The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-02
LATER NEWS.

FORTY suits have been commenced in New
York city for violation Of the State oleomar-
garine law.
Ex-MAYoR PRINCE, Of Boston, was nomi-
mated for governor on the second ballot by the
Massachusetts Democrats at their State con-
vention in Worcester. The remainder OF the
ticket is as follows. Lieutenantgovernor,
II. r. Gilmore; secretary Of state, Jeremiah
Crowley; attorney-g general, Henry K. Braley
treasurer and receiver. General Henry N.
Cross; auditor, James E. Delaney. The plat
form commends the National administration
and opposes voters poll tax.
The President has appointed Jabez L. NJ.
Curry, of Virginia, to be envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain,
vice J. W. Foster, resigned. Dr. Curry is
sixty years old, served in the Confederate
army, has been ordained Baptist minister,
and is president of the board of foreign mis-
sions Of the Southern Baptist convention.
ADvIcEs have been received from Ras
Alula, the commander Of an Abyssinian
expedition marching to the relief Of the be-
leaguered garrison at Kassala, in the Soudan,
to the effect that, after O severe battle, the
Abyssinians defeated large force Of der
wishes under Osman Digma, and that 5000
dervishes were killed in the encounter.
HENRY Y. CLARKE, cashier of tho Union
bank, OF Halifax, N. s., has misappropriated
funds Of that institution to the extent of ovor
$4,000.
THE entire Turkish army has been called
out. Three Turkish corps will watch the
Greek, Servian and Bulgarian frontiers
The potato crop of New York and New
England is fully one-third below the average
AN epidemic of diphtheria is overrunning
Saxton, Penn. also parts of Huntingdon and
Bedford counties. The public schools and the
churches have been closed.
FERDINAND WARD has made long state.
ment purporting to be an exposure of the
dealings Of the bankrupt firm of Grant d
Ward and Of the men who made money by
their connection with the concern. The state.
mont includes list Of the names of the meu
who wers paid the s., 1000, 900 'made" by the
firm. All these names have appeared in ono
or other OF the lawsuits that followed the
suspension.
MRS. VERONICA BULLA, Of Syracuse, N.
Y, has just died after refusing all food for
fifty nine days.
FARMERS about Yankton, Dakota, have
lost more than one-half their hogs through
cholera.
STRIKING St. Louis street car drivers stop
ped number Of cars from running, and were
attacked by q squad Of police. In the fierce
twenty minutes fight which followed one
man was fatally injured; five men were sent
to the hospital with broken skulls, and seven
teen more were arrested.
Two firemen were killed and another badly
injured at large fire in San Francisco, CAL
The pecuniary losses aggregated nearly
s1,0OO,OOO.
NEW postmasters appointed by the Presi-
dent: Michael D. Baker at Uniontown. Penn;
Miss Caradora Clark at Blair, Neb. R. W.
Hill at JEWELL Kansas; Robert S. Wagner
at Bangor, PENN; James G. Hasson at
Ebensburgh, Penn. Patrick j. Rogers at
Piedmont, w. Va; Henry F. Taylor at
Fulton, Ky.
THE President has appointed H. B. Plum
mer to be naval officer Of customs in the
district of Philadelphia, and Benjamin K.
Tate to be collector Of customs for New Lon
dom Conn.