The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CHOLERA is still raging in Chill
EIGHTY horses were burned to death In
Meriden, Conn.
SOCIALISTS will hold an international con-
gress in London next August.
FIVE soldiers were killed by gunpowder
explosion at fort Andulmas. New Mexico.
A COMPANY has been started in New York
for the purpose Of refining sugar by elec-
tric:ty
IT is estimated that the farmers OF Illinois
lost s50,OOO,UO0 by the drought during the
past year.
THE Cooke Natural Gas Company has been
organized in Chicago with capital stock OF
81 900 ,OO0.
CHARLES SEEBURG and Peter Yepperson
were refused license in Chicago for shop to
sell the flesh of horsea
EDWARD NEMEYER, a17-year-old drunken
boy. shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Mary
Benson in Indianapolis.
A JERSEY CRY butcher quarreled with an.
other man and struck him with sausage,
breaking three of his ribs.
THERE are four naval vessels at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard which will start on
long cruises in few days.
HENcEFoRTH Mexican silver will be ac-
copied at the Treasury in Havana, Cuba, at
eighty cents on the dollar.
The Anarchist Relief Committee Of Chi
cago has divided $4,000 among the families
of the dead and imprisoned anarchists.
PITrsBURG feels proud over poor German
girl of twelve years, VINO is said to be aSrand-
daughter Of the last King of Wurtemburg.
MRS. MARY A. KELLA, Of Camlen, N. j.,
tainted and fell on her face OH the kitchen
range. She was so badly burned that she
died.
MANUEL LOPEZ, alias "Colorado," noted
Arizona horse thief, has just been captured
in the Dragon Mountains, with three COM
panions
FLOODS in Montenegro have caused a
famine, and 3lU00 person are destitute Inc
Car has sent a shipload of corn to the suffer-
ers from Odessa.
:, EDWARD DuRGESS, the yacht designer,
has written to tho Burgess Testimonial Fund
Committee thanking all the contributors TO
the purse of $40, lT225.
THE National Democratic Committee will
meet in Washington on February =! to nix
q time and place for holding the National
Democratic Convention.
B. i. IsIIMARN, q wealthy japanese student
ut Gambeer [Uhinl Theological Seminary,
becama insane ami was placel III jail NJ tha1
| place to await an inquest.
AN old German woman Of East Saginaw,
Mich. has forwarded to the Crown Prince Il
! package Of med clue to help cure his throat,
| on which she paid 81 eSpres'age.
THE British army is the only one OF the
| acknowledged great powers which IS not Ill
| 200 h ape for fighting, or being made THOR
oughly ayailabl, rs f.ist as possible.
| 4 YOUNG man named Burton, OF Atlanta,
| Ga, vowed he would marry twenty-five
women before he was 25 years old, aud las
succeeded in marrying five OF them.
THE bodies Of fourteen women have been
| dug out of tho snow near Flume, Austria
Many arc still missing, and it ls supposed
they are still buried heneath the SNOW.
| THE Bent County Court House at Les
| Animas, Col, was burned, all records BONG
destroyed. The toss is very serious one, but
cannot be computed in dollar. and cents.
JOHN S. STAPLES who is said to have
| been the war substitute OF President Lin
| 60 II in regiment uf volunteers raised in the
district Of Columbia, died recently IN Dover,
\. j.
! FULLER, the man who murdered Arch
\ bishop S.ghers in ALASKA, lost year, has been
! found guilty of nsnslaughter, and sentenced
to ten ysars' imprisonment and to pay tine