The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-02
LATER NEWS.


wealthy Boston merchant, were taken vio-
lently sick. An investigation disclosed that
arsenic enough to kill fifty people had been
placed in a barrel Of -four. Annie Lyons,
their discharged cook, was arrested, but de-
MED the attempted crime.
Four miners, among them being a father
and son, were instantly killed, and another
was seriously injured by falling ore in a mine
at Bessemer, Wis.
EX-SENATOR J.. b. MITCHELL (Republican)
has been elected United States Senator by
the Oregon legislature.
EDWARD PRESLEY, a farmer more than
eighty years old, and his two sons, Charles
and Edward, aged twenty-five and thirty-fve
respectively, were killed by a neighbo-, K. 1.
Jones, near Edgeield, S. c. There had been
a dispute between old Mr.. Presley and Jones
over some rents due the former.
The annual report Of the surgeon general
of the United States marine hospital service
shows that during the last fiscal year and up
to September 80 the number of patients
treated was i, IT.. The necessity for the es-
Enlistment of q hospital at the port Of New
York is urged.
FROM the annual report Of Chief Inspector
W. A. West, Of the postoffce department,
it appears that $50 arrests were made by
postofice inspectors during the year; 459
postoifces were robbed, and 25G burned.
Thirty-thres postal cars were destroyed by
fire. Complaints Of loss of mails to
the number of 1859 were Investigated dur
ing the year and actual loss was found to
have occurred in 500 cases. The inspectors
recovered $500 of missing funds during
the year and $4,000 was restored to the
owners. From delinquent postmasters the
sum of SIS, $50 was recovered and turned
into the treasury.
GENERAL PRENDERGAST and the British
expeditionary force captured the Burmese
fortress Of Minhla, and then advanced on
Mandalay.
HENRY J. TAYLOR has been sentenced by
the United States court at Auburn, N. Y,
to eighteen months imprisonment and to pay
a fine of s657.2S for embezzling money order
funds while assistant postmaster at Rome.
DIR. WILLIAM FRoTHINGHAM, one Of the
best known physicians in New York city,
vas accidentally killed the other day by the
explosion OF a pistol which he Was taking
out Of a cupboard to be cleaned.
WoRKMEN were clearing away tho ruins
of a recent fire in New York when a wall
suddenly toppled over. One woman on the
sidewalk and two workmen were killed, and
three other men were injured.
AT the National Cattle Growers conven-
ton held in Chicago, Norman ]. Coleman,
United States commissioner Of agriculture,
read an address on the cattle industry Of the
country, saying that a column Of cattle
twelve deep extending across the continent
from New York to San Francisco and back
again to Boston would contain about the
number of cattle there are in the United
States. The value of this vast herd is $780,
900, 600. The annual product of these ami
mails exceeds in value four times the yearly
earnings of all the railroads Of the country.
A PORTLAND, (Ore.), dispatch states that j.
H. Mitchell, just elected to the United States
Senate by a combination of Republicans and
Democrats, pledged himself to support the
national administration in return for Demo.
cratic. votes.
LARGE numbers Of hogs are dying Of
cholera in Indiana.
JOSEPH c.. MAcKIN, a prominent Chicago
politician, found guilty of perjury in connec-
ton with frauds during the last presidential
election, has become an inmate Of the Illinois
State penitentiary, the supreme court having
sustained the verdict Of the lower court.
Two men were devoured by wolves while
travelling acros; the mountains of Montana.
PRAIRIE fires in Indian Territory have
| caused losses to cattlemen estimated at
| 500, OU0. Tho fire belt was from forty to
sixty miles wide.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
William Smith, Of Red Lake Falls, Mimi, to
be registrar of the land ofics at Crookston,
| Mimi; William s. Austin, Of Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, to be registrar OF the land
| office at Vancouver, W. 7.
The Bulgarians charge the Servians with
attacking al athpuldnSo ""1A 40"
/ ing the wounded. .
LIEUTENANT GREEDY, the American ex-
plorer in Arctic regions, has been lecturing
before the Scottish Geographical society,
Edinburg.
TIE authorities at Kiel, Prussia, have re-
ceiyed renewed instructions to order Ger
man-Americans to quit the island Of Fohr.