The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-27
LATE NEWS NOTES.
The Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough are in Asheville.

ne LUKE ana DucneSS OF mari
borough are in Asheville.
Barker Bros, bankers and brok-
ete vi Philadelphia, have fsiled for
three millions.
Gov. Mckinney, of Virginia, has
appointed one hundred delegates to the
Inter State Immigration Convention
to be held at Asheville in December.
Six thousand coal miners in Ala
bama intend to strike on Dec. 1st for
an increase in wages, which they have
demanded and been refused by the
mine owners.
DIR. Gilman, President of Johns
Hopkins University, is lecturing on
what he saw in Europe on his last trip
over there. just now his subject is
the Mediterranean sea.
j. S Clarkson, one of the Repub-
lican managers of the late campaign
and late chief clerk of the post-office
department., who has been quite sick in
Asheville, is reported much better.
1t is said that Representative
Mills, of Texas, has decided to retire
from public life after the close Of the
next Congress, unless his State sends
him to the Senate to succeed Senator
Coke.
Peter jackson and Joe Goddard,
heavy weight pugilists, fought to fin
ish in Melbourne, Australia. They
fought eight rounds and the fight was
declared draw.
William III, King of the Neither
lands, is dead. He had been suffering
from mental trouble for some time.
He is succeeded on the throne by his
daughter, ter year old girl.
Senator Stanford, the California
money king, wanted to go back to the
Senate. and some politicians assert
that he spent nearly a million dollars
in the last election. This explains
why California went Republican.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the
American minister to the republic of
France, is regarded in Paris as an ideal
diplomatic. Her house is sump:uous,
her hospitality, both official and per
sonal, unbounded, her dressing costly
and in perfect taste, her manners sim
pie, kindly and elegant and her French
irreprcachable.
MIR. Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
father Of the Force bill, whose major
ity was reduced from four or five thou
sand to little over a thousand in a
strong Republican district declares
that it is the duty of the Senate to take
up this bill and pass it promptly dur
| t,o
lican leaders take the same view. They
want TO dig their grave deep while
they are digging.
The United States Rolling Stock
Company, having plants at Hegewich,
ILL.,, Decatur, Ala, Admission, Ala, and
Urbana, Ohio, is in the hands of re-
ceiver. Liabilities $3,S1e,O0O; assets
$6,053,000. The failure was precipi-
tated by slow collections and the de-
preston in the money market. The
company is one of the largest, if not
the largest, builders of railway cars in
the world.
Six prisoners broke Jail at Spring
field, Mo-, last Thursday. The deputy
sheriff went into the cell to feed them,
when he was seized, blank ct thrown
over his head and his revolver taken
from him. Then they made the off
Ger open the docr and the prisoners
walked out. A posse was soon in pur-
suit and pitched battle ensued. After
the last round in his revolver had
been fred one of the prisoners sur
rendered. Two others have been cap
tured, leaving three at large.
Mrs. Wall and Mrs. Wingate,
two prominent ladies of Durham, were
out riding behind spirited horse last
week. They had forgotten something
and sent the driver back after it, while
they undertook to hold the horse. He
soon became unmanageable and start
ed into run. Mrs. Wall jumped and
received injuries from which she died
in few hours. Mrs. Wingate, failing
to stop the Aorse, also jumped and was
seriously injured.
Gen. Jno. H. Rice, of FortScott,
is being pushed for Senator from Kan
sas by the Peoples party. Col. L. L.
Polk, in an interview in the Washing
ton z; st, says the new Kansas A lliance
Congressman have pledged themselves
not to 60 into the caucus of any party
that they will act independently of
the other parties. He thinks that the
Senator who succeeds Ingalls, will have
to give the same pledge.
The Lottery law has cut down the
business of the New Orleans pcstoffice
about one third. John Wanamaker
has decided that papers publishing
the results of pool selling in horse
races do not come under the law. The
Augusta Chronicle was seized by an
over-officious postmaster a few days
ago for publishing the results of races,
but was released by Wanamakel' 8 or
der. No doubt the law would be rig.
idly enforced in this respect if betting
OH horse races was confined to the
South.
Rev. j. A. Weston has advertised
for agents to canvass for his fortbcom-
ing book: Historical Doubts as to the
Execution of Marshal Ney. The
Topic says that when he was in Lenoir
he had not decided on the title and
was not particularly struck with one
suggested by friend-"Yea or Nay?"
He seeks to prove that Peter S. Ney.
who taught school in Iredell county,
was none other than Napaleon's IA
nous Marshal. Near Hampstead,
little Texas town, lives Miss Elizabeth
Ney, grandniece of Marshal Ney, of
France She is said to be .Drettv and