The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-26
LATER NEWS,

CAROLINE SCHN1ITT, young married wo-
City with her two little children in her arms.
They fell fifty feet. Both children were
killed and the mother fatally injured.
EBEI DURHAM, of Sadsburyville, Penn,
went to sleep near it. The tree fell and
crushed him to death.
Two memjerS of skating party on Dwy-
el's Dam, Ithaca, n. Y, Edward S. Nevins.
CT Grange, n J., and Miss Maggie Sullivan,
q teacher-wcre drowned by breaking
through the ice.
JOHN WHARTON, brakeman on the Penn
sylvania railroad, was thrown from train
at Mikham, n. j., by tramp and both
were killed.
THE United States war ships Galena and
Yantic have sailed from New York for
Hayti.
IT is estimated that 1G,94T women out Of
total registration of 81 300 voted for men,
bers of the School Committee in the recent
Boston municipal election
THE residence Of John r. King, of Cook
vile, Texas, was burne |. and King, his wife
and six children perished in the flames. The
bodies of the eight victims were taken from
the ruins and buried in one grave.
COMPLETE returns for Presidential electors
in West Virginia, show an average majority
for the Cleveland electors on the face OF the
returns of 53G. The vote for the highest eiac-
tors on each ticket was: Travers Demo
craft, 1855: Pollock (Republican), 1902
MISS ALICE BYRUM. teacher, and Miss
Lewis. her pupil, were killed by train while
attempting to walk along railroad trestle
near Alcxanders, n. c.
VICE. E.PREsIDrHT-ELEcT LEVI T. MORTON
and Mrs. Morton arrived at Indianapolis,
Ind, on a visit to General Harrison, and
were received at tho door OF the Harrison
mansion by the President-elect.
CoLoRow, the great chief of the Southern
Utes, has died at Ouray Agency, on Green
River, Utah, of pneumonia, at the age OF
seventy. He was the leader in the Meeker
massacre aud in the Colorow war year ago.
GOVERNOR JACKSON, of Maryland, tele-
graphed Secretary Whitney asking for steam
launches and Gatllng guns from Annapolis
to protect the polio, boat Folly, and United
States launches and guns were ordered to
Hackett's Point, where the Folly was sur
rounded by forty piratical oyster dredgers
THE schooner Sis Church, of New London,
Conn, went ashore between Lynn Haven
Bay and Ocean View, Va, and the Captain,
the mate and two Portuguese sailors were
lost.
THE Agricultural report for November
shows the average price Of corn to be Bic.
bushel, compared with 44c. last year. The
reduction in the seven corn surplus States
has been from Soc. last year to CSC. this year.
The average of wheat is 92c., compared with
Csc. last year. Oats have fallen from S0c.
last year to CSC. this year, and potatoes have
fallen from Csc. to G0c. Barley has ad-
vanccd from SIC to Sc, rye from 54c to
sec, and buckwhcat from SEC. to &c
THE President has nominated W. II. Morris
to be Postmaster ct Birmingham, Ala, in
succession to Postmaster Throckmorton. who
was killed during the recent rioting there
THE Republicans are now sure that they
will have a majority of five in the next House,
and the candidates for the Speakership are
hustling on that basis.
TICKETS to tie Harrison AMI Morton
Inauguration ball are to be s. each.
THE River and Harbor Appropriation
bill as reported to the House appropriates
s1l,9OGs5o.
WALTER L. BRAGG, of Alabama, has been
nominated by President Cleveland to be an
Interstate Commerce Commissioner.
DURING a performance at Hohenmauth,
Bohemia, a female lion-tamer was attacked
by the brutes and frightfully lacerated. She
died soon after being rescued.
THE Panama Canal Company has been
tided over another crisis by the sale i'll
Paris of $780, 900 more $50 lottery bonds
SIX gypsies have been frozen to death in
Boskowitz, Bohemia.
ALL the Treasury officials of Spain have
been imprisoned pending an investigation
into robbery of S2a4O, ,0O0 from the govern
ment banks