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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1891
Page
4
A reflective poem recalls a cherished place and memories of childhood games. The speaker fondly streams back to a homey cottage, meeting old friends as they once played by the door. The verse evokes nostalgia, locality, and the pull of past summers and shared afternoons.
A bill introduced in the State Legislature proposes abolishing county commissioners and creating a county supervisor elected at general elections. The measure sets terms, bonds, and authority over highways, roads, ferries, taxes, and county funds, with a new county road fund and road commissioners in each township. It also creates township road commissioners, outlines road contracting, fines, and duties, and details changes to poor relief administration under the new board.
The Post reports an ex senator, a strong Carrison admirer, predicting Carrison's nomination, will announce this week that he is not a candidate for Republican nomination.
Three laborers on the Northern Pacific Railroad testify that twenty five or more men were killed in the Canyon Station landslide along the Northern Pacific line on Wednesday. The earlier report claimed only two fatalities.
Little Rock report states Captain Maxwell's store in De Witt burned last night killing three children asleep in the rear. The same dispatch notes Captain W W Butler, second son of Senator M C Butler, died suddenly in Augusta last Saturday, described as a fine gentleman with many friends mourning his loss.
A South Carolina Railway train from Columbia with about two hundred passengers derailed near Lincolnville after rails were deliberately loosened. One white baggage master and a colored fireman died. five others injured, including several white and colored passengers. Investigators say the derailment was premeditated with tools found on site and bolts removed, with revival of relief trains and hospital care for the wounded.
The Farmers Alliance Supreme Council gathered in Indianapolis with welcome addresses from Indiana and Indianapolis officials. President Polk spoke, committees were formed on credentials and deman ds, and debates over the sub treas ury and a national grade standard for crops continued amid fraternal proceedings.
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