The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-09-13
NEWS NOTES.

From 5 January last to September 1st
$50, lis persons assembled to the top of
WashingtOn's monument.
The recent flop of Senator Jones, CT
Nevada, to the populists has caused
little surprise, as he is a candidate for
reelection, and thinks his chances
will be improved by his new alliance.
A number of army officers want to
go to Japan.
There is heavy demand on the
Democratic Congressional Con. mittee
for campaign literature and speakers.
The trial of the torpedo-boat Erics
son will probably take place on Thurs
day at New London, Conn.
Officers and members of the Grand
Army of the Republic and their
friends are assembling in large num-
bers at Pittsburg, Pa, where the
National Encampment will be held
this week.
The announcement of Chancey M
Depew's candidacy for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination in New
York has made stir among the pDli-
ticians 1t is said all the candidates
will combine against Mr.. Morton.
Professor Herman Won Helmholtz,
the distinguished German scientist,
inventor of the ophtholmaScope and
author of THE Conservation of
Force" died at Berlin on Saturday,
aged seventy-seven years.
A cloudburst at Bethlehem, Pa,
last Friday night, did damage to the
extent of 100000. The flooded dis
trict is more than a mile square and
extends tC ward the Monocacy Valley
and includes portions of Bethlehem
proper, West Bethlehem, and South
in n1.l
were flooded to their second stories.
japanese merchants residing in
China are preparing to leave the
country, having been alarmed at the
action of the American consul in sur
rendering two Japanese who had
sought the protection of the con-
sulate.
Governor Waite was renominated
by the Populist State Convention OF
| Colorado.
| Secretary Carlisle has asked for the
designations of three Republican
chiefs of divisions in the Treasury
| Department.
| 1t is considered not improbable that
| other Republican silver Senators oil
| the West may, like Senator Jones, OF
! Nevada, desert their old party for the
Populists.
A case of illness, supposed to be
cholera, has developed at Cumberland
Md, in party of German immigrants
en- route from New York to the West
A farmer discovered wreckers al
work on the track OF the Wisconsin
Central railroad, near Stevent Point
Mimi. He made torch of his shirl
and stopped the train in time t.
save it.
The story sent out from LOTT. Pa.
to the effect that the mining town O.
Scotch Valley had sunk out Of sight
is untrue. There is no Scotch Vale.
mine in that region.
Hog cholera is epidemic in Lyons
county, KANSAS, and over 1000 hogs
have died from the disease.
The names and descriptions hav
been received of twenty-six anarhist
who will probably come to thi
country.
DIR. Parkhurst, who is again in New
York, says he will have startling ties
timony against the police to submit
tG the committee,
The South Carolina Democratic
Conference Committee has issued
call for reorganization of the Demo
cratic party against Tillmanism.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew thinks tn
Republicans in New York are over
confident and that the Democrats will
nominate stronger man than Mr.
Flower for Governor.
Cholera is raging in the town an,
Province of Mini NovgOrod. In Rus
sian Poland there are 5000 fresh case
4 of cholera and 2, 800 deaths from tina
disease on an average per week.