The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-24
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seriously wounded. Quinn was arrested.
TIE Kecly motor has come to the surface
again. Before a company OF New orh
journalists and business men kcely, at HI:
shop in Philadelphia, has just given another
exhibition of the workings of his mystcrl"u:
motor, but refused to permit lnvestlSalioi
into his methods of obtaining substitute 1ol
steam. He calls his power ''etheric vapor.
THE Rev. Daniel Dcnson Whedon, late
editor of the iiicthodist QuartrrlY Rrrie,c
died few days ago at Atlantic Highlands
y. }. He was born at GeddeS, n. y, III lS's
JOHNSON G.. PECK. aged forty-one years
Rufus Clark aged fifty-two years and John
Stott, agcd sixteen years, who were burned
at the fire in Danbury, Conn.,, which DESTROYED
| Beckcrlcs hat factory. died soon after iron
the effects OF their injuries. William Heck'
erie and several trcmen were not expected tc
live Tho pecuniary loss was estimated nj
$2OO, COO
SOME of the mills in Pittshurg, Penn, have
resumed work with non-union help. Other
mills have signed the scale of wages demand
ed by the strikers and are running full.
A FAREWELL dinner was given i'll New
York to Hon. S. S. Cox, recently appointed
United States minister to Turkey.
A FIRE in Syracuse, \. Y consumed John
| Q. Smiths tin factory, causing an estimated
loss of 800, 0O0 Frank Edwards perished IN
the flames, and Louis House was run over
10y ON engine and fatally injured
THE bill to apportion Pennsylvania into
! Congress districts was passed by the State
senate on the 10th over tho governors veto.
South and West.
A SHORTAGE of over $780, ,00O has been dis
covered III the accounts of j. II. Aufdemorte'
REDEMPTION clerk in the United States sub
treasury at New Orleans. When the defal-
cation was discovered Aufdemorte, who has
been in the public service for seventeen years
and was we'll known on account of his
remarkable ability for detecting counterfeit
money, could not be found, and was supposed
to have fled to Mexico.
THROUGH fictitious money orders Isaac
Hibbs, postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, OBJ
tanned from $4,000 to $4,000 and then left
for parts unknown. The postal inspector
says the robberies will neccsstate the reor-
ganization of the money order system of the
| United States and other countries
ONO Greenbackers met in State conven-
| ton at Columbus, and nominated full tick
ct, headed by J. W. Northrup for governor.
! Resolutions were adopted endorsing tho In
dianapolis platform. demanding the expansion
OF the currency, and that banks Of issue be
abolished and legal-tender notes substituted
| for bank bills to the amounts Of $50 per capl-
ia fer the immediate payment OF bonds OF the
| United States and for public improvements,
| favcring the submission Of prohlbitory
amendment, and against fusion with any
other party organization.
| A GRAND meteor, (Which lit up the
country like an immense electric light, was q
midnight sight the other day at Dallas
Texas.
DURING the recent heavy storm at Chicago
the schooner Nellie Winlack with her crew
of five men was lost in Lake Michigan.
A FIRE in Suffolk, Va, destroyed all the
principal business portion Of the place, in
cluding the Suffolk hotel, the Southern Tele-
graph Office and the Commercial bank. The
losses aggregate SjOO,OO
Mr. OsTERHoLz and wife, Of Charleston
| s. G., died from drinking water drawn from
an impure cistern.
FLAMES broke out in the center building Of
tho Eastern Lunatic asylum at Williams.
burg, Va, ,and before they could be got under
| control everything was destroyed. The build.
ings burned comprise the original oncs OF the
| institution, and wera erected over 100 years
ago. The 500 inmates were all rescued, but
| one old woman wandered away and was
drowned. The total loss will reach Sl50,C0J,
IMMENSE swarms of locusts are ravaging
pOl llOllS VI lililOtr ulll 1tlihSooSO.
TIE marauling and murderous Apaches
are escaping into Mexico, with United States
troops in hot pursuit.
HEIRS OF Martin Coonz claim half the
business section Of st. Louis.
GENERAL SIMON B. BUcKNER, of Ken
lucky the well l-known ex- Confederate officer,
was married a few days since in Richmond,
Va, to Miss Della Claiborne.
A SURGICAL case without parallel is re.
ported from Chicago. Mrs. L. j. Putnam
had suffered for thirteen years from
what the doctors declared was an
internal tumor, and finally determined
to submit to an operation for its removal
| She was put under the influence of ether and
an incision made in the abdomen, when. III
stead OF a tumor, the operator drew out a
child, which was alive and in good health!
| Tho patient reSainel consciousness and there
was hope of her recovery. but she suddenly
becams unconscious and died from shock.
THE following appeal was sent to President
Cleveland from Tombstone, Arizona, by the
sheriff and other county and city officers:
"About one hundred Indians from San Car
| los have Jeen raiding over the country for
| the last week, destroying property and Kali
| Ing our rancherS. last night W. y. Dan
| iels, mounted customs lnsncctor. was killed
six miles from Bisho, There are plenty of
! soldiers in the country, but they are in"oal
petent to do anything. Can you noth help us:
Warrington.
SECRETARY WHITNEY addressed the stu.
dents at the commencement day exercises rl
the naval cadets, at Annapolis, Nd.
ADDITIONAL presidential postmastcrs ap.
Thomas Ingalls,, at Marblehcsd, Mas.
Henry A. Bills at Winsted, Conn; Riclar,;
n. Hall, at Grenada, Miss. Hunter Wool
has been appointed collector Of Internal
revenue for the second district of Kentucky.
RECENT callers at the White House were
General Logan and members OF the Iowa
Editorial association, on an excursion Last
Among the scribes was j. H. Hubbard al
Iowa editor who was once President Cleve'
lands teacher in Clinton, \. \.
FURTHER appointments by the President
PostmaSters-E. I. Rutherford. at Clarks
vile, Texas; Martin V. Daygett at TuSrna
H.; Charles II. Adams, at Allcsan, Mich:
VIM. H. Bennett, at Long Branch
n. j.; Benz. F. Lcuthain, at 10
gansport, Ind James V. Ward, at Cherokee,
Iowa; b. F. Ross, at Cohen, ILL.,. Edwin W.
Coils, at Martnsvlle. Ind. Collector Of In
ternal Revenue-William H. Marlborough
for the Fourth district Of North Carolina
United States Marshals-Edward NJ. Boykin
for the district Of South Carolina; Robert s.
| Kelley, for the Territory of Montana; Thorn
as jefferson Carr, for the Territory of Wy
oming: Romulo Martinez. for the Territory
of New Mexico. United States Attorneys
John Catlett Gibson for the Eastern district
of Virginia: Gustavus Van Hoorebeke for the
Southern district of Illinois; Anthony G.
Campbell for the Territory of Wyoming. Pen
sion Agent-Robcrt Taylor, at Knoxville
Tenn. Register Of the land ofiice-Geo. K
Warner at Tracy, Minn. Seven receivers OF
and offices in the West.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi
dent: To be United States marshalS-tred
erick H. Marsh, for the northern district ol
Illinois; Henry G. Urner, for the southern
district of Ohio. TO be collector Of customs
john p. Robinson, for the district OF Alex
andrla. Va. 10 be collectors of internal reve
me-lsban Hess, for the fourteenth distric
of New York: Alfred c. Parkinson, for the
second district of Wisconsin TO be sur
veyors of customs - John II. 7. Noor
hees, for the port OF Denver Addi
son Cole, for the port OF Albany
Ex- Mayor Fox, Of Philadelphia, to be super
intendent of the mint at Philadelphia. DO
lores Romero, of New Mexico, to be aSen
for Indians of the Pueblo agency IN Ne"
to be agent for Indians Of the Green Bay
agency in Wisconsin. G. D. Schwartz o
Pennsylvania, chief Of division in the thlrf
auditors Office.
THE adjutant general has completed list
of casualties in the Federal army during TN
late war. The aggregate number OF death
is shown to have been 359 4@. OF these ~,
49S occurred among Union soldiers held a
prisoners of war The total number of troop
reported as furnished by the various State
under the various calls is2, 772, ,40S. Some o
the returns were duplicated, and it is esti
mated that the actual number was aoou
2,500,0O0.
SECRETARY MANNING has revoked all or
dels heretofore made concerning the disinfec
tion of rags.
FOxeIgn.
SIR julius BENEDICT, n noted English mu
sician and composer, is dead.
THIRTY Christian villages in Ton1uin hav
been destroyed by the Black Flags, AM
many of the inhabitants masSacred.
LATER official reports say that eighty
seven Dersons were killed and 100 injured b.,