The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-13
LvrE NEWS NOTES.


@Tillman carried South Carolina
by sixty thousand.
Price, the Radical crndidate for
Chief Justice. got only two votes in
Wilson county.
The cornerstone Of the new Trini-
ty college building at Durham was
laid with much ceremony last Tues
day.
1t is said that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company are negotiating for
the purchase of the North Carolina
Seaboard Air Lire.
The Republicans carried Califor-
MIA and Oklahoma. This ought to be
some consolation to them amid the
general wreck.
Texas rolled up Democratic
majority of 10000 Mr.. Webster
Flanagan probably found out what
he was there for"
The Farmers Alliance failed to
elect their man Willets for Governor
in Kansas, but 1t must make them
smile to think that they will have the
pleasure of retiring Ingalls, to private
life.
Col. Price slapped Judge Higgins
in the face out in Missouri. The Judge
resented the indignity by putting
more lead in the Colonel than he
could comfortably carry, whereupon
he reluctantly turned up his toes.
The Memphis Scimit1r says: at
was a victory from Maine To Califor
MIA. from Canada to the limpid waters
of the Gulf, from Oshkosh to Kalama
10, and, as Henry Watterson said
several years ago regarding another
Democratic triumph, from hell t.
breakfast"
The Democrats are talking Of al
hitting the territories of Ariz ma, New
Mexico and Utah to statehood, thus
giving them six more senator's. This
will probably be d ne just rs soon as
much larger prpulati IA than IN 'sl
ia,rl, admitted ny the Republicans
The Linville Improvement GEM
pano has just finished the location d
a road i,etweeu Danville and Blowing
Rock, along the southern face q
Grandfather mountain. l. is thought
that this road, upon completion, which
is expected by June, 1891, will be the
finest mountain drive in the Eastern
States, the length being sixteen mile:
through most beautiful scenery WI
Messenger.
There came very near being q
race riot in Mar, land this week. A
party Of white men were determined
to ynch the young negro wh) bru
tally assaulted Beretia Phipps, fif
teen year old white girl The n.groe:
armed themselves to protect Pnipp'
and riot was imminent, when thi
Governors Guard was called ami
overawed the rioters The young
criminal was carried to Baltimore fol
safe keeping.
The situation in Connecticut i.
somewhat similar to that n New
Hampshire Some of the ballots cas-
are claimed to be irregular in form
and illegal. Some of the Prohibition
vote has been thrown out, giving AIMS
berg, Dem, for Governor, majority
over all candidates. The Republican:
propose to contest this, and the result
will not be decided until the canvass
ing board meets and the Legislature
passes upon the result. The Legisla
ture is Republican.
VIM. E. Newberry, of a promi
nent Virginia family has been arrest
ed charged with being the leader il
the daring train robbery on the North
err Pacific last June The robbers
at the point of pistol, compelled the
postal clerk to rip open the mai
pouches and carry the registered pack
ages, containing $4,000, to othe
robbers ON horses outside. An activ,
search for Newberry has been carrie:
on ever since by the postal authorities
which resulted in his arrest at Plains
Va, Saturday.
The election in New Hampshire
is in a muddle The Democrats hav,
elected majority of the Legislature
!, according to the apportjonment ba. e,
on the census of 80. The Republican,
claim that the new legislators elected
on the basis of the new census shoult
take pat in the organization of tn
Legislature. This would give then
the Senator. The Democrats claim
| that the new men cannot be admitte1
until the Legislature is organized anf
passes upon their credentials. 1t al
hangs on legal tecnicality.
| The most prominent men spoke,
| of for the speakership Of the mex
House Of Representatives are Messr s.
Crisp, of Georgia, who SO ably led Thu
Democratic opposition to the fore
bill and the Mckinley bill; Bynum
Of Indiana. who. upon being brough
before Speaker Reed for censure, sal,
he considered it decoration of honpl
under the circumstances; Mills, .
Texas, father of the ''MiIls bill;" Lock
wood, of New York, and Mcmillan, o
Tennessee. Bynum seems to he in tn
| lead. mainly because he il Norther,