The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
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at mine near Red Lyon, Penn, buried a
number of miners Three dead bodies were
recovered soon after the accident.
THE four Newark On. j. dog-bitten chill
dren who were sent to Paris at public expense
for treatment by NJ Pasteur, the hydropho-
bia expert, have returned home in apparent
good health.
COLONEL EDMUND RICHARDSON, the most
extensive cotton planter in the world, died
suddenly a few days since in Jackson Miss,
aged sixty-eight years. The fortune left by
him is estimated at between s., 100000 and
s6,OUO,000 Colonel Richardson had 1900
acres of cotton under cultivation, and his
average harvest was - ,OO0 or $4,000 bales
CATTLE pershed by the thousand during
the severe weather in the Southwest and far
West.
WENZEL LAPoUR. a. prisoner in the coun.
ty Jail at Colfax, Neb., killed his jailer,
sheriff Degman, who had held office only five
days. Lapour was taken from Jail by
masked men and hanged.
A BOILER in the basement of Catholic
church at indianapolis exploded, destroying
the edifce, one of the largest and finest in the
city, killing the engineer and a little girl, and
causing pecunary loss Of s65, 600.
JOHN SHERMAN has been reelected to tie
United States Senate in joint session Of the
Ohio legislature, receiving eighty -four votes
to sixty two for Allen G.. Thurman
FIFTEEN vessels were wrecked within the
scope of the operations Of the Life-Saving
service during the recent heavy storms. The
crews of fourteen of them were rescued, while
that of only one was lost.
FARMERS in Wales are demanding a per-
manent reduction of twenty-five per cent in
rents, fxity or tenure and compensation for
making improvements on their holdings.
SEVERE snow-storms have prevailed
throughout Austria and Hungary, causing a
suspension of railway travel and telegraphic
communication.
Much damage to property has been done
in England by cyclone. Two persons were
killed ut Wednesbury.
MONTREAL has just had half-million dol
lar fire, the property destroyed comprising
several houses occupied by numerous business
firms.
The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Mabel Dillaway has been given up for lost.
There were fifteen souls on board.
A LETTER has been published charging
members of the last Ohio legislature with
taking bribes to vote for the election OF
Henry B. Payne to the United States Senate,
and Joint committee of investigation has
been appointed by the present legislature.
Several members so charged have brought
suit for libel against prominent Cincinnati
paper.
AN old farmer in Arkansas captured six
convicts who had broken Jail, and single
handed marched them in Indian file, with
himself and gun bringing up the rear to prison.
INVESTIGATIONS made by the Chicago
police are said to show plot of Socialists to
blow up public buildings with dynamite when
''the great revolution" begins.
A RECEPTION Twas given to Senator-elect
Sherman by the Ohio Legislature at Columbus
| and he made all address from the Speakers
| chair in the House, after which he was ten
| dered a public reception. presided over by
! Governor Foraker, in the Senate chamber
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, on the 18th, gave
! his first State dinner in honor Of the cabinet.
SECRETARY LAMAR has decided against
| the validity of the Bell telephone patent OF
March !, 1916. The case has excited great
attention among telephone companies
PRESIDENT GREvY has signed decree
granting amnesty to persons convicted Of po-
itical offences since 1870 and reducing the
Sentences of many offenders against the conf
mon law.
| THE German government states officially
that it has no intention of ann"xing the Sa-
moan islands or of interfering with existing
treaties between Samoa and America and
! England.
THE Emperor William has formally opened
the PruSsian diet.
MANY Irish laborers have been thrown into
a state of desperation by distress resulting
from long continued privation, and threaten
to help themselves to food if they do not soon
obtain assistance,