The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-05-07
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.

News Notes Taken From All Portions |
OF the Country and Quarters OF the |
Globe.
The tin plate manufacturers have
formed trust.
The dome of the Capitol at Wash
ington cost 81 600, 900.
The total amount of gold ordered
for export this week is 81 Is, 900.
1t is reported that many negroes in
Oklahoma are at the point of star
walton.
Senator Daniel will deliver the Con-
federate memorial address in Norfolk,
June 4th.
Some of the most war-like Indians
of the West are enlisting in the Fed
eral Army.
All the cotton seed oil mills in
Arkansas. except one, have joined in
forming a trust.
Philadelphians, are to hold big
meeting to agitate for ballot reform.
1t ought to come.
Mrs. Grant has concluded not to
publish her "reminiscences of her illus
trious husband.
The strike at the Michigan car
shops, Detroit, has ended and the
men are returning to work.
The log cabin that Gen. Grant
built is to be taken to Chicago and
exhibited at the Worlds fair.
1t is estimated that the internal
commerce of the country for one
year amounts to $25, 5,OOO,OOO,OOO.
A band of robbers on Wednesday
night stole absolutely everything
from q mill in Alabama except the
mill.
Rev. Phillip Brooks of Trinity
church, Boston, has been elected
bishop of the diocese of Massachu-
setts.
Secretary Foster says all financial
questions will be held in allegiance
until the Presidents return to Wash
ington City.
The Government of the United
States has been forced to suspend
payments of it's robber tariff and
robber pensions.
1t is thought that the Episcopa-
lians will divide the diocese of Vir-
ginia at the Council to meet in Pc
tersburg soon.
The Bundersrath has agreed to the
Governments proposition for an ap-
| propria ton for the German exhibit
at the Chicago fair.
The French army is to be massed
on the German frontier early in this
month, and practiced in the tactics
at repelling invaders.
The shortage of H. W. Covington,
cashier of the bank at Montgomery,
Mo-, turns out to be near $40. 900.
There are no tidings of the cashier.
| Henry Bernstein, wholesale shoe
dealers of Mobile, Ala, has made an
assignment. Liabilities $75, 900; as
sets, between $4,000 and 100000.
R. L. Tilley, of Carroll county, who
brutally murdered Miss Lou Haynes
in November, 1887, has been con-
victed of murder in the first degree.
Over 10000 immigrants eutered
this country last month. And to
think that Baron Fava is the only
entry towards a balance on the Other
side.
The recent accident at Kipton, o..
in which seven postal clerks were kill
ed has caused many clerks on the
Lake Shore Road to send in their res
ignatiOns.
The French Government makes
complaint to our Government of th'
refusal of the Postoffice Department
to admit certain French papers tc
this country.
The compress and 1,4OO bales o
cotton at Honey Grove, Tex, wer
destroyed by fire Monday evening
Loss $50, 900, covered to the limi
by insurance.
Kilrain and Slavin will fight, jun
10th, for SO, 900 aside. Slavin goe
, to st. Louis and asks Sullivan tt
fight, but the latter said he had re
tired from the ring.
1t is said that W. C. Dutton O
Portsmouth, late grand chief temp
lar of Virginia, has used IS, 900 be
: longing to his father-in-law and ha
T run away from his wife and children
At a manufacturing town in tn
!, county of Lancaster, England, tn
! grip has become such an epidemi
that all branches of business are e
fected and many deaths have occur
red.
! The report of District Attorne
: Grant on the lynching of the Italian
! at New Orleans has been sent to Sex
! retary Blaine, who refuses to Civ
J any information concerning it's col
\ tents.
= The English have been making
Q great outcry against Russia for tur1
: ing out the Jews; but they are NO
prepared to give the chosen peop
the hospitality of England. A ca
for q meeting in London to urge tx
Government to stop the influx I
Jews has been signed by many men
bers of Parliament and other influel
tial people. 1t seems, then, that tt
d EngIishmen want Russia to keep tt
Jews away from England.
e The colored boomers who we1
from the Southern States to Okl'
z homa to get farms and town lo1
have had O hard time for the pa
e half year, and now it is reported thu
;. many Of them are sorrOwfully lea
ing the Territory for their form,
4 homes in the South. Its importer
T. that all men Of every color whogot
g any newly opened region should kno
o something about it before beginnir
. their journey to it. The disnppoin
a ed claim hunters in Northern Wisco
a sin have had a lesson as hardas th,
a1 RiveIs to the Oklahoma boomers.
New York Sun.
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