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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-18
A GIGAN TIC BILL0W.
Destruction Wrought by a Wave
Sixty Feet High.


Sixty Feet High.
The city of Portland, Me-, has had mar.
row escape from destruction by wave OF
tremendous height and power during the
recent heavy storm. A Portland dispatch
gives the following particulars:
The great gale struck Portland Head at0:3o
o'clock at time when in this harbor the wind
seemed to I've dying out. Up to that time,
while the wind had been terrific, blowing tif-
ty miles an hour, the rain falling continuous
ly. Keeper Strout and his assistants, Joe and
Gil Strout, had no idea that anything unusual
was about to occur.
1T was very clear" said Gil Strout this
afternoon, "and we coull see long way out
through the rain, and when the great wave
made its appearance we could see It's White
cap far out and could watch its approach,
Apparently the monster wave came in the
shape of q pyramid. 1t struck first against
the outer line of rock, and at that time,
when the fountains Of the mighty deep
seemed to have broken up, a mass OF
believed, with the lighthouse itself.
Between the line of rock extending for per-
haps q hundred feet along the sea line and
the shore is an opening some forty feet deep,
and varying from ten to twenty feet in
length. This space was never hiled
with water until last night, when
above Waves Of ordinary size and power,
breaking and pressing behind added their
strength to that Of the monster, and the entire
mass was hurled sixty feet above high
water mark against the engine, boiler,
and fog horn house. The force of the blow
was such that the building, built as strongly
as possible, was bent, twisted, and shattered.
Great iron stays were snapped as though
they had been pipe stems, and the recedlng
wave carried with it everything on the shore,
including stones weighing tons.
A farmer who lives on the shore OF Cape
Elizabeth, about two miles beyond the head
light, said: II know something about that
monster wave. I never saw anything like it
in my life It was greater than the one two
wears ago, which swept over Pond Cove and
carried away the bridges and roadways.
"When the wave was coming in 1t made
fearful roar. but when it struck the clltfs
it seemed as though it fairly smashed them
to pieces. The force Of the blow was
tremendous. Another such gigantic billoW
would have done woeful damage along the
shore"
The British schooner Achsah, outward
bound. when off Cushing's Island became un
manageabla. and rapidly drifted toward the
shore. She was saved by the tug Warren.
From all Maine ports stories OF the work
of the storm have come in, and it has cen
q long time since SO much damage has been
done. In Eastern Maine the telegraph and
telephone wires were Frustrated, and no
communication with the outer islrnds and
lighthouses could be effrctel At Ro kland
vessels were damaged, and al Calais the night
Wns one of the worst ever seen.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

MORE than 5000 persons live by the mills
q Columbus, Ga
In Mexico laborers get lS to 25 cents day
and are often paid in farm produce
THERE are forty y-six local unions Of brewery
amployes in the Brewers National Union.
A COOPERATIVE grocery store has been
organized by the Knights Of Labor at Lima,
Ohio.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company pays
out $4,000, ,000 annually in wages to its II, ,oJo
employees
ONE Of the new industries in Maine which
are springing UP over the State Is the ex-
traction of oil from cedar boughs.
JoURNEYMEN BAKERS UNION, No. /, of
New York. which IS composed entirely OF
Germans, has decided to employ an English
teacher.
At the Glasgow Exhibition next season,
which will Q opened by the Prince OF Wales,
one e tion will he that devoted to modern
shipbuilding and Murine engineering. Most
OF The Clyde shipbuiiding firms have applied
for space.
THE Railroad Conductors Brotherhood is
going to attempt 10 get law passed by Con-
gress re luiring all conductors on inter 'State
railroads to have Government license, OBJ
tainabe only after IN examination by q
Government board.
EIGHT fruit and vegetable canning farto-
ries in Maine. put on the market this season
products valued at $2.0W,0M Over l4,0O,
D00 cans of sweet corn were put up, besides
large amount Of apples, pumpkins, squash,
beans. and tomatoes
A PITTSBURGH special says that the Flint
Glass Workers Union. whose members are on
q strike, has purcha,ed for s2o,uI0 a factory
near East Liverpool, Ohio. At the outset
sixty men will he employed. The factory
will be under the direct supervision Of the
Union and into its treasury will be turned
the plofits
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VERY OLD PEOPLE.

BATE NORTH, who re emily died at Troy,
Kan, was believed 10 have lived lit years.
WILLIAM AIKEN. co orcd man Of Co!um-
bia, s. c., WAS married on his lE;d birthday
to Sus.e Watson, q young widow, aged 63
years.
Two venerable citi~ens Of Cbillicoshe. Mo-,
died recentiy-Isa ah Austin, who was %
years of age, and Lanty Mckinney, who was
DO.
AT the donation day ceremonies at the
Philadc phia Home for Aged and lntirm Col
ored Persons, John Gibson opened the cele-
bration with prayer, although he is ll7years
Of ago
THE Hon. ravid Neighbour. of Califon, n.
j., has just celebrate b Dist birthday. lie
Is one of the few su viving members OF the
Convention VIII ch framed the Constitution OF
New JerSey in 1919.
WHEN Marie Gilbert died at Stanford,
KY, re ent y, she had lived 81 ye RS without
ever having left her home. She never saw
train. a though her home was but five miles
from the ii road.
Mrs. MARY HAYES GILBERT. Of Glouccs-
ter, NJ ,ss, is in her l02 year. AMI still in the
best OF heath. with memory unimpaired.
When but II years she was at a dinner to
President Adams, who dt ank glass OF wine
with her.
TIL. grandparents OF Mr.. and Mrs E. P
Johnston, are four of the longest-lived peopl'.
in Georg a. connected by similar es inay
reside at Griffin, and are spective 10, ~.
81 and 10 yelrs of age, and are remarkably
hale and herr
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Accidents Elsewhere.

A fatal collision occurred on the Utah and
Northern Railroad, near Dill on. Mont. 1t
was caused by the breaking away Of long
train Of coal cars at Spring Hill, sixty miles
distant, the grade being downward. After
running wild that distance il ran into the
freight train. Fireman Patrick McShane
was instantly killed and Engineer John
Sweeney was seriously hurt. The cars OF
both trains were completely wrecked.
The night express for II lwaukne left
Chicago at 1890, over the Chicago Mil
waukee and St Paul. smashed into freight
train at Somerville, ILL.,, in binding snow
storm. The engine and mail car Of the pas
s.nger train were derai.ed, with several
freight cars, making bad wreck, and CIV
ing the passengers a severe shaking up.
Engineer Little was hurt seriously, and
fireman, probably fatally.
The lsection Of fast stock train ran into
the other part Of the same train near Kouts,
Ind, cans!ng bad smash-uP, followed oy a
cattle car was destroyed and the animals in
side were burned to death.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A BOUNTY for wild cat scalps is paid BY
Florida,
A GRAND sheep shearing will be held in
Chica 20 in the spring.
EXTENSIVE deposits Of chalk have been
found near Bluehill, Me.
CHOLERA Of the deadliest type prevails to
an alarming extent in Chill
IT Is proposed to emp'oy colored people In
the cotton mills at the South.
NATURAL GAS was struck at Nebraska City,
Neb., lately, at depth Of $50 feet.
The Courthouse Of Walker County, ARK,
at Jasper sits upon bed OF solid coh.
A MAN said to be worth $780, ,0O died In an
inehriate asylum in Brooklyn few days ago.
THERE are said to be thousands Of bushels
Of peanuts going to waste in Indian Ierrl-
tory.
RANcHMEN near Mangus, N. NJ, are try
ing to catch big bear that has killed over
one hundred goats
LANDsLIDEs and washouts are greatly In
terfering with tile operation of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad in Manitoba
THERE are 1S9 college-bred men In both
houses of Congress. Or the seventy-sx Sena'
tors only thirty-two are college grahnateS
SOUTHERN Idaho has declared war against
the scheme to divide the Territory anu a'la
the northern portion to Washington Tern
tory.
A BOY and girl. aged fourteen and twelve
years respectively, were recently married at
Sh' lby, Ala, with the consent OF their
parenta
MRS SUSAN MEARs, Mrs. Almira Holmes,
and Mrs. Israel Andrews. triplets, celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary Of their birth re-
Gently, in Essex, Mass
A MICHIGAN man thinks that by draining
certain Tennessee bog lands he can make
fortune raising celery. He has just bought
l,0O acres, near Chattanoga, for this pur
poSe-
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DISASTERS ON THE RAIL.
Five Accidents with Fatal Re-
suits Recorded in One Day.
Seven Persons Killed in Kentucky
and Five in Pennsylvania.

Five railroad disasters, each attended with
fatal results, were reported on Saturday
from different parts Of the United States.
Particulars Of the various accidents were az
follows:
A Conductors Terrible Blunder.
North and south bound cannon ball''
trains on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
came into collision at P. H.. near Green
wood, KY, about twenty miles north Of
the Tennessee and Kentucky State line
Engineer Michaels, Of train No. 2, north
bound, tells thrilling story. He
was running down-grade at the rate OF
sixty miles an hour, and did not see the en-.
gine approaching his train until it was about
fifty feet away. Without stopping to re-
verse his engine or turn on the air-brake he
jumped out Of the cab window and landed in
O lot of bushes. finally dropping in mud
hole. One of his ankles was badly hurt.
Train No. / was running up grade at the
rate Of thirty-five miles an hour. Sam BEN
nett was conductor on this train, and on
meeting Conductor Shrum after tho accident
he inquired: What does this meanH Shrum
replied: II had orders to run to Somerset
regardless of No. l, and here is my order"
On taking it from his pocket he discovered
his mistake, for it ordered him to run to Sum-
mt The dreadful discovery was too much
for Shrlm, and he lost his mind
The dead comprisei Pat Taylor, engineer,
and Fireman Cady, of train No. |; Lee
Withrow, Lawrence Callan and W. B.
Powell, express messengers; James Sever
ance, mail agent, AMI Miss Jessie Green, Of
Cincinnati About twenty persons were III
iured, several of them fatally.
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MINERS ON STRIKE.
Thirty Thousand Men in Penn
sylvania Stop Working.
Nearly Every Coal Colliery in the
Schuylkill Field Closed.

A great strike Of miners employed in the
Reading Railroad Company's Galleries in
the Schuylkill anthracite coal region was
begun on Monday. AS many of the railroad
employees on the Reading Road were also on
strike, the cessation of work by the miners
served to complicate matters. a Pottsvile
Penny dispatch gave the following details
of the beginning and cause of the strike:
The gigantic struggle has commenced:
Corporate power IS on one side and organized
labor on the other. The Schuylkill region
miners are out and will not return, they say,
until their demands are accedei TO- They
number 30,O00, and, added to the a,OUO
miners who are out in the Lehigh region,
pre- ent an army which they say IS lnvlncibie.
Why they are out is question about which
there seems to be some doubt. The leaders OF
the strikers on the Reading Railroad say the
Miners have struck to sustain organized
leaders say it is simply a question OF wages
Dan ell Duffy, Secretary Of the Miners
Amalgamated Association, sums up tho
situation in this way: 'Since the basis
was adopted in 1877 there have been
local re luctions in wages here and there
until the entire region has been brought
down fifteen per cent. below the wages pail
at the time OF lCS anOptlon. lneee reduc9ioilS
have been made in contract work, in
incre lsing the size Of cars, i'll requir.
ing larger headings and the setting of
more timbers, and in hundred other ways
imposing more work with no increase of re-
mune alton Last August we demanded
an increase of fifteen rer cent. THIS
would have simply restored US to the
starting point. The company would
not give the employees the full amount de-
manded and then compromised on eli hit per
cent. The company now wants to go back to
tie fifteen per cent reduction, and the men
are in revolt"
But does the railroad striio enter into
the question:
"That will be matter for future consider
alton"
Meanwhile Messrs Lee and Cahill, Of the
striking railroad employees, manifest the
most active interest in the strike started
to day, and have been rece wing reoorts from
the mines at their headquarters as promptly as
Chairman Davis, of the miners committee, has
received them. There are forty-four COM
pany and twenty-eight individual colleries
in the Schuylkill region in workable condi.
ton. OF tn se five company colieries starte1
up to-day and worked as usual
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Washington

THE past twelve months have been the
greatest year in the history of the United
States for railroai bui ding. the total mile
age Of new main track lines being II, ia
miles.
Two reports have been submitted by the
Commissioners laminns the affairs Of the
Union Pacific Railway Company. The ma
iority repo t favors all adjustment OF the
Company's debts; the m nority report advo'
Gates fol lfeiture Of tie Conn anys charter.
SENATOR HEARST, Of California, wants to
incl ease the pensions of the few remaining
veterans of the war OF 1912.
THE United States Treasury contained
SG29, So, 40 at the beginning of the year.
THE total amount Of national bank notes
out ;tandng at the beginning OF the present
year was Sz0S, lGS,259
FIVE thousand persons, including the
Diplomatic corps, Army and Navy officers,
Supreme Court Justi :es, etc.. SHOOK hands
with the PRESIDENT and Mrs Cleveland at
the White House re ,eptiou on New Years
Mrs Cleve and was assisted in receiving by
Miss Bayard, Mrs Fairchiid and Mrs.
Whitney.
COUNT DE SPoNNECK, Secretary OF the
Danish Legation at st. Petersburg, has been
appointed Dan sh Minister to the United
States He will enter upon the duties OF the
post in February.
GOVERNMENT receipts in December were
s29, ,059, SUB, and expenditures Sl2,sS0,5oo.
DURING December the national debt was
reduced S14,5 n, $500 Total cash in the
Treasury, so27, ,625, ,557.SL
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Remarkable CRYSTALS

Some remarkable crystals were found
O short time aso in gravel bed near
Mokeumne Hill, Cal. lney are OF such
hardness that the hardest file doesn't
make the least impression, and they will
cut glass like a diamond. All the speci-
mems are hexsgonal cubes terminating In
pyramidal points, the sides being as,
smooth and regular as the finest cut glass,
and of such clearness that objects can be
plainly discerned through pieces afootin
thickness. They are of immense size,
the largest having thirteen points start.
ing from a single base three feet IN
length, two and half feet in thickness
and weighing 500 pounds: the next IN:
side is two feet long, eighteen inches in
thickness and weighs about 10 pounds;
the Others, about two dozen in number.
range from one foot to one and half
feet in thickness and weigh from fifty TO-
seventy.hye pounds.
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Htdbl6h-


In 1887, the report says, there were, accord
ing to the best information obtainable. 853
strikes, details of which are not available.
The report shows that during the six years
covered bv the investigation New York
bad the largest number of establish
ments affected both by strikes and lock-
oats, there being for the former 9,Si9
and for the latter l,52S. The builiing
trades furnished 5000 of the total number Of
establishments engaged in strikes The total
numter OF employees involved in the whole
number of strikes for the entire period is
shown to have Ueeu l.SlS.6A. The number
of employees originating the strikes was
l,U2O,Sj.. Tho num.cr Of employees in
all establishments before the strikes
occurred was l,6G2,45, while the
whole number employed in the establish
ments involved after the strikes occurred
was 1,63j,247, a loss of 25,73S. There were
l"3,o3s new employees engaged after the
strike, and 7,4S3 we're brought from other
places than those in which the strikes
occurred In 2,1S2 establishments lock-
outs were ordered during the pc
riod named. In these there were 1885
employees before the lock-outs occurred, and
5GJ,435 after the lock-outs, while the number
actually locked out was 159 ,543. There were
1886 new employees secured at the close OF
lock-outs, and 5, 6o2 were brought from other
pla,'es than those in which the lock-outs o.
Cured
Of the whole number of employees involved
in strikes during the six years covered by
the report 1856 per cent; were males and
l1.44 per cent were females. or those in.
volved in lock outs during the same period
6S rs per cent were males and Sl.22 per cent
were females.
Losses to strikers during the six years COW
cred by the Investigations were $5l ,S10, l65:
losses to employees through lockout for
tho same period, ss,lS2,7l7, or total
wage loss to employees Of $59, AS,SS2;
This loss occurred for both strikes and
lock-outs in 2i,5ls establishments. or an
average loss of S., AS to each establishment
or of nearly $40 to each striker invol we'd.
The assist nce given to each striker for the
same period. sofar as ascertainable, amounted
to $685.. .U57; to those suffering from lock-
outs 81, 105. .53S, or a total of 81, 430, ,59l.
The employers losses through strikes Tor
the six years amounted to SO, ,732, 65S;
through lock outs, ST., 49,, PSI or total loss
to the establishments involved of S4. .l64,9l4.
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LATER NEWS.

A FIRE in Beaufort, N. c. destroyed fifteen
stores and dwellings.
MORE than fifty suspicious characters were
arrested in Detroit the other evening. Ihe
previous night Captain Ira A. Holt, we'll
known citizen, was assaulted and robbed in
fashionable neighborhood, and two hou's
later tho police had sharp fight with four
thieves detected in burglary. Within a
few days the city has seemed to swarm with
criminals
Mr.. CHARLES S. MOORE, one Of the Test
known young lawyers of Washington,
dropped dead few days since while crossing
q street
Two express trains on the Dutch State
Railroad collidel near MepDel, Holland
Twenty-six persons we're killed and many
others injured.
THE threatened return Of Inflammation in
the German Crown Princes throat has been
averted.
AN American bark was wrecked off Water
ford, Ireland, and all her crew of twenty-fv
persons We're drowned.
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Wreck OF an Eric Express.

The fast Chicago express on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, consisting
Of two oslcepers and five day coaches came into
collision with freight train, No. q, made up
of two engines and sixty cars, three miles
west of Meadville, Penn, at y o'clock A II.
Five persons were killed AMI fourteen
injured. The dead are: William George,
engineer on the freight train; Edwin Humes,
fl: eman on the freight train; E. p. Swan, en-
gincer on the express; Arthur Irwin, fireman
on the express, and a commercial Traveller
named Stevens
The physicians thought none OF the
wounded would die. The wreck was caused
by the freight engineers leaving Meadville
yard in advance Of their orders They were
ordered to leave the yard as soon as the ex-
press arrived. They went in advance Of its
arrival. When Yardmaster Drecker saw
that they were gone he boarded switch en-
CINE AMI under all steam followed them, but
was unable to ooverttke the freight.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THE origin Of the "Boulanger March" is at
tribnted to an Italian composer.
NEW WORKERS are complaining Of the high
cost Of hrBtclaS concerts nowadays
PAULINE LUCIA, the opera singer, intends
to leave the stage for good and settle IN vi
emma as teacher Of singing.
A FEW weeks ago Mozart's don Giovanni"
was performed for the 5OOth time at the
Royal Opera House, Berlin
MILE. MARIE DEccA has had a trium-
phant progress through Ireland, and is spoken
Of as 1.-THE coming star Of opera"
MAssENET's new oratorio, marie Magda'
lene," is pronounced "worthy to rank with
the finest contemporary compositions.
THE Queen of Spain is taking music lessons
from Napoleon Verger, the baritone, who
sixteen years ago visited America with Chris
tine Nilsson.
LESTER WALLAcK is to have benefit, and
when it comes Off, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin
Booth, Lawrence Barrett and other stars
will play for him.
A LADIES' SINGING SOCIETY has been
formed in New York for the study of CLASH
cal duets and part songs, and the cultivation
Of Rubinsteln'S music.
GILBERT and Surivan's "Pinafore," rer-
formed in the original English by one OF MIR.
D'Oyly Carte's companies, has met with im-
mense success, in Berlin.
An international musical exhibition will
open at l'olo ma, Itay, on May !, 1888, and
continue for six months. Verdi, the COM
poser, will be President
A LONDON association Of performers on
wind instruments is giving conc,.rtI at whirh h
OILY such instruments are used. The highest
classical music is attacked fea"lcs ly
ELISE FRIED Il. Anarchist Lingg's sweet
heart, has ma an engagement with dime
mu cum manager to make q tour OF the
South and West and O., as Louis Lings 6
Girl"
WALTER CLIFFORD, English baritone. and
Florence Wan"l, have signed engagements
for a iour in the United Stltes commencing
In Chicago early in April next, and COM
prisng thirtv-two concerts.
a NEW comic opera, entitled ''Simplicius," :"
BY Strauss. the brilliant composer of the
"Gv1sy Baron" Prince Methusale,n,"
"M rry War" ard many other New York
successes, had its first appearance in Vienna
OIL Saturday last.
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Are Stones Alive?

We generally think OF minerals as dead
lumns of Inactive matter. But they may
be said to be alive, c! eaturrs of vital ul-
>a.ions. and separated INTO ind driduals
as distinct as the pines IN fore or the
tigers in q Jungle. The dispostion OF
CRYSTALS are as diverse as those OF AMI
mails. They throb with unseen currents
o energy. They grow in size as long as
they have opportunity. they can be
killed, too, though not as e1sI'y as
an oak or i dog A strong eIe,trlr
shock Il 'scha%gcd through cry>tI VII
dccompose it, very rapidly if it is ol soft
structure, causing the pa ticsc' to gra''u
ally di iniegrate III the revri Sc order from
its growth. until the roor thing lies
dead. hapeless ruin. 1t is true the crys
tails life is unlike tnat OF higher
creatures. But the difference be- 'ween
vegetable anil IN nal lGe is no greater
than that betwee mineral and vegeta-
bic life Linn us, the great Swedish
naturalist, de in,''l the three X ny IONS
by saying: "Ston's grow: plants grow
d feel: animals grow and feel and
move."-Wue A Ge.
The wise prove, and the foolish ron
fcsS, by their GO duct. that life OF EN-.
ploymcnt is the only life worth living.
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Rattlesnake Eeekties.

Mr.. A. Judson Cole, who is tho maa-
aeer of one of the large hicago whole
sale houtes in the line of gentlemenb
furnishings, showsa novel necNtie which
he has lust received from Texas. 1t Is
a rattlesnake skin made up in the form
of four-in-hand tie. The point-rattie
is set in the center of the outer fold.
10 ser, the purpose Of tie'pin. AS 1t
glistens and shows all sorts of shi1ting
colors in the sunlight or gaslight, 1t
makes a very attra' ii Q, if not exactly
conventional. tie. Mr.. Cole says that II
was sent to him as a sample, the sender
saying that. as the stock of rattlesnakes
in his country is inexhaustible, he can
supply as many of thee strange ties as
the Chicargo house may want-oA'oogs