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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26

The Sphinx of Egypt, who enjoys a
worldwide reputation for discretion, is
to be Investigated at last. It is reported
that company has been formed in Paris
to aid NJ. Maspero in carrying out his in
vestigations. It is thought that the
Sphinx is tomb, and that under it or
inside of it some valuable and interesting
material may be discovered that will add
few years moro to the length of history.
The work will be carried on with care, so
that the great Sphinx may not be disfg-
ured by the somewhat tardy autopsy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26

Journeymen plumbers in New York
work under cast-iron rules as to time,
wages, etc. A card is posted up in every
shop with the rules of the organization,
which must be obeyed by men and boss.
Work begins at in the morning and
ends at in the afternoon, provided it is
then light enough to see. If it grow
too dark to work later, the men stop
and call it days work. They refuse to
use candles or gas. Journeymen are
paid $3.50 a day for nine hours, and
eight hours on Saturday. They have an
hour a day for dinner. Only one ap-
prentice is allowed to every four Journey
men, and helper is never allowed to
touch tool. Only the regular ap-
prentices are taught anything. No men,
Der of the union is allowed to work with
a non-union man. Every job is visited
from time to time by the walking dele
gate of the union, who inspects the mems
cards. If q non-union man is found at
work the union plumbers are withdrawn;
if that does not suffice the workmen of
every kind in the building are withdrawn.
A boss cannot do any work himself unless
he is a member of the union in good
standing. They cannot do any in their
own shops, although practical plumbers
and have served their time. These rules
have been in use for some years. The
time was reduced to nine hours and the
pay made $3.50 day about year ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
FREIGHT TRAIN DISASTER.
Three Men Killed and Twenty-Five
Cars Wrecked.

Three Men Killed and Twenty-Five
Cars Wrecked.
A freight wreck in the mountains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad the other night de-
molished twenty-five cars, killed three men
outright, and obstructed the tracks so badly
that it took twelve hours to clear them.
The accident was the result OF
heavy storm which swept along the
Coneraugh Valley during the night,
uprooting trees and blowing down fences
and outhouses. Near Conemaugh a number
of empty freight cars were standing on
siding. The tornado picked them up and
carried them over to the main track. A heavy
west-bound freight train Of twenty-five cars,
Going at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
came along about midnight and crashed into
the obstruction before the engineer
had time to reverse his engine.
The twenty-five cars were totally
demolished and the wreck strewn along
the tracks distance of several hundred
wards. Conductor Thomas Corners, Engi-
neer Thomas Mowray, and Fireman Michael
Myers were killed almost instantly. They
were caught in the wreck and terribly man
eled. The balan g Of the crew escaped with
Sight injuries The men killed were all mar
red, and lived in the neighborhood OF. Derry,
Penn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ar Rev. Sam Jones' opening meeting in
Baltimore s, 900 persons were present
ALBERT GUERRY, the South Carolina
artist, is painting portrait Of MIR. Cleve-
land.
SIR LEONARD TILLEY, Governor Of New
Brunswick, is n patient at the Massachusetts
General Hospital.
MISS FOLSOM, President Clevelands COM
ing bride, will be the youngest wife who has
ever resided at the White House.
MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD and her
daughter have been visiting Harry Garfield
at St. Paul's school in Concord, N. H.
One of the richest women in England Is
Miss Heathorne who is also known as 1.-THE
Maid of Kent" She is 103 years old.
PAsTEUR has looked through microscopes so
much that his eyes are seriously affected, and
his face curiously wrinkled about them.
LORD TENNYsoN has Joined the Loyal Irish
Patriotic Union, the object of which is to re-
sist the granting of home rule in Ireland.
JAY GOULD is On amateur photographer
q hobby also of the Car of Russia-and on
his yacht cruises he carries camera Wild
him to photograph objects of interest Whlch
he sees.
Mr. CHARLES JONES, of Baltimore, in his
ninety-sixth year, visited the Capitol building
in Washington recently for the first time III
seventy-fve years. At the time of his former
visit Madison was President, and ne spent
several days as guest at the White House.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian. and
Prince Bismarck graduated at the same uni
versity- -Gottingen-about the same Time.
While Bancroft was United States Minister
to Germany during the period Of the Franco
Prussian war heand Bismarck were intimate
friends.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE is "of medium
height and stoutly built, with round, solid
looking head, and dark, penetrating. eyes,
which look out at you through gold-rimmed
spectacles He is growing stouter with in.
creasing years. His age must be little up
ward of fifty, though he looks ten years
Younger"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26

The Photographic Times contains an
interesting illustrated article about one
of the most unique Photographic CALLER
les in existence. The gallery is car
built after the fashion of Pullman
coach. 1t can be attached to any ex-
press train, and in it the photographer
travels all over the country, principally
on the Northern Pacific railroad, of
which he is official photographer. NJ.
F. Jay Haynes had the car built for him
at cost of $13, 900, while the fittings
cost $4,000 more. The landscapes he
takes for the railroad are done by q
camera making picture 20x24 inches.
The car contains an operating room, re-
ception room, storage rooms, dark rooms,
and all other appurtenauces of first
class gallery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
SELF-POISONED.
Eight Of Mob that Sacked Chi.
cago Drug Store Dead.

Eight Of q Mob that Sacked Chi.
cago Drug Store Dead.
It has been ascertained that Of the Polish
and Bohemian rioters in Chicago who re-
galed themselves with liquid refreshments
when they sacked a drug store, eight men
have died, and at least four more were at
last accounts beyond hopes Of recovery. The
Chicago police have been too much occupied
with other matters tohunt up those who were
reported i'll, but physician has been found
who has attended some of the victims He
said it was undoubtedly true that the men
had been poisoned by drinking the contents
of the bottles in the wrecked drug store.
''The stuff taken was mostly wine OF col
chicum, which greatly resembles sherry wine
and has strong smell of alcohol" he said.
"It is yirulent poison and is almost certain
death if taken into the stomach Id
anv quantity more than a teaspoon
ful. The effect produced by drinking
it down in gulps, as it doubtless was,
would be to give the victim excruclatlng
pains in the bowels and convulsions. The
effect does not wear off to any great extent
but increases in violence for hours, until,
completely exhausted, the patient dies in
agony, his whole form writhing and his mus
cles drawn up in knots over his arms, legs
and neck. 1 have treated four, and have
now in my care three who are suffering from
an overdose of tincture, of paregor1c, no
doubt taken at the same time as the colchl-
cum, and under the supposition that it was
liquor of some kind"
The addresses of these victims of rlotous
greed are all on West Seventeeth street,
Newberry avenue and the adjacent locality.
How many more there are cannot, OF course,
be told, nor is it likely that the truth in re-
gard to the total number will ever be learned.
Colchicum. is a perennial plant, which
grows wild in rich, moist meadow land IN
different parts Of Europe. 1t is sometimes
called the meadow saffron, or autumn
croeus. It's medical properties are
due to the alkaloid, named colchi.
cine which exists in all parts OF
the plant 1t is an intensely bitter body,
soluble in alcohol and hot water, and IS a
powerful poison. Colchicum is commonly
prepared as a medicine by macerating dried
shreds of the bulbs in sherry wine, or acetlc
acid. 1t is regarded as an effective specific
for gout, the Arabs having used it for that
purpose centuries ago. Large quantities pro-
duce vomiting, profuse perspiration, heat IN
the abdomen, considerable reduction in the
rate of the pulse, and may cause death from
exhaustion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26

In 1870 the American flag doated over
597 sea a-going merchant steamers, hav-
ing tonnage of 513, 79s tons, while in
1885 the number of such vessels had
fallen to 255, and the tonnage had in
creased to only 545. 1877 tons. The same
period of fifteen years saw an increase in
the number of sea-going merchant steam
ers under the British flag of 100 per cent,
or from 2, 1926 to 1852, and at the same
time an increase in tonnage of 800 per
cent, or from 1851, 767 tons in 1870
6,464, 1862 tons in 1885.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
Living among the humble classes of

Living among the humble classes of
Chinese working in San Francisco is
very cheap. A man who earns only four
cents day will live on two cents for
two meals; the remaining two cents
will pay for the shelf on which he lies
at night and what clothing he may need.
For ten cents day Chinaman can get
in Chinatown two meals of rice, salt fish
and vegetables, and wash each meal
down with cup of good Cargon. Ten
persons eating twice day of two kinds
of meat and vegetables, and the never
absent rice and tea, can board for s1.25
each month.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26

A shopkeeper in London, wishing
people to bear his place in mind, caused
a metal bar and some other innocent
cooking apparatus to be set up outside
his show window, and connected it with
an electric battery, so TINT anybody
pausing to look in, and resting his hand
upon the bar, received considerable
shock. The contrivance did fix notice,
but its effect was not altogether de-
sirable. People refused to trust them
selves to the interior of shop whose
peculiarities, even upon the outside, were
so marked, and large and savage dog
in the doorway would hardly have been
more effectual in driving away trade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
A funny incident occurred in Sacra-

A funny incident occurred in Sacra-
mento, Cal, recently. A man named
Marion got into fight, and as revolvers
were used and hefell, it was believed that
he had been shot. He had his head
swabbed and was given some whisky and
afterward drink of water, which latter
fluid his stomach rebelled against. He
was afterward tenderly borne to a
hack and taken to the hospital. There
he was placed on stretcher and carried
from the entrance inside the prison. He
had not spoken word since being taken
in charge, and while officers and report
ers stood around waiting for the supposed
dying man to breathe his last he sud
denly sprang to his feet and roared: "1'l
jump any man in the room fur ST."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
LATER NEWS.

TIE great strike in the Brooklyn sugar re-.
aneries has resulted in the defeat of the
strikers The men taken back to work are
required to sign an agreement that they will
not belong to any union or join any while in
he employ Of the relners engaging their
services.
THE New York Legislature has passed a
bill making the third Saturday in Septem-
Der legal holiday, to be known as labor
day.
LATER reports put the number Of killed by
the wind storm in Kansas City at thirty-two,
including fifteen school children, and the in
jured at thirty-fve. The pecunlary damage
is estimated at 10000.
ATToRyEY-GENERAL FRANCIS j. HoRD,
of Indiana, has been aljudged insane and
sent to an asylum.
The cyclone which proved so fatal at Kan.
sas City also did great damage in other parts
of Missouri, in Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.
The village of Odell, ILL.,, was nearly de-
stroyed, three persons being fatally and
three badly injured. The greater part OF
Vichy Springs, No., met similar fate. AT
Evansville, Ind, three lives were lost and
the African Baptist Church, brick build
ing, was wrecked. In many other localities
houses were unroofed, stock killed and crops
destroyed
THE British House Of Commons has re-
fused, by III nays to 62 yeas, to abolish capi,
tai punishment.
GREECE has q new Cabinet, with NJ. Val
Wis as Premier.
SIXTY members Of the House of Commons
met at Mr.. Joseph Chamberlin's house in
London and passed resolutions declaring they
would do their utmost to oppose Mr. Glad
stones Irish home rule bill.
THE New York Senate has passed bill
prohibiting the sale of liquor in the States
public buildings.
The official police report of the casualties
bv the anarchist riot in Chicago show that
sixtv-six officers were wounded, of whom five
have died.
ALL the members of the Chicago Whole
sale Clothing Manufacturers Association have
notified their employees many of whom are
on strike, that for the present no further
work would be given out. BY this lockout
nearly 3OOOO men and women have been cut
off from employment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
Washington,

More than 5000 private pension bills have
been introduced in the present Congress, and
the Senate recently passed 500 of them in one
afternoon. The President has his clerks go
over the evidence in each case before aff1xing
his signature.
SECRETARY MANNING has nearly recovered
from his recent dangerous attack Of Illness
Two vetoes Of private pension bills were
sent to the House on the Sth by the President.
On the afternoon of that day the President
visited Congressman SCOTS stock farm on
the shore of Chesapeake Bay, stopping over
Sunday.
TIE State Department will at once investi-
gate the seizure of al American fishing
ter, Mass.--for purchasing bait in Canadian
waters, and her subsequent removal with her
crow by her captor-the Canadian steamship
IanSdowne-to St. John, n. F. Consul
General Phelan has been ordered to Halifax,
n. S., by the State Department to make
rigorous investigation into the circumstances
attending the seizure Of the schooner by the
Canadian authorities.
CONGRESSMAN MORROW has received q
monster petition from the Knights Of Labor
of California. 1t is over 1000 feet long, con-
tains the names Of over SO, 900 persons, ana
asks that the Chinese be forever prohibited
by law from emigrating to this country.
THERE are yet over 1000 nominations to
be acted upon by the Senate, nearly y half OF
those the President has made remaining un-
confirmed.
Mr.. BIsSELL, the Presidents law partner,
who is put down as the best man at the ap-
preaching wedding, is at the White House.
He will accompany the President to New
York, to meet Miss Folsom on her return
from Europe.
THE President has nominated Clarence
Ridgley Greathouse Of California, to be Con-
sui General of the United States at Kanaga-
wa, the nomination of Warren Green for this
position having been withdrawn.
THERE have been introduced in the House
s,74O bills and III joint resolutions: of these
the House has passed 1923.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate Sessions.

N1NErY-F1FTH DAY.-Mr. Hoar sub
mitted a resolution directing the Com
mittee on Commerce when reporting the
River and Harbor bill to report the facts on
which each item Of the bill is based. the
reasons why each of the items Of proposed
appropriation is advisable and OF national
Importance. and also to furnish q statement
of the condition of the work, if already be-
gun. Referred. ). The Interstate Com
merce bill was discussed further.
NINETY-SIxTH DAY.-Mr. Morgan offered
an amendment to the Interstate Commerce
bill to punish by fine and imprisonment
men who conspire to stop or inter-
fere with the running OF trains
engaged in Interstate commerce. MIR.
constitutional; so did Mr.. Teller. On motion
of Mr.. Hoar the amendment was
tabled-yeas 40, nays 8. The bill
was discussed further without action....
Mr.. Hoar presented memorial Of the Re-
publican Central Committee of Ohio, charging
that the election of the Hon. Henry B. Payne
to the United States Senate was secured by
bribery, fraud and corruption, and re-
questing that the Senate investigate
the matter. Referred to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections.
received, one recommending certain legisla-
tion by Congress in regard to Utah, and the
other recommending an appropriation for
the Inauguration of the Bartholdi Statue Of
Liberty at New York.
NINETY-sEvENTH DAY.-Mr. Mitchell (Or)
submitted concurrent resolution express
ing it to be the sense of Congress that nego-
tiations should be entered into between the
United States and Chinese Governments
with view to securing such notifications OF
the present treaty with China as may result IN
stopping the coming of Chinese to this
country, except in the case Of diplomats
and their servants, and except also in the
case of persons at sea driven to seek shelter.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Re
lations. . Consideration Of the Interstate
Commerce bill was then resumed and it was
finally passed by Al yeas to nays, Messrs.
Brown, Colquitt, Pugh and Morgan voting
in the negative.
N1NETY-R1GHTH DAY.-The Senate passed
a bill providing that marble busts of those
who have been Vice Presidents of the United
States, may, from time to time, be placed in
the vacant inches Of the Senate chamber. -.
The Senate took up the bill reported from the
Committee on Pensions to give pension to
soldiers Of the late war who served six months
and who are now disabled and dependent on,
their own labor for support, and also to
pension dependent parents of soldiers
who died in the service or from disa-
bilities contracted therein. Mr.. Blair
made a speech in support Of the
measure He said the highest rate of pen
sion that would be paid under the bill would
be $24 month. Mr.. Berry opposed the
bill. saying it would take an unknown sum,
probably $4,000, out of the Treasury, and
Mr.. Logan favored the measure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

GREAT excitement has been aroused in
Pittsburg, Penn, by the general distribution
Of Anarchist circulars.
Owing to the labor troubles there is great
depression in the building trade in many
cities Builders and contractors are afraid to
make contracts to build houses while so much
uncertainty prevails as to wages and hours
of labor.
GOVERNOR HILL presided at meeting in
favor of Gladstone's measure for Irish home
rule held on the 7th at the New York Acad-
cmy of Music Governor Albeit, Of New
Jersey, Mayor Grace, Senator Sherman and
others made speeches, and q message was
sent to Premier Gladstone wishing him god
speed in his work, long deferred, OF justice to
Ireland. The Academy was overcrowded,
and great enthusiasm prevailed.
FRANK CLEMENTS, q prominent member Of
the Modjeska theatrical company, threw
himself before a moving railroad train at
Newark, n. j., and was decapitated. Do
mestic troubles led to the suicide.
L. Z. MYERS is now the worlds champion
shortdistance runner, having defeated W. G.
George, the English champion, in two races at
Madison Square Garden, New York-the
first at l 900 yards and the second at three
quarters of mile.
PV. FERNANDEZ, a prominent and wealthy
Cuban, head OF q large sugar house IN New
York, was shot dead by his wife the other
day at their home near Paterson, N. j. Mrs.
Fernandez followed up the terrible deed by
committing suicide in her sisters presence.
Her act is believed to have been actuated by
jealousy.
G. F. WoER1sHoFFER, leading "bear"
among the New York stock spectators, Is
dead.
A TRIPLE tragedy is reported from Louns-
bury Station, N. Y, where Norman Louns-
bury, fifty-two years old, murdered his wife
and nephew named Payson, and then killed
himself. The murderer was jealous of his
nephew.
THE trial of Henry W. Jaehne, ex-Vice-
President of the New York Board of Alder
men, charged with selling hisvote in favor Of
the Broadway railroad franchise, began in
the metropolis on the 10th. Jaehne's bail was
discharged and he was taken to Ludlow street
Jail.
HERR Most, leader of the Socialists in
America, for whom the New York police
have been searching for some time, was cap
tured the other day under bed in disrepu-
table house in the metropolis. He had been
indicted for making incendiary speeches.
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The Philadelphia Ledger urges every
body to read the newspapers, and says
to do so properly is an art. 'It should
call judgment into exercise, to form
sound opinions and quicken discernment,
to separate truth from error and false
hood from fact. Good newspapers are
perpetual educators; and the intelligence
of a community may generally be
measured by the number and character
of its well-supported journals"
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South and West.

In order to prevent quorum the twenty
members of the Ohio Senate left the State,
eighteen going to Southern States and two
to Michigan. One Of the absent members
telegraphed Governor Foraker on the 7th
that they would return if some assurance
would be given that the rules governing the
Senate would be observed by the Lieutenant
Governor.
The haunts of the Chicago Anarchists
have been broken up by the police, and their
fre1uenters have been scattered and forced
to seek fresh hiding places.
A SEVERE storm of hail and rain caused
some loss of life and property in Kansas and
Missouri.
THERE ore about 80, COO men on strike in
Cincinnati. The Mayor has issued procla-
nation offering protection to all who want
to work.
POLK MARTIN shot Mrs johnson and her
two daughters at Madder Hill, Tenn, few
days since. Mrs johnson was dangerously
hurt one daughter was killed, and the other
fatally wounded. Martin then shot and
killed himstlf.
A CHICAGO dispatch says that the short
hour movement there seems to have been
irreparably damaged by the anarchistic out
break, and that the employers seem deter
mined not to yield.
MISS WILKERSON murdered her step
mother with hoe at Fulton, KY, and then
fed.
KING BRADLEY, after being elected from
train at Buchtel. Ohio, fired his revolver
promiscuously at people in the street, killing
little girl He was captured but with his
brothers assistance made his escape, pursued
by crowd determined upon lyuching him.
COUNTLESS dead birds of many varieties
were found the other morning on the streets
and sidewalks surrounding the Board of
Trade building in Chicago. While migrating
from south to north during the night they
had been attracted by the immense electric
light in the top of the building, and fell dead
when they touched it.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind, rain and light
ming caused three deaths in Indiana and one
in Iowa.
CHARLES J. BRUscKE senior proprietor Of
large Chicago furniture factory, shot two
of his striking employees who had assaulted
him. One of the men was fatally wounded.
Bruscke surrendered himself.
Two men and two children were drowned
while crossing ferry near Parsons Kan.
THREE persons-Mr and Mrs. Jackson and
babe-were killed by the wrecking of camp
meeting tent during wind storm near Law
renee, Kan.
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A certain English charity has two
objects: To prevent country girls, as
far as possible, from coming to London,
and to protect those who do come. Ex-
tended in other cities, the society pro-
tects all girls travelling by placing in
railway stations placards on which are
given addresses of good homes, and
also the address of lady referee.