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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of tie United States, died
very suddenly in Washington at six o'clock
Friday morning, from acute pneumonia.
He died without moments warning, in the
presence of only profess .onal nurse. j.
So unexpected was fatal termination OF
the illness that Miss Waite called the previous
evening on friends living in the same block
with her, and remained an hour or more
gayly. chatting.
Mrs. Waite was in California, and was
notified by telegraph of her husbands sud-
den death. -,
1t was announced that the remains would
be taken to Toledo, Ohio, for burial. Pres!,
dent Cleveland issued an order closing all
executive departments of the Government on
the day of Justice Waite's funeral.
Justice Waite's death will leave the hlghest
dignity on the Bench at the disposal of Presi-
dent Cleveland, and when his choice has been
made and confirmed, the Bench will possess
a Democratic Chief Justice again for the
first time since the death of Roger b. Taney,
and leave that tribunal politically composed
of three Democrats, adding Field and Lamar,
and six Republicans ,.
The late Justice was the youngest Of eight
children and was born ut Lyme, Conn, No
vember 20, 1916 He graduated from Yale IN
the class Of 1887 with Senator William NJ.
Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, Professor Ben
jamin S;lliman and others, and then conf
inenced the study Of law in the office of his
father. He afterward went West and COM
rleted his studies with Samuel NJ. Young, a
prominent citizen Of Maumee, Ohio, with
whom he afterward formed partnership
In 1850 the firm established an office at
Toledo. Mr.. Waite took charge of this
office. Subsequently he entered into partner
ship with his brother Richard and continued
with him until he was elevated to the Chief
Justiceship.
In 1S49 he was elected member of the
Legislature of Ohio and in lSG2 was Re-
publican candidate for Congress against
Edwin Phelps, but was defeated, at the same
votes cast at Toledo. Governor Brough
rendered him seat on the Supreme
Bench OF the State, but this he declined
His national reputation dated from
his unexpected and unsolicited appolntment
as counsel for the United States in the arbl-
tration at Geneva, involving the settlement
of the Alabama claims against Great Britain
stitutional Convention of Ohio called in 1878
Upon the death of Chief Justice Chase,
after the Hon. George H. Williams and the
Hon Caleb Cushing had been successively
nominated and withdrawn, Mr.. Waltes
name was seat by President Grant, and lie
was confirmed by the United States
Senate by an almost unanimous vote.
The appointment had not been solicited, and
only a year previous Mr.. Waite had been adj
mittei to practice in the court Of which he
was destined 10 become Chief Justice In
March, 1874. he took the oath Of his high Of
fee and entered upon his duties.
His family consisted Of his wife, an uu-
married daughter and the widow of his eld-
est son. His second son, C. G. Waite, is now
Treasurer of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad at Cincinnati He is mar.
ried, and the late jurist frequently visited
him
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THE LABOR WORLD.

A BLIND man is one of the most skiliful
plumbers in Kenosha, Wis.
BUTLER, Penn, is rapidly booming up as q
great glass manufacturing town.
The working day in Paris, France, has
been reduced from eleven hours to ten hours.
THE granite cutters have decided to work
nine hours day for $3.50 for the present
year.
IN New York City the building trades have
forty-five unions, with a membership OF
5000.
THE weekly pay roll of the Singer Sowing
Machine Company at Elizabeth, n. j.,
amounts to $4,000.
IT takes every year million horses tails to
keep Rhode Island haircloth factory sup
piled with material.
A LEBANON PENN manufacturing COM
pany has an order for 800 model cars tor the
Pennsylvania Company.
ACCORDING to the latest figures as many
as 10, 600 of the worlds railway employees are
killed or manned every year.
THE can makers at the Batavia (N. "
preserving factory manufactured $3.50 cans
recently, the largest days work that they
have accomplished.
IT is said that enough Bessemer ore has
already been located in this country to sup
ply its wants for one hundred years, and
more Is being found every month.
DIAMOND cutting, until lately, was done
almost exclusively in Amsterdam, but re-
Gently the English cutters have beaten the
Dutch in some notable prize instances.
The army OF poor men in New York city
who sought work in vain before the blizzard,
found some relief for their distress in shovel
ing snow of the sidewalks at 81 and s.
each.
A SINGLE blast at Fair Haven, VT, re-
Gently moved block of slate weighing i0J
tons and containing 0,00J feet of good ma
terial 1t was sixty feet long, forty feet wide
and twenty feet thick.
THE largest paper machine in the world
has been placed in operation in the mill at
Palmer Falls, N. Y. The practicability OF
the mammoth machine is looked upon with
considerable interest by paper makers.
A COMPANY has just been formed in Pitts
burg with capital Of S10),0 ,0C0 to manufec-
ture brick from blast furnace cinders. The
rojectors count on turning out 81, 00J bricks
day, and believe they will be sold at s.
1000.
A COMPANY composed Of Pittsburg and
Eastern capitalists has been formed to build
an immense steel plant at Penn station,
concern is about S1,00J,0J0. Six hundred
thousand dollars Of this will be used in the
erection of all the buildings and machinery.
THE enormous extent to which chewing
gum is used is indicated by strike which
lately occurred at mandatory Of the arti-
Gle in Brooklyn, N. Y. 1t seems that moro
than one hundred girls are employed at this
establishment, which is only one among many,
in wrapping the gum in the little packages in
which it Is Sold
THE Sandwich Glass Company of Sand
L1e 81 txyn
system this year after this plan: The net
earnings will be proportioned between the
capital and yearly pay roll six per cent in
terest being reserved on the value Of the for
mer, and the employees sharing according to
the amount Of their wages
GIDEON L. PEACE, of Maine, is believed to
be the only New England survivor of the
Black Hawk war. He entered the army in
1920 and was discharged In 1899. ~
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. GLApsosE is writing his memoirs.
Count Won MoLTKE wears yellow wig.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was fifty-one years
old on March la
THE Lord Chancellor Of England, Lord
Halsbury, is sixty-three years old.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was expelled
from Eton College when sixteen years OF
age.
JAY GoULp's son, Eddie, is described as
the most shabbily dressed son Of a millionaire
In the country.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS has OBJ
his duties in London.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt are said
to have been frightened out of their Bava-
rian castle by ghosts.
A STATUE of William E. Foster, the Eng
lish statesman, will be erected on the Thames
embankment, London.
CONGRESSMAN SCoTT, Of Pennsylvania,
pays his cook SO, ,000 and takes great interest
in the science Of gastronomy.
The Oldest British peer is Viscount Ever
sley. who is ninety-three years old, and the
youngest is the Duke of Albany, ninety years
bis Junior.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the great iron master,
is to give 81, ,0O0, ,0OO, and more If necessary,
TO establish POLYTECHNIC school at Pittsburg
equal to the one in Boston.
GUzMAN BLANco, PRESIDENT Of Venezula,
has killed twenty men in political duels, 1t
being the custom to fight any man who disa-
grees with your political opinions.
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, has the
reputation Of being the finest linguist in the
upper house OF Congress. He can make
speech in English, French or Spanish.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN from his retreat in
New Brunswick again sounds the alarum"
and predicts inundation, shipwreck. earth
quake and bankruptcy for the British Prov.
inceS.
DURING his stay in San Reno, Italy, Doc
tor Mackenzie, of London, composed an over
ture to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night" The
work is said to reflect the life and humor OF
the comedy.
SENATOR EvARTs is said to make from
sS5, 900 to $50, 900 year out of his law prac-
tice Senator Edmunis has an income from
the law that is five times as great as his SAL
ary as Senator.
EX-SENATOR n. A. TABOR is again in luck.
it is said that eight feet of solid ore that vii!
average SIS PER ton has been opened up at
the Matchless Silver Mine, owned by him.
near Leadville. Col -...~ 49,
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

IHE Hon. Mr. Flumb, Speaker or The
Canadian Senate, is dead.
DAKOTA sent -four and sympathy to bliz-
zard sufferers in the East.
PRINCE BISMARCK, at a dinner recently
proposed the health OF the Gar of Russia, in
French.
The Swiss Government is about to establish
q Federal bank, with monopoly OF the issue
Of notes.
TEN thousand pounds OF turtle we're
shipped from Key West to New York dur
ing February.
KEY WEST spongers market yearly over
500,0O0 pounds Of sponge, the bulk OF when
goes to Paris
Two hundred thousand acres Of Union
Pacific land have been declared forfeited to
the Government
THE latest competition threatening British
farmers, Is the importing Of baled hay from
the United States.
HoYe-KoNG, China, is suffering from an
epidemic of smallpox. The deaths are at the
rate Of 100 week.
THE English Government proposes to make
an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in its an
uual interest charge.
In the adulteration of lard in the United
States there were used last year 5000, QUO
pOunQS Oh COUUOu Seou I'LL
FIFTEEN thousand seals are reported taken
on Partridge Island, Newfoundland. Men
and women are taking them.
ABILL has been introduced in the New
York Assembly offering a bounty for the de-
struction Of English sparrows.
ADELINA LEWIS, twelve-year-old Vir-
ginia girl, has been convicted OF murder.
She killed her victim by poisoning.
GEORGE W. BUrTERF1ELD. California
mining operator, has sued London news
paper publisher for s5,ooo,0O0 damages for
libel.
A HURRICANE recently swept over Iama,
taye, Madagascar, devastating the place and
wrecking eleven vessels. Twenty person were
killed.
An attempt is being made in Australia to
form a company to lay a submarine cable
from that country directly to the United
Statea
ROCHESTER, N. Y, has gone sixteen
months without the telephone because un.
willing to submit to the charges of the Bell
Company.
THERE is to be a great gathering Of Bap-
tists in Washington next May. Some 2OoO
delegates, representing $4,000 churches. have
been enrolled.
MIGUEL DE ALBANIA, the Cuban patriot
who spent nearly Q million for the revolu-
tionary cause in that island, died in Havana
on the 18th Of March.
A MEMBER Of the Royal Geographical
Society OF England says there are devil-fish
in the Indian Ocean large enough and strong
enough to hold and kill whale fifty feet
/ long.
IMMENSE quantities of wheat, probably
500, 900 tons, are held in San Francisco. Cal.
This mass has been attacked by weevils, so
that it is likely to be total loss to the
owners
DURING 1887. 20 torpedo-boats were added
to the British navy, making total Of 80 first
class and 63 second-class. During this year
s first-class ani 10 second-cla,s will be
ordered.
A MAN aged so, who died recently in Flu
wanna County, Virginia, had commenced to
cut his third set OF teeth, and his hair, which
had grown white, was turning to its natural
color, it issaid.
The wealthiest woman in the Northwest
is probably Mrs. Sarah A. Davidson, of st.
Paul, Mimi, the widow of Commodore w.
F. Davidson. She is estimated to be worth
about 81, 500. 600.
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Oxford crew in the annual boat-race on the

Thames.
The Court Of Appeals Of France has ac-
quilted M. Wilson, ex-President Crews SON
n-law, and others charged with selling dec
orations
THOUSANDS of persons were reported dy-
Ing Of starvation in the inundated districts of
Hungary.
ANOTHER operation has been performed on
the German Emperors throat A mass of
diseased cartilage was removed and his con-
dition improved thereby.
De LEssEPs has secured an additional sl0,-
600, 600 with which to continue work on the
Panama Canal, and the French Chamber of
Deputies is expected to authorize the issuance
Of lottery loan in furtherancs of the
scheme.
EDWARD DwYER GRAY, n distinguished
Irish member CT Parliament, died at his home
in Dublin.
THE French Government has declined to
accept Italy's proposals for a commercial
treaty.
AMAsoNIc service for the late Emperor
William, held in Berlin, was attended by
1000 distinguished Masons from all parts Of
the empire.
TIE Sultan Of Zanzibar is dead.
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ON THE WARPATH.
The Gigantic Seris Indians Have
Commenced HoStiliticS.

Reports are prevalent that the Seris Indi-
ans, inhabiting Tiburan Island, in the Gulf
Of California, lately crossed to the mainland
of Sonora, Mexico, and are raiding the
ranches. The Seris number about 900, and
are one of the tallest races on the Continent.
nearly all measuring feet T.. 1t is asserted
by some that they are cannibals. They pre-
fer raw, decomposed meat to cooked. In
looks, language and manners they are differ
ent from any other Indians in America.
Many fishermen have attempted to stop at
their island, but they did not remain long
and considered themselves lucky when they
got away. They have never before been
known to leave the Island upon depredating
excursions, and their present raid is com
crossed over into Sonora on trading expedi-
tions, but they came in small parties and
manifested no desire TO commit depredations.
Acting Governor Carroll, of Arizona, is tax
ing steps to send a force of troops to the
frontier to check their advance.
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DESTRUCTION OF A TOWN.
Three Persous Killed by a Torn ado
at Ninncscah, Kansas.

at Ninncscah, Kansas.
The town of Ninnescah, Kan, was almost
totally destroyed by a tornado Saturday
evening, at halt-past seven. 1t had been
raining all day, and rs evening approached
the funnel-shaped terror was seen coming
from the southwest 1t struck the town and
destroyed everything in its path, leaving
only three houses standing in the whole place.
Two churches, five stores and fifteen dwelling
houses were torn: to pieces, and the flying tim
bers caused the death o. three and the maim-
ing of seventeen citizens The dead are Mrs.
X. c. Williams, with her infant, and George
s. Hardesty.
The most seriously hurt are James Will
ANS, both legs broken and severely bruised,
will probably die; Charles Gordon, injured in
the back, supposed to I've fatally. The others
injured have only minor hurts. The heavy
fall of rain which kept up for sometime after
the storm made the condition of the sufferers
desperate ia the extreme. A party went from
Wichita for relief Sunday, arriving there
late in the evening, and they have done all
that is possible to alleviate the distress Of the
sufferers.
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SOLDIERS DROWNED.
Fifteen Lives Lost in an Attempt to
Rescue Villagers.

F1Iteen IIVtS LUSC III IIf 1Hee VII u 00
Rescue Villagers.
Low-lying districts along the banks OF the
rivers Elbe and Vistula, in Germany, were
inundated. The village of Dornitz was iso-
lated in the midst of great lake. A num-
her of soldiers from the nearest garrison,
after arduous efforts, succeeded in reaching
there with supply Of food for the inhabit-
ants, but fifteen Of them were drowned in
the attempt to reach their destination.
Further attempts to relieve numerous vii
Iages in a similar position were made The
floods, it is estimated, covered 200 square
miles and there are alarming runors OF the
amount of damage done.
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THREE things too much, and three
things too little, are pernicious to man.
To speak much and know little; to
spend much and have little; to pre-
sumo much and ae worth little.-Cer-
vlTteS.
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ELECTIONS on the liquor question have been
held in 81 counties and 20 cities in Missouri:
Twenty nine counties have voted wet" and
81 "Drvn: / not reported Of the 20 towns
IS have voted Dry and 7"Wet."
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JUDGE not hastily; it is better to
suspend our opinion than to retract an
assertion.
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FOREIGN.

Two men named Alcorn, father and son,
were swept into a meadow at South Branch,
New Brunswick, by freshet, and drowned.
EMPEROR FREDERICK of Germany has is
sued a decree authorizing his son, Prince
William. to act in his stead whenever neces-
sary This is considered quite significant OF
his precarious state Of health.
THE Sultan of Morocco has made offers OF
compromise in regard to the dispute between
the United States and his country, but
Consul General Lewis considered the
terms unfavorable and they were rejected.
THE Queen of Portugal has gone to Oporto
to assist in relieving tie sufferers by the re-
cent theatre horror.
JOHN 7. HOFFMAN, Ex-Governor of New
York, died suddenly OF heart disease at Wles-
baden, Germany.
PRINCE WILLIAM co-Regent OF Germany,
has been declared by the Court physicians
afflicted with an hereditary malady that may
prove fatal, and which is the same disorder
that rendered his grandfather, King William
w., insane and caused his death.
QUEEN VICTORIA and suite have arrived in
Florence, Italy, where they will remain three
weeks.
THE British Chancellor Of the Exchequer
has presented his report showing surplus
revenue for last year of $10O00,0J0 He ad-
yocates additional taxes on wine, carriage
horses and race horses, and the reduction OF
one penny in the income tax.
THE late German Emperor's will shows his
total savings are about S12, 500, 900.
The Cambridge University crew beat the
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THE Ewing triplets, OF Lawrenceville,
Ind, are said to be the Oldest, largest and
81 wears old. Abel weighs 225 pounds:
Joshua, 243, and Putnam, 24S.
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Washington

THE Senate Committee on Military Affairs
ordered favorable report to be made on the
bill providing that each State shall establish
State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors,
and their widows and orphans shall receive
500 for each person who may be cared for in
the Home for one year.
AN International Council of Women has
been in session at the National Capital. The
Woman's Suffrage Association, the w. c.
T. u, and other bodies was represented.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS, Chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee, has been dan
gerously i'll from chills superinduced by ex-
acting official duties
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, by treaty agree
ment appointed arbitrator in the disputed
boundary question between Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, has decided in favor of the latter
country.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: E. Nelson Fitch.
of Michigan, to be Receiver Of Public
Moneys at Grayling, Mich; Francis L:
Pubic i'L; Moneys g at Del Norte, Col; John NJ.
Browne, Medical Director, to be Chief of
Naval Bureau Of Medicine and Surgery, with
the rank Of Commodore.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Frederick W. L. Butterfield, of
New York, to be Consul at Ghent; S. NJ.
Stockslager, to be Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Office; Thomas j. Anderson, to
be Assistant Commissioner Of the General
Land Office.
TIRE Postmaster-Generalh has appointed
committee to make thorough investigation
of the alleged m:smanagement of the post
Office at Chicago.
THE River and Harbor Bill has been agreed
upon in committee 1t appropriates only
si9, ,4S2, 1S3, though the engineers estimate of
the sum required was s4o,0O0,00O
TREASURER HYATT has adopted new seal
for use on United States notes and certificates.
1t is similar in design to the large on used
on the old twenty dollar note, with the addi-
tion of a small lace border with many points
in geometric lathe work.
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GIDEON L. PEACE, of Maine, is believed to
be the only New England survivor of the
Black Hawk war. He entered the army in
1920 aud was discharged In 1899. ~
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-21
TWELVE HUSBANDS

Discovery of the Champion Female Biga-
mist, Who Married for Money and Gem
orally Got 1t.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, July 1.-THE cham.
pion female bigamist has turned up here.
She is book agent, and says her home is
in st. Louis. She is twenty-seven and
good-looking. 1t is said that she has mar
ried no less than twelve men in as many
different States. She is a sharper, too
When she arrived in a town she would find
plenty Of fools with more money than
brains who would make love to her.
The woman would insist on mar
rying, and then get her husband to
loan her couple of hundred dollars
to send home to her sick mother. After
she got the money she would take the next
train out Of town. About a month ago
she married w. H. Evans, of Hazelton.
She got 1850 out of Evans, and then fed to
this city. Evans arrived here yesterday
looking for the woman. To-day another
husband, Albert Thomas, from the West,
turned up. He was looking for the woman,
too. She married him and got $3.50. The
woman's right name is said to be LORNA
Hart. She is an expert forger, and is
wanted on two charges.
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COULDN'T oAroH HIM.

Escspc Of Desperate who Entered =
Bank and Compelled the Cashier to Yield
Up tho Funds of the 1nstitution.
PUEBLO, COL, July 15.--Yesterday after
noon at La Junta, in Bent County, ninety
miles east Of Pueblo the bank of La Junta
was entered by stranger with cooked
revolver In hand. The cashier, Rufus
Phillips, who had just returned from din
ner, was ordered to open the safe and dis
gorge. Being unarmed he did so. The
stranger then took about $4,000 in cur
rency and coin, placed It in sack,
slung the sack over his shoulder,
backed out the side door, and,
mounting a fleet horse which
stood near, he struck out across the coun-
try toward the mountains at rapid gait.
1t was only few moments until dozen
mon on horseback, headed by the cashier,
In his shirtsleeves and bareheaded, were
in hot pursuit Of the flying thief, but his
horse not only had speed, but wind, and
was not overhauled. A sheriff's posse are
still pursuing him, and it is thought they
are near Trinidad. He outrode the first
party that started after him, and they re-
turned to La Junta empty -handed.