The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-25
South and West.


SIX drunken farmers engaged in a free
fight at Mansfield, Mo-, and five OF them
were killed.
DELAWARE peach growers in convention
recently, at Dover estimated their crop at
$4,000, 600 baskets, of which the Pennsylvania
railroad can transport 6,5O0,O0o baskets.
COUNTY JUDGE PULLIAM, of Hardinsburg,
Ky., shot and killed man engaged in htiga-
ton before him who took exception to some
of his rulings.
Gus BoGLEs, a bootblack of Denison,
Texas, nineteen years old, who murdered
William Morgan in the Creek Nation year
ago, has been hanged at Fort Smith, ARK.
THE entire business portion OF Lake City,
the county seat of Missaukee County, Mich,
has been destroyed by fire.
CITIZENS of Joliet Ill, placed ohstruc-
tions on the track of railroad, to the build
ing Of which they objected, thereby derail-
ing the construction train and killing the
engineer and three Italian laborers.
FOUR persons-two men and two children
lost their lives in the burning OF farm
house near Ssult Ste Marie, Mich.
WILLIAM LAMBETH has been hanged at
Dallas Oregon, for the murder of his step
daughter, Simrnie Ellis Antle, last January,
under circumstances of peculiar atrocity.
A TRAIN ran into land slide near Lafay-
cite, Ind, and killed three train men.
AT Henderson, KY, Robert Ryan, colored
man, sixteen years old, stabbed and killed
Riley Hancock, white, sixteen years old.
Three men started with Ryan for the jail,
when they were overpowered by mob, who
hanged the murderer.
E. J. IcosTA, young man prominent IN
business and social circles Of Birmingham,
Ala. committed suicide by shooting himself
In mean
married the next week to prominent and
wealthy young lady of Charleston, S. c.
A DISASTROUS rain storm prevailed at
Kansas City, Mo-, flooding the streets. A
family of four persons named Williams was
drowned.
SERIOUS floods are reported as the result or
continuous storms in West Virginia. The
loss by damage to buildings, crops, roads
and bridges Is estitated at over SlOo,OJ0, and
some lives have been lost.
BERNARD KRUGG, a farmer, and his wife
ouarreled in cornfield, near Grafton, Neo;,
about the price of pair Of rubber boots. A
battle with hoes followed in which krugg
was killed by his wife.
FEUp between the Rose and Fusion
clans has eliminated in fierce battle inside
the Laurel Fork (Tenn.,) meeting house dur
ing the progress of the sermon Six men
were killed auQ d UOLcu IuOiS VI AOoo SSAAooo
wounded.
SEvEN-E1GHTHs of the town Of Suisun,
Cal, have been destroyed by fire.
BY the spreading of rails construction
train was hurled off fifty-foot trestle at
Cameron, Mo, and four railroad employees
killed.
Miss HATTIE DEBAUN, aged eighteen, has
been murdered at Tecumseh, Ind, by her
aunt, Mrs Mary Junkins, aged thirty-two.
The unfortunate girl went. into the Junkins
orchard to take few apples, when her aunt
killed her with musket.
CHAIRMAN HoGE, of the Grievance Com
mittee of the Brotherhood of Engineers and
Chairman Murphy, Of the brotherhood of
Firemen, have been arrested at Chicago on
the charge of conspiracy to blow up with
dynamite portions of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad.
Two brothers named Combs, mere chill
dren, were sentenced to imprisonment for
life in Breathitt county, Ky.-one for
numbering younger brother, and the other
for killing his younger sister.