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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1894
Page
4
Dr. Talmage delivers a sermon on spiritual struggle using Jacob at Jabbok as a model. He connects biblical wrestling with modern trials in finance and personal vice, urging perseverance through midnight battles toward dawn and divine blessing.
A long contemplative meditation on religious unity and death fills the scene as verses of hymns, prayers, and personal losses are interwoven with reports from Washington. The Senate notes three recent deaths and plans funeral honors for Michigan’s Stockbridge, amid mourning for Senator Morgan’s widow.
In Manassas Virginia Ben White and Jim Robinson, both colored, were hanged in the jail yard at 7 o clock morning for assaulting two white women on January 13. Twenty deputies with guns guarded the scene as about fifty spectators watched. White prayed before the drop and both men died within eight minutes as doctors declared life extinct.
Sulotach New Orleans April 27 George Fairbanks died by his own action at the Hotel de Louisiana. He recently arrived with his wife and two children. Little is known of the family but they are said to be from Columbus Ohio.
In Columbia and Florence a major liquor case unfolds as the Supreme Court weighs whether the decision means total prohibition or free liquor. Wilcox filed for habeas corpus in Brunson’s detention and sought an injunction against Florence's liquor licenses, with hearings set for May 7 and May 13, signaling a pivotal test of the dispensary law and its successors.
The weekly weather crop bulletin reports mixed conditions for the week ending April 20. Sunshine was above normal but cool nights slowed germination. drought is pressing in coastal counties, while Sea Island cotton failed in places. Cotton planting near finish, oats and corn struggles, cutworms damaging central areas, and fruit and garden crops uneven or short. Military updates follow about South Carolina companies and state reorganization under Governor Tillman.
Reports from Athens on Monday describe 865 shocks in eight hours, with near continuous tremors for two hours. Three and a half miles of territory show torn fields and roads, the sea encroaching sixty feet, and rising death and destruction across the region.
Charles Howard aged 21 and his wife of Burke quarrelled after three months of marriage. He threatened to kill himself and was given morphine by his wife who urged him to act. He died an hour later. she, remorseful, was restrained from self harm.
Staunton jury quickly convicts Lawrence Spiller of murder in the Lttle Rows case. Judge Chalkley sentences him to hang on a date after thirty days, noting a fair trial. Sheriff and guards report quiet at Bethlehem Cemetery where Lttle Rows is buried.
A crowded white pier at Loumania sank as a steamer bound for Galatz approached. About 120 people fell into the Danube when the pier gave way. Many excursionists are feared drowned in this tragedic accident.
In Prosperity South Carolina a jail inmate Dan Sheppard a powerful mulatto arrested for assault and attempted statutory offense strangled himself with a crocus sack rope in his cell tied to a window grate. The coroner ruled death by strangulation and locals note his violent conduct. The town’s black residents reportedly express relief at the end of his violent career.
Indiana voters across cities show broad Republican gains in May elections. Terre Haute and multiple towns vote in favor of Republican tickets, with majorities ranging from 75 to 1,900. Bloomington, Kokomo, Logansport, and others elect stronger Republican majorities and several council seats flip partisan.
The Wadesboro Messenger Intelligencer reports that James Forne took out a 6000 policy with the Provided Saving Life Assurance Society of New York. He and James Watkins later claimed Forne drowned at Cheraw, but investigations showed Forne alive and the widow surrendered the policy after confessions by Forne and his brother-in-law. Also note Prof. Fal’s 1899 comet collision prophecy and a predicted meteor shower.
A sales pitch for Ludden Bates Southern Music in Savannah Georgia. The ad argues music in homes brightens spaces, notes the cost of a good instrument but long-term value, and promotes the company as a trusted Southland music house since 1870 that has sold 60 000 instruments and offers free catalogs. It invites readers to write for information.
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