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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-04
PUBLICLY FLOGGED.
Novel Pun:shment Of Three Boys
Convicted Of Thicvery.

In the town Of Washington three boys
John W Worck and Gus and Eddie Schoengardt
were arrested few days ago for petit lar
oeny. They were found guilty by Justice
Hogenbusch, but in consideration Of the fact
that they come OF good families he assessed
punishment without precedent in the State.
The par nts of the boys pleaded hard for
them. and the Judge finally ordered q nominal
6ne imposed, providing the parents would
publicly fo5 the boys in the Court House
Square. The fathers ageeed, and about one
thousand persons assembled on the square
and saw the fathers fog the boys sounily.
All the s'hools gave recess, and the children
were invited to be present and profit by the
moral The children were marshaled by their
teachers. One of the culprits stood the drub-
bling without murmur, but the yells OF the
others could be heard two blocks away.
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LATER NEWS.

MASSACHUSETTS is sending pauper immi-
grants back to Europe by the ship load.
A New YORK syndicate with SO, ,OOO, 900
capital will build elevated railroads in
Chicago.
A GOVERNMENT steamer was dispatched
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to search for
the mammoth raft lost while it was being
towed from Nova Scotia to New York.
HEAVY billiards and intense cold have re-
suited in much suffering in many sections of
the West and Northwest Four people are
reported dead in Clark County, Kansas, from
the cold, while near Dighton, in that State, a
woman and her two children are known to
have perished.
WEEPING WATER, Neb., has been almost
totally destroyed by fire
BALTIMORE oyster pirates defeated party
of city officers in naval engagement with
shotguns.
FIVE bond robbers and incendiaries in Jail
at Tompkinsville, KY, were taken out bY
mob and lynched.
THE sheriff and two deputies Of Norman
County, Mimi, while attempting to arrest
the Hohnadel family, were set upon by the
husband, wife and four sons and severely
beaten. The two deputies were fatally IN
jured.
THE German Crown Princes physicians
are once more hopeful of recovery.
BARAcoA was swept by huge wave, and
,nsov boucac yera DESTROYED
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Washington

SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has recommended
the appropriation by Congress of $3.50, 600 for
the establishment Of marine hospital in
New York City.
The Senate Committee on Education
unanimously ordered favorable report on
the Blair Education bill.
PosTMAsTERs nominated by the President:
Orlando Currier, Hallowell, Me-; Thomas
F. Lyons, Canton, Mass; Henry A. Pope,
Milton, Mass. Joseph NJ. Hollywood, Brock
ton, Mass; Robert A. Scott, Friendship,
N, Y: Gilbert R. Lindsay, Railway, n. j.,
and VIM. Lee, st. Paul
EUGENE HIGGINS has resigned his position
as Chief Of the Appointment Division in the
Treasury Department.
NINETEEN Senators and seven Representa-
tives own property in Washington.
CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD's nomination as
Secretary Of the Treasury has been confirmed
by the Senate
ADDITIONAL nominations by the President:
Stephen A. De Wolfe of Montana. to be As
sociate Justice Of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Montana; E. Henry Lacombe,
of New York, to be additional Circuit Judge
for the Second Judicial Circuit; Edward +.
Bingham, of Ohio, to he Chief Justice OF the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia;
NJ. Montgomery, of Michigan, to be Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
District of Columbia: William j. Allen, Of
Illinois, to be United States District Judge
for the Southern District Of Illinois: New
ton w. Mcconnell. of Tennessee. to be Chief
Just ce of the Supreme Court Of the Territory
of Montana.
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Four Persons Killed, Three Missing
and Twenty Injured.

An accidental discharge Of 1900 gallons
Of naphtha in one of the main sewers at
Rochester, N. Y, on Wednesday, produced
the most sensational and uncommon disaster
that city or any otner ever experienced.
Soon after three o'clock the heavy stone
covering Of O manhole Of the Platt street
sewer was blown off by terrific explosion,
and then almost Immediately another
explosion occurred beneath the Clin-
ton FIGURING Mill on Mill street.
The upheavals were followed by
sheets of fame that burst out with great fury
to hight of sixty feet. The Clinton mill
took fire first, and the flames spread quickly
to theWashington mill and the Jefferson mill,
These three mills and contents were de-
stroyed, involving loss of $4,000 The
first explosion was followed quickly by others
aong Mill and Platt streets, and at several
points on West avenue, IN liking over forty in
all, and extending along four miles Observers.
In each case the manhoies were al blown to
pieces, and in many places flames shot up and
continued to burn tiercely for several minutes:
The explosions were so violent as to hurl
rocks into buildings and against pedestrians,
causing panic throughout the whole region
traversed by the sewers.
Four persons were killed, three reported
miss ng and twenty badly injured The cause
of the peculiar disaster was an attempt to
pump the naphtha from tbs Vacuum
Oil Company's tanks through two.mile con-
duit to the Municipal Gas Com anys works
nesr the center Of the city. The naphtha
became ignited aud exploded
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a GOVERNORS DEATH.
The Chief Executive Of Maine Passes
Away.

The Chie + Executive Of Maine Passes
Away.
Governor Bodwell, of Maine, died on Thurs
day at Hallowell, aged seventy years. His
death was caused by congestion of the lungs,
resulting from exposure and overwork.
Joseph Robinson Bodwell was born in Me-
thuen, Massachusetts,, on June 1S, 1918. He
was a self-made man. For long period OF
his life he worked at the hardest manual
labor, and lived in humble circumstances,
relying upon his own exertionsfor livelihood.
He worked on farm until 1885, for SO a
month, when he learned the shoemaker's
trade, at which he worked every evening, at
tending school in the daytime. In 1852 he
associated with Moses Webster in the granite
business From this beginning the Bodweii
Granite Company was formed, with Bodwell
as President, and the business became prob
ably the largest in this line in the country.
Bodwell then organized the Hallowell Gran
ite Company, and also extensively engaged
in agricultural pursuits. He was President
of the Bodwell Water Company and of the
rapid transit company between Boston and
New York He had served two terms in the
Legislature, was twice Mayor of Hallowell,
and in 1870 was delegate-at large to the Car
field convention. He was elected Governor
in 1856 by the Republicans.
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A GREAT RAFT ADRIFT.
The Largest Floating Body Ever
Launched Lost at Sea.
An Immense Mass of Timbers
Valued at $l50,000.

The great raft of timber which was being
towed to New York from Nova Scotia went
adrift the other morning right in the way Of
navigation. The powerful steamship Mi
randa, which was towing it, reported having
lost the raft. The great mass Of timber
came from the vicinity Of Parrsborough,
Nova Scotia, which is on the north side
of Minas basin, a branch Of the Bay of
Fundy. The distance to be towed was nearly
six hundred miles.
The raft was something new in the line of
transporting timber, and was practically an
experiment. All the timber of which it was
composed was cut within short distance of
where it was built. 1t was constructed on
cradles, something like ship, the
logs being neatly piled together ard
securely bound with chains It took two sea-
sons to complete it. 1t was broken up in the
launching and had to be entirely reconstruct
ed, but was finally foated. The Miranda
took it in tow on Friday, December 8.
Chief Steward William H. Wilson, Of the
trip: "Wben we first lay alongside the
raft, when it was at anchor, the inn
mense thing looked to be three times as
long as our ship. It was cigar-shaped and
about SO feet in diameter 1t was over 800
feet long, foated Is feet out Of water and
81 feet under water. 1t seemed to be all Of
round timber, solidly bound together. We
took the thing in tow with big 15-inch and
q 10-inch hawser, both hempen. Coming
down the Bay Of Fundy we made about five
knots progress against the strong tide and
everything started well. But before we got
clear Of the Bay of Fundy it came on to blow
and got steadily worse every day, right in
our teeth, SO that we could hardly make any
progress at all We had heightened out
the hawsers and tried to make the
strain easy, with the raft $40 feet
behind u.s. But last Sunday morning, when
OFF Nantucket shoals, terrific gale was blow
ing and shortly after daylight the big hawser
broke with tremendous snap. The ship
was steaming at half speed and went ahead
Immediately with a jerk. the result
being that the small hawser tore the bits to
which it was fastened clear out Of the deck
and the whole thing was left behind. 1t was
impossible to make any effort to pick it up,
and so we could only come on.
.The last we saw of the raft it was about
sixty miles from Block Is and and drifting
south. Only faw small logs had come out
of it. and it seemed to be solid enough to hold
together forever. It is right in the track OF
shipping, and one touch Of it would be
were to have broughtit through Long Island
Sound and showed it into cove just above
He'll Gate, where it would have been broken
up and sawed for shipbuilding or anything
else.n
The raft was owned by asyndicate. 1t was
designed by Hugh r. Robertson, Of Nova
Scotia, who got patent for its system Of
construction. It cost $30. COO to construct,
and contained about 900 QUO tons of timber,
worth $50, 900. The raft was not insured.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIZED.
ra.,.rn and Middle statea

FIVE or six men were killed, two fatally in
jured and others badly hurt by the explosion
of the boiler in the electric light station at
Westchester, Penn. The entire building, with
much valuable machinery, was destroyed.
The platform adopted by the National
Convention of Republican Clubs in New York
recites the work done for the country by the
Republican party, attacks the Presidents mes.
sage, declares emphatically for protection to
home industries, accuses the Democratic party
of opposing ''broad popular education, de-
clares for IAN honest ballot and free
count" charges the Administration with
''trampling upon the just claims of the sol
diers Of the Republic" and alleges that the
Democratic party has used the Civil Service
for partisan purposes. A National League OF
Republican Clubs was formed.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, has just cele-
brated his eightieth birthday at his home in
Danvers, Mass.
THE organization of the National Repub-
lican League was completed at the last days
session in New York by the election of James
Republican Club, as President Twenty-six
Vice Presidents AMI an Executive Committee
were also chosen. The Leagues headquarters
will be in New York, with branch at
Washington.
SYLVESTER S. CRANDELL, Of Ballston Spa,
N. Y, committed suicide after killing his
mother r.in-law and step-daughter and prob
ably fatally wounding his wife Domestic
troubles led to the tragedies.
MANY prominent people from all parts of
New England attended Governor Bodwelrs
funeral at Augusta, Me. The services were
held in the Hall Of Representatives.
A CROWDED Elevated Railroad train in
New York left the rails and had narrow
escape from falling into the street below. A
great loss Of life was narrowly averted.
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House PROCEEDINGS.

9Th DAY-Mr. Hatch's concurrent resolu-
tion that the two Houses adjourn on Monday,
December 10, to Thursday, January 5, was
discussed by Mr. Reed OF Maine, who said
the peculiar condition of the business affairs
of the country rendered the action which
had been taken, or rather the non.action
which had been suffered by the Democratic
siie of the House, matter Of legitimate COM
ment both here and before the country.
Continuing, Mr. Reed attacked the Presi-
dents Message. Messrs. Hatch Mo- and
Cox IN. " replied to Mr.. Reed, tne latter
commenting on what he called 1.-THE sudden
conversion of the gentleman from Maine" !"
Mr.. Mills Tex.) offered as asubstitute for Mr..
Hatchs resolution resolution declaring that
%, they stand adjourned until Wednesday,
January 4. Mr.. Hatch accepted the substi.
tute and the resolution as modified was agreed
to-. Mr.. Blanchard Na.), offered q resolu-
tion expressive Of the regret with which the
House had heard of the death of +. w. Rob
ertson, late a member-elect OF the Fiftieth
Congress from Louisiana, and then, as mark
Of respect to the memory of the deceased,
the House at 12:45 adjourned.
the appointment of the Committee on
Rules, as follows: The Speaker, Messrs.
Randall, Mills, Reed and Cannon.
Mr. Dibble Is. c. offered a resolution re-
ferring to the Committee OH Appropriations
the reports OF the Court Of Cllims on the
French spoilation claims, with Instructions
to that committee to report all claims which
have been decided favorably to the
claimants in the General Deli
cheney bill Adopted after discussion. -.
Mr.. Grosvenor Ohio offered resolution
calling on the Secretary Of War for state
ment of the plan and scope of the compiia.
tion of the official records Of the war OF the
rebellion, etc.
8TH DAY.-Mr Brumm penny offered
resolution requesting the President to urge
the Treasury Department officials to enforce
the law restricting the importation of foreign
labor under contract, as it was currently re-
ported that the coal operators in the Lehigh
Valley were now importing 2,NO Belgian
miners to take the place Of the miners now
on strike there, although these miners had
been vainly seeking to secure arbitration on
their grievances Referred to Committee on
Labor.
9TH DAY-Mr. Randall PENN, from the
Committee on Rules, submitted partial re-
port. 1t recommends the adoption OF the
rules Of the Forty-ninth Congress until fur
ther order, with number or changes. The
following select committees are provldet for:
On Reform in the Civil Service, to consist OF
and Vice President and Representatives i'll
Congress- to consist OF thirteen members; on
the Eleventh Census, to consist OF thirteen
members; on Indian Depreciation Claims, to
consist of thirteen members; on Ventilation
and Acoustics, to consist Of seven members;
on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, to consist OF
eleven members. After .bate the partial re-
port was agreed to- Eight hundred private
bills were presented
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A RURAL debating society will soon
discuss the vital question: (which ben
efits the country most-the Concord
School of Philosophy or the young
man who wins the lswn-tennis cham
pionship ?"-NorristoU7a Herald.
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South and West

THE Federation of Labor, in National Con
vention at Baltimore, reelected Samuel
Gompers as President.
By an explosion In a mine at Fleming, No.,
fifteen miners were buried beneath hundreds
of tons of coal and debris.
AscHEME is being organized in Kansas to
make grand raid on Oklahoma preserved for
the Indiansl next spring, and it is said l0O,-
900 men will 60 into the territory at a given
date from three States.
THE four anarchists, hanged November II,
and Louis Lingg, who committed suicide,
have been buried at Waldheim Cemetery,
Chicago.
AFTER ten days trial, Thomas G. Wool
folk, the middle-aged son Of a well-todo
planter residing thirteen miles from Macon,
ia. has been found guilty of numbering his
father, mother, brothers and sisters-nine
persons in all-early one morning last
August.
INDIAN Chiefs Sitting Bull, Charger and
Hump will visit Washington and lay the
Sioux Reservation matter before the President
on behalf of the Indians. The Indians of the
reservation have raised $1,000 for the pur-
pose.
CHICAGO brewers are boycotting grain sent
from Prohibition States
A CYCLONE in Indian Territory destroyed
large amount of property and killed and
injured number Of people.
JUDGE J. S. TRIMBLE and James A. Ram
sey killed each other in a street duel at
Farmersville La.
THREE miners were killed and several in
jured by the explosion Of natural gas in
mine near Cambridge, Ohio.
FIVE men were killed by boiler explosion
at Tilton, Ga.
Hon. JOHN S. BARBOUR, Of Virginia, has
been elected by the State Legislature to the
United States Senate to succeed Senator
Riddleberger.
EXTREMELY cold weather has been prevail
ing in the Northwest. At some points the
thermometer registered more than twenty
Eve degrees below zero.
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SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
A Man Alive In His Burial Caskct
and Resuscitated.

A peculiar case of suspended animation is
reported from Victor, in Fayette County, W.
Va. B. F. Mihner, middle aged farmer Of
wealth, retired in his usual health. In the
morning he complained Of severe pains and
physician was called. By the time he came
the farmer showed every symptom of death.
After attempting for some time to resusci-
tate him the physician left, pronouncing him
dead.
Preparations were made for the funeral,
the supposed corpse being placed in the cas-
ket. Just as the mourners had nearly fin
ished taking their supposed final look at the
remains and the casket was to be sealed down,
an old lady friend stopping close noticed
slight movement Of the eyelid. She made
known the fact and a physician present, after
an examination, pronounced the man still
alive. He was transferred from the casket to
q couch, restoratives were applied and he is
now recovering rapidly.
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Foreign.

ALMOST q panic occurred in Vienna
financial circles over the increasing prospect
of a war with Russia Intense excitement
prevails throughout Austria, and it is feared
that great European war is imminent.
In a conflict in Syria between Bedouins
and Druses the latter had 160 killed and 3JO
wounded.
The closing of factories, arising from de-
preston in trade, in Catalonia, Spain, has
resulted in disorders, requiring the police and
troops to preserve order.
THERE is great excitement in the Canadian
Northwest territories over an invasion OF
Mormons. Fifty families have already taken
land at Fort McLeol.
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DEAD IN HIS SLEIGH.
The Strange Fate Of n Young Far
mcr.

mcr.
James Ranken, young farmer of Broken
Row, Neb., started out few days since on
hunting expedition. In the woods, just
half n milo from his house his double,
barreed shotgun must have slipped
it is suppos ii that in attem ting to draw
it toward himself the hammers caught, and
both loads were discharged into his heart.
His clothing caught fire from the flash,
and was burned of with the excep..
ton of the overshoes and pair of
fet boots The remains were discovered
this morning lying on the seat OF
hand still held the reins firmly. and the horses
were staining on the edge of deep ravine.
Trey had nDy b, en- fed since the accident.
and had gnawed the sleigh tongue nearly in
two.
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THE hearing by the Interstate Commerce
Commission Of the "carload lot" cases, in
who business men in all parts Of the coun'
try arc man testing considerable interest, has
been postponed until January "A.
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REV. O. H. WALKEB, of New London
Conn, has remarkable record as an indus
trious preacher. He has been absent from
his pulpit only two Sundays in thirty five
wears
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THE sudden appearance OF water in many
wells in Southern Wisconsin that have been
dry since the drought Of last summer has
caused no little wonder among the oplc.
Wells are filled almost to the top. Tie
phenomenon occurred during the night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-04

THE bo ly OF John Galvagni, of Cincinnati,
was cremated in that city recently. 1t was
the tenth cremation which has occurred in
Cincinnati
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-04

A BONFIRE built ON shore by two Alameda
(Cal. ! residents attracted fish to the vicinity
in such numbers that forty pounds were
hooked in little while
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Companions are to lie avoided that are
good for nothing; those to be sought and
frequented that excel in some quality or
other.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-28
In MeinorIaIiI.

Deaths Messenger is always an un-
welcome visitor, but when he comes
to rob home of mother and make
little ones motherless he is doubly
unwelcome and his visit to the home
distressingly sad. That messenger has
visited our community and taken
from our midst Mrs. Josephine j. Ben
nett, wife Of II. II. Bennett, Esq. She
departed this life Thursday, January
26th, 1888, at $50 a. M, aged 80
years, leaving behind husband crush
ed with grief, three little children, one
an infant Of about ten days, and many
friends to mourn her loss. He who
gave has taken away and He is too
wise to err and too good to do wrong
The funeral services will take place
from the Baptist church this, Satur
day afternoon, at 2 o'clock and the
interment will be made in conformity
with the rites of the Ancient Order O
| United Workmen.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-28
Short as Pie Crust.

Warmer and school in session again.
Snake river still crossable on the ice
bridge. Moonlight nights and merry
music of sleigh bells. Hon. Nels A.
just was in town Tuesday. Wood
hauler's harvest in full bloom. Sam
Hays has gone to Boise City. Sere-
naders out few nights ago, we heard
the music of lone guitar with an ac-
compartment to Goodbye Sweetheart,
goodbye. Heap snow in the noun
tains. Mr.. C. w. Bergman and wife
have been sick this week Perry An.
son has been to Salt Lake. Cattle
men in better spirits. Mr.. JEFF Davis
of Root Hog, gave the News office Q
call last Saturday and ordered the
paper to his address. Circulation Of
of the News steadily increasing-it
will be grand campaign paper. W
F. Mellick, (Braskie) has taken charge
of the Ross Fork store. John Watson
has been quite sick. No marriage il
town this week. Methodist Sabbath
School win give an entertainment il
a short time. Parson Jones is super
latively happy over leap year, he ex
expects proposal. A little cold nov
and then is relished by the most o
men: but too much cold like that w
had is simply bad, yes, very bad.