The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-10
South and West.

UNITED STATES SENATOR PAYNE has writ
ten letter to the chairman Of the Ohio leg
iSlative committee of investigation into the
! alleged charges that money had been used to
bribe members to vote for his election. Sena-
tor Payne in the letter invites "the most
thorough and rigid scrutiny" and asks to be
called as q witness.
A TERRIFIC snow and blizzard blockade
has prevailed throughout great part of the
Northwest Several passenger and freight
trains were showed in, and much suffering
among passengers was reported
HENRY JACKSON (colored) was hanged at
Mindep, La, for the murder Of Il. A. Britton,
a storekceper, robbery being the motive.
FINDLAY, Ohio, rejoices in gas we'll Civ
inG out ten million feet daily-the biggest in
the world.
FOUR men quarreled about woman at
Manchester, XIV, and began shooting at each
other. Three we're instantly killed and the
fourth fatally wounded.
AT session of the Ohio State senate in
Columbus on the 22d, Lieutenant Governor
Kennedy, the presiding officer, decided, on
the presentation of two reports to the conf
mittee on elections-the ma jority report being
submitted by the Democratic members and
tho minority report by the Republican menl-
berS-that the four members from Hamilton
county could not vote. The senate had been
apparently composed of twenty Democratic
and seventeen Republican members, and this
action made the body Republican. The
Democratic members refused to vote, and
held q separate session. Great excitement
was aroused, and it was stated by the con-
tending parties that Governor Foraker on
one hand and President Cleveland on the
other would be appealed to for protection.
A BISMARCK (Dakota) dispatch states that
the snow in many of the Rocky mountain
valleys is twenty-five feet deep. Heavy floods
in the spring and an immense June rise in the
Missouri when the snow melts are predicted.
A WOMAN died the other day near New
Orleans of leprosy.
Ex-UN1TED STATES SENATOR JAMES T.
FARLEY, of California, died few days since
at Jackson, in that State He was born in
Virginia in 1929.
Los ANGELES, CAL, has been isolated for
five days from the outside world, owing to
heavy rains followed by cloud burst and
flood, which destroyed the telegraph wires
and bridges. A woman and two children
were drowned, twenty-five small houses
washed away and several hundred flooded.
The damage to the city and to railroad prop
erty will reach $275, 900.
THE total pecuniary damage done to the
the recent freezing weather, is now placed at
1000, 900. Three persons were frozen to
death.
A LOCOMOTIVE boiler in q round house at
Madison, Wis, exploded, causing the instant
death of one man, and injuries in several
cases probably fatal, to nine others.
FIVE aged inmates of the county poorhouse
at jackson, Mich, were burned to death in
fire which almost entirely destroyed the
building. The other thirty-five inmates es-
capped in nearly nude condition, but some
were expected to die of exposure, as the ther-
mometer at the time registered ten degrees
below zero.
CAL SIMPSON, the colored murderer Of Mrs.
Graves, was taken from Jail at Henderson,
KY, and lynched by crowd
POLICEMAN CORNER, of Cleveland, Ohio,
recently shot and killed George Foster, a no
torious criminal. In revenge friends of Fos-
ter the other night blew up Corners house
with dynamite
THERE was another stormy session in the
Ohio State senate on the 25th, each party
trying to obtain control, without any definite
result.
EIGHT prisoners broke Jail at Seguin,
Texas. Five were recaptured, but three of
the most important criminals effected their
escape.
DIR. SAMUEL PRICE and William Powell,
of Chattanooga, Tenn, became involved in
quarrel in the house of the latter, which re-
suited in both men receiving fatal injuries.
The boiler of q portable engine exploded at
Sherburne, Mich, instantly killing Russell
Palmer, a prominent farmer, and another
man, fatally injuring a third man. and in
hicting severe injuries on two others.