The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-12
GENERAL RElSS NOTES.
Nome OF irtercHt Gathered from Various
Quarters.

| Ice in the Rhine has broken the bridge
OF boats at Cologne and caused the SuspCn-
sion Of navigation on the river.
A special from Beaufort N. c., says the
| business portion of that town was burned
Loss about $50,00O.
At AladisOnyilc, Tex, on Tuesday night
'rciormcrs" Shot one man and hanged two
others. The sheriff has called for troops.
a heavy snow storm prevails in Bulga
ria. Railroads are blockrdcd and mails
due III Sofia on Saturday have not arrived,
Judge a. =. Aldrich cOntratlicts the nc
port that he has contemplated rCsguing
lie says he will serve out his term.
The Birmingham (England) Canal burst
yesterday at Il point near Dudley Hun
| drcds of families were rendered homeless
| by inundation.
The Democratic primaries in New Or
| leans resulted in the election Of fifty six
Nichols delegates and forty y-cight McEncry
delegates.
a call has been issued from Boston for
The sixth annual meeting of the National
| Law and Order League to assemble i'm
| fhiladclphia on February 81 and % next
Az Los Angeles, Cal, on Tuesday the
| N"rkShop Of the los Angeles Furniture
| Company was burned Loss 5000, 600; in.
| sllranCc 100000.
1t IS reported that the British Govern
| mGnt is about TO offer Go, ,0C0, 900 of new
| ) 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 eX-
| hibition games in the South.
| The Court Of Claims has dismissed the
| claim of the NiSsis sippi Railroad Company
| az iinst the United States for compensation
for coirying the mails before the war
The residence Of DR.. J. j. Bustin at
| NJ. Willing was burned ON Monday morn.
| in;S, 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 Oh 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 So
| Senator Blair's bill to aid the Coorcd
| National Industrial Exposition appropri.
atcs 5000, 900, to bc expended under the di.
rcction Of n board Of commissioners to bc
appointed by the President
An 500 ton bark. believed To bc an
| American vessel, has hcGn wrecked at the
entrance Of Waterford Ur,Eln,D harbor.
| Tier crew, consisting Of twenty five persons,
were all drowned.
The report Of the arrival Of the cstcamShip
lonawanda, from Savannah, which was
| reported in distress of 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.
lioA was tclt Tuesday night at o'clock IN
McNcalam, GucrrOro, and one of two sec
on,tS yesterday morning at O'Clock in Tc-
WnClngO III the same State.
| Senator Sherman has introduced Il bill
nnproprating $500, 900 TO reimburse dcpos
!lo!s for losses sustained by failure of the
Freedman 5 Savings and Trust Company.
No part OF the money, however, is to be
paid To nSsignccs Of dcpositOrs.
John Foley, aged 20 years, has Just been
arrested in New York for the murder of
| Dcnny kcarncy on Christmas day, 1886.
| lie cOntcSScS the killing, but says he acted
| in sClf.dCfcnCc.
violent storm has been raging in the
! Irish Channel, and great damage has been
| done to property and shipping. 4 portion
of Fastnct Rock has tumblcd into the sea.
| ~ large vessel has been wrecked oil Dun
! cannon and all hands arc believed to be lost.
The steamer TOnawanda, from Darcn,
| GA December %, with lumber, was towcd
| into New York last night from Brigantinc
| Shoals, where she was rcpOrtC J, january /,
| IN distress with her piston rod broken. She
| had lost her first mate and Que seaman.
! a party of negroes were digging grave
/ last week near Robbins, in Aiken county,
and one Of them, Handy Sweat was sent
| on spirited horse for an axe to cut a root
| that impCdcd the digging. The horse threw
its rider, killing him ALMOST Instantly.
| At Lefaycttc, Ind, Judge Ninton, sitting
| in the Circuit Court, has decided that tclc,
| phone companies doing n general telephone
business were compelled by the statute to
| furnish Instruments ut the legal rate of So
a month, whether they wished to do so or
not.
large dctalCation, covering n number
| of years, has been discovered In the firm
Of r. j. Allen, Son q Co., wholesale deal
crS in OILS, alcohol and chinawarc, in Phila.
dclphia. The dcfautcr is Henry IIoopcs,
who has been in the employ of the firm
since boyhood.
\ special from the City of Mexico SAYS
! that the earthquake felt there Monday
morning was perccptibly felt throughout
| southern Mexico, and at the city of Igua,
| lnpa il was quite severe. Some damage to
| property, consisting principally in The
1
+; OF life.
Mr.. Amm Baldwin, late cashier of Tic
Fidelity National Bank, died suddenly of
| paralysis at his residence in Cincinnati yes
! tcrday. MIR. Baldwin was indicted with
other officers of the Fidelity Bank, blt for
| some reason his bond was placed at So
OO0 Hnd nc was able 10 secure bOndsmCn
and has not been in jail.
The strike among the flint glass workers
has extended from the Western to the list
ern factories, and men who left work in
fifteen factories in Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
| New Bedford Boston, and Corning, N. Y,
| have failed TO return to work, with two
exceptions. About $1,000 men arc now
| out
Two express tluins on tho Dutch State
railway, Holland, came into collision near
McppCl yesterday, while running at high
rale of speed. The engine and cars were
totally wrecked, and twenty six persons
were killed. The number Of injured is not