The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-02-23
NEWS NOTES.

| +. ID. Smith has a Dill III Inc new
| York Legislature to prohibit hoop
skirts.
| Rev. Thomas Adams, a Catholic
| priest OF Brooklyn, has been restored
| 10 his ministry after a suspension OF
| fifteen wears.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson experts
| to have 5000 MaryIanders under
| his command III the Inauguration
| parade on March 4.
The evapgelists Moody and Sankey
were welcomed 70 Baltimore by 800
members Of Christian Enaeayor as
sociations singing hymns.
Miss Thompson, daughter OF ex-
Governor HUGH S. Thompson, o.
South Carolina, vas married to Mi'.
James Greer Zachry in New York.
| Capt. Carter praxton- Poindexter.
who served ia the Uuited States and
Confederate iavias, died at his home
near Norfolk, Va, aged seventy
seven years.
! The leading wholesale liquor man
! ulacturprs of Baltimore have formed
an organization to manufacture
high wires III opposition to tue
Whisky Trust.
. The literary societies of the Univer-
sites of Virginia have decided to in
yjtp the Hon. W Bourke Cochran, of
New York, to address them at their
final joint celebration il June.
A fund Of 100000, contributed in
America for he irish homer ula cause,
is held by a bank in Paris until its
ownership is legally established, two
OF the trustees being dead.
a novel suit is OH in Baltimore. 1t
is that of a discarded lover, who is
suing 7, reese Maikan TO recover his
love letters The young lady is
about to marry another fellow
The militia force of the United
States. according to the latest re
turns, is 112, 1876. Every State and
Territory, with the exception Of
Utah, has an organized militia force
! Both houses of the West Virginia
/ Legislature passed resolution ex-
] tending 20 Hon Vim. Z. Gladstone
/ congratulations and sympathy on
I he formulation OF The Irish home
! rule measure.
Mr.. A. Gates, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has invented an elevated electric rail
| road by which he proposes to run
/ cars from New York to Philadelphia
/ in half an hour. The ear hangs from
an overhead track.
Plans have been Inatured for one
/ of the greatest irrigation schemes
ever undertaken in the United States,
| the result of which will be the re
cidmation ola large portion of the
Maiaye desert in California.
! Probably the uicl1est divorce trial
OF record occurred at Houston, Tex,
recently. A woman discovered that
her husband had another wife. He
( was Jailed and two hours afterwards
/ she was granted a divorce.
james J. Corbett, through his
| manager, has deposited one check of
| SO, 900 to bind match with Charles
W. Mitchell, of E0gland, and an
other for a match with Peter Jack
son in case Mitchell does not accept.
Mr.. John Cessna has introduced a
bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature
| dppIOEII6tiiS 3O,OOO iOl etAI Eoi
chase of the birthplace of James
Buchanan and the placing OF stone
with proper inscriptions to mark the
spot.
The State Senate of Minnesota has
passed the I.eavitt proposition to
amend the Constitution by provid
| ing for tax Of not to exceed 5 per
| cent on all inherita nces above such
a sum as the Legislature il it's dis
cFetion may exempt.
William Brooks, miIkman, while
driving along in the central part Of
| Cleveland, Ohio, early one morning,
was approached by two highway
men and ordered to hand over his
money He refused, and they shot
him, robbed him and escaped.