The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-04-27
NEWS NOTES.
J. W Stafford, druggist, commit
ted suicide a Graham, Va.

| torney Gere ral under Grant, is dead
| Louis Wolfus, of Berkeley county,
Va, was thrown from wagon and
killed.
In Wheeling, W. Va, Mrs Mike
Borcia and her babe died from star
walton.
W. T. Newman, formerly of Dan
vile, committed suicide in Allan
ia, Ga.
Dorian Hunt, of Chatham, Va,
fel down flight of steps and his
neck was broken.
Secretary Carlisle has decided the
German musicians are artists and
It contract laborers.
The English journalists, who are
making Il tour OF the United States,
called on the President.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
| ontemplates t he erection of a hand
,ome depot at Roanoke.
The ice passed out of Clearwater
river. Minnesota, taking the Great
Northern Railway bridge.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies
has adopted universal suffrage and
| there was great rejoicing in Brussels.
Cholera statistics show two new
cases in Austria and several hundred
nav cases in Russia with 155 deaths
since March 18th.
| Mr. Issac Davis, Of New York, an
| insurance man, was found dead
| Wednesday in a room OF the Calves
ton Hotel, Texas.
| A I, i
nine members WAS graduated rom
the College of Ply sicians and Sur
geons at Baltimore.
| COL Charles Murphy, a we'll known
| LAWYER OF v ashiugUon, who disap-
| peart,d March 4 last, W rs found dead
III d chair in his office.
1t is said that customs officers in
Washington State have been carry
ing on Il wholes's !e snug CLING of
Chinese and OPIUM. ---
The PoBef1as ordered that prayers
for ram be offered by TAT holics
throughout Italy. where rain has not
| fallen for two mOIths.
Thirteen large iron and steel com
panies OF Ohio and Pennsy lvania
have combined, vii h Cincinnati as
the distributing point.
By the explosion Of a boil.r near
! Parkersburg, w. Va, two men We're
killed and four Others seriously and
perhaps fatally injured.
| Joseph S. Miller, the new commits
sioner of internal revenue, will not
e1.ter actively upon his duties until
| about the 25th instant.
The survivors of the BOG delegates
| who voted for a third term for Presi-
J dent Grant will give a banquet in
/ Philadelphia on the 25th.
Charles W. Hcitzberg, the general
manager of the st. Louis Dressed
Beef and Provision Company, com
! mitted suicide in st. Louis.
The New York Assembly passed the
| Martin bill making it ii misdemeanor
to misrepresent the circulation of a
| newspaper to obtain business.
Rev. James H. Williams. of Nash
vile, aud Mrs. Elizabeth benson
| Allen, granddau ghter OF the late
President john Tyler, were married
| i'll StauntOn.
Senators German and Gray called
at the White House Ill the interest of
| Hewson z Launun 70 be marshal for
the district oj Delaware. The Presi
dent appointed him
A Tallahassee special says that
Samuel Pasco was elected United
States Senator to succeed himself.
He received 80 out OF the 100 vot IS
OF the Legislature.
The exhibit sent by Italy to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, consisting
largely ofart treasures, fille, enough
cars at Portland, Me, to make SIX
full fl eight trains.
1t is reported that Mrs. Florence
May brick, serving a life sentence in
Working (Eugland) prison for pois-
oniDg her husband, attempted sui
eide by stabbing herself.
| Leonard Mason, of Virginia, has
invented a smokeless powder tor
field guns, which tue army ordnance
bureau has authorized him to test at
national proving grounds.
Frank Gerade was sentenced in
In tsl urg to twelve ears in the pen
if.-,.ti.try Ii 1890 b. dashed ont
the bsaIns OF IT'S lii tie step-da w liter
d. aif~t he foot oi he bed
Dnring the extraordinary session
o the Uttifed States Senate which
a, just closed President Cleveland
u,.,,ie ntofe appointments to office
+ IN - Y ri biz pr drces-ors.
| he sup me ,ourt oi Appeals OF
| VI slnia has rer,:er-d a decision
~ hich Practically inva ida IS he acr
sspd nv the last Le9ls laturp of
that State a4all t bookma M on
c.ses
james Bartinett thought robber
| MAS III his. house in MouoDgahelss
Try, Pa He fired II shotgun with
| out speaking and blew off tie head
OF Mrs. Lettie Troy, hls mother
| in-law.
The dowager Duchess of Suthef-
land, sentenced in London to six
| weeks Imprisonment tor contempt
| of court in burning court document
| intrusted to her tor insl eetion, Is
said to be seriously i'll.
For the nine months of the fiscal
year ended March 81, 1898, the,ag
yregate receipts from the internal
revenue sources were $3.50, sic, 016.-
50. a gain over the corresponding
| leriod in 1892 of 81, 20S ,07S.
/ In the boat races between the crews
of the war ships at Fort Monroe, the
crews of the San Francisco won
every race. There was great rejoic-
ing and enthusiasm among the
Americans. The victors celebrated
the occasion.