The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-10-18
South and West.

A FIRE which broke out on the Mississippi
steamer, Robert E. Lee, while OH a trip from
Vicksburg for Now Orleans, resulted in a
terrible loss of life. The steamer left Vlcks'
burg in the evening for New Orleans with
500 bales of cotton and q good list of passen'
gers. While opposite Point Pleasant at $50
A. NJ, she was discovered to be on fire ano
WAS Immediately headed for the Louisiana
shore, landing at Yucatan Plantation,
thirty-fye miles below Vicksburg. In q few
minutes she was completely envelopcd IN
flames. About twenty-one persons lost theil
lives, including several cabin passengers ane
many Of the crew. At the time the alarm
was given the boat was under way. She wa:
Immediately headed for the shore, and struck
the bank in q very short time-not more thar
three or four minutes. The Robert E. Lee
was the fastest and most magnificent boat
on the Mississippi, and cost about 100000.
LATER reports state that at the political
riot in Lancaster, s. c., seven persons in
stead of four we're killed and twenty-one
wounded.
NEAR Clarksburg, W. Va, John R. Bog
CESS, Jr., during a fit of mental arrangement,
induced by strong drink, killed his wife and
daughter, aged thirteen.
A PASSENGER train on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad was stopped n mile
west of Granada, COL, by armed men, who
helped themselves to express matter, but
took nothing from the passengers, owing tt
the presence of two sherifs and 4 deputys
TIE third annual convention of the North
American Bee-keepers' society was held al
Cincinnati and lasted three days.
A NOTORIOUS negro murderer named Jerry
Cox, who was under sentence of deatls sci
fire to the Jail in which he was confined al
Nashville, N. c., and was burned alive.
A MISPLACED switch on a railroad neal
Hutchinson, Kansas, caused a collision be-
tween an express and n passenger train,
Both engineers, the firemen, q baggaseman
and another man we're buried in the wreck.
which took fire. and all six persisted.
The Chicago Railway Age reports the con
struction of 1909 miles of main track in TIT
United States during September, md a tota
for nine months of the present year of 8,07;
miles. 1t estimates the total construction
for the entire year at 10, 100 miles, an amount
far greater than ever before built in ont
season.
ALEXANDER H. STErHENs was elected goT
ernor of Georgia by a majority variousl!
estimated ut from 10000 to $1,000. All thu
Democratic nominees for state Offices were
successful, and the general assembly is also
largely Democratic.
John Brooks (colored), who had confessed
to making q brutal assault upon a little girl,
was taken from the sheriff at Jacksonville
Tenn, by q large crowd and hanged.
JOHN LEIGH and James Rigby, two farmers
of Palmer, ILL.,, quarreled about the pos
session of some land and became involved IL
a lawsuit, from which Rigby came out vic
t~orious. The other afternoon Leigh's sol
approached Rigby and, pretending that he
desired to effect a peaceable settlement. sud
denly opened fire with a revolver, killing
him.
FRANK JAMES, the notorious outlaw, brother
of the late Jesse James, surrendered to Gov
ernor Crittcndcn, of Missouri, at Jefferson
City, and was delivered to the jackson
county authorities at Kansas City. When
Frank james surrendered to Governor Crit.
tcnden, he handed him his pistols and stated
that he (the governor) was the only man
except himself who had touched them fol
twenty years.