The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-09
GEN ERAI NEWS.
PERSONAL ANB POLITICAL L POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS
of the Country and Quarters OF the
Globe.

Notes Taken from All Portions
Globe.
The Russian rye crop will be bad,
and there will be no surplus for ex-
port.
The Bank of England has reduced
it's rate of discount from 3 per cent
to 2A per cent.
Oscar McCOe was shot and instant
ly killed by Robert Thetford, near
Port Gibson, La.
Citizens of Blaine, Wash, condemn
the proposed Importation of Chinese
labor to work in salmon cannery.
I A section of the 'busmen of Berlin
have struck for higher wages and
fewer hours of labor. The movement
threatens to become general.
The president has appointed Will
liam E. Simonds, of Connecticut, to
be commissioner of patents, vice
Charles f. Mitchell. resigned.
George W. Stevens, of Richmond,
Va, has been promoted from general
superintendent to general manager
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
Louis Heimrod & Co., one of the
Oldest grocery firms in Omaha, Neb.,
failed yestesday morning The as
sets and liabilities are not yet known.
Commemorative services were held
in the First Presbyterian church of
Norfolk last night in honor of Rev.
George ID. Armstrong, ID. D., who
has retired after Il rastorate of forty
years.
Fofty-three persons were poisoned
at an ice cream sociable given a few
days since by the ladies of the Chris
tian church, of Rusleton, n. Y. The
pastor and ten ladies are dead and
all the others critically ill.
DIR. Boone, who is enga ged in rails
ing funds for the Baptist Female
University, reports that he is max
ing fine progress. The institution,
he says, will be built and full of
school girls within two years'-Ral-
iegh Chronicle.
State Controller Colgan's attorney
has advised him not to pay the
100000 appropriated by the legis-
lature for California S exhibit at the
Worlds Fair, on the ground that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
Phillip Black, colorrd, was arres-
ted yesterday by Policeman Hunter,
in the jail yard and while the hang
ing was going on, for assaulting his
brother with a knife. The shadow
of the gallows seemed to have had
no effect on him.-t'harl nttc Chroni-
Gle
Colgate, the soap man, has given
| one million dollars to the Baptist
University in Hamilton, n. Y Hav-
ing first made a fortune in soap he
proposes next to spend Il part of it
in helping to spread Christianity.
| Colgate's motto evidently is, Good
( liness is next to cleanliness
The r. & d. car record office is to
be moved from Washington City to
| Atlanta, Ga. The move is necessary
| purchases of the road which will make
| Atlanta the most central point fol
the system. The change takes place
about the first of August.
| The murderer, Robert Dougherty
who it will be recalled killed Will
, liam Terrence and dangerously in
jured his brother James in Ashe
vile on the 18th Of May, has beer
captured in Galveston, Tex. The
prisoner will be returned withou
requisition. Two hundred dollar
reward was offered by tho Governo
for his arrest.
The old story about cats beins
afraid of water was upset during tn
freshet in Asotin, Wash. 4 mothe
cat whose premises were overfowe,
brought out Il kitten in her mOutl
to a place of safety, and immediatel.
returned through flood and debris t,
her bed and secured the remainin:
member of her family, which she als'
landed in Il safe place.
The most striking feature OF Mrs
Bill Nye's trouble at AshevilIe, N. G.
where her driver was arrested fO
running her carriage into q work
man on the street but afterward dis
charged as innocent, is that tn
horses are described as a span @
Kentucky thoroughbreds worth =
500. 1t pays to be IL humorist.
Report comes from Cherokee coun
ty, North Carolina, of a terribl
cloud-burst there late Thursda
afternoon. Two illicit distillers nan
ed Harvey Agnew and Jacob New
, ton, who happened to be near by
were instantly killed. A number {
farms for miles below are inundated
and growing crops suffered Il loss {
several thousand dollars.
Gov. Holt has appointed the 70
lowing as directors of the N. c. Raj
. road for the ensuing year: A. Bu1
, well, of Charlotte; NJ. A. Angler, {
Durham; Benehan Cameron, ofStags
: vile; W. H. Pace, of Raleigh; r. "
Thomas, of Thomasville; Theo.
: Klutz, of Salisbury; Jno. l.. Nor
f head, of Charlotte; Donald McRa,
of Wilmington. Armstead Jones, {
Raleigh, was appointed State prox,
1 Some two weeks ago. at Toilet. I'll
Charles Hammond was working @
? n building when large stone fe
: from the second story to the bas
f ment on top of his head, driving
!. piece Of the SKULL. two inches Ion
4 and three inches wide, into his brail
: and splitting the Uranium from ef
to ear. The man was given up ft
: dead. A surgeon, however, replace
8 the piece driven into the brain an
the man is now recovering.