The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-15
South and West,

JOHN MOORE killed his slster-in in De-
troit because she asked him to pay his board.
He then fatally shot her daughter and him
self.
NEAR Bentonia, Miss, the young daughter
of Dolph Miles (colored) poisoned her father
and three brothers, all of whom died in her
presence in great agony.
EUGENE ziNXIR, of Indianapolis, com;
mitted suicide at prayer meeting in church
by drinking bottle Of carbolic acid. His
aged father and mother killed themselves
two weeks ago.
DEPrTY SHERIFF L. s. ELMER, of Wah-
peton, Dakota, murdered pretty Miss Mollie
Kerbell under circumstances Of peculiar
atrocity. On the following day a masked
mob Of one hundred determined men over
powered Sheriff Miller, who had him under
arrest, and took the murderer out, and hanged
him to bridge over the Bois de Sioux River
EX-GOVERNOR CARNEY, the war Governor
of Kansas, died few days ago of apoplexy
at Leavenworth.
A. KLEsHAR cut his wife's throat at Fern
dale Cal, and took poison himself. Both
died.
THE Indians who have been in council at
Standing Rock Agency, celebrating the prop
osition of the Government to throw open
their reservation to settlers, finally, after
much speech making, decided unanimously
not to sign any treaty to that effect.
A DAYBREAK duel occurred at Norfolk,
Va, on Saturday between John F. Evans, a
prominent saloon keeper, and Peter Mclean,
q popular sporting man. Mclean was In.
stantly killed, and was carried home with
four bullets in his body.
WILLIAM ST. CLAIR and Bob Ashley
crossed the river on a ferryboat at Alton, Ill !,
and after landing on Missouri Point quar-.
relied. Ashley ran at St Clair with bowie
knife and drove him into the river. st. Clair
could not swim Ashley prevented him
from regaining the shore and he was
drowned.
SENATOR PALMER, Of Michigan, has pub
licly notified his Michigan constituents that
he would not be a candidate for reelection.
His term expires March 4th, 1889, and he in
tends to retire to private life.
AT a Scandinavian gathering at Lake
Vadnais, Mimi, Ole Oleson was struck on
the back of the neck with club by one Of a
gang Of "fakirs'' and instantly killed An.
named johnson with a dirk and fatally
stabbed two other Scandinavians
A PARTY of boys of Somerset, KY, were
playing Indian and engaged in q fight
Virgie Hamilton, whose side was getting
worsted. seized his fathers gun and fired,
killing Willie Haines instantly and fatally
wounding his brother Lee.
FREMONT EMMoNs, who murdered Bertha
Schultz because she refused to marry him,
was taken from jail at Pawnee City, Neb.,
and lynched. He was led through the public
square in broad day light with the rope
around his neck and made to hang himself
by jumping off a high railway trestle.
DR.. ROBERT MORRIS, a Presbyterian
minister, the Poet Laureate Of Masonry, and
recognized as the most distinguished Mason
in America, has died at his home in Lagrange,
KY.
THE first State Convention Of the Prohibi-
ton party of West Virginia has been held in
Parkersburg. A full State ticket, an cleo
toral ticket and Congressman for the First
district were placed in nomination. Thomas
r. Carskadon for Governor heads the ticket.
While indorsing the national ticket the plat.
form does not iniorse the national platform,
with its women's rights and tariff reform
clauses.
CABLE dispatches received from Rome
announce the appointment Of the Rev. DR..
John S. Foley, for the last twenty years pas
ior of St. Martins Church. Baltimore, to be
Bishop of the diocese Of Detroit. and the
Rev. j. j. Hennessy, Of st. Johns Church,
st. Louis, to be Bishop of Wichita, Kan.
v. J. SHTPMAN, a wealthy resident of
Pensacola, has been nominated for Governor
by the Republicans of Florida.