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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
Legislation in Great Britain-The
Irish Question.

Queen Victoria's speesh has been read ut
the Ministerial banquet in London. The
speech after congratulating the country ulon
pacific foreign relations, announces the
intention of the Government to introduce
bill declaring squares and thorounghfares un,
suitable for public gatherings Il bill Of broad
scope dealing with Irish land valuation, ana
an English local government bill:
The speech expresses satisfaction at the the
diminution Of crime and the improved social
condition in Ireland. The other measures
announced are bills relating to land transfer,
tithes, the amendment OF limited liability
companies acts, employers liability for ac-
cidents and improved technical education.
The speech does not refer to the European
crisis. The reference to foreign relations is
devoted chiefly to the Afghan boundary set
tlement and the sugar bounties con- con-
ference. The speech promises that
attention will be given to the CUES,
tion regarding coaling stations and
docks at home and in the colonies, ana NIL
nounces that Parliament will be asked TO re-
ceive estimates of expenses connected with
the Australian squadron.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
A HEROINE DEAD.

The Nebraska School Teachers VINO
Braved the Blizzard.
Miss Eta Shattuck, the Nebraska schooi
teacher who was imprisoned for three days
in hay stack during and after the great
January blizzard, has died Both her legs
below the knees had been amputated;
The teacher who spent the wnoie hlsnC
fighting death to save her three little puPlis
in an open field, Miss Louise Royce, mas hau
part of one ri and one hand removed, ana
the surgeons have amputated the other loot
below the ankle.
A fund of about 81, 900 had been raised for
Miss Shattuck, and subscriptions are IN prog
ress for Miss Royce and Miss Minnie Free
man, who saved sixteen children by tying
ing them three-quarters of mile through
the storm. Miss Freeman has had twenty
nine offers OF marriage since the storm
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
AN INFANT FIREBUG.
Mary Wilson Fires New York
Hospital, Causing a Death.

Hospital, Causing a Death.
The origin of the three mysterious fires
which have occurred in the New York
Hospital for the Ruptured and Grip. .1lel have
been traced to the agency of a little wry-
necked inmate named Mary Wilson. The
first fire caused panic among tho hundred
helpless inmates Of the hospital, but they
were all rescued, with the exception
Of Mary Donnelly, who was suffocatei to
death. The second fire was thought to have
been caused by an overheate1 register and
was discovered in time to prevent damage.
The authorities then placed watch upon the
building and the young firebuS was caught
In the act of lighting the third fire and the
following confession extracted from her:
~ am IL years old. have been here for
three years l made all the fires in the hos.
pital. I don't know why did it. l went in
the doctors room, saw some matches there.
and made the fire on his bureau. Tnen went
to the bath room and got matches there IN l.
set fire to the clothes in the hamper. To-day in
the dining room found a box Of matches in
the closet, and made the fire in the drawer.
It was l who put the matches on the register
in the Doctors room. do not know why ]
lid it. am very sorry that I did it. My
fathers name is Richard Wilson. He lives
in l29th street, 1873 East. MARY WILSON"
She is directly responsible for the death OF
Mary Donnelly and is now under arrest
charged with murder AMI arson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
Senate PROCEEDINGS.

32D DAY.-The following bills were re-
ported: To grant certain lands in Willamette
Valley to the State of Oregon for public
park; to grant lands in Wyoming for public
purposes; to provide an additional mode Of
taking depositions of witnesses in United
States Courts; to incorporate the Soldiers
Home Company of the District of Columbia
49,. Mr.. Hoar reported joint resolution on
Celebration Of the Centennial Of the Consti-
tuition which provides that in addition to
such other celebration as. may hereafter be
provided for, the two houses of Congress shall
meet in the hail Of the House Of Representa-
tives; that the Chief Justice Of the United
States shall deliver an .oration, and that the
President of the United States, the Justices
of the Supreme Court, the members Of the
Cabinet the Executives Of the several States
and Territories and such other persons as
may hereafter be determined upon, shall be
invited to attend. After considerable argu-
ment on the subject Of detail the measure was
passed.
33D DAY.-The following bills were re-
ported: For the relief Of women enrolled as
army nurses: to restore pensions in certain
cases; for the relief Of importers Of animals
for breeding purposes. "A resolution was
offered to inquire into the expediency Of
Congress assuming control Of the erection Of
all bridges over navigable waters within
State limits. -. The consideration Of the
PRESIDENTS message was taken up.
34TH DAY-A communication was received
from the President with draft Of a bill to
ratify an agreement with the Shoshone and
Bannock Indians to surrender the Fort Hull
Reservation in Idaho for a town site and
right of way for the Utah and Northern R. R.
....The Secretary of the Treasury presented
information as to disagreement with Canada
touching the transportation Of goods in bond
The Secretary presented an abstract of the
militia forces of the United States. :. The
Secretary of the Interior suggested legislation
for the disposal Of public timber lands. =.
The joint resolution to appoint Andrew D.
White one Of the Smithsonian Regents was
laid over. The resolution asking the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs for state
ment Of the political organization of Canada
was adopted. .. The bill to authorize the sale
of mineral lands to aliens was discussed
favorably by Mr.. Stewart. Mr.. Rid
dleberger renewed his fight to secure
consideration of the British Treaty in
open session, but was ruled out of order and
requested by the Chair to take his seat He
appealed from the ruling, but was not sus-
tanned, and he left the Senate without taking
his seat. {. In secret session it was decided to
postpone consideration Of the British Extra
dition Treaty until next December. :. ST.
200, 900 was appropriated to erect q public
building at Kansas City, Mo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
A DESPERATE BOY.
He Kills q Girl and Himself Because
She Rejected Him.

An awful tragedy has occurred two miles
northwest of Plattsburg, Mo. Neva Ever
ett, a pretty girl Of sixteen, was one
of the bellies of the neighborhood.
One of her most persistent suitors
was William Ball, youth OF
20. He made no attempt to conceal his
affection for Miss Everett and haunted
her footsteps continually. She received
first, ils "b but When he began to assume
SO much persistence she began to dis,
courage them. This maddened the boy and
he told her that he could not live without
her, and if she refused to marry
him something terrible would be the
result. She told him that she did
not desire to marry yet .,1 and
that he, too, had better be think
ing of some other subject. The other
day he called at her home and renewed his
suit. There was no one at home but the girl
and her mother. She still maintained that
she did not desire to marry him. The rejected
lover then pleaded with the mother and begged
her to influence her daughter in his favor
Mrs Everett said that she would not allow
her daughter to marry for several years yet.
No sooner were the words spoken than Ball
stepped back and drawing pistol, shot the
poor girl dead. He then placed the muzzle OF
the weapon to his own head and blew his
brains out Both were dead in five minutes
and the unfortunate mother is demented.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
South and West.

SHERMAN HUBBARD, of Seymour, Ind,
was to have been married; but he was too
bashful to 60 through the ordeal and COM
mitted suicide in order to escape it.
JAMES POPE, of Long View, Ga, made
his ten-year-od brother in-law drunk. In
his drunken frenzy he murdered Popes
three small children by beating them to in
sensibillty with an iron bar and then i'm
mersng their bodies in kettle of boiling
water.
AN unknown dead aeronaut and tattered
balloon were found in the woods near Du-
luth, MINI.
FIVE men were killed and several seriously
wounded by boiler explosion at Belmont,
Ohio.
LESTER SINGLETARY, of Columbia, S. c.,
locked his six children in the house and went
to church. During his absence the house
caught fire and the children, ranging in age
from thirteen years to thirteen months,
pershed in the flames.
jim CORNELIUS, colored boy, agei II
years, was hanged in Webster Parish, La,
for the murder of Ernest Wren, a white
child, aged 5, by beating his brains out with
a club.
AN explosion of natural gas at Anderson,
Ind, fatally burned three women and
wrecked large tenement house.
Tom ELLIS, editor of the Hornet, of Bir-
mingham, Ala, was fatallyShot by Policeman
Sullivan, who accused him Of libel.
AMOS GRANT, Of Newton, Ga, murdered
Wife's sister, with an axe and then commit
ted suicide.
JIM CORNELIUS was hanged at Minden.
La, for the murder OF boy four years old.
AN pdemic Of winter cholera is raging in
Atchison, Kan, and $50 patients are suffer
ing from it.
MATTHEW BUSCH, Of Chicago, without a
moments warning cut his wife's throat in
the presence of their three children.
THE Metropolitan National Bank. Of Gin
cumstances, and the Vice-President has been
arrested.
AN explosion in a dynamite factory at
Hancock, Mich, blew the building to frag
ments and killed three men.
WILLIAM SUMMERvILLE, eighteen years
old, touched with a piece of iron an electric
light wire, at Memphis, Tenn, and was
instantly killed.
The old Libby Prison building at Rich
mond, Va, has been sold to Chicago syndi-
cate, and will be moved to that city.
NEAR Stewartsville, Mo-, William Bull,
superintendent of farm shot and killed the
daughter of his employer because she refused
to marry him, and then committed suicide.
EX-MAYoR MEANS, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has been arrested for misrppropriating funds
of the Metropolitan National Bank, of which
be was President.
Miss ANNA UTsEY, of Columbia, s. c., was
standing before an open fire place just before
going to be married, when her dress took fire
and she burned to death.
WILLIAM SALoNE, a desperate murderer,
Vhs Weksburs Mss was eSSps shpt dead % by the
guard.
S. S. ToTMAN, under sentence Of eleven
years Imprisonment, ,choked himself to death
with handkerchief in the Medina County
Ohio Jail.
BURGLARS stole $4,000 in money and
jewelry at Norfolk, Va, and escaped from
mounted police officers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
Finger Lengths.

A comparison of the lengths OF the
first and third fingers has been many
years IN progress Ancient Greek art
seems TO have found the greater beauty
in longer forcfnger, but in the Apollo
Bclvidere there is no apprcciable differ
cnce in the length of the two. Gorrillas,
orang outangs and Bushmep have a
longer third finger, while among Euro
peans and Americans the longer finger is
sometimes the first, sometimes the third.
and sometimes both appear of equal
length.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

TIE noted actor, osmond Tearls, was
formerly drug clerk.
RCBINsTEIN's opera of "Moses" will be pro-
duced abroad In March.
THE French actor Coquelin is said to have
profted $50, 900 by his English tour.
HERR ERNEST PossART, Germany's lead
ing tragedan, is playing in New York.
The latest musical prodigy is a ten year
old clarionetist named Robert Smith. DE Is
in London.
LoTTA used to dance and sing for the
"boys" in the Sierra mining camps. she Is
now very wealthy.
GENEvIEvE WARD has resumed her pro,
trip through England.
Mr.. HENRY E. ABBEY has closed con-
tract with Mrs. Potter for her second season,
commencing on Monday, the 18th OF March,
1883.
GoLDMARK's "Queen of Sheba" has been
performed in Milan and scored q great sue
cess. The composer was recalled aozeh
times,
The Sultan has decided to close the Turk-
ish Theatre at Constantinople, because ne
thinks il conduces to the Generalization or
his subjects.
"PETE" is evidently fixture at Harrlgans
Park Theatre, New York. Harrigans rem.
derinp of the title role is one Of his best
pieces Of work.
Perugini made a successful appearance
with the Carl Rosa Opera Company IN Liver
pool as Don Jose in Carmen" He reJoins
McCaulrs forces in May.
The piano was lately heard in st. faul
Cathedral, London, in the Passion music, anu
it is regularly heard in knightsorldge
church in the Sunday service.
A WOMAN was turned out OF Baltimore
opera house during performance OF l ne nc
Gladiator" because she was dlscovered 70 oe
stealing the play by taking shorthand notes
MAZDA CRAIGEN, the first society girl, 10
face professional footlightS, has gone 10 POS.
ton to play in the bells Of Haselmere, az
the Museum, where she made her first appear
ance.
CAPT MARCEL VoYER, staff o:icer III
the French Army, who few years ago en-,
loved celebrity in Fran ,e Us pan's', WI
aupalr in concerts i'll New York clty heA'
month.
ZAzEL, the wire aerialiSt, will go back 10
Barnum and her first famous hit h@XI sun SUI
ner. Latterly she has been u succe 'slul
prima donna in light opera Nlththe c'rcuS
She will also do an equestrian act
WILLIAM MCFARLAND, VIII niA ~ oeeii ~
five years on the stage and had supported
McCready. the elder Booth, Edwin torreSt
and ali the old timers, died poor and hal m
lessly insane at the County Jail IN Minnie
apolis Mimi, recently.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, Of New York
CITY. recently addressed note to the Mana
ger of the Lyceun Theatre. speaking in
highest terms of praise concerning the per-
formance of 1.-The Wife," which has been
running for several months at that house.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22

FOUR persons were killed by an explosion
in q gunpowder factory at Hanau, Germany.
LONDON police authorities are closely
guarding the House Of Parliament to prevent
the use of dynamite
GENERAL FREBAULT, a life member of the
French Senate, isdead.
A BRILLIANT anniversary celebration was
held in London in commemoration of the
novelist. Charles Dickens.
NEARLY two million people are utterly des-
titute in China through the Hoang-Ho floods.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
Foreign.

A CHEMIST, of Manchester England, made
desperate by poverty, murdered his wife and
six children by administering poison, and
then committed suicide.
THE treaty of alliance between Germany
and Austria has been made public. 1t is
purely mutually defensive one, and Russia
has been formally notified that to attack
either is to attack both.
THOMAS CALLEN, of Lowell, Mass, and
Michael Harkins, of Philadelphia, Penn.
who were on trial in London, England, for
completely in a dynamite conspiracy, have
been sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
each.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
INCREASE OF PENSIONS.
A Bill to Aid Utterly helpless Sol
diers and Sailors.

The United States Senate has passed the
bill reported from the Committee on Pen
sions to increase the pensions of certain SOL
diers and sailors who are utterly helpless
from injuries received or diseases contracted
while in the service Of the United Stltes.
The bill provides that all persons who are or
who may become totally helpless from m
juries received or diseases contracted wnlle
i'm the military or naval service of the United
States shall be entitled to receive pension
of S72 per month, and that the increase al
lowed by this act to those persons who may
hereafter become totally helpless shall be
ma lie TO begin in strict conformity with sec'
ton s,fj9S, Revised Statutes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
Important Foreign Treaties.

The treaty by which Germany and Austria
case Of an attack upon either coun-
try by Russia has created great e1-
element throughout Europe. It is be-
lieved in many quarters that it is q
slap in the face for Russia, which
She must resent somehow. Germany
and Italy also made treaty which stipu'
lates that if France attacks either country
the other shall send an army OF 800, ,OOO men
TO the French frontier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
An Increase Refused.

At the recent meeting Of representatives OF
the miners of the Wyoming region, it was re-
solved to askfor an increase Of Is per cent. in
wages. Officers of the Lehigh and Wilkes,
barre Coal Company, the Delaware and
Hudson Coal Company, the Hillman Vein
Company, the Sus9uehannna Coal CompahRy Comp my
and the Red Ash Coal Company, ~, OeRg Wgom sne
Inc Valley, were seen by reporters.
They all emphatically declared that they
would not grant IS per cent. advance to
the miners at this time The reasons given
were to the effect that they were paying all
thew can afford to at present.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
Ten Civilians Killed.

In an encounter between Rio Tinto SPAIN
troops- ten civilians were killed and FIVE
wounded. and two soldiers were wounded.
The miners had joined the peasants living
in the vicinity in protesting against open. air
calcinations. The Civil Governor of Hueiva,
accompanied by two companies Of troops
and some civil guards, arrived at the
scene on Saturday, and found the streets
occupied by threatening mob, numbering
about l4,OOO. The Governor spoke from
the balcony of the municipal building:
and tried to restore order, but the crowd
drowned his voice with shouts and
fired pistols and threw dynamite cartridges
to fire. The crowd was finally dispersed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
FROM FAR and NEAR.
Some Matters Of Moment From
Various Quarters.
-Four Persons Killed and Others
Injured on the Rail.

Train No. 8, Chicago express, east-bound,
is the fastest train on the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio. About II o'clock A. II.
the other morning it passed Steamburg, N.
Y, running down grade, at terrific
speed. A freight train stood on the side
track. It is supposed that the locomotive
Of the passenger train broke the frog between
the main track and the switch. The
smoker and baggage car passed safely, but
the day coach behind them left the track
and plunged Into the caboose OF the
freight train. The sides were stripped
from both car and caboose. Passengers
were thrown from their seats and many re-
ceived slight injuries They poured from the
cars that escaped damage, and soon removed
Miss Abbott, Of Sheffield, H., was so badly
injured that she died in short time. With
her were Mrs. Bottey, injured internally,
and Miss Bottey, injured slightly. Both are
from Sheffield.
William McNeal was removed to the hos
pital. He has two ribs broken He is
the chief engineer of the Edison United
Manufacturing Company, Covington, KY:
In the caboose the train crew were eating
dinner when the accident occurred Brake
men James Dean and Shaffer, of Meadvile,
were kllleQ, anu JUG SOlluuC0Ol, SoOiSo IihSS
so badly hurt that he died several hours
later. A man who sat on the same seat with
them escaped uninjured- Ten or twelve 9th
er persons were more or less seriously hurt.
Killed by an Electric Shock.
Isaac Morton, colored employe Of the
New York Central railroad, was killed by
electricity, at Buffalo, on Sunday morning.
Robert Taylor was driving delivery wagon,
and the horse suddenly fell to the
pavement. Taylor applied the whip, and re-
ceived an electric shock which made him un-
conscious. Morton saw the incident
and went to the young mans as
sistance. Taylor quickly regained his
senses, and Morton, who was a large,
powerful man, then took hold Of the horse,
Supposing it was alive, but as he did so an un-
earthly shrek rent the air and he fell,
dying on the animal Policemen
Haley and Hennessy ran to the
SPOT. They concluded that it was case Of
electric shock, and sent for the Emergency
Hospital doctors. Meanwhile they dragged
Morton from the horse, receiving slight
shocks, and took him to a drug store.
The doctors think that Merton received the
shock through the horse, for both hands
were burned, indicating. that the circuit
Way. WAY PIT t was found that a tele-
phone wire, broken by the weight Of wet
snow, had crossed Brush electric light
wire and had fallen to the pavement
The horse, coming In contact with
It, received the fatal shock. Morton's
death was almost instantaneous. His
watch, keys, money and knife were highly
magnetized. He leaves wife and two chill
dren. Taylor recovered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22

THE cattle on the Snake River, Washing
toa Territory, 60 out on the ice in large num-
bers to get water, and as result the ice
hreaks aud hundreds OF them are engulfsd
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22

Paris has lost 10, 900 population in the
year past.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-20
WHOLE NO. 1880.

sage unless with enough increase Of wages
to compensate them for the added danger
Thew have been getting $40 a month and
want $50. The chief officer boatswain,
steward. cook and two men before the
mast have agreed to go in her but the rest,
seven IN all, refuse to sail unl IS their
wages are raised or their return fare guar
anteed.
Huntington's Short Line.
lCopy7ght, 1885, 6y tie Cal jornia Assocatea Prsssl
New YORK, March 19th.-C. P. Hunting
ton and his family were in Louisville last
week, and on Friday was announced the
sale to e. II. Pardee, of New York. and F.
H. Davis, of Elizabeth, N. j., trustees,
for 81 100 600, the elevated railroad along
the river front Of Louisville. The road is
one mile long, and starts within a stones
throw Of the entire wholesale business dis
trict of Louisville.
General Badeau to Explain
tooPDiga. 1885, 0y The California Assoeiatol fr,ssI
New YORK, March l9th.-Generai Adam
Badeau arrived in this city yesterday from
Washington. To reporter in regard to
his suit against the estate of General Grant
he sent word that, as the matter was an
important one, he did not feel prepared to
say anything about it at present He would
prefer to wait until he could give his side
OF the controversy over his own signature
Cable Company Election.
lCopyrfghi, 1888, by the California A,socialed Press
New York, March 19th.-At meeting
OF the stockholders of Commercial Cable
Company to-day the old Board of Directors
was elected, with John Mackay as Presi-
dent and Ell. DeGastro as First Vice Presi-
dent.
Grace for Governor.
lCopylgAt, 1888, by gs G(orsia associated Pressj
New YoRK, March 10th The World
says /: Informatiolstls ls definitely Youch-
sated to the public that Wm. r. Grace is a
candidate for Governor of the State of New
York.
More Smallpox In Brooklyn.
tCopyight. 1888, ty the California Associated PressI
NEW YoRK, March 19th.-The small -pox
has again broken out in Brook klyn. Seven
cases were reported to-day.