The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-11-12
Western and Southern States.

The horse St. Julian has just made the best
time Oil record, trotting q mile on the Oakland
(Cal.) track in 2.l23, and beating the best
time previously made by Rarus.
The yellow fever epidemic in Memphis has
been formally declared a. an end by the au.
thorities, and refugees are returning to the
stricken city from all quarters. Up to the
date OF announcement of the end OF the lever
the total number OF cases in the city had been
l,571, and the total deaths 40.
The Ohio Republicans have q majority OF
t~hirty-one On joint ballot in the Legislature.
The women and children who were at the
White River agency when Agent Meeker and
the other white men there were murdered by
the Utes, and who were carried of by the In
dams, have arrived safely at General Merritt's
camp, having been given up by their captors.
The captives comprised Mrs. and Miss Meeker,
Mrs. Price and her two children, and they
were all well treated and subjected to no in
suits while in captivity.
A fire at Hawkinsville, Co., destroyed
several buildings and caused q total loss OF
$150,000.
Two tramps who we're sleeping in the Ha-
zleton furnace, two miles east OF Youngstown,
Ohio, were found dead the next morning, hav-
ing been sufocated by gas.
F. w. Dakin and w. Hoyt, two medical
students from Cleveland, were arrested at
Ashtabula, Ohio, for "body snatching." They
arrived there on Saturday night, hired a horse
and buggy, went to the county infrmary farm,
i've miles east of Ashtabula, opened the grave
of Mrs. Goodrich, seventy-five years old, who
was buried OH the previous Tuesday, packed
the body in q trunk and were about to take
the train for Cleveland when they were
arrested.
While intoxicated Monroe Amos, q colored
man, entered a saloon in Atchison, Kan, but
his demand for liquor was refused, whereupon
he came out on the street and began to make
loud threats. Policeman Lewis Chew, who
was passing, attempted to arrest him, when
Amos drew a revolver and shot the officer
through the abdomen. Chew tell, but recov-
cred himself, and drawing q revolver shot the
negro dead. The officer died the same day.
The remains OF w. 8. Bodie, the original
d~iscoverer OF the celebrated Bodie mining dis
trict, California, who died in d snowstorm
November IA, 1859, have just been found. 1t
is believed he belonged in Rochester or
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
An engine that was backing down from De-
Kalb, Mo-, to East Atchison, KAN, for coal
and water, jumped the truck and was over
turned into a ditch. OF the five persons in the
engines cab B. A. Adams, telegraph operator,
was instantly killed and N. N. Holmes, super
intendent Of bridges, and j.. c. Null, a brake
man, were so terribly scalded that they both
died in great agony.
The steamer Amazon, one Of the largestand
st~aunchest passenger vessels plying on the
lakes, while entering the hsrbor at Grand
Haven, Mich, from Milwaukee, struck a sand
bnr and was totally wrecked. The passengers
and crew were all safely landed in a life-sav.
ing car. The Amazon was valued at $50, 600,
and her cargo consisted Of 1885 barrels of
flour, $3.50 barrels OF peas, 200 bags Of barley,
SO barrels OF pork, so boxes OF meat, 1850
pounds OF tobacco, SO rolls OF leather, 800
boxes OF cheese, 60 kegs Of beer and 300 pack
ayes OF sundries. .,.
A dispatch from Keokuk, Iowa, says the case
OF William Young, on trial tor the murder of
Lewis Spencer and his four children, near
Luray, Clarke county, Mo-, in 1877, resulted in
a verdict OF not suilty. On the next afternoon
Sunday Young was married at Kahoko to
Miss Lydia Bray, Of Ohio, to whom he was
engaged before his arrest, and who has been
in the State tor the past four months assisting
him in preparing his defence. They arrived
in Keokuk Monday evening, and remained
there until Tuesday, when they lett for
Young's home, near Luray. Their move
ments had been closely watched. Tuesday
night a mob, numbering from 100 to 200 men,
assembled north OF Kahoko, and was waiting
there the next morning when the train passed.
Finding that Young went on to his home,
they followed on horseback and in wagons,
and, after his arrival there, surrounded his
house and demanded his surrender. Young,
who was accompanied by j. c. Coffman, Of
Toledo, Ohio, n OF his attorneys, refused to
surrender, and opened fire on the mob, but
without effect. Shots were exchanged, and
firing was kept up until Young was wounded.
Eight men then forced their way into the
house, took Young out and hanged him.