The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-22

Independents s,Os2. The democratic plurali-
ty was 5,s46. Spain proposes an e1traditic II
treaty with this country. ..One hundred and
twenty-si1 conspirators, including eighteen
generals, have been arrested in Spain. The
report from the pension bureau OF tue govern
msnt showa that during the focal year the
total number OF pensioners was 2s4, 1921, being
a decrease OF 1854 from the previous year.
The amount disbursed was $28, S51, 500.
Ono hundred and forty thousand people st.
tended the Exhibition on Ohio day-ranking
third in point Of numbers. 49,. The Democrats
Of Wost Virginia secured tho same number OF
representatives in the Legislature they had
last year, and will elect their candidate for
Uoited States senator. .... Tho wipners of the
races at Baltimore were as follows: Ono mile
for all ages, $275, Inspiration, 1:48 mile heats
for three-year-olds, $3.50, Ambush, lax,
1:53; free handicap for al ages, 1850, Burgoo,
3:174.... The governors Of The large Western
States which have suffered from the grssshop-
pers met in convention at Omaha, and after
Discussing the subject thoroughly, adopted
petition to Congress to sid tho sections raw
aged..... Gen. Terry dlsarmed the Indiana
at Standing Rock agency, but did not succeed
Ia getting a great number OF srrhs, and 1t IL
believed tho ssvag.s hid them......A run
ming raco at Newmarket, England, fos tho Dal-
lin ham handicap resulted in a dead heat be-
tween the American horse Bay Final and the
British animal Broadside. On running it Of
Bay Final was successful 800. Vim. B. Whit
ney. Of Chicago, ID bankrupt. Liabilities,
$425, 600, much Of it due in Now York State.
49,. The Continental Life Insurance Co., Of
New York, is defuuct.
Two sgol sisters, widows, named Brodack
and Stoddard. residing alone in LauTena Co.,
8. o., we're found murdered. An 81 Was the
instrument used. ....T The knitting mills st
Rome, N. Y, were destroyed by fire. 80. The
vessels Alert and Discovery, OF the English
navy, which started on q Polar expedition over
a year age, have arrived ct 7aien'ia .on tneis
return. Although not succeeding IN reaching
the pole, they bring back all extensive scientiac
memoranda gathered under great hardl lip.
The Alert passed last winter in latitude eighty
two degrees. twenty-seven minutes, where the
sunwas invisatle for 142 days. and the thermon.-
eter stood ffty.uine degrees below zero for two
weeks, Oh ons occasion reaching l04 degrees
below freezing poiat. From this point a sledge
party was sent northward to eighty-three de-
grees, twenty minutes, but no land WAS dis
covered, aud after taking observations the in
trepid party returned, having lost tbroe mon
on the journey. .... The Sioux commission
having stricken from the treaty the clause re-
lating to removal to Indian Territory, the In
dian chiefs all sigued it willingly......By a
railroad accident nesr Scarboro, Me-, two men
we're fatally and a number seriously injured.
.....A freight train on the jersey Midland
road jumped the track just before reaching
the high bridge as Hawthorne, and tho engine
striking the end Of tho structure, knocked
it from it's moorirgs and it fell, the train fol-
lowing into tie chaem. The engineer and
fireman were killed a.d two other employees
fatally injured ...... The hurricane which
caused such extensive losses throughout the
West Indies extended over the states of Gen.
trail America, and great distress prevails in
consequence. Managua, in Nicaragua, was
first inundated and then visited by the fury Of
tho wind, which demolished four hundred
houses, killing q large number Of people.
Three hundred houses wero destroyed in
Blewheld. The government is extending aid
to the suffering populsee. The coffee crop
suffers to the extent Of $3,O 900, 900, and the
losses at Mansgua are put at %, 000, 600. LIN
a free-to.all race on Fleetwood track, New
York, Judge Fullerton took one heat In 2:22,
Great Eastern the second in 2:20t, and Rarus
tho three next in 2:214, 2:2s and 2:2O. John
Hills sud John Fullem, who murdered Farmer
Chiseled in Atlantic county, N. j., last Au-
gust, for the purpose Of robbing his house,
were hanged for the crime at Mays Landing.
The rope about Fullem's neck slipped, and he
died in terrible agony, meanwhile ~uttering
most horrible Sounds Of gasping for breath,
and clutching wildly with his mauacled hands
A number OF spectator. tainted at the scene
Hills died easily.
Three Methodist minister's, circui: riders,
we're shot in Arka, rss by illicit distill, rs who,
it is thought, supposed them to be revenue
officers going to make arrests ..... During the
recent heavy gallo at Sable island an American
vessel supposed 10 belong in Eastport, Me-,
was driven ashore aud went to pieces. Her
crew was drowned; five Of the bodies be-
ing recovered. Tho vessel was laden with
barreled herring. Che Pope having de-
sired to divide the archbishoprio Of L! ons iuto
two dioceses without the assent Of the French
government, the latter has issued a decree
forbidding ouch a division ..... Thomas Lani-
gan, Of Brooklyn, N. T., Vas sunocstod, while
drunk, by rolling over in bed and jsmming
bis face in a pillJw, from which position he
Was unable to e~1tricnte himself go. . Two
colored women OF Louisville, KY, having q
quarrel, decided to fight a duel with knives,
and accordingly met at night without wit
nesses IN front Of q Baptist church, where
they fought hercely for half an hour, at the
expiration of which time they were arrested,
ono Of them being terribly gashed and her
right eye out out.
After terrific fighting m Sunday the Turks
drove tho servianp from Djunis and took pos
session Of tho heights, thus cutting the Ser
Wan. army..in two. The servisns, dissatisfied
with their commander-in chief, could not be
brought 10 fight with spirit, notwithstanding
the frantic endeavors CT their Russian officers.
......Allen @. Laros, convicted Of poisoning
his father in May last, at which time several
others OF the family died has been sentenced
to be hanged at Esston. P...... William Haw-
thorne, q citizen If Hagsrstown, Md aged
seventy. two years. wns killed by his son-iu-
law, Thomas Steve,s 80. 4 recent census Of
Rnf 7alo nnfs tina ponnl. Z on ak 1la 5ek-,n IN.