed property to the value
of $4,000.
Lightning struck schoolhousc Wednes
day at Dayton, o., and two little girls were
fatally injured.
The President has nominated Robert b.
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 Il
| project for the abolition Of slavery in Bra
I'll.
The PrCc'r' Mt contributed 500 WcduCs
day towards ,hc bulldog of an orphan
Va ''' '' ''S b
Forty-six thoroughbred yearlfngs wcro
sold at Lexington, Ky, on Tuesday, for
S23, ,4lO, an average of $4S7.
The Kansas Republican State Conven-
tlon passed resolutions endorsing Plumb
and ingalls,. The sentiment of the conycn
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,00
Commodore Norman Wilson, one of the
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,
lnd., lumber dealer dealer, who has been
buying extensively in the South has con
fesscd judgment in the sum of $2S, 800
The expenses of living in the city of
New York may be con niccturcd from a re
mark in the Mail and Express that n man
on an inGrffflly" this side Of $1,000 finds the
country healthier IL t'ee'tt1it1Ic ee'tt17i1I {. g." ~
The Republican newspapers North are {
searching for something damag- +
lg to Mr. Melville w. Fuller They say "
icy have discovered he was u member Of ~
&c famous peace Legislature" of Illinois. s,
Dennis Mclaughlin, of New Haven. | w
rcd M hnnU himself in hio Ior | lu
ny. lie owned considerable property. W
at losing situation in the
'erby railroad shops is tho supposed cause 7
VIM. Hopkins, who was to have been L
anged III Rabun, Ga, has been rcspited
y Governor Gordon. Hopkins is the man c
Who stoned stranger to death at IL country s
hurch because he wore n "bilcd shirt"
The National Bureau Of Engraving and
'rlnting is engaged night and day in prut-
ng one and two dollar silver certificates
md TO date has finished $2G, 600, 900 of ones
md SIT, 600, 900 of twos. !
Blakely Hale tclcgraphs to the New
ork sun from Berlin that lit is not to be
wondered at that his Ma csty has detcro.
,atcd in health at Charlottenburc. The
place is little more than swamp
The golden rose sent by Pope Leo to
Miss Caldwell will be ceremoniously pre-
'cntcd to that lady at the laying O. the
corner stone of the Catholic University in
Washington, ID. c., on the 9th instant.
One thousand miners declined to renew
heir working contract at Pratt mines.
1t Birmingham, Ala, Monday, according
10 the companys figures, and are now out
Of work
a riot occurred at Dunmany, Ireland,
as the police were removing a
number Of prisoners to Cork. The policc
charged upon the rioters and used their
batons freely.
w. G. Chamberlain, of Texas, who went
to Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf
bite, 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.,
during quarrel over game of cards, in
which Lewis Brown, Joe Howard and
Harrison Stapeton were engaged, the lat,
ter stabbed Brown in the heart, killing him
After one hundred ond ninety DAYS
voyage the schooner Edward L, Webster
arrived at San Francisco from Gloucester.
Macs, with her crew disabled with n
strange disease, and no pro, isions on board
but musty flour.
Nathaniel Watts, the last of the "old
who defended Baltimore from |
the British invasion in 1911, is diving at |
the residence of his daughter in Baltimore.
He is 04 years of age |,
A terrible dynamite explosion occurred
Tuesday morning at Colly mine, Bessemcr,
Mich, instantly killing Frank Robatsky
and fatally injuring three others. The en-
CINE house was burned to the ground.
Loss $4,000.
Three burglars entered the house of Mrs.
Mary E. Reynolds, at Gresham, Pa, on
Monday night. She was alone, but she
kept the robbers at bay with a hatchet.
One Of them attempted to seize her arm,
she knocked him senscless to
The floor.
The Missouri Supreme Court has re-
yersed Judge Noonan's decision upon the
law of 1857 Sunday law. 1t holds that
the city government Of st. Louis never had
authority to grant permission for the sale
ot wine or beer on Sunday.
Twenty-Five editions of the May number
)f the North American Review have been :
ssued. 1t was Mr.. Gladstoue's article on ,
Col. lngersoll's ideas that caused this un. ,
oreCedented sale.
Between four and five hundred people !
we're at Fort Hill s. c. Yesterday for thc r