The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

ttekno OF ,Lntorost Suth0fed rom various
QuaFtorS.
The Missouri Republican State Conven-
| ton met at Seda)'l and elected Blaine dele.
| gates to the Chicago Convention.
The Missouri Republican State Conven-
tion has nominated e. f.. Kimball, Of Yer
| non county, for Governor.
Senators Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock, Beck
| and Harris have been designated sub.
committee to compile tariff bill as u sub
stitute for NIils's bill.
The Republican State Convention of Nc
braska has elected delegates to the Chicago
Convention. They are uninstructed, but
favor Blaine.
Secretary Fairchild has approved the DC
sign of the new twenty dollar silver Ccrtiti-
Gates bearing an excellent likeness of the
late Secretary Manning.
Nearly 5000, 900 had been raised up to
May 10 for foreign missions Of that 81 ,0OC, d.
600 centennial fund which the Northern
Presbyterian Church has undertaken to
secure.
The National Convention Of the Equal
Rights party in session at Dcs MOinc, IA,
nominated Belva A. Lockwood for prcsi
dent, and Alfred III. Love Of PHILADELPHIA
for Vice President.
Capt. Reagan, former conductor Of the
East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia
Road, is now i'm Florida making fortune
lie recently made S75, 600 on 81 800 in.
vestment in real estate during the boom.
During the roll in the New York State
Republican Convention yesterday, when
| the name Of Chaunccy Nj. Dcpcw was read, -,
it was received with perfect storm Of ap-
plausc.
Melville L. Stone, founder and editor OF
the Chicago News, has sold his entire in
tcrcst to Victor f. Lawson, who has been
the publisher since shortly after the Daily
News was started.
The Republican Convention Of the 7th
Virginia district at charlottesville has
| elected Senator Riddlcbcrgcr and cX.Senu-
tor Lewis delegates to the Chicago COnvcn-
ton. They favor Blaine
At Cincinnati the Union Labor Convcu-
ton has adopted platform and nominated
A. }. Strcctcr, Of illinois, for President,
and Charles +. Cunningham, Of Little
Rock, for Vice President.
The third day Of the Texas international
| and intcrS State drill and celebration was
devoted to the dedication of the new State
| capital builling. The military and civic
demonstration in honor OF the event has
probably never been ccuallcd in any State.
Thomas Gresham, railroad cmplnyc. was
shot and killed in Atlanta yesterday by
| George E1dlcman, real estate agent.
| Gresham had expressed himself as fav0ra,
blc To secret societies. when Eddlcman,
| who was drunk, pulled out Il pistol and
| shot him.
"A. New York business man has a novel
method of refreshing his memory. When
he has something important to attend to
| the next day, he writes himself postal
| of I,, \
finding the card among the mail lhe next
! morning, attends to it the first thing.
The thirtccn-ycar-ul,l son Of H. NJ.
Vaughn, wcil-to.do farmer residing near
| Jackson, Ga, hanged himself in the barn
luCSday night with the wagon lines. lie
was the iamilT pet, and grief over a slight
whipping with Il SWITCH administered by
his mother, is supposed to have been the
cause Of the suicide.
On "Wednesday night Felix Jones called
at the residence of Mrs. Stanford in At
lanta to escort her daughter to church.
Dan Stanford, brother Of the girl, play
fully pointed pistol at Jones when il
WAS discharged accidentally, the bullet en-
lcring Joncss head. Jones died in few
hours. The cOroncr's verdict was death
by accident.
The employees of Singer, Nimick & Co.
I''' IJill vi g,
Va, have been notified that their wages
will be reduced 10 per cent. ON May 2S.
The advance granted in February, 1887.
| and the proposed reduction will make wages
the same as they were prior to that ad-
vance. About thousand men arc affected.
The Tennessee State Democratic Con.
vention, which has been in session since
Inst Wednesday, has nominated Governor
Robert l.. Taylor for reelection. The op.
position, which had been fighting him on
every occasion, surrendered and the forticth
ballot resulted virtually in his nomination
by acrIamation. rs lie received nearly every
vote cast.
y dispatch from pittsneld, Ill.,, says:
The break in the Mississippi lcvee increases
ana 100000 acres of land that have been
protected will soon hc in the bottom Of an
immense lake. Owners and tenants are
hurrylng to the nplandsBfor person;
safety, leaving most of their property
Ia" Hoods Hundreds of families n
ralnpcd in the open fields out of reach
the water, having no place to go. GO
ram has set in, making their dcsnlati,
more drcnry and complete.