The western sentinel., 1890-08-07
NORTH cARoLlMAIN BRIEF.

The fall term of Oak Ridge In
stitute will begin August the 18th.
The circular containing the lies
about Judge Clark and others was
printed in Baltimore.
The Western North Carolina
freight depot at Morganton has been
burned. Loss $4,000.
Berry Davidson is the president
of new roller Touring mill that is to
go up at Gibsonville.
Dispatches received from Buenos
Ayres announce that the Government
has put down the rebellion.
-Powderly is denouncing the Fed
eral Election law vigorously at labor
meetings in Pennsylvania.
"A little boy named Will Medlin,
about twelve years of age, killed HIM
self by drinking whisky at Youngs-
vile.
"A Land Improvement company
has been organized in Monroe with a
capital stock of 100000, in shares of
the par value of $50 each.
"A negro man was killed by the
train near Salisbury on Saturday and
another one had his legs cut off near
Lexington on the same day.
Col. Jno. c. Upton has resigned
as editor of the Greensboro Patriot,
but will remain in that city. He
made the Patriot an excellent paper.
Simon Wardsworth, who cut
negro woman's throat near Maxton,
has been captured in South Carolina
and will be brought back for trial
The preliminary canvass Of South
Carolina is about over and is gener-
ally considered that Tillman will have
a large majority in the August con-
vention,
Col. j. S. Miller, of Statesville,
died suddenly and unexpectedly Sat-
urday night. He was about 80 years
of age, and was wealthy and infu
entail citizen.
Prof. Eben Alexander, Professor of
Greek at the University, is tramping
for his health. He started at Knox
vile, Tenn, and passed through Sails
bury Monday, en- route to Chapel
Hill.
The question as to removing the
consolidated shops of the Richmond &
Danvilie Railroad company to Char
lotte is practically settled at last
Charlotte gets the shops.-Charlottc
Neaos.
Hon. j. S. Henderson has ap-
pointed young gentleman from Lex
ington by the name of Umphreys to
the vacant cadetship at the United
States Military Academy at West
Point.
1t now seems probable that the
Mckinley tariff bill will pass the
Senate without material change. The
Democrats continue to offer amend
ments but they are all rejected by the
Republican majority.
1t is not at all improbable that
Representative Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, one of the strongest and inform
ed men on the Democratic side, will
not again be candidate for Congress.
He says he is too poor.
-Chas. Cox. who lives near Char
lotte went cunning for a tramp. He
met an enemy named Hinson. Hin
son thought Cox was after him. They
both raised their guns to shoot. Hin
sons snapped. Clark's fired, shooting
Hinson in the mouth. The tramp
escaped.
The Three C's railroad is now in
a financial strain and the employees
are waiting for: their three months
wages, now due. Like many individ-
uals, it owes more than it can now
pay in cash. It has township bonds
due it, but these bonds are locked up
in litigation.
The Lincoln county Farmers
Alliance passed the following resolu-
ton: "Resolved, That we urge upon
the members of the Legislature to
make an appropriation fer training
school for females, which we regard
as necessity for the proper advance.
nent and improvement of our schools.
Trains will soon be running on
the Yadkin Railroad. Track-laying
commenced last week, and will be
laid at the rate of one-half mile per
day. Now our friends in Stanly will
soon have the pleasure of hearing the
engine whistle reverberating through
her forests and in the streets of Nor
wood Salisbury Truth.
w. F. Suits, post Office clerk in
the Office at Carthage, has been detec-
ted, it is charged, in carrying on
robbery of mails. He was
and his trunk was searched.
In it we're found abundant evidence of
his guilt, consisting of registered let
ters, checks, drafts, jewelry and vari-
oGs other stolen articles.
The Alliance picnic at Yost's
saw mill in Rowan county on Saturday
was rousing big affair. The table
laden with things to eat, was 230 feet
long. The immense crowd of 5000 or
over made, at a given signal, one rush
and when the wave of hungry human
ity had receded nothing was left ex-
cept a part of the planks.
While the town marshal of Ruth.
was attempting to arrest
Greely Mcdowell, a negro of desperate
he came very near being
killed. Mcdowell resisted, and at
to cut the marshal with a
razor Mcdowell was shot seriously
by the marshal, who had to run for
his life to escape death at the hands of
a mob of the neoro's friends.