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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-27
Fatal Midnfeht Flames.

Shortly before midnight Saturday q ire
broke out in two-story tenement block at
Lowell, Mass, and spread rapidly. practically
outline the building before the Fire Depart
ment could make much headway against the
flames. The building was occupied by two
families, nine persons in all. Six OF these
escaped. Three were burned to death
Alfred vallerand, aged fourteen, was
nearly suffocated before he awoke. The
flames cut off al egress, but he rushed
through them and jumped to the ground
through wind Rw. The hair was completely
burned OF his r &ad, and the skin Of his face
and the upper }art Of his body was burned
black, iniuringh him fatally.
Mrs. fhoma Vallerand, the mother, q
widow, escaped'by jumping from window,
breaking her leg in the fall
The Boisvert family--three in number
escaped from the building. Mrs. Boisvert
was burned slightly and the smoke so pene-,
trated her lungs that a fatal result was ap-
pretended. She made her escape by getting
out of an end window upon the roof Of low
building adjoining. carrying her little one
year-old baby With her.
The bodies found in the building bore no
evidence that there was any struggle, and it
was supposed that they suffocated before
awakening. The cause Of the fire was un-
known. The house was rattle-trap affair,
with narrow stairway.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.

103TH DAY.-The Fisheries Treaty was
again brought up for consideration. Mr..
Gray made prolonged argument In favor OF
its ratification, and in defense Of the Secre-
tary of State for his action in the matter.
Mr.. Riddleberger declared that the treaty
ought not to be ratified. On motion of Mr..
Sherman further consideration Of the meas
ure was deferred.
10th DAY.-A bin was introduced to ap-
propriate $4,000 for putting underground
the wires belonging to the District Of Colun-
bia which are used for official telegraph,
telephone and fire alarm purposes. !. Mr.
Chandler offered resolution referring the
credentials Of Senator Gibson, Of Louisiana,
to committee for the purpose Of investiga-
ting the method Of his election. :. Mr.. Stew
arts resolution calling on the Secretary Of
the Treasury for statement Of the offers
and purchases of bonds since April, with the
names, ETC., went over without action, after
considerable discussion. :. Mr.. Cullom ad-
dressed the Senate on the bill to amend the
Insterstate Commerce law. The Senate
was addressed by Mr.. Dolph on the subject
Of coast defences.
11lrH DAY.-Mr. Hale addressed the SEN
ate in opposition to ratification Of the
Fishery Treaty, and incidentally spoke Of
the menace to American interests by reason
of the heavy coast defenses England was erect
ing on the Pacific coast. The Senate, in
considering the District Of Columbia Appro-
priation bill, voted to strike out the provi-
sion requiring electric wires to be placed
under ground, and the bill passed. -. The
resolution calling for statement Of the sale
Of bonds since April, 1888, with names Of the
parties, was passed.
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Foreign.

JAMES G. BLAINE and party have gone on
three weeks coaching tour through Scotland
with Mr.. Carnegie, the Pittsburg PENN
iron manufacturer.
THE italian Chamber of Deputies has
agreed to abolish capital punishment.
THE stables of the Street Railway Com
pany at Montreal, Canada, were destroyed
BY fire of incendiary origin, and 1874 horses
were burned to death.
HERR Won PUTTKAMER, the Prussian Min
lister Of the Interior, has resigned.
SERGEANT MCGOWAN, Of the Royal Irish
Constabulary. was murdered by Constable
Simpson at Walderstown, Ireland. A sword
and revolver were used by the murderer, who
afterward committed suicide
LORD STANLEY, of Preston, the new Gov
ernor-Generdl Of Canada has arrived at Que
bee. He was given a grand welcome and
volley Of marine bombs was fired in his
honor, to which the citadel responded with q
salute Of seventeen guns
THE Right Hon. Edward Robert King
Harman, Parliamentry Under Secretary for
Ireland and member of Parliament for the
Isle of Thanet, Division of Kent, died at his
residence in Ireland, aged fifty.
LORD STANLEY. of Preston, has been
sworn in at Ottawa as Governor-GeEeral of
Canada.
TENANTS on the Island Of Arran, ireland,
have been threatened with dynamite if they
pay their rent.
EMPEROR FREDERICK at last accounts was
reported to be much worse
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LATER NEWS.

HENRY BoRTHw1cK, an old man, Will
a spectator at Forepaugh's Circus In SPRING
field, Mass, was struck by one OF the usher
for triaing infraction Of the rules, and hi
stantly killed.
Four. monuments were dedicated ~
Gettysburg on Wednesday by members q
Shaler's Brigade to their fallen comrades &
THE stone monument marking the ssitsi
where Stonewall jackson was shot has been
dedicated in Chancellorsville, We. -
r A CLAY bank in a brick yard at Msnomis
nee, Wis, caved In, and seven men were
buried beneath II. Two brothers NAMED
Jansen were taken out dead and: terribly
mangled. Two more were fatally hurt and
the other three have legs or arms broken and
internal injuries Cd
JOHN McCULLocH shot his wife and killed
himself in st Louis, Mo- Il .e
Two young German ranchers, Hans Tidges
and August Michaelson, were, boating At
Fullerton, Neb,, when Nicholson. rtofriGh Ghtef3
Tidge, who was unable to swim, tipped the
boat Both lost their balance, fell In. and
were drowned. Z: - g
JOHN ]. HAYS, for eight years Treasureruf
vanderburgh county, Ind, walked out of
second story window while asleep and was
killed. Z ~. sss.sfs
NINETEEN persons were poisoned at Kasolas
Mimi, from eating diseased cheese. 81
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved tia
bill to establish a Department Of Labor.
THE King of Hollands heir, the Princess
Wilhelmina, aged seven years, has been be-
trothed to the twelve-year.old Prince @of
SAKE -Weimar. The marriage will unft4
SAKE Weimar and Holland
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THE NEWS EPrrOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FIVE men were horribly burned, two of
them fatally, by the overturning Of q ladle
at the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Stock
ton, Penn.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, the historical
and secular writer, has died at his home in
Hanover, N. 81.
JOHN SMITH, an old farmer Of Fairview,
Penn, was killed by the bursting Of small
cannon used in political demonstration.
TwENTY-oNE people have been killed and
one hundred and thirty-nine injured in New
York city since January by horses and We
hicles driven by reckless drivers.
ALBERT WETTBER, a shoemaker, has been
arrested at Crimmitzschau, Sa1ony, for the
murder of banker in Watertown, N. Y, in
August, 1886.
A. G.. SELLoN, the chief clerk on the
postal car in which Clerk Jere. g. Sinclair
was murdered at Bangor, Me, has confessed
the deed, pleading self defence.
FOUR men were drowned by the capsizing
Of their boat near Rockland, Me.
In the Rhode Island General Assembly
Jonathan A. Chace has been reelected
United States Senator by majority Of both
houses. The Legislature adjourned until
January, 1889.
AT the village of Glasgow, Penn, Ellis
Wingert, q farmer, was shot and killed by
woodsman named Mr.. Kee, who Immediately
committed suicide without assigning any
cause for the tragedy.
THE Union Labor State Convention Of
Maine in session at Waterville nominated
w. II. Simmons for Governor. Resolutions
were adopted favoring greenback postal
banks, government telegraphs and railroads,
service pensions, an income tax, secret
ballot and homestead laws, and denouncing
the importation of labor and fusion with
other parties
The Vermont Prohibitionists assembled
at Montpelier and nominated Professor See
ly, of Middlebury College, for Governor.
The Maine Republican State Convention
was held at Portland, and State Treasurer
Burleigh was nominated for Governor. Reso-
lutions were adopted condemning the Mills
bill, but declaring that sit is the duty Of
Congress to reduce National revenues to an
amount which shall equalas nearly as posi-
bic the annual expenditures of the Govern
ment."
Four persons were fatally burned and
seven injured by tenement house fire at "a
Second avenue, New York
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A FARMERS LONG FAST q.
Going For Nearly Month With0uf
Food-A Strange Case.

John Zacher, Jr., son Of a wealthy Bohss
milan farmer, living five miles north of
Racine, Wis, has not tasted food or.twentys
six days During the greater portion OF that:
time he has done arduous farm work but at
lastaceounts had grown SO weak that anything
more laborious than light chores exhausted
him He talks nationally, and gives no other
reason for his abstinence than that he e not:
hungry. - ss,. q q z 81
Two doctors have been treating him, but
their efforts to induce him to take food have.
so far proved unavailing. 1t Is thought hie.
self imposed fast is pronounced symptom Of:
insanity, although there are no other indica4
tions Of mental weakness. Insanity has run
in the family for several generations. Zachets
is fully six feet IN height, and has been q
very powerful man. His clothes, which;
fitted him month ago, now hang loosely on
him. His limbs and body have shrunhens
away to marked degree. The doctoFsdos
not think he can live long. sszs
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EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Cream of the News as Skinned
from the Wire.
Mysterious Murder Of a Maine
Railway Postal Clerk,

jerry Sinclair, a veteran railway postal
clerk, was mysteriously murdered at Bangor.
Me-, Saturday night while at his post on the
mail car Of the night express for Boston.
His body was discovered lying on pile OF mai
bags Just as the train was leaving that city,
The train was stopped and the body taken OUT
of the car, but it was not discovered that ne
had been murdered until two hours later,
when Undertaken Hunt was removing his
clothing to prepare for embalming, it being
supposed that hemorrhage OF the lungs
caused his death. Mr.. Hunt found deep
cut in the left breast, just above the heart,
which severed the main artery, and this had
caused his death DR.. Sanger, who examined
the wound, said the man must have died
within a minute after the wound was in
flicted.
Sinclair left the postoffice on the mail cart
soon after o'clock to join the other two
clerks, 8. Lyman Hayes, of Ossipee, and A.
G.. Sellon, Of Methuen. Mass, who make the
run with him, and who had begun work on
the mail car at 81! in the evening he naa
changed his coat for jumper and put on
pair Of overalls The train had been backed
Into position In the depot and the mail put
into the car when Transfer Clerk 8. 7.
Lowry stepped up to the main door at the
side Of. the car and handed Sinclair pack
age Of letters just three minutes before the
train started.
When the last gong was sounded three min
utes later, and the train had begun to move
slowly out Of the depot, Mr.. William 81.
Lowell, who runs the restaurant at the depot,
and who was going aboard as a passenger.
Jumped on to the rear platform of the mail
car, and on looking into the open door saw
Mr.. Sinclair on pile Of mail bags, apparently
dead.
At about 10 in the evening, when the un-
dertaker removed the clothing from the
body, he found deep cut extending down 1
inst opposite the left arm. This wound was
seven inches long and between five and six
inches deep and severed the main artery.
Sellon and Hayes have been arrested for
murder.
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South and West.

Mr.. +. HARRISON GARRETT, the banker
of Baltimore, and brother of Robert Garrett,
the railroad magnate, has been drowned In
the Patapsco River. His steam yacht Clean
was run down by the steamer Joppa.
FOUR masked men attempted to rob an
American Express car at Delhi, Ohio, and
murdered the baggage master, who. resisted
them. They fed without securing any
booty.
THE graduation ceremonies of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis took
place Friday. The address to the graduates
was made by Governor Knott, of Kentucky,
and was received with great applause by the
cadets. The diplomas were handed to the
graduates, 80 in number, by Secretary OF
the Navy Whitney.
THE triennial General Conference Of the
German Lutheran Church, at Madison, Wis,
concluded after the adoption of resolutions
declaring strongly against secret organiza-
tions. Hereafter persons desiring to join the
secret organizations Of which they may be
members.
THE County Commissioners at Central
City, Neb, have discovered a shortage Of
$4,000 in the accounts of the Treasurer, Col
onel w. Il. Webster, who has fed to parts
unknown.
MILLIONS of Rocky Mountain grasshop-
pers have appeared about Pasham, Mimi,
and the State authorities have sent thither
four car loads Of materials for their destruc.
ton
The Thirty-sixth Annual Convention Of
the International Typographical Union has
been held at the Board Of Trade Hall, Kansas
City, William Amison, the International
President, presiding. Mayor Kumpf made
speech of welcome to the visiting delegates.
JAMES FOSTER Geolore6 was taken from
!ail at Henderson KY, by MOB ana hanged
In difficulty over trife at Longview,
shot and killed Fletcher Welch, an old man.
RoBERTsoN,a colored soldier at Fort Shaw,
Montana, quarreled with another man and,
shooting, killed bystander. At night be
was lynched by fifty masked men
The Prohibition Convention of Missouri
was held at Kansas City and a State ticket
was nominated headed by j. M. Lowe for
Governor.
PETER ALT, proprietor of the Arlington
House, Baltimore, while drunk ma lie muir
derous assault upon his wife, when his fifteen
year old son shot him dead.
EIGHTEEN State convicts employed in
railroad construction near Georgetown, KY,
overpowered the guards and escaped.
THE mother of General Philip II. Sheridan
has died OF old age at Somerset, Ohio.
DENNIS WILLIAMS (colored) who shot and
seriously wounded Superintendent McCor-
mack at Ellersville, Fla, was taken to the
woods by mob and lynched. His body was
afterward found in the river.
THE recent severe rains have caused the
greatest flood ever known in Northern Mime
sofa. At the village Of Cloquet the portion
Of the town on the island was engulfed, only
the tops of the houses being visible. All the
sawmiIls being flooded were abandoned,
and in the booms 100000, 900 logs were
iammed All county bridges have been
carried away.
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DEVASTATED BY FIRE.
The Business Portion of Norway,
Mimi, Laid in Ashes.

Nearly all the business portion Of Norway,
Mimi, is in ashes. In all forty.ssven houses
were destroyed. The fire broke out at P.
N. Sunday, and the fire engine broke down
before getting a stream on the flames.
A terrific wind swept the flames over the
town, and until five O'clock there was moth
ing to bar the progress Of the fire. AS 1t
swept through the business portion toward
the resident portion scene Of widest excite
ment prevailed. Everybody in its track
hastily removed their effects to places OF
safety, and tho town seemed doomed to total
destruction.
The fire department from Iron Mountain
was despatched as soon as possible Before
they reached the scene, however, most
terrible storm, amounting almost to q
cyclone, accompanied by terrific rain, struck
the burning city and soon put stop to the
scene Of havoc.
Hundreds of people are homeless The
damage was fully $220, 900. Only two stores
were left, and were it not for the prompt
assistance Of the people Of Iron Mountain
much suffering for food would iare resulted.
Norway was the first town built on the
iron range and had about ten thousand In
habitants
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ETELKA GERSTER has gone to sing at the
Royal Opera House, Pesth.
THREE comic opera companies are playing
in st. Louis for the summer.
JEFF D'ANGELls, the opera bouffantist, Is
fSso.sl fasssso 70 00l0n'i H'0Aun NA'D ''
CHARLES E. WHITE is the Oldest living
performer who made negro minstrelsy pro-
fession.
MRS D. p. BOWERS, the actress, has de-
cided to make a professional tour OF the Aus
tralian colonies.
JAMES LEWIS, Of Daly's company, has
been immortalized bv the London Times as
an American Coquelin.
MRS BERNARD BEERE, the celebrated
English actress, will come to this country
and act just after election
PINERo's "Swest Lavender has been pur-
chased for the New York Lyceum, and will
be produced early next season.
THE success Of Booth and Barrett in
tragedy has led to talk Of an acting partner.
ship between jefferson and Florence.
BOBBY NEwcoMB, the we'll known favorite
sono and dance man, is dead. He was one OF
the neatest and most graceful performers on
the speciality stage.
ELLA RUSSELL, the American singer now
in st. Petersburg, Russia, was recently pre-
aented with a rose Of diamonds during per-
formance Of "Traviata"
MRS. ALICE SHAW, the American whist
Ter, is Just now novel attraction at high so
ciety entertainmes Is in London. She recently
whistled for the Prince Of Waless beneht,
and was personally complmented by him.
NINE. ALBAN1 recently sung Home, Sweet
Home" at the Inauguration Of the exhibition
for the benefit Of the London (England)
Home for Incurables in such way that
lady pre ssnt at once wrote her check Tor
$4,000 for the charity.
THE Egyptian Government has granted
permission to Sarah Bernhard's impresarlo
for the use Of the Khedive's theater in Cairo
for ten performances to be given IN the
winter. The great French actress proposes
giving like number in Alexandra also.
NINE. KATE RULLA, an American prlma
donna, has scored an operatic success IN Lon,
don. She was called upon, without rehearsal
and upon two hours notice to sing IN Don
Giovanni" She awakened the enthusiasm or
the audience, and has been favorably con-
sidered by all the critics.
Tony PAsToR,s Theater, in New York,
which has Just been destroyed by fire, was a
regular school for comedians. Among the
many graduates turned loose upon the stage
from Pastors tutelage are: Nat Goodwin,
Lillian Russell, George 8. Knight, Joe
Emmett Evans and hoey, Neil Burgess,
Baker and Farron, Thatcher, Primrose and
West. Jacques Kruger, Deaman, Thompson
and Gus Williams
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A Death Dealing Tempest.

Several persons were killed in tempest at
Fort Yates. Dakota, by lightning and flying
King, the celebrated Indian chief, and his
son. A farmer living two miles south was
found dead in his field half a mile from the
point at which his house was situated.
The building had been completely
wrecked. and it is supposed that the man
had been carried to the point where found by
the wind Matte Dambrowski, girl Of
thirteen, living at a settlement six miles
south, was blown into the river and drowned.
severe. as hundreds Of theN had everything
they possessed swept away by the winds
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Washington.

The President has approved the acts for
the erection of public buildings at Paterson,
NJ and Tallahassee, Fla. the act to in
crease the appropriation for the public
building at Sacramento, Cal, and the act to
amend the act to establish agricultural sta
tions in connection with colleges.
ArToRNEY-GENERALG GARLAND has sent to
the House revised estimates aggregating
s.. zoo. 900 for expenses Of United States
courts for the fiscal year 1859.
The Department of Agriculture has issued
a crop report showing a reduction in the
area Of winter wheat, and an increase in
spring. The acreage of rye and barley is the
same as last year, but there is an increased
cotton area in every State except Florida.
The Postmaster General has sent to Con-
gress an additional estimate of ofappropriation
FOR the free delivery service for the next fis-
cal year of 81, ,021, 200. It will be necessary
to employ 1000 more carriers-an increase
of twenty-five per cent.-to bring the hours
of letter carriers within the provisions Of the
law.
GENERAL j. D. C. ATKINS, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, has resigned.
THE President has nominated Varnum NJ.
Babcock, Of Wisconsin, to be Receiver OF
Public Moneys at st. Croix Falls, Wis.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THIRTEEN Boston churches are without
pastors.
The Alabama State Treasury contains
$400,000
The largest cable road in the world Is at
St Louis.
A STRANGE disease has appeared among
the Texas cattle.
A BIG fire in Panama destroyed $500, ,OO0
worth Of property. .
CLAIMS for sidewalk injuries in Detroit
aggregate 100000.
"CHR1sT1AN science" has driven a Gin
cinnati young man crazy.
The 10000 Bohemians in Chicago are pre-
pairing to become citizens
A CAPE CoD man, now Bostonian, Is
Director in 81 national banks.
ONE of the men-of-war at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard is sold for $40 to a junk dealer.
IlEx-GovERNoR WILLIAM JOHNSON, OF
Kentucky, died at his home in Bardstown at
the age Of II.
Mr.. WILLARD, the famous American rail-
road financier, is organizing an expedition to
the South Pole.
FABIUs W. R1x, crippled war veteran OF
Marblehead, Mass. has inherited million
from rich uncle.
The English Government think they have
discovered a Fenian plot to assassinate Irish
Secretary Balfour.
THE New York Worlds editor and pro-
prietor, Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, has entirely lost
the sightof one eye.
LEpRosY is spreading at a dreadful rate in
Russia. Thirty cases have been officially re-
ported in Darpat alone.
The Farmers Alliance, introduced into
Mississippi in March, 1887, has now 1909
lodges aud 40,0J0 members.
THE next session of the Presbyterian
General Assembly will be held in the Fourth
Avenue Church in New York in 1889.
A FAMINE prevails at Epirus, Greece
Funds have been started at, Constantinople
and Athens for the relief Of the sufferers.
The municipality Of Berlin contributes an
nually more than $500, 900 to the mainte-
nance Of hospitals and other sanitary institu-
tionS
A CITY official Of the v1ry OF Mexico who
died the o.her day had been stealing right
along for thirty nine years without sus-
picion being raised.
The City of Macon, Ga, has been sued for
100000 damages by the widow Of a man who
was lynchei two years ngo. She claims the
city was responsible.
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Murdered BY His Mother.

There is much excitement at Greenfield,
Mo-. the county seat Of Dade County, over
the discovery that supposed suicide
was a singular case of murder.
Last Sunday morning George, the four
teen-year-old son of Mrs Stofle, a widow
living on a farm near. Springfield, was
found hanging dead in barn. The general
belief at the time was that he had committed
snicide, The mothers grief took very
Violent form soon after the funeral and she
was placed under restraint It then came
out that she had threatened the boys life;
and in one Of her lucid moments sho said she
had drugged her boy with morphine and
then dragged him to the barn and hanged
him.