The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
LATER NEWS.

LAlIh MEND.
THREE derricks fell at the Lowell (Mass)
water works, killing Owen Elmer, a laborer,
and perhaps fatally injuring James P. Rob
erts, city engineer, and two assistants.
THE church congress Of the Episcopal
church, held in New Haven, Conn, was at
tended by hundreds Of clergymen and laymen
from all parts Of the country, and addressed
by Canon Farrar. Of England. Bishop Coke,
of Western New York, spoke on "Grounds
Of Church Unity" and there was a lively de-
bate on that subject.
ROBERT DoxEY, in Jail ut Holly Springs,
Miss, OH the charge Of numbering his wife,
was forcibly taken out by $50 armed men
and hanged to q tree. A man named Church
ill, imprisoned at Murfreesboro, Ark, for
murder, met with a still more terrible fate,
a mob burning him alive.
MORE than five hundred 'moonshiners"
have been crowding the custom-house at
Nashville, Tenn, awaiting trial for distilling
illicit whisky. About 150 have been fined
and sentenced to from one to six months in
Jail.
Two colored men-Nelson Stewart and
Anderson Davis-have been sentenced to
death at Charlotte, N. c.. for burglary.
A FOOT of snow has fallen in Northern
Michigan, causing a blockade Of all the rail-
roads.
SEVEN mon were killed by a boiler explo-
sion in a sawmill at Ridgeville, S. G. The
men were thrown from fifty to seventy.fve
wards and were stripped Of every vestige of
clothing. Even their shoes were blown from
their feet.
A GREAT many bridal couples have called
lately at the White House, to pay their re-
spects to the President. Twenty couples
called in one day.
The President has appointed Rudolph
Kleberg, of Texas, to be United States at
torney for the western district Of Texas.
SEVEN persons have been killed and enor-
nous losses caused by a great fire in Moscow,
Russia.
A YOUNG compositor named Rasmussen
has tried to assassinate Premier Estrupp,
Denmark's unpopular prime minister, In Co.
penhagen. Two shots were fired, one strlk-
ing q button on Herr Estrupp's coat. Ras-
mussen was imprisoned.
A TRAIN on the railway which ascends the
Riel mountain, Switzerland, fell into q ravine.
One person was killed and twenty-five were
dreadfully injured.
BosToS's formal tribute to the memory Of
General Grant was paid a few days ago Ill
the fremont temple. Mayor O'Drien pre-
sided, and there was a large audience. After
musical exercises Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
delivered a eulogy on General Grant.
Mrs. MOORE, wife OF General Moore, com
mander of the Salvation Army, and twenty
of her soldiers, were arrested the other nigh
in Williamsport, Penn. forsinging and parad-
ing in the streets.
JOSEPH SMITH, a boy Of thirteen, living
among the mountains Of Bedford county,
Penn, was killed and almost deyoured by a
panther.
Two men were killed by an explosion OF
black damp in Raccoon Pit coal mines, near
Richmond, Va.
- Statue VI LILO IdCc "lAtoIA IL ooH6o,
the philanthropist, erected in New York by
the Chamber of Commerce, was unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies, among the
speakers being Hon. Abram s. Hewitt, Pres
ident NIcCosh, of Princeton college, and Sen
ator Colquitt, Of Georgia.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: Collectors of custonls-S. j. AMBER
son, at Portland, Me-. George S. Savage, at
Cherry Stone, Va; territorial judges
Louis K. Church, Of New York, William W.
Porter, of California, William Il. Barnes, OF
Illinois, to be associate justices, anl John @.
Shields, of Michigan, to be chief justice of the
supreme court of Arizona; Evan Long, Of In
diana, to be chief justice Of the supreme
court Of New Mexico. Consul-William Hill,
of Illinois, at Port Sarnis.
The English privy council denied the ap-
plication of Riel, tho Manitoba rebel leader,
for leave to appeal from his sentence of
death.
TIE marriage OF Prince Waldemar, third
son of King Christian, Of Denmark, and
Princess Marie, daughter of the Duc and
Duchesse Go Charities, was celebrated at the
Chateau d'Eu, France, the residence Of the
Comte de Paris.