The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-08-29
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Happenings In North Caroiina and
elsewhere.
Gov. Fowle is at Hot Springs.
Ex-Gov. Jarvis is at Asheville
Wilmington had a slight earthquake
Sunday.
To-day is Oliver Wendell Holmes
SOth birthday.
The Gentleman's Driving Club will
give another series of races in Char
lotte this fall
Will Fore killed Amos Lunsford at
a camp meeting in Buncombe county,
N. c., Sunday.
Rev. r. G. Pearson will conduct "A
ten days meeting in Henderson, to
begin on November LIST
The Georgia House of Representa-
tives has passed a, bill making Robert
/ E. Lees birthday a State holiday
/ j. NJ. Leach Jr, has been removed
| from the Treasury Department at
| Washington to make room for rad
ical.
Gen. tombstone Jones, of Asheville,
eX-Adjutant General ofthe State, has
gone to San Diego, Cal, where he
| will live and practice law
III. R. Kenyon, wealthy young
banker of Newton, N. c., while in a
delirium of fever jumped out of his
| window last week and killed himself
A notorious white man named Mo-
lingo is in jail at Fayetteville, charged
with burning the Cape Fear River
Transportation Co.'S warehouse at
that place.
The gubernatorial contest in West
Virginia, growing out of alleged lille
gal voting in two counties, is nearing
solution, which will be in favor of
| the Democratic contestant.
Robert Marvel, an S6-year old In
dianan, has lived for sixty-six days
less than gallon in all. This is a
marvellous performance for one so
old
A Seventeen year old youth acct
dentally killed negro woman in
Berkeley county, South Carolina; the
who threaten violence, and troops
have been called out
There is a practical suspension of
business in Knoxville in consequence
of the terrible railroad accident in
which SO many of her prominent citi-
zens were killed and injured; several
of the injured are reported to be dy-
ing.
Thos. A. Edison, the great Ameri-
can inventor, is visiting in Paris, and
a special envoy of King Humburt, OF
Italy, presented him with the insignia
of the grand officer of the Grown of
Italy. Mr.. Edison thus becomes "a
count and his wife q countess.
Ex-Congressman Wharton j. Greon,
of Fayetteville, will pay ex-President
Davis visit at Beauvoir He will
urge Mr.. Davis and on no account fail
to visit the centennial celebration at
Fayetteville next month. There is
every assurance that he will be pres
ent.
DR. John NJ Brown, formerly OF
Chatham county, now first assistant
|
sane Asylum, and Dr. Geo. l.. Kirby,
now a member of the Board of Direc-
tors, are mentioned among others
for the superintendency of the Insane
Asylum
The first bale of new North Carroll
ma crop sold in the State was sold in
Morven, Arson county, Friday, the
23d inst. 1t was raised by Mr.. Frank
Teal, and was bought by J NJ. Hard
ison & Co. at lilo. The first bale OF
new cotton raised and sold in the
State last year was raised in Arson
and sold in WadesbOrO on the 18th
of August.
The second train of the Barnum &
Bailey show was wrecked last Friday
about two and q half miles east OF
POttsdam, N. Y, while en- route on
the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg railroad from Converneur to
Montreal. A broken rail was the
cause. Twenty-fOur ring horses, and
several camels were killed. Six cars
were derailed and two telescoped, sc
that everything in them was crushed
The loss is over $4,000.
A cloud-burst at Rockingham
Richmond county, N. c., on Sunday
broke the dams of five cotton mills
The machinery on the first floor Of
the Pee Dee and the Great Falls mills
was damaged, as was also the Mid
way mill building. The damage tic
the mills is estimated to be one hun
dred thousand dollars; and fully five
hundred persons are thrown out O
employment.
Two young men-Arthur Burcham
and Calvin Holder-ageda about TWEEN
ty-two or three years, died horrible
deaths Sunday morning, on the N
c. Railroad near Durham. One dice
in agony with broken limbs and
bruised body; the other, Holder, lit
orally torn to pieces. His body was
scattered along the track, in frag
ments, for more than hundred
yards, showing that he met a terrible
and fearful death. They were killed
by the upcoming freight which arrives
in Durham about $50 in the morn
J ing.
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