The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-20
NEWS NOTES

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The American Institute of Mining
Engineers is meeting at Reading, Pa.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in
circulation in large. quantities in
Omaha.
The Presbyterian committee on
church unity is holding meetings in
Baltimore.
It is probable the International
Monetary Conference will assemble
in London November 80.
Clifford Calverly, of Toronto, Can
ada, walked across the Niagara
gorge on u wire rope, October II.
The Brooklyn board of health CEN
sus makes the population of that
city go, 046, an increase of 163 ,703
over the fe1eral census of 1890.
The University of Pennsylvania
team defeated the University of Vlr-
yinia at foot ball at Charlottesville,
Va, October II. The score was 80
to o..
Aba Buker, the Sultan of Johore,
who will visit the Worlds Fair next
season, is about 65 years of age, a
man of progressive views and worth
about $2O,OO0,00O.
The triennial council of the Con-
gregational Church opened October
II at Minneapolis. The reports
show a large growth in the three
years since the last meeting.
The grand jury at Pittsburg, Pa,
on October ] 1 indicted the members
of the Homestead advisory board
for treason and the Carnegie officials
and Pinkerton men for conspiracy
and murder
Commodore Melville, chief of the
bureau of steam enginineering, was
presented with one of the medals
awarded by a vote of Congress to
the survivo rs of the illstarred Jean
nette Arctic expedition.
t has been arranged between the
members of the ca binet that they
will all go to Chicago, accompanied
by their wives, to attend the dedica-
ton of the Columbian Exposition
buildings on the Dist.
A terrific storm of snow, rain and
sleet prevailed October II in Colora-
do and Utah. The wind blew down
many electric trolley wires in Denver
and at least dozen horses were kill
ed and many human lives endang-
cred.
News has been received in Lisbon
that terrific cyclone passed over the
Cape Verde Islands on September -.
Many houses were demolished, many
plantations devastated, hundreds of
head of cattle were killed, and that
several vessels foundered.
The work of revising the Book of
Common Prayer, upon which the
General Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church has been en-
gagged fifteen years, was practically
completed in Baltimore October IL.
Charles T. Yerkes, a Chicago capt.
talist interested in street railways,
has ordered for the Chicago Univer-
sity a telescope 40 inches in dame
ter, II inches larger than the Lick
telescope, at present the largest in
the world.
The residence of Rev. Mr.. Phillips,
an English missionary at Kieng
Yong, in Fukien, China, was set on
fire by a mob ofnatives and destroy
ed completely. The missionary and
his wife had a narrow escape from
death at the bands of the mob.
Andrews, the navigator who re-
Gently crossed the Atlantic ocean in
a fourteen-foot dory from Atlantic
City, N. j., to Lisbon, and who ar
rived at Palos, Spain on October 4,
announces that he will cross the At
lantic again in a small aluminium
boat.
Nj. Tirard, formerly French minis
ter of finance; NJ. Lirondairolles, di-
rector of the French mint, and Nj Flo
velle, an official of the ministry of
finance of France, will represent that
country in the international none
tary conference which will meet in
Brussels on November 2 next.
M. Renan lived long enough to
complete the fourth volume of his
History of the Jewish People, hav-
ing. employed his last country holt
day in working from his notes. The
most distinguished of the Partisan
Baron Hirsch, the Roths-
childs, and others, gave him all the
assistance in their power in securing
material.