The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-04-20
NEWS NOTES.

18TH after lingering illness.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
has issued an order limiting the i'm
portation of firearms into Ireland.
The health officer of Hagerstown,
Md, has condemned Il grave yard in
that town as d menace to the public
health.
During the present session of the
Senate the number Of secret sessions
have far outnumbered those held
previously.
The fire from the burning of Cliff
tan, W. Va, spread to the bills and
burned miles of fences and hundreds
of acres of woods.
An earthquake occurred in Servia.
Thousands of buildings were damag-
ed and the people thrown into a
state of panic.
Louis Neidermeyer fell into a vat
of boiling water in Dold's slaughter.
house, in Buffalo, n Y, and was
boiled to death.
Nellie Brighton, aged eleven years,
died at Nea herly, Pa, from the
tlitt 70 VI IN f'ti4i- a ACl10 os'O CihiSS
without intermission.
John Larkin was killed aud Michael
King terribly burned by molten
metal escaping at Riverside Iron
Works, Steubenville, Ohio.
The Young Mems Christian Associ
alton building in Newcastle, Pa, the
largest and finest in the city. erected
by Ira ]. Sankey, has been Quilted by
fire
1t is said that some of the English
fire insurance companies intend to
withdraw from the United State in
consequence of frequent confagra
tions.
6fstfe $50 seats in the next Houso
OF Representatives the Democrats
will have 220. thu Republicans 127
and the Populists 8, one seat is con
listed.
Bricon, the French anarchist, was
convicted of participating in the ex-
sentenced to twenty years penal SER
vitude.
Reports from the northwestern
portion of Missouri are to the effect
that thirty one persons were killed
and about sixty injured by the re
cent storm.
Charles Reeds barn, near Gallatin
Tenn, was struck by lightning and
twenty-five mares in tOal by the stall
lion st. Blaize were killed. The loss
is over 100000.
As a result of the investigation at
Portland, Ore, as to the illegal land
ing of Chinese at that port, Secre-
tary Carlisle has dismissed Deputy
Collector CaTdincll.
Five thousand coal miners in the
Borinage district, Belgium, have
resolved upon a general strike, part
ly for higher wages and partly for
universal suffrage.
The genuineness of the John Bull
locomotive as one of the first run in
America, which will be exhibited at
Chicago by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, is vouched for
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, American
minister, will sail for the United
States on April %, leaving Secretary
White in charge of the legat ton until
the arrival of Ambassador Bayarti.
William George, aged forty-six
years, was killed, and William Well
ington, aged thirty-seven years, was
fatally injured by an explosion in
Black Diamond mine, near Wilkes
barre, Pa.
There have been between forty and
fifty earthquake shocks in Pico
Canon, near Newhall, Cal, in the San
Fernando mountains, the centre of
the oil region.
Over fifty miners are imprisoned in
burning mine at Pont-y Pridd,
Wales, and there is no hope of their
rescue. Severa. bodies have already
been recovered.
The charred bodies ofMr. and Mrs.
E. W Henesley and their son and
daughter were found in the ruins of
their house on Grassy mountain,
near Greeuville, S. c.
A runaway horse crossed the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad brid re on narrow plank
way between the tracks from the
Cecil to the Hartford side.
Senator Villas, who has been on a
hunting trip along the Gulf of Next
90, was communica ted with and in
formed of the death of his daughter,
which occurred a week before.
The Rev. Thopas Dixon has com
promised the suit against him for
killing song birds on Staten Island
by the payment of $500 and $50
costs, having already paid a fine of
$3.50.
Annie Watson, eolored, aged seven
ty-six years, was sentenced to pay
81 900 fine and fourteen months in
the penitentiary for attempting to
obtain pension fraudulently in Della
ware.
The anti-pool-room bill, which
effectually prohibits all forms of
pool-selipg and gambling and games
ed in the Connecticut Senate, 21 to /,
and now goes to the Governor.
Warren Blackwell, one of the
wealthiest men in Dekalb county,
Ind, was shot and killed Wednesday
evening at Butler, Ind, by Thomas
Revolt, one of the night police, upon
whom Blackwell drew pistol.
A mob, frenzied by religious super
stition in regard to rites practiced by
the Jews, attacked the synagogue at
Kolin, in Bohemia, and wrecked the
building and the houses and shops of
Hebrews. The troops were called out