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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-24
Foreign.

EMPEROR WILLIAM OF Germany and the
Emperor Of Austria have been on five
days deer stalking trip.
Two students who were in financial trouble
by agreement shot each other dead in the
street in suburb Of Vienna.
THE troops of the Ameer of Afghanistan
have defeated the forces of 1shak Kahn at
Tashkurgan.
The town of Tiacohur, Mexico, has been
completely destroyed by floods. Over five
hundred families have been rendered home
less in the mountains and are in great dis
treSS.
A DISASTROUS flood in the Province OF
Moukden, China, about $50 miles northeast
Of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds #
natives, the destruction Of many houses, and
the ruin of the crops.
IN the recent storm at Nokejorie, in Japan.
SCOG houses were demolished, eighty.five YES
sells were totally lost and 500 wrecked, and
62,oO0 persons wounded, injured, or made
dependent upon public assistance
THE British man of war Osprey has cap.
tured of Mocha three dhows, having on
board 204 slaves. The captains Of the dhows
and four OF the slaves were killed before the
slavers surrendered
The death is announced of Father Schleyer,
the parish priest Of Constance France, and
the inventor Of the new language known as
Volapuk.
SIR ANTHONY MUsGRAvE, Governor of
Queensland, is dead
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NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE hop crop in England is failure.
TIE yield Of celery this fall is exceptionally
large
THEY are putting an elevator in the Wash
ington Monument
RUSSIA is talking of interfering in the
Afghan distur Dances.
ASSOCIATE Supreme Court Justice Stanley
Matthews is convalescent.
For the first six months Of 1888 the English
railways killed 165 people and injured 957.
Ice skates are going to be cheap this
winter, as several Of the patents have just
run out
A YOUNG couple who were married at Mar
ragansett Pier, Mass, took their wedding
trip in balloon.
KING KALAKAuA. Of the Sandwich Islands.
goes to Melbourne, Australia, next month to
attend the Exposition.
THE bronze statue of the poet Longfellow'
erected bv his Glow townsmen OF Portland,
Me-, has been unveiled.
The South American skunk has been
introduced into Australia with view OF
exterminating the rabbit pest.
The Pope has closed his jubilee by celebra-
ting high mass for the dead in st. Peters In
the presence Of $4,000 people.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JosEPH of Austria,
narrowly escaped DelnS snOI az tne flAe
practice Of Austrian soldiers.
The worlds pacing record Of one mile for
three-year-olds has been beaten at Napa,
Cal. by Gold Leaf. Time. 2:l5
Two corporals of the French army have
been arrested for off.ring Label rifles and
cartridges to tie Italian government
FLOODS are prevailing throughout Switz-
erland, which have caused mu, damage to
property. Railroads have especially suffered.
JoHY REDMOND, the Irish member of Par-
lament, has teen convicted under the Crimes
Act and sentenced to Eve months imprison-
mept
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE King Of Sweden is historian.
THE Queen of Roumauia has become a pub
Usher.
THE Prince of Wales intends joining the
Odd Fellows
EVANGELIST MOODY will spend the winter
In California.
MRS. FRED GRANT loves the military, and
still lives at West Point.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, has just
past his eighty eighth birthday.
THE betrothal Of the Czarevitch Of Russia
to Princess Maud Of Wales is announced
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has made
more money as a surgeon than as an author
BISHOP FOSTER, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, was licensed to preach when only
fourteen.
THE American Duchess Of Marlborough
has already distributed several large sums 20
London hospitals
COLONEL F. c. LISTER KAYis the youngest
regimental commander in the British SERVICE
being only thirty-six years old
JOSEPH THOMPSON, the plucky African
explorer, is only twenty seven years oio, Oh
medium height, but robust and wlry.
CARL ScHuRz has been applied to by
Houghton. Miff1in & Co. to write Life OF
Abraham Lincoln" for their American States
men serlea
SENATOR SHERMAN Is reported to have
made $4,000 during the past nye years
from investments in real estate on Columoia
Heights in Washington.
FRANK E. VIsToRATo, well known cltlzen
of Salem. Mass, was, when a lad. one OF 19e
100 Greeks that under Marco bozzaris, mage
the famous charge at Carpenisi In August
1923.
SOME one has discovered that of the candl-
dates for President tn year Cleveland IS tne
biggest. Harrison the shortest, FISK the nano'
sonest, Streeter the wealthiest and be's
Lockwood the sweetest.
YAM PHoU LEE, graduate OF Yale, VINO
married New Haven lady, mas oeen az
pointed to q position in the Pacific BANK, oan
francisco, Cal. He will attend to all tne
business bis countrymen, the Chlnese' na'e
with the bank.
TIE silent Won Moltke" isn't at all silent
at home. He is, on the contrary c9arm-
ing, lively and amiable companion. be
very fond Of the wife OF his nepnew, asu' %io
presides over his household, and or her Gnli-
dren. He loves whist and roses, and Oh tneSe
flowers cultiyates great variety.
John l. PORTER, who designed and con-
structed the Merrimac, the first ironclad ever
built, and who thus changed completeiy tne
system of naval warefare, is now welding
broadaxe In the navy yard at Norfolk, va
BE IS an old man, almost eighty. but ne Is
compelled to toll from early until late.
PROBABLY the richest college professor ID
America, IL not in the world, is Professor +.
j. Salisbury, of Yale. He is millionaire,
and his fortune was made from investments
in Boston real estate. Professor SallsouryH
about seventy years old, is man OF courGy
demeanor, and has travelled over nearly the
whole world
Ex-MAYon Low, of Brooklyn, is credited
with having an income Of $40. 600 year.
He is considered the brain Of the old com
mercial house of A. A. Low Il Co., which IN
former years control ed nearly the entire entire
American tea trade with China ana Japan,
Mr.. Low is thirty nine years of age, ana y
married to very brilliant and cuieureu
woman.
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LATER NEWS,

JAMES B. CAuNcE, the confidential clerk
Of the Dolphin Manufacturing Company Of
Plainield, N. j., has confessed that he has
embezzled the company's funds to the
amount of nearly $40 900 during period Of
eighteen months he was arrested.
nary GRIFFIN, an old inmate of the aims
house at Meriden, Conn.,. died after starving
herself for flfty-five days, during which she
took nothing but water.
AN amphitheatre was erected to assist in
the big annual celebration of Quincy, Ill.
Scarcely had the show begun when with a
crash the vast structure 20 feet hisn, 80 feet
wide and 700 feet long fell with crash,
burying 5000 in the debris Over 500 people
were injured, half Of them seriously and one
fatally.
JOHN j. O'NEIL, of the Eighth District,
st. Louis, has been renominated for Con-
gress.
THE Chicago rioters and striking street
car employees and the police came in conflict
several times. Clubs were used with good
effect upon the mob, which retaliated with
stones. Several shots were fired, but none
with fatal effect. Captain Aldrich was seri-
ously hurt and hundred people clubbed
Fully fifty policemen were struck with
stones and other missiles, and fought their
way through the infuriated mob with blood
streaming down their faces and dripping
from the ends of their clubs.
A. s. NEsM1TH. of California, has been ap-
pointed chief clerk of the Signal Service, the
new Office created by Congress.
JUDGE ALLEN G. THURMAN spoke for
forty minutes before the United States
Supreme Court in the famous telephone
suit.
THE President has vetoed the bill paying
Laura E. Maddox for 4O42 boxes Of tobacco,
valued at s74, 900, furnished by her husband
B. A. Risley, an agent OF the Government,
at Norfolk, Va, in 1864.
CHAs. W1NsLow, Vice Consul at Guerrero,
Mexico, has died of cholera
The British forces in the Black Mountains
have captured Seri and burned many vii
lages. The enemy is falling back to the In
dus and will negotiate for peace. Seri will
be permanently occupied by the British.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has termi-
mated bis visit to Austria. Before leaving
he embraced and kissed the Emperor Francis
Joseph three times, and then embraced and
kissed the King of Saxony and the Regent Of
Bavaria.
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A GREAT WAR SHIP.
The Biggest Vessel Of the United
States Navy Launched.

The new steel government cruiser Balti.
more has been successfully launched, be-
tween showers, from the Cramps shipyard,
in Kensington, Penn, in the presence of q
great crowd Of Philadelphians and many
United States Government officials.
J. No cards Of special invitation had been sent
out by the Messrs Cramps for the event. e1.
cepting those sent to Washington, but the
gates Of the immense shipyard we're thrown
open to the public and notwithstanding the
rain thousands of people gathered to witness
the novel sight. The cars containing the Wash.
ington visltyrs arrived at the shipyard at 10
T. NJ. Secretary Whitney arrived from New
York q few minutes later, and with the
Washington visitors was escorted to the
platform erected OH level with the extreme
tip of the bow of the cruiser. Hundreds OF
workmen were at once put to work driving
the wedges and saving the timbers support
ing tire vessel.
At 2:25 cries of "Look out!" from the
workmen gave notice that the huge hull was
moving, and a moment later, as it gracefully
slid away, Mrs. Wilson broke the champagne
bottle on the bow and christened the vessel
The Baltimore. The cruiser slid slowly and
smoothly down the ways, and, on striking
the water, ran swiftly out to mdstream
amid the booming of cannon on the Despatch,
the cheers and shouts Of the vast assemblage,
and the blowing of whistles and horns. The
anchors were Immediately dropped, and the
Baltimore stood gracefully resting in the
Delaware river.
The Baltimore is the largest vessel yet
constructed for what Is known as the new
navy. She is 3S5 feet long over all, her
beam amidships is Is 48.5 feet, her mean
draught is 1875 feet, and her displacement is
4lOJ tons. The indicated horse power of her
engines is 1880 at natural draught, and 10, 750
at forced draught, and they are expected to
drive here along at the rate Of nineteen knots
an hour Shn will carry two masts, fitted
with military tops. and her crew will consist
of 800 men. She has protective deck of
thick steel plates, and under this, down below
the water line, are placed the rudder and the
steam steering gear.
The new cruiser, being intended for effec.
tive service in time of war, will he armed
with main body of four eight-inch breech-
loading rifed guns in Sponsors Is feet above
the water There will also be second
battery of six rapid firing six-pounders, six
Hotchkiss revolving cannon; and four gatling
guns. She will also carry five torpedo
launching tubes or guns
The Baltimore can make 306S miles,
or about tho distance across the Atlantic
ocean, in seven days and half-a speed
nearly equal to that Of the great passenger
steamers.
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Melville W. Fuller, the eighth Chief JUS
tice of the United States, has been inducted
into office with ceremonies fully in keeping
with the dignity and high character of his
new duties. Mr.. Fuller swore himself in.
reading the oath in clear voice that could
be heard distinctly in every portion OF the
Supreme Court room.
The narrow space allotted to the general
public in the court chamber was crowded
Among the persons of note who found places
in the room were Judge Allen @. Thurman
Chief f-Justice Fuller arrived at the Capitol
a little after eleven o'clock. The first oatn,
that of allegiance, was administered In
private by Justice Miller, the ceremony oc-
ent but the Associate Justice. 1t is the GUS
tom never to permit any one to witness this
ceremony.
At iusS twelve o'clock the Deputy Marshal
in loud voice announced 1.-The Honorable
the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court"
The members Of the Bar and the public
assembled, arose in their places and re-
manned standing facing the bench, while the
Justices filed. in Justice Miller was at the
head. Following him were Justices Harlan,
Bradley. Gray, Blatchford and Lamar. Ex-
Justice Strong and Chief Justice Fuller came
in together The Associate Justices sat in
their places, and Chief Justice Fuller, with
ex-Justice Strong, stepped within the railing
enclosing the Clerks desk and took seat.
Justice Miller then announced that since
the last meeting of the Court the President
had appointed and the Senate had confirmed
Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States; the
clerk would read the commission. After
this was done Chief Justice Fuller stood
up to take the oath Of Office, and the
Court and all assembled arose. There had
been some question as to who should admin
lister this oath. The new Chief Justice set
tied the matter by administering it to him
self. The clerk handed him the written
form Of oath and little Bible covered with
velvet In clear 70 ce he read the oath as
follows:
81 do solemnly swear that I will admin
ister justice without respect to persons and
do equal right to the poor and to the rich,
and that l will faithfully and impartially
discharge and perform the duties incumbent
on me as Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
of the United States according to the best of
my ability and understanding, agreeable to
the constitution and law Of the United States,
80 help me God"
His voice trembled at the last words. The
Chief Justice was then escorted behind the
bar and to his official seat in the centre.
Again the Court and the assemblage arose,
without other summons than a wave of the
hand by the clerk. Justice Miller took the
hand of the Chief Justice, and, with smile
of welcome addressed him in lo% voice:
Il welcome you, sir, on behalf Of this
court, as one OF its members and its Chief
Justice"
The Chief Justice bowed and took his seat,
and when the assemblage was again seated
he said:
.In accordance with immemoral usage,
the court will now ad journ in order to enable
its members to pay their respects in body
to the President of the United States"
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A Child Uses a Snake for a Whip.

Agentleman of this city was talking
about snakes, when citizen from Ian
dolph said: II have chap who is
pass ionately fond of a whip. When
hickory bushes are in order make for
him whips, and he pops them to his
hearts content. The other day, his
whip being lost, he went out in search
of it, and somewhere in the yard he
found small snake. lie picked it up,
holdlngi it by the neck, and came in the
house using it as whip. and began pop
ping everybody in reach. His mother
discovered that her baby boys whip was
a live snake, SO she seized it and threw
it into the yard. With frantic scream.
the 10y darted after the snake, and
again caught it and began to pop around
as before. His mother again tried to
take the snake from him, when he
caught it in h teeth and took piece
out-skinned the hide of as he would a
potato--and, strange to say, he was not
bitten" - Vest Point Alliance.
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South and West.

A SECTION master named Williams, of Nor
folk, Va told his gang to do certain work,
which they did not do, and he spoke TO them
roughly. Three Of the gang became exas-
perated and made for him with pckaxes. he
drsw his pistol and fired six shots, killing all
three Of his assailants
THERE is great haste shown in preparing
the naval despatch boat Dolphin for sea at
Mare Island, Cal, her presence in Callao
being, urgently, demanded because serious serious
complications have arisen between General
Caceres, the President of Peru, and the
syndicate of New York business men who
are largely interested in railway enterprises
in that country.
ABOUT 1000 Chicago street car employees
are on strike for higher wages, and three
fourths of the people of the city are without
transportation facilities The police are
constantly on duty to suppress rioting.
THREE trainmen were killed and six others
injured by the collision Of express and freight
trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
near Washington. The accident was due to
the negligence of the freight trainmen.
A coLoRED man named McCondon was
shot aud killed at Birmingham, Ala, by a
party Of four colored men, who took him to
the woods and made way with him.
N. B. WADE. of Knightstown, Ind, mur-
dered his wife and his aged mother, and af-
ter taking a fatal dose of poison set fire
to his residence. The three bodies were
partially consumed in the flames
THE Supreme Court of Utah has declared
the Mormon Church corporation dissolved.
and its property escheated to the United
States Government.
JUSTICE of the Peace Lawrence and a
friend named Lacy, who was drunk, visited
the Admission (AIa-) Hot Blast office and de-
manded O retraction Of certain statements
which Editor Edmunds refused. Then the
shooting began, Lacy firing at Edmunds,
shooting him in the arm. John Chapman
and plumber named Tipney were shot in
the head. Their wounds were fatal
An explosion in a grist mill at Charity
Neck, Va, killed George w. Dawley, the
proprietor.
J.R. NORTH, farmer near independence,
Kan, quarreled with the Rev. G. w.
Puckett, Methodist minister, and shot him
fatally.
ScHUNEMANN's packing house in the stock
yards, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, Sl25,00O.
THE employees of the Chicago West Side
street railroads have gone on strike to assist
their striking comrades Of the North Side
road, making 1000 men now engaged in the
movement for higher wages. A fight
occurred between the strikers and police, in
which twenty people were injured.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate PROCEEDINGS.

1S9TH DAY.-The House resolution for the
investigation Of frauds in the building of the
new aqueduct was explained by Senator
Hale and passed. -. The debate on the Senate
Tariff bill was opened by Mr.. Allison. Mr..
Vance replied.
19OTH DAY.-The Senate took up and dis.
cussed the conference report on the General
Deficiency bill. The conference report was
agreed to. A special bill was introduced
granting to the widow Of Chief Justice
Waite his salary for the remainder of this
year. Mr.. Hiscock spoke upon the Senate
Tariff bill
191sT DAY.-Mr. Hale submitted the report
Of the special committee appointed to inves
tigate the Civil Service. .. The Senate passed
the bill paying the family of Chlef-Justice
Waite the balance of his years salary,
amounting to sY745. Mr.. Bate, Of Tennes.
zee. made speech on tho tariff.
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A RECENT issue of the London Figaro

saws: Women who want to get mar
ried are as plentiful in Berlin as IN
other capitals. A Berlin merchant
lately advertised for a wife and re-
,eired OF answers. OF these 81 were
widows, varying in age from 20 to 81;
70 of them had no children. and Il
possessed fortunes entirely under their
own control. -Four ladies who had
been separated from their husbands
also wrote to express desire to try
their luck at marriage q second time:
one of them for third time. Of the
remaining 1876 only two gave their age
as over 80; IS of them professed to be
just turned 1s. Seventy-one photo
graphs were inclosed, and 81 of them
are said to represent remarkably pretty
girls"
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZEDI
Eastern and Middle States.

PHILIP PALLEDoNI, the Italian who, il
cold blood, murdered his brother on the even.
ing of June % 1887, has been hanged al
Bridgeport, Conn.
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN GLEADELL, COM
mander of the White Star steamer Germanlc
and commodore of the White Star fleet, dled
on the voyage from Liverpool HIS oooy
was brought to the port OF New YORK.
In Glendale, N. Y, William and John
Herrick, brothers, went cunning. While
resting, Williams gun was accidentally als-
charged and John was killed.
Two of the horses in chariot race a. the
Sussex County ~ j. Fair became unman-
aeeable and plunged through the fence into
the crowd of spectators, knocking down sew
eral of them and dangerously, perhaps IA
tally, younding three men. Grant Pellet,
an old citizen, was struck in the breaSt anu
knocked under the horses hoofs and Killed.
In the village of Oak6eld, n. Y, Mrs.
Joseph T. Moore, the young wife OF prom
She had dressed herself with great care IN
spotless white and laid upon blanket on the
floor of her bedroom when she fired the fatal
shot Her married life was unhappy
In a collision Of trains near Oswego, n. Y,
one man was killed and six others badly hurt
The Tammany Hall Democrats met in
convention and nominated Hugh ). Grant,
the present Sheriff, for Mayor of New York
city.
THAT faction of New York Democrats
known as the County Democracy has noml-
mated Abram S. Hewitt for Mayor OF New
York city by acclamation-
JOSEPH SMITH, broker and politician,
killed himself by inhaling Illuminating gas at
Plainfeld, N. j.
THE collapse Of flooring at the laying or
q corner stone of Catholic Church In Read.
ing, Penn. resulted in the serious injury OF
about hundred persons, number OF them
being fatally hurt
FRANCIS w. WILLIAMS, of New YORK,
the senior member of the firm of Williams,
Black g. Co., brokers, who suspended pay,
ment recently by reason Of losses sustained
through the Chicago wheat corner, com
mitted suicide at the Grand Union Hotel.
AwooDEN stable at the foot of East Thirty
fourth street, New York, was consumed by
fire and two hostlers and twenty.six horses
were smothered to death.
AT East Watertown, Mass, in little
pond, May Crafts, young woman ABOUT
twenty years old, petite and pretty, dellber'
ately drowned herself.
GEORGE E. LEAvENwoRrH, night editor
of the Bridgeport, Conn, Morning Ne,os'
died after taking laudanum with suicidal In
tent He left a letter to his mother saying
that he was tired Of life.
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WASHINGTON.

THE President and Internal Revenue Com
missioner. Miller have returned from their
brief fishing excursion to the Upper Potomac.
They caught good string of bass
JUDGE ALLEN G. THURMAN, while in
Washington recently to argue case before
the Supreme Court, spent several days with
President Cleveland at his country seat,
"Oak View," near the Capital.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: L. W. Crofoor and =. F.
Templeton, to be Associate Justices of Dakota;
E. D. Sim, to be Collector Of Customs at
Saluria, Texas; John H. Oberley, to be Com
missioner of Indian Affairs.
CONGRESS has passed the supplementary
counting of the Presidential vote.
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AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK.
Two Trains Collide With Fatal Eff
feet in Pennsylvania.


A most appalling acc dent occurred be-
tween and 9 o'clock at night on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad in Pennsylvania, at point
midway between White Haven and Penn
Haven Junction, near the little station
known as Mud Run.
There is not q worse spot on the line fol
such an accident. The track there runs close
beside the Lehigh River. q steep embank'
ment sixty to seventy-fiv feet high, running
down from the tracks to the river.
Une section of an EXCURSION train return.
ing from the Father Mathew celebration
at Hazleton, Penn, crashed into another
section.
The cars piled in n shameless mass, ono
being stood upon its end. The cars were all
crowded to the doors, many women and
children being among the passengers. The
cars were smashed to pieces and hurled from
the track, rolling down the steep emoank-
ment5.
Several cars of the forward section wero
telescoped and forty persons were killed out
right, and the total number Of dead is placed
at about eighty, while 15D were injured.
Fortunately the river was low, or the ca
would have gone into the water, and ii g
loss of life would have been still more ter.
rible.