The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Telesraphtc Flashes From All Over
the Country.

tn close through the council of the
Knights of Labor.
Count Ploter, a Polish noblemam
and wealthy land owner, was mur-
| dered and robbed on Wednesday
| while travelling on train between
| Warsaw and st. Petersburg Russia.
The Georgia, Carolina ann North
ern Railroad, of which Gen. r. F.
Hoke is President, will be completed
to Athens, Ga, within Il few days.
The road is graded within twenty
! miles of Atlanta.
Thomas j. Hunter, of Roanoke,
and connected with the Norfolk and
| Western Railroad, has been appoint
ed auditor of the Atlanta and West
| Point Railroad, also of the Western
Railway of Alabama. with headquat-
ers at Atlanta, Ga.
Last Sunday, July 5th, near Aure-
liam Springs in this county, William,
a colored man aged about 26 killed
Harriet Carter, a colOred girl aged
about Is: 1t seemed to be a very
| cold blooded affair.-Scotland Neck
| Democrat.
Edgar W. Nye, or -"Bill Nye,' the
famous humorist, is now at "Sky-
land,' near Asheville, where he will
| spend the summer and where he has
spent two or three summers, having
fallen much in love with the climate
there. He has erected there Il hand
| some summer residence
\ report from st. Petersburg saws
that not since the days of Boris God.
unuff has there been such hunger and
famine as must inevitably come upon
Russia in 1891. Experts say that
all previous desolatiOn and misery
will be eclipsed this year. Early frost
hail and drought have almost an
initiated their crops.
The Richmond and Danville Rail-
road Company is transporting wat
ermelOns North at wonderful rate.
To-day, four trains, each composed
of 30 cars, and each car containing
1,eOO melons, passed through Char
lOtte for New York. The melons were
shipped from Georgia and South Car
olinn.-CharlOtte News
Judge Henry A. Gillian, one of the
most esteemed citizens inn. c., pass
home in TarbOrO. N. c. Hehad been
very feeble for Il long time, and his
mental faculties had become much inn
paired. His disease was softening of
the brain He lived IL long life of fuse
fulness and his death is greatly de-
plored. He was seventy-six years of
age.
The Kanawha Dispatch has issued
Il new tariff reducing freight rates to
the basis of % cents first class and
60 cents third class from New York
to the Missouri river via Newport
News and the Chesapeake and Ohio.
This is Il drop of ) cents per 100
pounds on the two classes named
and is made to meet the rates recent
ly put into effect by the Piedmont
. Air Line and the Richmond Termi-
, nal.
Says Il dispatch from Kansas City:
!. "A movement has been inaugurated
!. here for the organization of a novel
military company intended to be
one of the military features of the
Worlds Fair The company is to be
called Company A, First Regiment
; United Blue and Gray 1t is to bt
composed of fifty ax-Union and fifty
eX-Confelerate soldiers, the former
uniformed in blue and the latter il
o gray. The company is now nearly
. J full, and the officers have been elect
ed.
l A dispatch from Topeka, Kan
r says: About fifteen prominent Peo
f ple's party leaders in session here
after discussing the proposition mad
g by the Democratic State Central Com
| tn
the local county elections in Kansas
n this year and to unite on an elector
nj ticket in opposition to the Repub
3 Leans next year, declined to fuse ,an,
IL statement declaring against sucl
action was ordered published in tn
Ailiince Advocate, the official Stat
organ.
l. The Old Dominion steamship Guy
C andotte, bound from Norfolk, Va
V to Newport News, was in collisio
!, Thursday morning off Lambert
: Point coal pier with the BIRTHS
: steamship Lamington, bound fror
II New York to Aspinwall, which ha
IS put IN for coal. Both ships wer
badly stove about the bows. Th
GuyandOtte sailed for New York mex
night and the Lamington will b
surveyed to determine if repairs ar
necessary before she proceeds.
.r A Chicago special says: The Fa1
Is mers' Alliance is about to undertak
or the experiment of organizing the fa
,e mers of the country upon a schem
II of corner prices for the 1891 whea
- crop. An official manifesto has bee
prepared with great secrecy and wi
be placed in the hands of every men
Der of the Farmers Alliance, calm
upon him to withhold a part or all
ne his wheat and inducing his frient
IN and neighbors to do the Same unit
,e such time as the necessities of co
It. sumers at home and abroad will for,
" the payment of prices satisfactory
the producers.
A buzzard with bell about i
r. neck was found dead in the cornfie
be of Mr.. Cornelius 81. Shipley, me-
er Gist, about six miles from Westmi
IN ster, few days ago. A small be
be was attached to its neck by a wir
A On the tongue or clapper of the bt
ed was the Roman numeral l and Il
a. letter d. For several years past
I'D buzzard, carrying bell in the ma
'r- ner thus described, has been seen
IS, many and widely-separated places
er the western counties of Marylan
of Whether this Is the same bird is n
known.