The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-17
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opening.
President CLEvELAND's rule of denying
himself to all visitors on Saturdays will here
after be followed by the heads of all the eS-
ecutive departments.
THE President has intimated that he will
probably spend two or three days this sum
mer in visit to the New York State militia
encampment at Peckskill, n. Y.
Foreign.
INDIANS under Big Bear, the only chief
still holding out in Manitoba, defeated force
of ::10 Canadian troops under General
Strange, compelled them to retreat and mas
sacred thirteen men who had been left behind
to guard the provision Wagons.
MEXICAN bandits. murdered Paul Holder,
superintendent of Il silver mine near Silanas,
Mexico, and his fourteen year old son. The
two had just arrived from New York, and
were on their way to the mine.
IN Cardmagh ireland, a ferocious pig de.
vourci thrce children, ranging from two to
even years OF age, while their parents were
absent from the house.
In Zacatecas, Mexico, man who had been
a prisoner twelve years for abduction, and
proved incorrigible, was ordered to he taken
the condemned man attempted to rescue him
from the military. A battle followed, in
which the prisoner, his brother, sister and
three soldiers were killed.
IT IS announced that Russia has accepted
Engiand'S counter proposals, which ''practi-
calv settles, in n satisfactory manner, the
whole question Q; tie Afghan boundary
Both Maruchak and Zultikar remain III tho
possession OF the alneer. The main features
OF the work of dclimitation have been finally
fixed, and the boundary commission will set
tie tho details. The negotiations have been
conducted III a most friendly spirit on both
sides"
TIE wheat crops OF the leading countries
of Europe and of tireat Britain will be much
shorter this year than last.
The False Prophets Arabs are again at
tacking S,lakim, where much sickness pre-
walls among the British troops.
SERIOUS anti-Jcwish riots have broken out
in Austria. The shops of many Jews in
Vienna were wrecked and their owners
violently assaulted. More than forty per-
sons were badly wounded. The police were
obliged to call on the military for aid to
qucll tho disturbance.
HOSTILE Arabs made an attempt to wreck
the Suakim- -Berbcr railway, but they were
dispersed DS Il lc" SllclIS ~ vie UOdt, Cal
rying a torce of tribal police, surprised q
party of Osman Digmas men at Adiz "A
fight ensued, and twenty of the hostile Arabs
were killed and n number taken prisoners.
About $50 of their camels and loo sheep
were captured.
The earthquake which destroyed the city
of Serinagur, -nda demolished n Moham
medan mosque twenty miles away, and
killed 200 people. About fifty soldiers Of the
garrison at Seriragur were wounded. Forty
natives were killed outright and eighty others
were injured.
THE colt Melton, ridden by Archer, the
champion English jockey, won tho Derby
England's greatest annual racing event.
THE prime minister Of Madagascar ha
been strangled by the Hova peace party.
As1ATIc CHOLERA is ravaging the prov
ince of Valencia, Spain.
Mr.. PHELPS, the new American minister
to England, was the principal guest at ban
ouet given by the lord mayor OF London
and responded to the toast to the United
States.