The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-05-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Kansas Alliance will send 5000
delegates to. Cincinnati.
The reduction of the public debt
for last month was about one million
dollars.
There is a fine prospect for the
wheat and other crops in Nebraska
and Iowa.
Italians resident in New York have
arranged for the erection of statue
to Columbus in that city.
1t is stated at The City of Mexico
that small-pox-infested steamers are
crossing the Atlantic to Mexico from
Spanish ports.
The members of the firm of Della
mater & Co., of Meadville, Pa. were
arrested by small depositor Satur-
; day evening, and bail furnished in the
sum of $500 each.
Governor Hill, it seems, has decid-
ed not to call an extra session of the
New York Legislature, although a
number of important measuI es re-
manned Enacted upon.
William II. Cook, clerk of the Po-
lice Court of Toledo, Ohio, one of the
most popular republicans in that
city, was arrested Saturday, charged
with embezz'ing $4,000. 1t is be-
lieved that he is short in his accounts
over $4,000.
The recent attempt at rebellion in
Bolivia has been suppressed. Now it
is stated that an attempt to assassi-
nate the President has been acciden-
| tally discovered. A number of SOL
diers were found to have been sup
| piled with ball ammunition for the
purpose.
A few Sundays ago the Rev. Father
Pasquale de Nisco of the Italian
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart
of Mary and Jesus in Brooklyn said
in his sermon that the New Orleans
lynching would not have occurred
had not some of the Italians of that
city organized dangerous secret SO
ciety.
The second section OF tie Balti-
| more and Ohio Railroads New York
and Chicago fast express ran into a
freight engine in the company's yards
at Newark, OHIO, Saturday, damag-
ing property to the extent of $40, 900
and seriously injuring the engineer
and fireman of the freight train.
The 1Etna Furnace property at
Ironton, Ohio, including z, 900 acres
of land, has been sold to Joseph S.
Clark and John Hampton Barnes. of
Philadelphia, representing the hold
ers of the first mortgage bonds, for
$780, 900. The Norfolk and Western
Railroad owns the controlling inter
est Of the bonds.
Prince Bismarck's election to the
reichstag, it is authoritatively an
nounced, will not altar the kaiser's
policy. In that event, the news from
Germany should at once assume an
even more than ordinary interest.
The kaiser is bent on having his own
way, and Bismarck in the reichstag
was long accustomed to having his.
| Factions anxious for the EXCHANGED
lor's support will be interested in see
ing fair play.
Premier di Rudini has given his ul-
timatum to the Marquis imperial to
the effect that the United States, hav-
| ing failed to make reparation for the
deaths of the slaughtered Mafians in
New Orleans, are untrue to their
treaty obligations, and that, there
fore, Italy does not wish to continue
diplomatic relations with us. He
says that his country will make no
| further demand on the Federal Gov
eminent and it is time to break off
the "bootless'' controversy He,
therefore, instructs the Marquis to
confine himself hereafter strictly to
the current business of his office.