The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-03-02
NEWS NOTES.

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Earthquakes are shaking the whole
territory of the great ! ellowstone
Park.
Straw berries covered with falling
snow were recently on sale in Ell
Paso, Tex.
A telephone line, $50 miles long,
has been opened between Chicago
and Detroit.
The John S. Barbour Club of Nor
tolk, Va has chartered the steamer
Louise for their trip to the inaugu-
ration.
Ex-CongreSsman Barksdale, of
Mississippi, died at his Yazoo plan
tation, OF heart failure, aged 20
years.
Owing to the lack of appropria
tics number of squares in Washing
ton will be without lights at night III
the future.
Tammany men say that in any
contest between Senator Hills ma
chine aud Mr. Cleveland Tanmany
will side with the latter
zen F'itz Lee is in Richmond ar
ranging Tor an escort of mounted
men for the inauguration. He de-
! cliues to talk politics.
Prof Ira Remsen, in a lecture on
"Water and Milk, advocates fiItra-
| ton of water on large scale and
| public inspection OF milk.
The President and his cabinet have
decided not to issue bonds at this
time to keep intact the gold reserve
in the United States treasury.
A riot took place at Monongahela
| City, Pa, between white and colored
miners One hundred shots were ex-
changed, but nobody was hurt.
The Rhode Island prohibitionists
met in State convention at Provi
dence and nominated Henry B. Met
calf, Of Pawtucket, for Governor.
Benton Hanchett, of Saginaw.
Mich, has been nominated by the
President to be United States circuit
judge, to succeed Judge jackson.
Joseph Benson, employed in the
Rankin Wire Works, Pittsburg, Pa,
vas killed by a red hot bar of iron
running entirely through his neck.
It is expected that Vice President
| Adlai +. Stevenson and his charming
| family will attend the session of the
teachers assembly at Morehead City
| in June.
| Arrangements have been complet-
ed at Indianapolis for public well
| come to President Harrison on his
return to that city after his retire
ment from office.
A delegation ofcitizens from Detroit
| are iii ii ashington on their way to
| Baltimore to present SO 900 silver
punch bowl to the cruiser named in
honor OF their city.
Senator PETER, of Kansas, says
that az a Populist he r. CARDS it as
his duty not to put any obstruction
in the way of the Democrats organ
izing the next Senate.
The large hominy mill of Hudnut
| Company. of Terre Haute, located 1t
Mount Vernon, Ind was totally de-
strnyed by fire. The loss is about
100000. Fully insured.
4 stranger entered the gun store
of the Anniston Arms Company in
Anniston. Ala, and asked to see
some reviewers. He raised one TO
his head and shot himself dead.
The nomination of John Y. L
Findlay, of Baltimore, to be arhi-
traitor for the United States in the
matter of Gillian claims has been
rejected by the United States Senate.
The United States iailat Muskogee,
/. T., was burned. Sixty six prison
ers confined in the building were
shackeled together and safely lodged
in the United States Court building
in the Hastings Court of Danville,
Va counsel for j T. Clark, tried for
the murder of Rev j. r Moffett, filed
hiIl of exceptions and will take the
case to the Supreme Court of APP
peals.
Hon John ". Foster has retired
from the post of Secretary of State
to assume the management of the
case of the United States before the
Behring sea commission that is to
meet in Paris.
Mrs. Frank Palmer, wife of Public
Printer Palmer, ripped her foot in
carpet while attending to her house
hold duties, fell and injured her hip
| Paralysis followed, causing Mrs.
t Palmer's death.
Gov. William Mckinley, of Ohio,
has arranged to turn allhis property
over to trustees to be applied to the
| payment. of his Liabilities as indorser
OF the paper of the Walker Stamping
Company, of Youngstown, Ohio,
which failed recently
The United States Senate adopted
/ the Sherman amendment tn the sun
dry civil appropriation bill author
/ ling the issue of three per cent five
year bonds for the redemption of the
greenback currency under the term
of the resumption act of 1875
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| Company has rendered to Mr. Cleve
| land special train to carry him and
his household and a party OF friends
to Washington The offer has been
accepted, and the party will leave
Lakewood in the evening of Febru-
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