The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-10
South and West.

! GOODWIN JACKSON (colored) was hanged
at Clarendon, Ark, for killing another col
ored man, whose head he crushed with 6
fence rail, and Jasper Rhodes, muatto
| was hanged on the same day at galveston,
| Texas, for wife murder
JEFFERSON RODGERS, a worthless fellow
near Sikeston. Mo, mortally wounded his
brother, and was himself killed by officers
while resisting arrest.
THE National Commercial convention at
Atlanta, by vote of 297 yeas to lO7 nays,
adopted resolution favoring the temporary
SUSPENSION of silver coinage The convention
also favored the abolition of the internal
revenue tax on tobacco, liberal approprla-
tions by Congress for improving the Mllssls'
sippi river commercial instruction IN the
public schools, and extradition treaties which
will reach fugitives from justice III Canada
A proposition that the railroSds should be
under national control was tabled.
ADvIcEs from Tucson Arizona, state that
Apaches under Chief Geronimo have swept
through the San Francisco valley, killing set
tiers and destroying property. AT least elgnt
white men have been killed.
THE excursion steamer John Greenway,
while on her trial trip on Lake Onondaga,
exploded her boiler near Geddes, n. Y. Cap
tain Kinne, the owner, was killed -; Antoine
two deck hands were badly scalded-
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN was rendered a
public reception by the business men OF San
Francisco.
REPORTER for Toledo paper wno had
written an article rejecting on the character
of several of the "best people, Of NorwalS,
Ohio, was enticed into barn by four OF the
aforesaid best people, tarred and feathered,
and so severely injured that he will lose the
sight Of both eyes.
Two men-Jerry Taylor and Wesley Hicks
ACCUSED Of incendiarism were taken forci.
bly from iail at Franklin, KY, by crowd
and hanged to trees. "Powhattan Pete" q
colored man in prison at Brownsville, Tenn,
for burglary, met similar fate on the same
day.
Warrington.
THE President has appointed Michael NJ
Phelan, Of Missouri, editor Of the Wester1.
IYntchnan. of ST. Louis, to be consul-general
of the United States at Halifax; Ex-senator
Edward G. Ross of New Mexico, to be gov
ernor Of New Mexico; Maris Taylor: OF Da-
kota, to be surveyor-general OF Dakota;
Mark w. Sheafe, register OF the land office
at Watertown, Dakota; D. w. Ware OF
the Yellowstone National park: Uni
ted States attorneys-Henry ". McCorry,
for the Western district of Tennessee, John
q. Garland for Dakota, James II. Hawley
for Idaho, and John Cripps Wicklitfe for
Kentucky.
The postmaster-general tho other day
made about one hundred appointments OF
sourth-class postmasters. Many OF them
were made to fill vacancies caused by the
removal Of Virginia postmasters.
AS the result of q conference between the
President and the secretary Of war, energetic
measures are being taken to crush the Apache
outbreak in Arizona and New Mexico and to
prevent Indian outrages in the future. Fed-
eral troops Lave been ordered to New Mexico
and Arizona.
ZACH MONTGOMERY, of California, has
been appointed assistant attorney-general for
the interior department.
THE President has appointed the following
additional postlnasters: j. E. Eichooltz, at
Sunbury Fenn. jacob OdelI, at YOUNGSTOWN,
n. Y; Samuel NJ. Smead, at Fon du Lac,
Wis; John J. Dudley, at Newport, n. II.
PROFESSOR RILEY, the entomologist OF the
agricultural department, announces that the
Hessian fly has appeared among the wheat
fields of the Pacific coast. Heretofore it has
been supposed that this pest did not extend
beyond the wheat belt east of the Rocky
mountains