The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-10-04
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The Hillsdale crew-amnteur oarsmen OF
the United States-were defeated in their
race with the champion crew of the Thames
Rowing club on the Thames owing to an &C
cident. At the beginning of the race the
Hillsdales took the lead and were about three
lengths ehead when the bow IMAM
broke his slide. Tho Hillsdales
we're compelled to stop towing temporarily,
and the Thames crew then went to the front
and won by about four lengths. Captain
Terwilliger, of the Hillsdales, telegraphed as
follows: "The guide on my seat broke. The
accident was unavoidable. We had the race
we'll in hand at The time, and were leading
bv three lengths. I threw the seat cut and
royed the balance of the course without it."
DAMAGE exceeding s25o,ONo was done in
Panama by two successive earthquakes.
SIR JAMES ANDERSON, M. D., F. 3. g.,
physician extraordinary to the queen, is dead.
From 1867 to 1869 he was president of the
English Royal College of Physicians.
AFFAIRS in Peru are reported to be in q
state of anarchy. Indian guerrillas sacked
the towns evacuated by the Chilians and
many persons were brutally murdered. AT
Conception, a town of 5000 inhabitants, a
small garrison of seventy-seven Chilians
were slain to a man, but not before they had
made q desperate resistance and killed
several hundred of the attacking party.
BALrnAsAR GRuN, a prominent German
socialist, committed suicide by hanging while
in prison at Hanau.
AN international electrical exhibition has
been opened Mt Munich.
A DISPATCH from Parry Sound, Ont, says
that the passenger steamer Asia went down
in Lake Huron during a storm, and that of
the 100 persons on board only q few were
saved.
A WOMAN was shot by q process server in
county Donegal, Ireland, while resisting the
seizure of her cattle.
HEAVY floods have done much damage to
property in portions of Italy.
The Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, dean
of Windsor and domestic chaplain to Queen
Victoria, is dead.
CABLE is to be laid between!!Portugal and
the United States.
ALL the Irish suspects now in prison e1-
cept those against whom crime can be proved
are about to be released.
A DUBLIN dispatch asserts that the Irish
leaders have formed q new organization to
take the place of the land league, which was
suppressed. They will declare in favor OF
peasant proprietary and of a scheme for the
land colonies somewhat similar to that adyo.
Gated by Michael Davitt.
Miss SARAH ELsToNE, the daughter of re.
spectacle parents residing in Woodstock,
Ontario, deliberately committed suicide by
building a fire and standing over it until
horribly burned from head to foot. She was
reliciously inclined and her last words were
II am going to Jesus" She left a note say
Ing she was tired of this world and had made
up her mind to sacrifice herself.
IN Concordia, Mexico, five persons were
killed in q church which was struck by light
ming. A number of other persons were Sc
riously injured in the rush to escape.
GENERAL WoLsELEY issued an address to his
soldiers congratulutins them upon their sue
cess in Egypt.
ArDELLAL PASTA, The commander OF
Damietta, Egypt, was shot by his own troops
for refusing to surrender to the English.
A GERMAN Catholic priest charged with
Iibelin: Prince Bismarck in an article has
been fined 200 marks.
IT having been reported that tie leaders of
the Albanian league at Scutarl had resolved
to massacre and rob the richest of tho Chris
tians, including the English consul, two hill
tribes marched to Scutari to protect their CO.
reljgionists, thereby preventing a massacre.
THE boiler of tho ferry steamer Rlcllelleu
exploded Mt Lachine, Quebec, with terrible
effect. Captain Duquette was blown thirty
feet in the air and fell dead on the deck.
His son Pierre was blown overheard and
drowned. James Richardson and Parsons
Amyot, both passengers, were scalded TO
death. Seven more passengers we're scalded
with probably fatal results, and others worc
injured more or less dangerously.
A FIRE which lasted several! days destroyed
the greater part Of the town of kashin, Rus
sia.
AT examination of the Egyptian treasury
shows that about 100000 were taken by
Arab Pasha.
FLOODS in the Tyrol caused a large loss
oflife and destroyed much property. Twenty
six bodies were recovered.
COMMANDER RAwsoH, WHO w"s specially
promoted for bravery mt the battle Of Tel 81
Kehir, in which he wns wounded, died from
tho effects Of his wound.