The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-14
South and West.

THE Brotherhood Of Railway Brakemen,
which has been in session at Columbus, Ohio,
adjourned without perfecting the scheme to
federate all American railway employees.
EPHRA1M MAYEs has been hanged ut Edge
field, S. c., for the murder Of Jacob Burt
deaf mute about sixty years old and almost
helpless; Ben F. Carter, cowboy, who shot
and killed another cowboy, named Jaffrey,
has been hanged at Rawlns, Wyoming, and
Hugh Blackman, colored, has been hanged at
Toledo, Ark, for killing man known as
"Big Six" in a quarrel over a gambling
game.
WILLIAM T. HAMILTON. ex-United States
Senator and Ex-Governor Of Maryland, has
died of pneumonia at Hagerstown, Md.
DAVID GATES, young barkeeper of Col.
fax, Washington Territory, shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide.
MRS. HENRIETTA SPERE, aged seventy
eight, and Mrs. Martha Beckel. aged sixty
five, inmates Of the German Home for the
Aged in Baltimore Nd, were found dead in
bed, sufPocated by gas.
REPORTS received in Chicago indicate that
the potato crop this year will be 2l6, ,G46, ,00O
bushels against POS. l46, 900 in 1887. The crop
is the largest ever known.
A RIOT followed the performance Of John
Rohinson's circus in Barboursville, KY,
ween William Goodin took exception to
joke by the ringmaster. he jumped into the
ring to whip the employe and three of his
friends were killed in the fight that ensued.
The ravages of hog cholera still continue
around Findlay, Ohio. In Portage town
ship over 6OOO have fallen victims to the dis
ease.
The West bound passenger train at
Charleston, w. Va, was thrown over an
embankment by a wilfully misplaced switch,
and two employees were burned to death
COUNTY JUDGE TARTAR, OF Pulaski, KY,
was drowned in Pitman Creek while re.
turning with Congressman Finley from an
clectioneering tour
NATHANIEL WATTS, the last Of the old de-
Tenders who repulsed the British attack on
Baltimore, September L., 1911: has just died
there, aged ninety-three.
A HANDcAR was run down by special
train Of the Burlington road, near Dubuque,
Iowa, and three of its riders were killed.
THE little town of Hale, No, has been
wiped out by fire.
A GANG of men repairing bridge at Du
Quin, ILL.,, threw a girder, which was its
main support, out OF plumb, throwing the
bridge into the river. In the wreck VIM.
Thompson was instantly killed, and Arthur
McRea, James Campbell, D. Maffeld, John
Edmunds and Theodore Harris were fatally
injured. Four others sustained serious in.
juries.
MISS Bolton, of Raleigh, N. c., an elderly
maiden, fell in a fire III her house and was
burned to death.
An explosion Of natural gas in Schultheis's
tannery at Lima, Ohio, killed John Schulz
theis, Peter Klein and James Hubbard.
REV. ADRIAN Derente, Catholic clergy
man has committed suicide at Dallas, Texas,
by shooting himself with pistol. He was
native Of France, IS years old
A SENSATION was created in the Criminal
Court room at Kansas City, Mo-, by the sui.
eide of Jack Fleming, the Deputy Marshal,
who drew revolver and blew his brains out
while the Court was in session.
The boiler of the tug Lawrence burst at
Milwaukee, Wis, and four men were killed