The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-02-08
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The bark T. l.. Carney, from NaHassa, West
Indies, to Baltimore, loaded with guano, sunk
three miles south of Hatteras inlet, n. c., and
eight Of the ten men on board lost their lives.
LARGE candy and cracker factory and seven
adjoining buildings in Atlanta, Ga, have been
destroyed by fire, causing a loss OF 100000.
One man was burn ed to death.
Mrs. REBEccA RANKIN, a wealthy old widow,
living near Newcomerstown, Ohio, becoming
possessed with the idea that she would die in
poverty, arose in the night and hanged herself
A COLLISION between two trains on the
Charleston and Savannah railroad, twenty-seven
miles from the former place, resulted in the
death of two men and serious injuries to sew
eral more.
ANDERSON JONES (colored) was hanged at
Augusta, Ga, for numbering a young merchant
named HARRISON, and at Franklin, Idaho,
Michael Mooney met a similar fate for the muir
der of ]. Hinckley, a station agent.
JOHN W%AdaoSER, in Jail at Ironton, Ohio,
on the charge of having murdered Dr.. Joseph
A. Beggs, ~bookkeeper and chemist for the
iFtna iron works, was taken from his cell by
a body of masked men and hanged to q tree in
the courthouse yard.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck
q special tain on which Jay Gould and party
wero going northward toward Sedalia, Mo.
The obstruction placed on the track was dis
covered a few minutes before it was reached by
the train. A farmer was arrested for the act,
and stated that some of his stock had been
killed by trains, and that he attempted to wreck
the train in revenge.
HEAVY rains caused an increased rising of
the Cumberland river at Nashville, Tenn, and
the inundation hemmed in the city on nearly
all sides. Ten thousand families were driven
from their homes. In many instances the
people were imprisoned in their houses by the
flood and had to be rescued by boats. Many
acres of business houses and private dwellings
were inundated, and the pecuniary damage is
very heavy.
A BOOM in wheat is reported from Chicago,
where in one day over 90, 900, 900 bushels were
sold, the price advancing from 1885 to 1861.
A COMMERCIAL traveller named Hudgins was
being driven by o colored man in q buggy
from Roxboro to Oxford, N. C. While crossing
a swollen stream on a raft the horse jumped
overheard, capsizing the raft, when Hudgins,
the driver and the ferryman were drowned.
ALL the prisoners but one dug their way out
of Jail at Ell Paso, Texas, and escaped.
Further heavy damage to houses and farms
and large Losses Of lumber in the vicinity OF
Nashville by the Tennessee river flood continue
to be reported.
Rose DErcHEcK, a girl employed in q paper
mill at Cleveland, Ohio, fell into 4 vat of boil
ing water and was literally boiled to death.
CENTERv1LLE, Cal, has experienced a severe
earthquake shock.
THE Mormons are reported to be melting
Indians in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico to
go on the war path.
AT q convention held in Yankton, D.. T.,
delegates were appointed to visit Washington
for the purpose of endeavoling to secure the
admission Of the southern half of Dakota as q
State.
FIFTEEN prominent citizen Of Marshall,
Mimi, have been affected with trichinn,
through eating diseased ham; three are dead
and several reported in a precarious condition.
A MAN who Kissed in the Detroit (Mich }
Opera house when the verdict in the Guiteau
trial was announced from the stage was get
upon and thrashed by some Of the audience,
and barely escaped with his life.