The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Hou o and Abroad.

conflicting. On the one side peace is az
cured, and On the other Russia has given
Prince Milan three million rubles and sent
Cossacks into Servis. But q few days now
will tell the whole story .....Lucius Robinson
accepts the nomination by the DEMOCRATS for
governor Of New York.
Gen. Howard expects trouble with the In
dams in the far Northwest unless arrange
ments are made to pao fy them... In the
Beaver court, in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre case, Judge Foreman, in the course Of
his charge to the jury, said: 1.-THE prisoner,
j. D. Lee, stands before you charged with be-
ing a participant in one Of the most %atrocious
massacres Of human beings-of men, women
and children-in the Mountain Meadows in
1857, that ever was known in any civilized
part Of the world. The evidence shows that
the persons killed were immigrants. For
several days previous to the massacre q COM
bination Of Indians and white men had been
making attacks on their e%ncampment. In
dams and white men We'd with each other in
the fendish work Of destroying over one hun
dred and twenty men, women and children.
1t has been alleged that Lee shot one woman
with a gun and cut the throat Of another,
telling an Indian not to spare the life Of a
young woman whom the savage asked him to
save. The jury brought in a verdict Of guilty
Of murder in the first degree ...... One hun
dred thousand tons Of Pittston coal sold in
New York st prices ranging from 90 to 1915
per ton. ... The case Of Thomas Duffy, another
OF the "Molly Mcguire" conspirat ors, who is
accused Of being accessory before tho fact to
the murder Of Policeman "a i: ramaqus,
was given to tho jury at Pottsville, aud . YER =
dict OF murder the first degree was re-
turned. This is the ninth conviction for muir
der Of members Of this organization. .....
John K. Tsrbox was renominated to Congress
by the seventh Massachusetts district Demo-
cratic Congressional convention.
At Eatontown, N. J., a jealous Pole MUIR
dered his faithless wife and them committed
suicide by shooting himself. New York
city is flooded with visitors ...... The North
field bank robbers have at last been hunted
down and captured by the citizens Of Dakota,
after a desperate fight, in which M was
killed and the other three seriously wounded.
...... The American and Irish teams competed
at their return match, at Oreedmoor, near
New York city, which resulted in a victory for
the former by eleven points, the score stand
ing 1,165 for the Americans to 1,154 for the
Irish. At the end Of the match at eight hun
drod yards the Americans had q lead Of fifteen
points, which was Increased to thirty-tvo at
tho close OF the shooting at nine hundred
yards distance. Col. Farwell, however, went
to pieces :" at one Thousand yards, making six
misses in bis score and a bull's-eye on the
wrong target, and closed with only q total Of
165 points. The remaining five men made an
average of two hundred points per man,
and thus epabled the toam to hold it's own.
Gen. Dakin made 20S, followed by Mr.. Rath.
bone with 2O4, while Millner led the Irish
team with FOG. The scores at the close Of the
range at eight hundred yards stood: Ameri-
cane, 400 Irish, 1914 at nine hundred yards
Americans, 1856, Irish, 800, and at the one
Thousand yards range, Irish, S91; Americans,
$40. The Americans have won all three OF
the matches-two at Oreedmoor and one in
England.
Near Ralston, Forest county, Pa, a newly
opened numbering hamlet, two cabins, occu-
pied by George Parks and Daniel Cooper,
wood choppers, employed by the Pennsylvania
lumber company, were washed down the
mountain side into the stream below at an
early hour in the morning.. and before the
families were aroused from their slumbers.
Tho Parks family consisted Of seven perse ns,
the father, mother and Ave children. There
were nine members Of the Cooper family
Cooper, his wife, six children and Mrs. Adams,
the mother Of Mrs. Cooper. The sixteen per-
sons were all drowned, and their bodies car
rcd AWAY aud jammed between q " boom" Of
logs in Forest creek. The houses we're COM
pletely wrecked. The country is very sparsely
settled, but it is feared that otner lives were
lost turing the great storm ...... A trightful
accident occurred at an early hour in the
morning, at Black Lick Station, on the Pan
Handle railroad, about twelve miles from
Columbus, Ohio. The train was running at
the ratio Of perhaps forty miles per hour, and
from some GAUGE four cars OF the train jumped
the track and rolled DOWN sn ~embsnkment,
which is some twenty-five or thirty feet high
at that place. Four persons were killed and
1s~. ,,r,lrs oororo1r ;pt1ra1 Oh ~
Riley, of Watertown, Conn.,, beat his wife re-
Gently and she went to her fathers house.
He went there, and, bling ordered away,
stabbed William Foster in the abdomen, and
his wife's father, Robert Woods, in the head
and arm ..... The Philadelphia Exhibition is
not to be extended beyond November 10th,
the time originally set for closing it. Tho
managers expect that the chilly weather of
October will make the unwarmed buildings
uncomfortable for visitors, and, consequently,
that the present large attendance will end
with September.
The explosion OF the mine containing fifty
two Thousand pounds Of dynamite, at Hallett's
point, He'll Gate, Was successfully accom-
plished at the time appointed. Two hundred
thousand people covered all points Of obser-
vation in hopes Of a grand yet terrible dis
play, but they were disappointed and the
promises of Gen. Newton fully sustained, AZ
there was no shock beyond a slight osc. llatirg
movement Of the earth and a rumblrg noise,
accompanied by IN upheaval Of water, mud
and stones. It is thought the blast ofactually
did the work intended, but it cannot DO fully
ascersained until the dredging machine has
been at work ..... The result Of tho fe heries
OF Newfoundland this year ia far belo v that
Of la.t year, bnt the increased price ma:es up
for the small catch. .....A large kier, holding
about 1900 pieces Of goods, exploded will
great force in the Clyde bleachery, in War
wick, r.. l. Tho loss is from 3 5000 to $lO,-
900. The operatives had not arrived. 1.-The
city of Zaoatecas, Mexico, WAS captured BY
the insurgents under Gen. Cadena on the
twenty-fourth Of August, who turned 1t over
to the foreign oonsuls the same night. The