The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
South and West

DAN WREN, the wealthiest of the Chicago
boodlers, has been taken to Joliet to begin his
two years sentence.
ISRAEL LUCAS, the Treasurer of Auglaize
County, Ohio, who defaulted for s3l 900, was
arrested in Toronto. but compromised with
the county for $4,000 and was released.
THE Knoxville (Tenn.> College for Colored
Men has been closed on account of an epi,
demic of typhoid fever. Thirty of the $50
students are i'll and two deaths have oc-
CURED.
A RECEPTION in honor of President and
Mrs. Cleveland was given at st. Augustine
during their trip to Florida. From st. Au-
gustne the party visited Palatka and took
sail on the Indian River. A visit was also
paid to the Exposition at Sanford after
which the party returned to Washington,
making a short stop at Charleston, S. c.,
where it was received by the Mayor and q
committee of prominent citizens, and there
was procession.
THE body of Miss Louise Deltimore, aged
twenty-four, who mysteriously disappeared
from Sissonville, W Va, last October, has
been found in the POGO River, near her
home.
A TORNADO destroyed numerous buildings
and did considerable damage in Nanderberg
and Gibson counties, Ind.
GUsTAvE WINKLER, fresco artist, Of Mil
waukee, Wis, murdered his wife in the pres
ence Of their three infant children, and then
committed suicide.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Mccoy, was attacked at
EI Cuero ranch. near Brownsville, Texas by
five bandits. He killed four of them and seri
ously wounded the other.
LEE WELLS and George Urquhart. two
young newsboys, quarreled at Houston,
Texas, over their papers, when Urquhart
O ic
WESLEY WILLIS, young man Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, had trivial quarrel with a
neighbor and fed when three policemen at
tempted to arrest him. They fired, killing
him. and the officers had to be locked up to
prevent citizens from lynching them.
CHIEF ARTHUR, of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, consented to strike of
the ] 600 engineers and firemen employed on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road, the company having refused the en-
ployes' demands for a uniform wages tariff
Of three and half cents per mile on all its
lines.
MRS. McNULTY gave birth to three chill
dren at Winchester, Ohio, making five in
fourteen months. All are alive.
COLONEL E. B. C. CASH, the famous
South Carolina duelist, is dead.
GREAT enthusiasm prevails among the citi-
has been discovered for making steel out of
Birmingham ore.
THE Deaf and Dumb Institution at Fulton,
No., was totally destroyed by fire, causing a
loss to the State of S500,00O. The professors
succeeded in rescuing all of the lS5 pupils
from the burning structure.
The official vote for Congressman in the
Eleventh District of Michigan is as follows:
Breen, Democrat, 1862; Seymour, Repub-
lican, l1.0l0; Steele, Prohibitionist, $50.
Seymour's plurality is 39s.
A VERY severe blizzard visited the eastern
shore of Virginia, resulting in much damage
to boats and buildings. ..
AT Clinton, KY. Sam Price, white man
who killed the Sheriff, and Bill Reams
(coloredN, who shot farmer named Jackson,
who had caught him in the act Of robbing a
hen roost, were taken out Of Jail by mob of
fifty masked men and hanged.
J. H. MILLER and wife, of Fair Haven,
Mimi, locked up their three children and
went to church. During their absence the
lantern exploded, burning to death the three
children, aged seven, ten and thirteen, and
destroying the house.
AT merrymaking in Hillsboro, Ohio, two
young girls dressed as ghosts burst in upon
the party. Four young ladies tainted and
two of them-Misses Dora E. Atkins and
Lizzie Chaney-hopelessly lost their reason.