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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-30
A PIGEON SERVICE.
Swift Birds to be Utilized by the
Signal Office.

Swift Birds to be Utilized Dy the
Signal Office.
The establishment Of pigeon message ser.
vice in connection with the signal Office at
Key West, Fla, is a foregone conclusion,
since the order has just been promulgated by
General Greedy, who has the matter in charge,
for the necessary loft fixture and training
basket to be filled at once. The order in
cludes nest pans, perches, drinking fount-
aims. bath pans, and mating cages, also
twenty-four baskets for carrying six birds
and twelve baskets with capacity Of nine
birds. The loft will be prepared to accom-.
modate 500 birds, asevidenced by the require.
ments of 500 leg bands to be marked United
States Signal Service, Key West, Fla" and
numbered from ! to 500 consecutively. Tha
first purpose Of this service is to bring the ad-
jacent islands, especially the Bahamas into
Communication with Key West and thence by
cable with the main land. Those familiar
with the use Of pigeons as message bearers Ill
Europe, and who know the conditions under
which the birds of this Key West flight are
to be used, believe the experiment will be
success. The only drawback they see Is the
loss of birds in the sudden storms.
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A TOWN WRECKED,
Havoc Caused in a Town in CoIorad
by Giant Powder.

Havoc Caused in a Town in Colorado
by Giant Powder.
A collision between four cars and a caboose
of freight train, and a passenger train on
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road at
Fountain, Col, caused terrific explosion Of
a can of giant powder at $40 o'clock
this morning. The explosion killed three
persons instantly, mortally injured three
more, and almost destroyed the entire town.
1t tore a hole ten feet deep and thirty by
sixty feet in area in the earth, threw
iron rails three hundred yards, scat
tered debris for half mile, and demolished
or damaged every structure in the
place. The report was heard for 20 miles and
awakened nearly every person in Colorado
Springs It's fearful effect can only be i'm
agined and not described with any approach
to the true horror Of the situation, which was
heightened by the burning Of car
Of naphtha and the flames which issued from
a half dozen burning cars and the whole sta
ton buildings. The killed were: G. F. Smith,
lumber dealer Of Fountain, formerly Of
Keokuk, Iowa. He leaves family. Will
lam Whitman, disabled railroad brakeman,
of Greenland, COL: Mrs F. P. Widrig, Of
Fountain, millinsr.
Those who are mortally wounded are:
Lawrence Weibert. carpenter, of Fountain;
H W. Hutchins, merchant, Of Fountain.
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Washington.

THE President has approved the joint reso-
luton accepting the invitation Of the French
Republic to take part in an international Ex-
position to be held in Paris in 1889.
THE House has adopted a resolution to meet
hereafter at II A NJ, and to adjourn at 5
o'clock.
The House Committee on Postofices and
Post-roads has ordered favorable report on
Chairman Blount's bill to provide general
law for the erection of postoffice buildings
The Postmaster General is authorized to con-
struct postoffice buildings at any place at
which the gross postal receipts for two years
or more shall have exceeded $4,000 in each
year.
The joint resolution appropriating $50, 900
for representing the United States at the
Brussels International Exposition has been
signed by the President.
JOHN BIGELow. of New York, has accepted
the appointment as United States Commits
sioner at the Brussels Exposition.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Republicans Of Connecticut held their
Convention at New Haven and elected an
uninstructed delegation to the National Con-
vention.
GEORGE BENSON, the swindler who de-
frauded the Mexicans by selling them bogus
tickets for the Patti concert, has committed
suicide in New York, where he was awaiting
extradition papers
The Ohio Democrats met in convention at
Dayton and elected delegation to the Ma
tional Convention pledged to support Cleve-
land. The Mills bill was approved Of.
THE Missouri Republican Convention at
Sedalia nominated by acclamation Elbert E
Kimball, Commander Of the Department of
Missouri, Grand Army Of the Republic, OF
Nevada, No., for Governor. A resolution
was adopted declaring in favor Of tariff re-
vision. e.
A BOILER explosion on river packet at
Blue Creek Shoals, W. Va, killed the en-
gineer, fireman and pilot.
THE Nevada Republican State Convention
demands the restoration Of duties on lead,
borax, soda, hides, leather and wool The
delegates to Chicago are headed by United
States Senators Stewart and Jones
THE Republicans Of Alabama assembled in
convention at Montgomery and nominated a
State ticket, headed by w. T. Ewing for
Governor. Resolutions were adopted con-
demning the Presidents message and the Mills
bill.
THE Tennessee State Republican Conven-
ton met at Nashville and elected an unin-
structed delegation to the National Presi-
iential Convention /.
The Democracy of Virginia, in convention
assembled, adopted resolutions favoring
tariff reform, and elected delegates to the
st. Louis Convention who are pledged to sup
port Cleveland for denomination.
In the Indian Nation Houston Fleetwood,
owner of six thousand acres Of land, and a
leading Indian, was shot and killed by, ]. NJ.
Trout in a quarrel about fence. Fleetwood
was unarmed.
MARSHAL BOWEN, Of Carthage, Ohio, shot
and killed c. D. Phillips in the Council
Chamber in the presence Of the Mayor and
the village officers. Bowen had refused to
prosecute man who owed Phillips $1o.5o.
FIRE in Blackville, 8. c., destroyed twen-
ty-four stores and residences Loss, $55, 600.
THE Republican State Convention Of Ne
braska assembled at Omaha and elected an
uninstructed delegation to the National Con
vention. *,
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THE LABOR WORLD.

Uuos painters in New York, CITY ara MID
AZ, 20 mar Iay. ~ - s ~
a - -,au,,. .a,,, ,o,,t. 800 .,d !. h.1,f
,nehes r,;nnta mt e - A z ~ :. -. -
iAones :. s:2 =. =.
p LaE seflRe has Oh, oL coal miners az tlal la
De,s.on, t1as s Asp 70 ts 2. ~. z
fouH uons OF SOIL coaa cohsuine " soltS "
Guy Carriage aay ~ Snicago's g,
TEE Midland tEngland) iron ana steel
workers viii demand an advance OF wagessSg,
THE shoemakers' strike in Berlin, Ger
many, is extending. There are now 5SoVs
workinen ont 80 q :, s. 81, &
AMERICAN companies have built 2so3 OUT
OF the 300 miles Of railroad in Mexico, at q
cost Of $50, ,OO0, 600. ~ q
e T,Isr wear 5S13 :001 600 was expended IN
Omaha on public buildinps: $500 buildings Of
all kinds were put up. -
A JunGE in Connecticut RECENTLY, fined a
non s7 for calling a worl,n,aI, a .acab . He
cIa;med IL was a threat, - - zsI.r.
20 ~! :, r,s s...,,. IN, Z
AhL aePai uas ;,s b.aSdook pa,,
Steei OTIS y ~ ~
have started up On oouDie tilue. X y &
The Amaigamated Society OF Carpenters
and Joiners has begun the publication OF
monthly trade journal In New York
IT is claimed that the Brotherhood Of Car
pepteI-s and Joiners has raised the wages OF {
workmen in 17g cities to the extent of $4o0
0Co year. ~ 4
A DISAGREEMENT between the miners at
tho Pratt Mines. near Birmingham, Ala, and
The I comnany mn | cnjninated in e walk-out OF
sbout I161 men. -----s. 2 = 5s:.,
Tup slk looms Of LYONS. Franco. and
sn;taIf,eIds ENGLAND. are runuing neck and
,acs, IN tSss ,,In In etion of hiah art brocades
for enonira opwns - y =.
1n = "a tha+ eor,o c,otbes.,:n ho. nackers
1T is said Snas some cio9nss-pn poA ;S s.,s
can PACK ISWy Gay: - pey for ste ,,rpao pau az
cent 1or pacing Dos I =, touf stos's AZ
tnls rate tney make 20 a uay s,,s5sl
THERE are about 25o0 matters IDLE az Dan-s
bury, Conn.,. and it is believed that the num
ber who will shortly be out on account o1
dullness in trade IN that city ana around WIN
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FIRST In THE FIELD.
The Equal Rights Party Nominates
Belva Lockwood for President

The Equal Rights Party Nominates
Belva Lockwood for President.
The national convention Of the Equal
Rights Party met in Des Moines, Iowa, Tues
day afternoon. The convention was called
to order by Mrs. Nettie Sanford Chaplin, of
Marshalltown, Chairman Of the National
Committee. The arrangements had been
made SO that delegates unable to attend
could send their ballots by mail.
The Convention proceeded to count the
ballots thus received, with the following re-
suit: For President, Belva A. Lockwood, of
Washington; for Vice. President, Alfred d.
Love, Of Philadelphia. :,
They received 80 votes and were declar- ID
duly nominated There were 40 votes scat
tering for Blaine, Allison, General Clinton B.
Fish, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. An.
thony and others. The Convention adopted
platform favoriug woman suffrage, pen
sions for all needy soldiers and sailors, pro-
tective tariff, with free sugar and lumber,
and repeal Of tax on whisky and tobacco
and against unrestricted emigration. after
which the Convention adjourned glue die.
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SHAKEN By NATURAL GAS.
Many Destructive Explosions n
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Many Destructive - EIPlosions,' e' ms - -.
Buffalo, ~. - 2
an e,,,,s;o,, =, natural oas In tha kitchen
oAp'o'.on - - .ps.l, a q;
OF Dr. Plerces mVahds f1oDei, l, ~
Y, at o'clock Thursday morning causeo
blnza that threatened the destruction OF the
l,,,;,a;,,. M. o,,os.s 1uara hurried
ouuus. e.o'1 -. = ..a,..t,. 80 !.
out and preparations maoe 70 -
the hotel, but the gas was quickly turned OF,
and the speedy arrival Of the fire department.
confined the flames to the basement with
slight damage.
Fifteen minutes later another explosion &C.
Cured in St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral sitG7
ated on the triangle bounded by Erie, Cnurcns
and Pearl streets The heavy doolsS
Of the Erie street yestlbuie were GtoIn lnl
from their hinges. thrown INTO tne stfeec
and flames burst from tne ooorWaysTS
sBy the time the nreinen Ieacnso
the spot. the whole inferior was u nalaes
and within half an hour the ennce was eom,
pletely gutted. The walls also crumpteo IN
places under the intense heat, buC tne TAU
steeple remains standing and Is believed TO- +
be uninjured. ~ ~.
At least dozen other explosions occurred
at different points throughout the CITY. an
explosion in the North Street Church caused
blaze, which was extingu guished by the
prompt action Of the janitor. The residencs
of Harry Hamlin, on Delaware aYenue also
sustained slight damage from sne same
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

EVERY year since DR.. Damrosch's death
Fraulein Brandt. the contraIto, wends her
way to Woodlawn Cemetery, New York,
and lays a cross Of flowers on his grave.
MANAGER ABBEY's receipts from PATHS
first performance at Buenos Ayres were
s2a,OGO. PATHS receipts for this night were
$11,000 the hi chest fee ever paid to any
prima donna for single performance.
OrTo HEGNER. the new piano prodigy,
over whom London is going into raptures, is
said by careful critics to be gaining the
hearty approval of professional pianists. He
looks younger than his alleged eleven years.
and is pretty boy, with curly black hair and
Intelligent face, sss
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-30
RICH VALLEYS INUNDATED.
The Mississippi River Destroys the
Great Sny Levee.

Specials from several points along the
upper Mississippi River give accounts OF
great losses to the property owners and vast
inundations. The levee that protects ths
Sny bottoms gave way at an early hour
Monday morning, and the men who were
engaged in strengthening the levee had to
run for their lives.
An opening 100 yards wide was made and
the water rushed through and into the bot
toms with a roar. Couriers fastened
through the bottoms warning farmers of the
break, and there was q wild chase driving
the live stock to the highlands. The bottoms
are in Illinois, embrace about one hundred
thousand acres Of land and reach fr I'm q point
opposite Louisiana, NO., to point opposite
Hannibal At the broadest place they are
nearly FIVE miles wide and the overflow makes
q great and turbulent sea. The break oc-
CURED at Murphy's Bay known as Turkeys
Foot The last inundation in these bottoms
was in 1881.
At 6 o'clock the Indian Grove Levee gave
way and submerged Il, 900 acres of lowland,
5000 acres of which were planted in wheat. The
lcvee broke about six miles above Quincy, Ill.
For many hours men worked hard to save
the levee by sinking barges filled with hay
and rocks, but t. no avail, and the break
came SO suddenly that they were obliged to
Hee for their lives On the Missouri sid. the
break at Alexandria has caused great sea
;Gvgerin2 800. .000 acres Of land
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

AUSTRIAN newspapers look upon war with
Russia as inevitable.
THIRTEEN new National banks went into
operation during April.
THERE are 100000 Masons and 550, 300 Odd
Fellows in the United States.
BARNEsvILLE, Ca, has fixed the price Of
saloon licenses at $4,000 year:
CHARLESTON, W. Va, has just given itself
a rousing Centennial celebration,
MR. MILLER, of Manlius. N. Y, has just
lost six of his ten children by diphtheria.
BEssEMER, Ala, is Just one year old, and
has between three and four thousand inhab-
itants.
SPEAKER CARLISLE gives it as his opinion
that Congress will not adjourn before Sep
tember.
IT Is stated that over 10000 American
pianos have been shipped to Russia in the last
ten years.
IT is believed that if Bismarck retired, the
new German Chancellor would be Hohenlohe-
Schillingfurst.
IT is reported from the Swiss Tyrol that
the chamois have been destroyed wholesale
by avalanches.
In Pittsburg iron mill mans nose was
cut off. and physician had 1t on again IN
side of an hour
DIR. EVERETT WAGNER, q Kentucky ply
sician, in his will bequeathed his body piece.
meal to relatives.
A. TREATY of international traffic by rail
has just been signed between Chill and the
Argentine Republic.
In Brennan, Texas, natural gas in force to
run q ten horse power engine las been struck
at the depth Of 163 feet
THE maple sugar crop of Vermont is now
estimated at l5,O00,0J0 pounds, including
2UO, 900 gallons Of syrup.
JAMES W. FISK dropped from balloon
nearly q mile high at Paris ILL.,, and by
means of parachute landed safely.
AS the Boston Globe figures, the net
profit of the billiard tables kept in that city
IS something over So, 0OO, 900 annually.
JUDGE PUGH has issued mandamus or
dering the Cincinnati Police Board to en-
force the Sunday saloon closing laws.
FRESH discoveries of gold have been made
in Wales, the yield being estimated at five
ounces of pure gold to the ton OF matter e1.
cavated.
AT Fort Garland, COL, Billy Carson, son
of the famous Kit. lately shot and killed his
father in law, Thomas Tobin, an almost
Equally noted scout.
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Roodlers in Shackles.

E1-Warden Varnel and e1- County Com
missioner Wasserman, Van Pelt, 'Leyden
and Ochs, the last five county boodlers OF
Chicago, were sent to Joliet penitentiary, ON
O nine o'clock train Friday, to begin their
proud Commissioners had shackles on their
limbs for the first time, but they seemed to
accept the situation with stoical indifference.
They have all been assigned to work in va
rinus denartmelltS
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A Lunatic's Fatal Leap.

Miss Ellen g. Miner, an inmate Of the Co,
lumbus Ohio Insane Asylum from Harrisod
County. has committed suicide. She had
been closely watched, having previously at.
tempted destruction. Friday she found
the door to an ante-room unlocked, ann
at once assembled to the skylight,
which she broke through, and reached
the roof before her absence was noticed.
From the roof the unfortunate woman
jumped to the ground, distance Of sixty
feet below. She did not lose consciousness,
but talked nationally after being carried into
the building. She lived but Is minutes after
the fatal leap. Singular as it may appear
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AMAN calling himself William Shipsey, a
convict who escaped from Sing Sing Prison
in 1873, has Just surrendered voluntarily tc
Head Keeper Connaughton, Of that institu-
tion, and has begun to serve out his ten yes'
spntence ..
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SERGEANT MAJOR CHATELAIN, Of the
French army, was tried by court martial at
Marseilles on charge Of trying to sell new
Iebel rifle and number Of cartridges to the
German Government. He was convicted ana
sentenced to Imprisonment in the fortress
and to forfeiture Of his rank and medal
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sTRANGLED BY SUCTION.
An Extraordinary Accident to q
Little Child in Cincinnati.

One Of the most remarks1ie accidental
deaths on record occurred the other
evening on Wade street, Cincinnati,
Ohio. Willie Rollwein, aged three years,
stood on tiptoe rnder q hydrant in the
spout, putting his mouth close against 1t. In
some unaccountable wayne was held there
by suction, and an hour later was found
hanging dead, with his face black and blue.
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South and West.

SOuCH " oSCs
A HOSPITAL for the treatment of hydro
phobia after the Pasteur method is about to
be established in San Antonio Texas. s,.
MRS ROBERT MULL1GAN, of Wheeling,
W. Va, gave birth to her twenty-6fth child
few days ago.
A CROWD of about one hundred men
hanged a colored farm hand near Bowling
Green, KY. A farmer has had about twenty
horses poisoned during the past year, and the
colored man was supposed to be the guilty
party.
AT vandalia, Ill, Henry Miller murdered
L. C. Kinsey and killed his horse. Then he
shot at William Aderholt, killing him in
stantly. Miller after that went to his own
house, set it on fire, and shot himself. He
had been beaten in suit against Aderholt
in which kinseY was witness.
GREAT damage has been done by freshets
along the courses of the Mississippi and Red
Rivers in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Ar
kansas.
MRS. IDA JoRDoN, wife Of a wealthy grain
dealer at Indianapolis Ind, administered
fatal dose Of poison to her four year-old
child, and then cut her own throat with
razor.
j. LUsKE g. Co., of San Francisco, Cal,
operating the largest establishment for cam
ming fruits and vegetables in the world have
IudUO 1u oolSuulCuU, wltn iaeSbl1lUCo CSUl-
mated to be S2O0, 1000.
ZEPH DAVIS has been hanged at Chicago
for numbering little child with hatchet.
He was the first colored man ever executed
in Illinois.
FRANK MAY was caught by saw at Fort
Republic, Va, and his body cut in two.
THE entire business portion of Goldendale,
Washington Territory, has been swept away
by fire. The town had no fire department
with which to fight the flames. The total
loss will reach S175. 900.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR has been nominated by
the Democrats Of Tennessee for reelection.
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE RIvEs
has received cable message from Consul
Lewis at Tangier, saying that all the ques-
tions Of disagreement between Morocco and
the United States had been settled, and that
he had gained all the points contended for.
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ALFRED BARNES died in Mexico, No., re-
Gently, at the age Of ninety y-eight yuars He
had been Mason for ssventy-tl years, and
was said to be the oldest member Of the order
In the world. -
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DETECTIVES have already travelled over
12. 600 miles in search Of Tascott, the Chicago
murderer of Millionaire Smell, but thus fai
not one reliable clew to his movements since
tho night Of the murder has yet been dis.;
-eova,dd -.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MtzED.
Fsst.rn and Middle States

SIXTEEN persons were hurt in a collision
between two trains on the Erie railroad, near
Jersey City, N. ].
LrTTLEwooD, the English pedestrian, won
the six days go-as.you-please walking match
in Madison Square Garden, New York, his
his score being GIL miles; Guerrero $50,
Herty 573, Noremac 533, and Golden $50
HENRY DIssToN's extensive saw works at
Philadelphia have been destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $500, 900. About 1900 work
men are affected.
THOMAS KEHoE and Minor Mcnamara, of
Greenbush, N Y, were fatally injured by
their horse backing with them over O thirty
five foot embankment.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written
Colonel r. H. Thomas Secretary Of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, Patrons OF
Husbandry, that he will visit the Inter State
Exposition at Williams Grove, Penn, III
August.
TAE New York State Democratic Ccnven-
tion met at New York city and elected dele
gates to the National Presidential Conven-
tion who are instructed to support Cleveland
for denomination. Roswell P. Flower and
Edward Cooper, of New York; Alfred G.
Chaplin, of Brooklyn, and George Raines, OF
Rochester, were elected delegateS.at-large.
The platform calls for tariff reform.
L1NDLEY T. BROWN, an old farmer, was
gored to death by bui at Cap Station,
Penn.
Mrs. PHGBE TRAVIS, tho well. known
centenarian, the Oldest living person in New
York, who was born in Putnam county
Christmas Day, 1888, and married in 1900,
died few days ago at Cameron, N. Y.
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An epidemic prevails at Madrid Spain. y
Ia fesred that the disease Is of cholerule
nature, and its spreadis attributed to thee1
treme heat and the drinking Of impure mtiz