The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
South and West.

THE official returns from the Arkansas
State election are all in and the majority OF
Eagle, Democrat for Governor, is l4,ss1.
JOHN CRUETzI, of Baltimore, Nd, was
choked to death by q cellu!oid collar, his
head dropping on his chest while in drunken
stupor and his collar stopping the windplpe'
Two lives were lost. three persons fatally
injured and more than score badly
wounded in collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio road at Newark, Ohio.
AT Winfield, Ohio, Richard Jones was
sick of typhoid fever. He asked to see his
children, but his wife would not allow them
to 20 near their father. Jones then delib-
erately cut his throat in the presence or his
wife and mother He lived only an hour.
SAM BROWN, desperate who boasted OF
having killed four men, was shot and killed
at Hartville Mining Camp, Wyoming, by
Frank Williams, cowboy.
ALEXANDER GoLDENsEN, who shot and
killed fourteen-year-old school girl named
Mamie Kelly in 1886, has been hanged in the
county Jail at San Francisco, Cal.
The entire business portion of Washburn,
| Wis. has been destroyed by fire, causing
loss of over $3.50, 900, with no insurance.
EIGHT cases and one death from yellow
fever were reported from HendersonvlIIe,
n. c.
An explosion and fire in flour mill at
Cleveland, Ohio, caused two deaths and
serious injury to four other victims.
A HORSE thief named Wise was fleeing to
Manitoba with a number of horses, when
body of armed settlers overlook him near
Turtle Mountains, Dakota. and lynched him.
The business portion of Florence, Wis, has
been wiped out by fire. Fifty-si1 buildings
were burned. Loss $4,000.
UP to late date the total number Of yellow
fever cases at Jacksonville, Fla, was 99o;
total deaths, 126.
| A MAN named Iverson, who lived at
stainer's Flat. Northern California, shot and
killed his wife and himself while in bed.
When found their babe, which was in bed
with them, was covered with their blood.
HosTIL1T1Es have begun afresh between
the Hatfield and Mccoy factions in the Ken
lucky Mountains The Kentuckians came
upon the West Virginians at Pawpaw Noun
tain, where a lively battle took place. In
the melee two Of the West Virginians were
killed and two more badly wounded. None
Of the Kentuckians was hurt.
GEORGE McCURDY, Of Canton, Ohio, aged
twenty-eight, while walking along the stree'
with his betrothed, Miss Lucinda Gonder
dropped dead on the sidewalk dragging nus
Gonder down with him. They were 10 nave
been married the next week.
AT Devine station, Texas, Callie Smith, {
fourteen -year-old girl attempted to start
fire with kerosene when the can exploded
scattering the burning oil over the girl anc
her two sisters Della and Dosia, and bel
only brother, all Of whom were standing
around the stove watching her, and tht
four children were burned to death in sight
of their mother.
R1Kop's saddlery establishment and ad-
Joining buildings, Paducah. KY, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 5000, 900.
THE rice crop in Georgia has been almos
destroyed by the floods in the Savannah dis
trict.
ELIJAH FU1LT, veteran Of the Civil War
was placed on trial at Kokomo, Ind, Il
make him divide pension he recently
received, with his wife During tht
progress Of the case he killed his wife and j
c. Blocklidge, her attorney, in the crowded
court room.
SPEAKER JOHN G. CARLISLE has been re
nominated by acclamation for Congress b,
the Democrats Of the Sixth Kentucky Dis
| trict
Mrs. C. J. De LEON, an elderly widow
committed suicide in Chicago by attaching
rubber tube to an unlighted gas jet, Whlcl
was turned on, and inserting the other en'
beneath the bed-clothes, which she tucket
closely over her head and body.