The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-18
LATER NEWS

a month, is belle we'd to have gone down With
the ax men on board.
THE Andre monument, near Tappan, n.
Y, was blown up by the explosion Of a dy-
Mantle cartridge at 1920 P. N. Both base,
were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing
that enclosed the monument was completely
demolished. The shock was SO great that it
broke the glass in houses a mile away. This
is the monument erected to the British spy
by Cyrus w. Field some years ago, and it is
the third attempt made at its destruction.
A PLANK on which a safe was being low
cred in a building at Cohoes, n. Y, broke,
precipitating the safe OH two men, killing ore
and seriously injuring the other.
SAMUEL CHASE, an office boy sixteen years
of age, was accidentally killed by falling
against an ink eraser in the hands of Jeremi-
ali Cunningham, a fellow employee in a New
York business house. The two boys wore
skylarking.
MORE tnan 400 horses of every description
were exhibited at the third annual show Of
the National Horse Show association, held
in the Madison Square Garden, New York.
The boiler of a dredging boat exploded at
the entrance to Long Island sound, and the
vessel Immediately sank, carrying down six
men.
MRS. MARGARET GALLAGHER, the wife Of
a st. Louis policeman, has given birth to
bankruptcies, all girls. This is the fourth case
of quadruplets born in the same block within
ten years.
The municipal election in Detroit resulted
in a Democratic victory, Mayor Grummond
being defeated for reelection by NJ. II.
Chamberlain.
The President has appointed Alfred P.
Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind, civil service
commissioner, in place Of Dorman B. Eaton,
resigned, and William L. Trenholm, Of
Charleston, S. c., in the place OF
John NJ. Gregory, resigned. Both ap-
pointees were Democrats, Mr.. Ed
gerton being al ex-member Of Con-
gress, and Mr.. Trenholm q commission mer-
| chant.
PROFESSOR POWELL, director Of the
United States geological survey, in his sixth
annual report, just issued, says: During the
fiscal year fair progress was made in the
topographic survey of the United States. An
area of 81, sos square miles was surveyed and
the maps thereof made ready for the engraver.
The average cost of the work was about 50
per square mile. The amount appropriated
for the survey for the fiscal year was $3.50, O4o,
of which :4S4, 99J was expended"
TAE total expenditures Of the navy de-
partment last year were SIT, 154, 999.
In his annual report the commissioner
| general advocates the enlistment of cooks
and bakers for the regular army.
A PROCLAMATION designating Thursday,
November &c, as a day Of national thanks
giving was issued by tho President.
ACCORDING to the report of the register Of
the treasury, of the SLOT, Ago, 262 United
States registered bonds only sll, 800 is
held abroad.
MANILA, a prominent seaport of the Philip
pine islands, has been swept by q great fire.
THE judges on music at the International
Inventions exhibition, London, have
awarded several gold, silver and bronze
LueQalS 10 alleIlCdu uouSeS.
UP to recent date the Grant National MOB
ument fund had reached 500, 600.
THE official returns of the vote for Con
! gresham in the Nineteenth district of Penn.
s~ylvania, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of William A. Duncan, show a plural
! ity Of {, $50 for Swope Dsmocrat) over Bair
Republican,.
DURING the past few weeks there has been
a strong and steady advance in thu price OF
stocks in Wall street, New York's great finan-
cial centre, and the question is asked, "Does
this mean a general improvement in the bust
ness of the country~
SEVEN members of the st. Louis knights
of Labor have been arrested on the charge o.
attempting to blow up street cars with dyna-
mite. The arrested men are street car
strikers.
THIRTEEN persons were more or less dam
gerously injured by a boiler explosion in the
pork packing house and proprietary medicine
| laboratory Of w. NJ. Akin & Co., Evans
vile, Ind.
FEARING further trouble growing out of
Guo lUl-CullCSe ScLLlulolU Ill &oulIlSUOii
Territory, Governor Squire has issued a proc
lamation calling upon all citizens to assist in
the preservation of order.
DoRMAN B. EATON has been re.appointed
q member of the civil service commission by
the President. This makes tho political COM
plexion of the newly-formed commission two
Democrats and one Republican.
THE President has appointed William
Faxen, of Michigan, to be register of the land
Office at Detroit; E. L. Carson, Of Texas, In
dian agent at Ouray, Utah; Leigh o. Knapp,
of New Mexico, receiver of public moneys at
Santa Fe. Postmasters-Otto R. Miller, ut
Brighton, N. Wv. S. Hamnaker, at Find
lay, Ohio, and G. NJ. Shelley at Kansas City,
Mo.
FIFTY-sIx Indian prisoners have been tried
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for participating in
the Frog Lake massacre during Riel's rebsl
lion. Sixteen of the prisoners were dis
charged, twcnty-nine were sent to the peni-
tertiary for periods ranging between twenty
and two years, and eleven were sentenced to
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