The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-09
South and West.

TIE balloon A. J. Nutting, which asC' LED
at Chicago, having as passengers Professor S.
J. King, the aeronaut, and j. G.. Hasshagen, o!
the United States signal service, was given up
for lost after having disappeared from public
view for a week. Scouts secured the dense
woods and swamps of Upper Wisconsin in the
hope of finding some trace of the lost voyagcrs,
bit without success. On the seventh day OF
their disappearance, however, a dispatch from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, announced that they had
been found. Professor King autographed that
their balloon had landed about si1ty-ive miles
from Chippewa Falls, and that they were lost
five days in o swamp, suffering great hardships,
before they reached q region inhabited byman.
By a collision on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad, at Mckinney Station, Ohio, five labor
en-, were killed, a sixth had his leg broken. and
the foot of q seventh was cut of.
An immense amount of damage hns been
done to farms and other property by the giving
way of u ,evee on the Mississippi, in illinois,
and by heavy floods OF other points On the
river.
The residence Of T.. Jelleitch, one milo from
Jackson, CAL, WAS destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock
in the morning, and all of the inmates, consist
Ing of Mr.. and Mrs. Jolleitch and their two
children, a girl two years Of age and an infant
son six months old, persisted.
EFFORTS are being made to raise tho English
sloop-of-war De Brook, which foundered in a
storm off Lewis, Del, in 1898. Specie and
valuable jewels are believed to be on board.
FIRE Of L%ynchburs, Va, destroyed several
buildings, twenty carloads Of cotton, a large
quantity of tobacco and other property, infict.
ing a total loss of about 5000,
PRESIDENT Garfeld's body was quietly trans
forred the other morning from the public re-
coiving vault to Captain L. It. Sco6eld's pri-
vate vault, the finest in Lake View cemetery,
Cleveland.
A DISPATCH from Eureka, New, says that
James E. Anderson, who made q national repu-
tation in Louisiana during tho political troubles
of 1876, and who has lately been editing the
Leader at Eureka, was assaulted at night by
W. j. Penrose and beaten over the head with O
revolver. His wounds may prove fatal. The
Leader has been making personal attacks on
Penrose.
The eleventh annual convention OF thu
Woman's Suffrage society met at Louisville
Ky, seven States being represented.
A FIRE in o brc very at Aurora, Ind, resulted
in the destruction of 200, 900 kegs of beer and q
pecuniary loss of about STE, DOC.
THE Minnesota legislature elected William
Window, late secretary OF the treasury, to tho
United States Senate.
TIE Michigan State Central committee for
the relief of the sufferers by the recent forest
fires has issued the following statement 'The
revised reports show a much larger number of
dependent families than heretofore estimated
probably they will number $500. Tho physi-
clans on the ground report that bilious and
typhoid tcvers are prevalent among tho suffer-
ers. Wo arc satisfied that we shall need a
much larger sum of money than we had sup
posed"
The following is tho official vote cast for
governor in the recent Ohio election: Foster,
Republican, 912, 735; Bookwalter, Democrat,
2sS, 42G; Ludlow, Prohibition, 1857; Seitz,
Greenback, $3.50; total voto. 624, 0SS; Re-
publican plurality, $4,000; Repub lican ma.
jority, 1882.
The Peoria (Ill.,) sugar refinery, q seven.
story brick building, was destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss of $500, 900.
sGovERSon's Day. at the Atlanta exposition
brought a great crowd to the grounds. The
visiting governors were formally welcomed to
the exposition at 2 o'clock. Governor Co ]
quit, of Georgia, delivered the address OF
welcome, which was responded to by Gov
errors Bigelow, Of Connecticut Hoyt, Of
Pennsylvania Blackburn, of Kentucky ; Jar
Wis, of North Carolina, and others. One fea-
ture of tho days proceedings was the making
of two suits of clothes, ono for Governor Col
quit and one for Governor Bigelow, from
seduction picked at 7 o'clock in tho morning.
The suits were worn at the reception in the
evening. Nine governors of States were prescn,
during the day.