The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
GENERAL NEWS,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.

Protests s"a being formulated in
Philadelphia. against overhead cleo
trio wires.
A Philadelphia youth was over
come In the street by excessive cigar
cite smoking.
Senator Stanford, said to be worth
$40, 200, 900, says he has been bor-
rover all his life.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is hard at
work on that much-looked-for life of
her father.
The Idaho Senators are on the
verge OF an outbreak with the ad-
ministration.
The cost of the grounds and build
ing for the new Baltimore postoffice
was $1,91O,OOO.
The Rt. Hon. James Augustus Sim
clair, F. r. S., sixteenth Earl of
Caithness, is dead.
Lord Salisbury is said to work
fourteen hours a day, writing and
reading dispatches.
The Metropolitan Underground
Railway Company has been incorpo-
rated in New York.
The Piedmont Club of Lynchburg
has been fined 500 for selling liquor
without a license.
The French government orders
several French men-Of-war to rendez-
vous in Chilian waters.
Marshal Frey has received informa-
tion that the ''green goods" men are
at work in Maryland
The new naval observatory near
Washington will be ready for occu-
pancy by the 1st of July.
The Fourth National Bank will, it
is said. be established in Baltimore,
with Mr.. j. Wesley Guest.
Two British ships, just arrived at
New York, had an eleven-thousand-
mile race from Calcutta.
The people of the Connemara dis
trict, county Galway, Ireland, are
threatened with starvation.
The King of Siam will.soon send
six youths from his kingdom to
Pennsylvania to be educated.
Additional general public lectures
have been arranged by the Johns
Hopkins University trustees.
Socialists in Saragossa, Spain, urge
a revolution in that country to real
ize their ideal form of government.
Baltimore bankers adopted a reso-
luton protesting against the passage
o. the silver bill now before Congress.
The new Democratic administra-
tion of Pennsylvania is expected to
strengthen the party in that State.
Some of the Republican Senators
who are now supporting closure may,
it is thought, vote against the force
bill.
Ham, a Baltimore Chinaman, ap-
piled at the custom-housefo for permis-
sion to go to China to get married
| and return.
Bishop Wayman, who has return
| ed from the South, says the colored
people there show no interest in the
force bill.
Arrangements are now completed
for the opening in March, of telepho-
mic communication between Paris
and London.
A youth named VIM. L. Nc cElraevy,
| who had his neck broken in New York
while playing football, has survived
the accident.
Mrs. William Morris, wife of the
London artist, poet and socialist, is
said to be the most beautiful woman
in the world.
| Evangeline Mann, who claims to
be the widow of Robert Ray Hamil-
ton, has confessed that 10th the ba-
bies were bogus.
| The Secretary of the Navy is urged
to send some of the North Atlantic
vessels to the South Pacific, in view
of the troubles in Chill.
Col. Chauncey McKeever, assistant
adjutant-general, has been ordered
to report to General Miles, who is
said to be his personal enemy.
The Harrison Administration is at
present involved in several unpleas-
ant wrangles which are likely to add
to the list of it's enemies in the Sen
ate.
Able LapOnniere, a noted clerical
of Bordeaux, France, has been ar
rested on charges of embezzlement
and completely in the death of a
child.
| Now that Gallinger has been elect
ed to the Senate he speaks of the Ad
ministration in a way that indicates
a squally time ahead for the Presi
dent.
A San Antonio dispatch Of the 21st
says Gen. James LOngstreet is quite
i'll at hotel in that city. He is suf
fering from a wound received in tn,
civil war.
A statement prepared at the Pen
sion office shows that there were is
sued-during the first fifteen days il
the present month 1O,377 pension
certificates.
Brig. Stephen V. Benet, Chic
of Ordnance, u. S. A., was placed OF
the retired list of the army on &C
count of age. He is a native o
Charleston, South Carolina.
The liquor license commissioners
of Baltimore, show by figures tha
fewer Sunday violations have bee1
Investigated by the grand jury sine
the high licens law became effective
!, There are so many homeless poo
t in Paris that the Figaro of that cit,
: appeals to thechurches to keep uhei
) doors open all night, that the power
ty-stricken sufferers may have shelte,