The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-29

OIL has been struck at Lehigh, Indian Ter
ritory.
SWEDISH protectionists have formed anew
| Cabinet.
PRINCE BISMARCK was cheered by the Ber-
lin children as he left the Reichstag.
SEVERAL American bishops are trying to
reconcile Father McGlynn and the Vatican" "
THE discovery Of big cracks in the Boston
State House frightens Massachusetts, Legisla-
tors.
A CONTRACT for 500, 900 pairs Of military
boots has been given by the German Govern
ment.
A WOMAN in circus at Dublin, Ireland,
put her head in lions mouth and was horri
bly, lacerated.
THE ice blockade between Bath, Me-, and
the Woolwich shore was raised by the liberal
use Of dynamite.
| i[GovERNoR BUCKNER, of Kentucky, says
he won't surrender the Hatfelds to the State
Of West Virginia.
ERNEST BROCK, IS years old, died in CHI
ago Of hydrophobia- He had been bitten by
dog on January 10.
A SERIES Of dinners are to be given to JUS
tice Lamar by the Judges of the Supreme
Court, each one taking his turn.
The congregation OF the Rev. Mr.. Was
sail, of Mendon. Mass, gave him his walking
papers because he smoked pipe.
SAN FRANcIsco's Chief Of Police was
robbed by burglars, who got away with s1,
500 worth of jewelry from his wife's room.
Mrs. SARAH STEIN, aged ~, accidentally
hanged herself while putting up a clothes
line at Titusville, Penn. Her neck was
broken.
AMERICAN potatoes are scarce in Chicago,
and thousands Of sacks are being imported
from Rotterdam, A recent consignment was
2,50O sacks.
MGR. ADAM, of California, presented to
the Pope photograph Of Gabriel, an Indian
Catholic, 40 years old, for whom he asked a
special blessing.
GEORGE I. FINKLE, leader in the famous
anti-rent war in the Hudson and Mohawk
valleys, N. Y, in 1874 and 1S45, died recent
ly, aged eighty.
THE United States authorities have cap.
tured smuggler at Watertown, N. Y, with
s25, 900 worth of opium brought across the
Canadian border.
THE French Government refuses to take
part in the art exhibition in Vienna as re-
prisal for Austria's refusal to participate in
the French exhibition.
MRS. WILLIAM WISDEL, while quietly
listening to the service in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in Wheeling Nv. Fal, ex.
pired from heart disease.
RECENTLY Captain w. S. Pitts, the great
Western tourist and Florida's alligator exter.
minator made contract to furnish one firm
with Is, OOO alligator skins.
ALBERT LITTLE, Sheriff Of Gonzales Coun
ty, Texas, was killed by negro desperate
named jackson. A posse overlook jackson
and riddled him with bullets.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, the conductor ofthe
first passenger train in New York State,
which ran from Albany to Schenectady about
fifty-tive years ago, died in the latter city q
few days since
TIE now German Army bill increases the
strength of the army by 100000 men. and the
initial cost of putting the change into effect,
not considering the subsequent annual ex-
pense, will be sT0,0O,E0.
RICHARD CAssIBoNE, decrepit old man,
was arrested at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, charged
with having escaped from the Penitentiary
thirty years ago, while undergoing a six
years sentence for manslaughter.
AMONG the items in this years Prussian
budget is one of 5000, 600 marks for the ex
tension of the German telephone system in
Berlin. All overhead telephone wires will bs
placed under ground during the year.
DAVE LAsHER, engineer of the cannon
ball train on the Texas & Pacific, refused
to take his train out of Texarkana, Texas,
the other night because he had dreamed il
would be wrecked. Before reaching Bon
ham, Texas, the train had gone through o
trestle.