The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-10-07
LATER NEWS.

GEORGE WILKES. founder of Wilkes Spirit
ofthe Times, died tho other day at his home
in New York, aged Gs years
THE English yacht Genesta has won her
second race on this side by defeating tho
schooner Dauntless for tho Brentons Reef
Challenge cup The yachts started from
New York on tho 2lst, and the Gonesta re-
turned on the 3D. forty miles ahead of her
American contestant
THE New York Republican State ticket,
nominated upon tho second day of the con.
vention at Saratoga, is as follows: For Gov
ernor-Congressman Ira Davenport; for
lieutenantgovernor, Joseph B. Carr; for
secretary of state-Anson s. Wood; for
comptroller-James w. Wadsworth; for
state trcasurer-Charles F. Ulrich; for at
torney- -general-Edward B. Thomas; for
stateengneer- William V. Van Rensselaer,.
The platform favors civil service reform and
protection to American labor, and arraigns
tho national administration for its position
regarding the currency and American ship.
ping.
THE American champion yacht Puritan,
winner Of the Americas cup in the recent in
ternatonal race with the Gencsta, was sold
at auction in New York, bringing $13, 500.
The purchaser is a resident of Boston.
FOUR miners were caught by sudden
flood Of water in mine near HoutZlale,
Penn, and drowned.
AT the eleventh annual session of the
American Bankers association, Held in Chi
cago, more than 500 representatives of thu
banking interests from every leading city in
the Union were present.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were injured, many
of them severely, by the sudden fall of n cir
Gus tent during storm at Martinsburg, w.
Va.
THE two little children of William Winter
and wife, of Point Pleasant, w. Va, were
burned to death during their parents absence
from the house.
THE colorcd people Of Mississippi will
erect a monument, to cost fifty thousand
dollars, at Vicksburg, in commemoration Of
the signing of the emancipation proclama-
tion.
COMMODORE ALEXANDER A. SEMMEs,
commandant of the Washington navy yard,
died suddenly the other afternoon at Ham.
ilton, Va. He had served in the navy since
1881.
THE American bark Cashmere, from Phila-
delphia, has been lost, with part of her crew,
at Tanoga-Si,na, an island Of Japan.
SEVENTEEN persons were crushed TO death
in Stockholm, Sweden, after concert given
by Christine Nilsson. She was singing from
the balcony Of the Grand hotel at the time of
the accident. Tho crowd numbered about
10000.
PRINCE BISMARCK has accepted the apology
of Spain for the recent insult to the German
Embassy at Madrid.
THE steamer Humacoa, which was wrecked
near Grand Manan, New Brunswick, severa
weeks ago. was blown off the rocks and sunk
Twelve or fifteen sailors belonging to st. John
or the neighboring city of Portland were lost.
They were taking her to pieces at the time Of
tho disaster.
GOLDSMITH MAID, the trotter who regnel
for years as queen of the trotting turf, died
a few days ago Oh her owners farm near
Trenton, n. J. She was twenty nine years
old, and had trotted mile in 2:l4.
THE New York Democratic State conven-
ton met Mt Saratoga on the day following The
Republican convention, and in the same hall,
and nominated Governor D. B. Hill OH the
first ballot by vote of ::EE}S out Of $50, y. S.
Hewitt receiving S5 votes; Henry W. Slorum,
2 and Roswell p. Flower, l. After Governor
nt ba vnrti on oIi
until the next day, when the re-
maindcr of tho ticket was nominated and the
platform adopted
r. G. MAYFIELD and his son Wesley wcro
called out of n store Mt Whnte:om, Washing
ton Territory, and shot dead by an unknown
man, who made his escape.
The old wages have been restored at the
works of the Cleveland Ohio Rolling Mill
company, where there has been a strlko, re-
suting some time ago in fatal collision,
since last June
TIE Republicans of Maryland at their
State convention in Baltimore. nominated
Francis Miller for comptroller, and William
! NJ. Marine for clerk Of tho court OF appeals,
and adopted protective tariff, civil service
reform platform.
| TIE bankers national convention at Chi
cago adopted by a large ma jority resolution
requesting Congress to suspend silver coinage.
THE President Ila: appointed the following
| collectors of customs: Charles {. Sweeney
for the district of Galveston, Texas; Otto l..
khroikeld, for the district ot Saluria. Texas
J. D. Cooke, for the district of Brazos lie Sun
tiago Texas.
THE Earl of Shaftesbury, prominent and
phiaEthrophic English nobleman, is dead in
his eighty fifth year.