The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-16

L dTtlcll Cttuu!udUelu Ill Sli0O.
The body of a man was found in
Patrick county horribly mangled.
A movement against vicious plays
has been set on foot in New York.
The Danville City Council votes to
compel saloons to close at 10 p. nj.
Alfred Molyneaux has never been
able to find out who his parents were
The subcommittee on the Pan
American Congress met in Washing
ton.
The Philadelphia police have been
prohibited from working" in local
politics.
The American Tobacco Company
has declared a quarterly dividend OF
2 per cent.
Huntington greatly pleased over
his purchase of Ohio Valley Road, of
Kentucky.
The celebrated race horse Clear the
Way has been brought to New York
from Europe.
The net funded debt of New York is
$99, ,496, $50. as sagainst $97, ,S57 $50
one year before.
President Harrison is scheduled to
leave Washington on his Pacific coast
trip April IA.
General Wanamaker
will accompany the President on his
Southern trip.
Lewis Booker's case, Richmond.
was continued until May 4th, and he
was taken to Jail.
The fifty-third commencement Of
the Medical College of Virginia took
place this week.
Authorities of etiquette are discuss
ing whether men should wear their
hats in elevators.
All of the London newspapers con
tain long obituaries and eulosies Of
Mr., P. I. Barnum.
National banks, Delaware, comprC-
...lse tax suit with the State and pay
nBsrly the sum claimed.
American Tobacco Company stock
is listed at New York Exchange, ard
fifty shares sold for $1O1k.
The new system of distributing
ocean mails on shipl,oard resulted in
quick delivery in New York.
A charcoal burner purchased an
old violin recently and found a big
roll of greenbacks inside it.
Captain Johann Oruh, the missing
Austrian archduke, was signaled on
the Pacific ocean some weeks ago.
The proposition to divide the Ma
ryland Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church was defeated.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Danville has elected J. L..
Atlee, Jr, of Portsmouth, their sec
retary.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company will spend $2,OOO,OOO in
improvements in and around Rich
mond.
Felix E. O'Rourke, retired New
York merchant, who had a large
Southern trade before the war, is
dead.
Experienced politicians in New York
think that Governor Hill will decline
the Senatorship and run again for
Governor.
Senator Daniel. of Virginia, knows
nothing Of the reported intention OF
General Malone to return to the
Democratic fold.
Powderly. the Knights of Labor
leader, and others are defendants in
Philadelphia in q suit for breach OF
contract made by the order.
Superintendent Porter's Census Bu-
reau has issued very interesting
bulletin of the increase and decrease
of the population of the United
States.
The Republican leaders have in.
formed the Democratic Assemblymen
that no bill in relation to New York
departments would be passed unless
the CuStOm-H House bill was passed.
The suit of the State Of New York
against the United States treasury
for the recovery of $3.50, 900 spent iI
the equipment and transportation o
troops during the civil war was taker
up in the Court of Claims.
Senator Edmunds thinks that with
the Farmers Alliance, Democrat,
and Republican parties in the field
there may be no electi IN by the peo
pie, and that the House will elect {
Democratic President.
The prizes offered by the American
Economic Association for the bes
essays on the subject of sWomeI
| Wage Farmers" were won by Mis-.
Glare de Graffenreid, of Washington
and Mrs. Helen Campbell, of New
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