The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-05-18
NEWS NOTES.

General S. C. Armstrong, principa
of Hampton Normal and Agricul ur-
al Institute of Virginia is dead.
j. W. Old & CO.. wholesale shoe
dealers, and j. S. Bell & Son, butch
ers, of Norfolk, have made assign
mcnts.
Princess Eulalie of Spain and party
are expected in New York on the
18th instant. She will visit Wash
ington.
A new counterfeit So United States
silver certificate; with the portrait of
General Grant poorly engraved, is in
circulation.
Col. Ward III. Lamon, marshal OF
the District Of Columbia under Mr..
Lincoln's administration, died in
Martinsburg, W. Va.
In Pittsfield, Me-. the marriage of
a blushing bride of rs summers to a
manly young fellow three years her
senior is talked about.
White caps hanged a man and
whipped a woman near Russellville,
KY, for stealing bacon from VIM
Phillips. Great excitement prevails.
Capt Peter J. Otey, of Lynchburg,
Va, has been recommended for ap-
pointment ofregister of the treasury,
to succeed General Rosecrans.
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels
proposes to have at least two ex
aminatiOns made every yearinto the
condition OF the national banks.
Senators VOORHEES, and Jones and
Representa- tive Bynum express them
selves as pleased with Mr.. Cleyeland's
new order relative TO Office seekers.
Unless the President interferes it is
probable there will be clean sweep
of Repu blican oftice-holders in the
Treasury Department who are not
protected by civil-service rules.
Col B. p Chatfeld has leased the
Haywood White Sulphur Springs
near WayneSyille, for term of three
and open the hotel about the first of
June.
President Cleveland recently re-
ceived letter from the secretary of
the Virginia Historical Society, ask
ing him to join. He has replied that
he will join n0GIore societies
Two-e4 gne seven and the
six years old4ssons of James Donnel-
~, a saloon-ketper of Patterson, n.
j tell into the middle reservoir of
the Passic water camp ard were
drowned.
Mr. G. n Pierce was elected presi-
dent ofthe International Convention
of the Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton at Indianapolis. The report
showed a growth of 10000 in the
membership in two years.
The Iowa Supreme Court has de-
cided that the State board of medical
examiners has the right to fix stand
al DIS for medical colleges. Litiga
ton over the same question is pend
ing in many States.
Ransom Gainey, a pI eminent farm
er of Sewanee county, Florida, has
been arrested and put in Jail on the
charge of having murdered a negro
during a drunken row at Patterson,
Ga, thirteen years ago.
In Botetourt county, Va, Cary
Linkenhoker assaulted his wife with
a bar of iron and fed to the noun
tains. Supp losing he had killed his
wife, he committed suicide. Mrs.
Linkenhoker is improving.
George Bartle, of Virginia, who
has been the keeper of the great seal
in the State Department since the
days of Daniel Webster. continues to
hold his position under the present
administration at his usual salary.
Gus. Thomaston and Cornelius
Wagner, Worlds Fair laborers, and
Andrew Olson, an employee of the
Pullman Car Wheel Works, were
killed in attempting to board an
Illinois Central passenger train in
Pullman, H.
The famine in Central and South
eastern Russia has been followed by
a fever which is deciinating the popu-
lation. Great suffering prevails In
Tobolsk the cholera is increasing SO
rapidly that corps of medical stu
dents has been sent from st. Peters
burg to assist the physicians
A granite church at Northampton,
Mass costing over 100000, entire
ly built, furnished and given to ST
Johns Episcopal Parish by George
p. Bliss, of New York, a native oi
Northampton, was dedica ted !.
Bishop Huntington performed the
ceremonies and Rev. William z.
huntington, of Grace Church, New
York, preached.