The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-14
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
IssoUR1 has 1918 miles Of railroad.

MISSOURI has 1918 miles Of railroad.
The lead corner has completely failed.
TIE City of Bremen ha, entered into tho
German Zollverein.
THE GEAR is expected at Berlin about the
middle of November.
The wife Of Kansas farmer cut of her
baby's head while insane
THE Chicago street.car companies lost
$S000 day by the strike.
The steam engina of the world have total
Of 46.00O,OJJ horse power.
ENGLAND and Germany are negotiating for
joint action in East Africa.
THERE ara close 70 2O00 music teachers in
New York and rs suburbs.
PRESIDENT CARNoT's tour through France
will cost the Nation about $5O,U00.
THE proposal to have London beauty
show is being put into business form.
BosroN1ANs have already contributed
nearly sSl6, ,0O0 to the yellow fever fund
PRAIRIE fires in Dakota have caused heavy
losses to farmers over wide extent OF coun-
try
A KANSAS CITY girl has committed sui
eide because she thou sht herself too ugly to
live.
SINCE the war Of 10 France has spent
81, 542, ,O0O,OU0 besides the ordinary esti-
mates"
The last census of India indicates popu-
lation OF IL, ,yS2, U 10. There are 6,0UU, 100 more
males than females.
J. R. RAMBo, e1.Reyister of Wills at
Norrstown, Penn, is a defaulter in the sum
Of $4,000. He has disappeared
A CHARTER has been granted to the Dodge
City and Denver Railroad at Topeka, Kan,
with capital stock of Ss,UJO, 0o0.
THE new embankment, erected at cost OF
81. WV, ,0lO, to confine the waters of the Yellow
River, in China, was swept away by recent
food.
A MINNESOTA County Treasurer was
pulled from his buggy by four highwaymen
near Duluth and roobed OF S2OUO in school
funds.
MoLL1E LESTER, of Harrodsburg, KY,
discovered that her lover was sworn to marry
another girl Miss Lester took strychnlne
and died.
THE cost Of one of the Navy's new six:inch
guns weighing II, QUO pounds, is about s,'oo;
that OF ten-inch, weighing 57,5Oo pounds' s
about SO, 500.
The Eastern Minnesota Railway has petl.
ltioned for the condemnation OF SSoo,voo
worth of land in the heart OF Duluth' 70 Do
used for terminal purposes
The chalk pond in Newbury, n. D.,
claimed to be the only one of the kind in the
United States. has been bought and Will DO
operated by stock company.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has delivered his
first decision. He decided that State may
only tax telegraph company for messages
between points within the borders OF Inc
State.
A co1oRED man, born Of a slave mother.
is about to exhibit fifty paintings IN New
Haven, His name is William h. K jackson:
He has studied three years at the Art School
of Yale University.
STARVATION and destitution are reported
among the Indians in the Athabasca and
Peace River Country in Manitoba Ca.i-
nil,aism has been resorten 10 on several
occasions TO sustain life
AN unknown rascal entered stable ar
Troy. Ca, and administered strychnine to
tweIye valuable horses. When the dsstardly
act was discovered most Of the horses jaws
were locked and they were writhing in
agony.
AN oil we'll has been struck near Findlay,
Ohio, which eclipses anything in the history
of the Ohio yield 1t is estimated to flow
gUOO barre per day and has been visited by
thousands Of people The ground in all
adjacent territory is completely saturated
with grease.
MELVIN MILLER, aged sixteen years, while
hunting near Cooperstown, Dakota, acct
dentally shot his seven-year-o!d brotner,
Edward, in the stomach. The boy ran to
him, saying: II am shot; 1 am dying; you you
didn't 90 to shoot me, did yod. Melr 10
then expired in bis brothers srrnA .--