The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-10-03
--LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings In North Carolina an'
EiSeVheFs..

park to carpet renOvator.
A cat that will drink beer is one of
the curiosities OF Calamet, Ohio.
Mr.. Emmons Blaine has married
Miss Anita Mccormick, the heiress.
The number of victims at the
Johnstown horror is now estimated
at $500.
4 dog down in. Piedmont, w. Va,
has two tails, and he wags them in
different directions.
4 three-leared alligator was shot
near Albany, Ga. There was no
trace whatever of the fourth l,.g.
One OF Carnegie's iron furnaces in
PENNSYLVANIA broke Saturday, and
burned several workmen to death.
The cigarette bill recently passed
by the Georgia Legislature has been
signed by Gov. Gordon and is a law.
\ mare at Pleasant Valley, Califor-
mia, has adopted calf two months
old, and cares for it as if it were her
own.
Rev. Mr.. Pearson has left Charlotte
and has gone to Rock Hill, s. c.,
where he viii hold a series of meet
ings.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew thinks that
Mr. Cleveland will be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for President of the
United States.
1t is estimated AT the Treasury De-
partment that the reduction III the
public debt during September will
amount to S13, 100000.
The Baltimore Sugar refining Com
pany has been incorporated. The cap
ital stock is placed at 81 900, 900 in
10000 shares of 500.
There were twenty-eight applicants
for license as lawyers at this term of
the North Carolina Supreme Court.
They all passed successfully and got
their ''sheepskins.'
The Call says that the railroads
have put the fare down to half a
cent a mile for children and students
where the schools will attend the
State Fair in body.
An executive reward of 5000 has
been offered for Daniel COrnatZer, a
white man, who two weeks ago, in
Davie county, murdered David Call
on a public highway and then es-
capped.
John L. Sullivan has denied the
genuineness of the letter announcing
himself as candidate for Congress.
He says that it is a put up job of
the Sun, and when he calls that way
again the Sun will get a hole knocked
in it.
The Paris municipal commission
Gusts Boulanger and ROchefort from
the seats in the Chamber of Deputies
to which they were elected last Sun
day, by declaring the votes cast for
them null and givingthe seats to the
candidates with the next highest
votes.
Mary Donelly, the nurse whom Mrs.
Robert Ray Hamilton assaulted at
Atlantic City, has gone into a Bow
cry museum as curiosity. She will
sit on platform between a Circas-
sian girl and an albino, and be ready
to talk to any visitor about the
Hamilton tragedy.
The cases against Cross and White
will hardly be taken up at the pres
ent term of Wake Superior Court
The Jail cases, of which there are Il
great number, engross most of the
time of the conrt. Besides, the cases
against Cross and White in the [. S.
Supreme Court have not yet been Ia
ken up. They are to be argued in
November.
Prominent ladies of Chicago have
formed an association, and have
hired q lawyer to prosecute the gam
blers of that city under the State
law The work was begun recently
by the arrest of John Morris, the
proprietor Of a gambhpg-house on
Clark street The attorney for the
ladies says that there is every reason
to believe that the gamblers will very |
soon become frightened.
The last Georgia duel between Mr.. |
Patterson and Mr. Huff is definitely |
off. They both represent Macon in
the Georgia Legislature. Their lead |
ing constituents held a conference |
and required both the braves to sub |
NIT their difference to q committee |
of the conference for adjustment. |
They did so, and pledged themselves
to abide by the result. The matter |
is now under the advisement of an
committee-a good end
ing to an unfortunate affair.
The cOroner's inquest as to cause |
of the accident on the Rock Island |
road near Englewood some days ago, |
was resumed this morning. Superin-
tendent Chamberlain, of the Illinois
division of that road, testified that
he had discharged engineer Twomb-
ley off his engine three or four times |
for being drunk. Twombley is engi
neer of the train which caused the |
accident. After being idle awhile,
father, who is the mas
ter mechanic of the road, would re-
employ him without consulting any
body General Superintendent Boyce |
testified that he had made an inves-
tigation into the causes of the acct |
dent. He found that the freight |
train was running ahead of time,
and that Engineer Twombley was
responsible for the accident.
Notes From Danburv