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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1890
Page
1
Dr J P Careers Dentist announces location in Westmoreland Brothers and Dukes Drug Store with address at Cilice over Westmoreland Bros. & Duke's Drug Store. Dr Frank Smith now permanently located at Lasley DC offering professional services to the public.
Byron Burrows, captured by McDuffie and two guards after a prison break, fought Carter in a pistol duel leaving Carter wounded. Burrows was killed at dawn during the escape attempt, his body sent to York and then Birmingham. Carter survived with a shoulder wound.
Dispatches from Constantinople report Armenians and Druses attacking a Babylonian fortress area near Silensia Syria, blowing up buildings and freeing prisoners after storming the government, killing a governor and looting a treasury. Dispatches from Vienna note ongoing arrests of Armenians and reports of torture, starvation, and deaths in Turkish custody amid rising reprisals and violence in the empire.
At Moorheads McLane and Co blast furnace in Soho an afternoon blast injured eight workers and fatally two. Edward and John Hughes were burned almost beyond recognition. others including Peter Ithany Frederick Baker and four Hungarians suffered serious burns. Injured moved to Homoeopathic Hospital with Hughes brothers expected to die. Cause of accident not known. No major mill damage.
The South Carolina sinking fund commission sold 3200 acres of marsh land at Port Point Beaufort County to the Macon and Atlantic Railroad Company for a deep-water gateway. The site, near Port Royal and Savannah, is set for rail access within three years, with 5000 acres already bought for terminal purposes and further purchases by the Americas Construction and Railroad Company.
The State Democratic Committee urges white voters to back the regular Democratic ticket in the October 10 1800 address from Columbia. It condemns the Independent movement led by Haskell supporters as a threat to white supremacy and calls for unity to defeat the opposition and preserve Democratic rule.
The World reports a sweeping conspiracy to alter census results to favor certain states and retain congressional majorities. It describes a secret Washington office, bribes to clerks, and a move of operations to Baltimore, naming figures connected to the alleged plot.
The village of Andale suffered severe damage as a hurricane swept through. A large Catholic church was lifted from its foundation and hurled yards away, with smaller buildings overturned and trees uprooted and tossed about.
Win. Shum, a Munies Times printer, was decapitated by a freight train near Sali na county after becoming overwhelmed by a murder case description. He leaves a widow and eight children in destitute circumstances.
An October 10 explosion at a shell filling facility killed five workers instantly and seriously injured forty others. A workman was filling a shell with a blasting compound when a massive detonation occurred, reducing five men to atoms and causing multiple serious injuries.
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