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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
South and West.

ABOUT 160 miners were at work in mine
near Pittsburg, Kansas, when an explosion
occurred Ali but two miners were li2 1eel
below the surface, and the entombed men
were buried beneath many tons OF debris.
The stage near Downievile, Cal. was
robbed by masked highwaymen, who secured
about S25, 900 in bullion and coin.
EDWARD HALL, one of the striking w. en-
eineers, was shot and instantly Killed al
Crestop, Iowa, by one of the new engineers
named Charles Huston.
THE Jasper freight train crushed through
a trestle at Birmingham, Ala, and three
tramps, who were stealing ride, were Killed.
w. h. SCHUMAKER, Postmaster at Carbon
Hill, Ala, and very prominent cltizen,
was Shot and killed by his wife, who is only
seventeen years old. She did it in selt-de-
fense.
EIGHT buildings in the business part Of
Brandon, Wis, were burned causing IosS
of :53,0 ,00l.
A NUMBER of disasters are reported as the
result of heavy snow storm, Wnlcn oeSan
in the West and continued about twenty -foui
hours. The storm ragged furiously through
Northern Kansas, Missouri and Colorado,
impeding railway travel and lnterrupIlne
teleeraphic communication.
NEWS has been received from Tishomlngo,
Capital of the Chickasaw Nation, that GoV'
ernor Guy has been assassinated.
PETER HOWE, senior member OF the bank
ing firm of Howe & Son, and his wife, the
former aged seventy-three years and the lat
ter sixty-nine, who lived about half mile
from the business portion of Wenona,, Ill,
have been barbarously murdered WIN al
axe by domestic in their employ.
THREE Mormon elders who we're proselyt-
ing in Marion County, Ala, were seized by
fifty of the best citizens OF that nelghbor-
hood, and tarred and feathered. The Nor
mons begged for their lives and promised TO
leave at once, never to return.
MARIE BERTnUNE, wife of Louis Berth
une, fell senseless as she recognized the
mangled body of her husband as it was
drawn up from the wrecked mine at
Frontenac. Kan. She was taken home
ravirg maniac and that night set fire to her
hut and perished in the flames, with four OF
her children.
THE bodies of Eula Jones, a chambermaid,
Major White of Atlanta and Thomas Moore
of Bloomington, ILL.,, have been found in the
ruins of Bryant's European Hotel at Chat
tanooca, Tenn, which was burned.
FIVE hundred acres of corn along the
Ohio river below Evansville, Ind, are sub
merged and the crop destroyed, owing to
the recent heavy rains.
UNKNOWN men exploded dynamite under
the Court House at Henrietta, Texas, and 1t
was destroyed.
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THE Navy Department has ordered ell
work on the Saratoga at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard suspended, and, also, as far as
nossible, on the Portsmouth. The Saratoga
will be given to the State of Pennsylvania as
training ship.
IL consequence of the severe criticism OF
the police on their inability to capture the
perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocitles,
Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan
police of London, has resigned, and MS reslg-
nation has been accepted.
A NIECE of the dowager Empress has been
chosen as consort for the Emperor of China
CAPTAIN T. II. LOGAN, commanding the
United States troops at Fort Hancock, on
the Rio Grande, some seventy miles peio"
El Paso, Texas. has been arrested and thrown
into prison by Mexican gendarmes VINO
caught him while on hunting expedition In
Mexico.
AHoUsE collapsed on Titchfeld street, Lon
don, causing the death of six persons and the
injury Of twenty.
LONDON is again thrown into terrible
state of excitement by the Whitechapel fond
who has murdered q woman named Lizzie
Fisher, this making the ninth victim OF his
mania for butchery. Unlike the previous
atrocities, this awful crime was committed
within a building. The mutilation of the
victim was more frightful than in the case or
any who preceded her.
ALL the plans have now been completed
for Empress Elizabeth Of Austria's visit to
America this winter.
THE first through express train from Paris
has arrived in Constantinople amid great
ovations and excitement
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SILVER DOLLARS STOLEN.
PeculatioRs From Government
Express Packages.
Theft Of Treasury Funds En-.
route From New Orleans.

Some enterpr;sing thief has been helping
himself to bright new silver dollars out
of the coin that is being received daily at the
Washington Treasury from the New Orleans
Mint The robberies were not mentioned
outside of the Treasurer's Office until Treas
urer Hyatt called upon Assistant Secretary
thomson, who was then Acting Secretary,
and told him that somebody was stealing the
Governments money.
The Secret Service bureau was called
into action, and since then detectives have
been hard ut work trying to discover the
thief. Details of the robbery are hard
to obtain, but it is known that the thefts
were at first of very small amounts. The coin
comes to the Treasury in strong canvas bags
holding $500 each. The bags are inclosed
In heavy wooden boxes, which are carefully
locked and sealed with Government seal,
which must be broken before the boxes can
be opened. The thief began by abstract
ing only 81 or s. from bag, but
he soon grew bolder. and when he
took larger sums he replaced the coin
with shot and lead Of very nearly the
same weight, so that the loss would not be
quickly discovered when the bags were
weighed. Investigation showed that the bro
ken Government seals were replaced by i'm
pressions Of a silver twenty -fve-cent piece
on the wax. As nearly as could be learned
from the Treasury officers the total amount
stolen is not yet known, but it is positively as
serted that the sum will not exceed 5000.
While the detectives have not run down the
thief, it is declared in the Treasury Depart
ment that the robberies must have taken
place while the coin was on the way from
New Orleans to Washington, and in the care
Of the Adams Express Company, which is,
therefore, held responsible for theloss. 1t is ar
gued that il the money was stolen by any of the
Government employees who handled it here
or in New Orleans, the Government seal
was at hand to replace the broken onss. and
would have been used instead of the silver
quarters. The coin boxes are supposed to
be very carefully guarded from the mo.
ment they leave the mint until they
reach the Treasury vaults In this
city they are carried from the
cars to the Treasury Building in express
wagons, which are really big steel cages, and
armed representatives of the Treasury and the
express company ride with the boxes in the
cages. The fact that number of boxes were
tampered with ard on different occasions
leads to the belief that there was collusion with
either express company or Government en-
ployes, and that the robberies were part Of a
systematic plan by which it was hoped to OBJ
tain more money by many small thefts
which might escape discovery than by one
big haul which would be at once found out
When one Of the boxes was opened at the
Department. day or two ago it was found to
contain nothing but shot. A second box was
opened and one of the bags in it was found to
contain nothing more valuable than lead.
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GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
The Yield of Cotto on, Corn, Potatoes,
Hay and Buckwheat


The United States Department OF Agri-
culture reports a good season for cotton
picking during October in the Southwest
and only moderately favorable "eather
in the Atlantic coast States. The wet
weather of September proved very In,
furious to quality, prostrating plants ana
rotting bolls, causing blight and shedding,
and in turing prospects OF the top crop.
There is much strained fibre and quality IS
much poorer than that of the previous year.
! Picking was late commencing, but there has as
yet been no killing frost, rendering Possiole
partial compensation in the length OF tne
season. Indications of yield per acre average
the same as last wear ut this time, though the
previous condition of the plant scarcely war
rants the expectation Of so much late
growth and harvest outcome in November
and december. The States west OF the
Mississippi report slightly larger yield than
last year, while Georgia, Alabama and len
nessee indicate slight reduction. otner
States Indicate nearly the same expectation
at this date.
The returns of the yield Of corn indicate 8
yield per acre cutie as large as that OF 1850:
and larger than any other crop since that OF
1850. The aggregate grown on larger area
will exceed thnt Of any. previous AmeTlcam n aon
product, being very close to 2Ooo, Goo. ooO
bushels, or abcut thirty two bushels per
capita. The general average will fall some
what under twenty seven bushels per acre.,
There is GOOD supply Of maize in nearly
all parts of the South, SO that comparatively
little will be required from the West: The
yields Of the Atlantic States are moderate,
seriously reluced by frost on the Northern
border.
Potatoes give an average Of about eighty
bushels per acre. The total product is about
lg5. .OO0. 600 bushels, or 6l.OmOOO more than
the estimated product of 1887.
The average yield Of buckwheat ls ap-
proximately twelve bushels per acre, and the
HAY is slightly above IN average in yield,
| or !. .22 tons per acre. It has been nowhere
seriously injured by drought
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FRANK Turner, of WeStfeld, Mass, who
was confined in the Springfield Jail awaiting
trial on u charge Of perjury, committed sui
eide in his cell by hanging.
By the falling of mason's scaffold in the
Weed building at Stamford, Conn, five men
were thrown to the ground, two being killed
and three others severely injured.
FIRE in paper house on the Five Points.
New York City, destroyed property valued
at 100000. and seven men We're injured
while escaping from the burning structure.
THE anarchists of New York, Pittsburg
and other cities observed the first anniversary
of the hanging of their brethren in Chicago
for causing the Haymarket riots.
FREDERICK KNoRR and his wife, with
their eleven-year-old daughter Anna.
perished in their burning dwelling at Yer.
non Center, N. Y. Knorr was laborer,
thirty-five years old. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
BooDLER JAEHNE, of New York, must
finish his term in Sing Sing. The Supreme
Court Of the United States has rendered q
decision on his application for a writ OF
habeas corpus, in which the decision Of the
Court for the Southern District of New YorR
is affirmed.
AFTER travelling abroad for sixteen
months Mr.. Carter Harrison, ex-Mayor OF
Chicago, has returned to New York by the
steamship Alaska.
MRS. SARAH J. ROBINSON, who was tc
have been hanged at Boston for the murder
of her brother, has had her sentence COM
muted to imprisonment for life.
GEORGE COOPER, of Portland. Conn.,, muir
dered his wife as she lay asleep in her bed. The
crime was committed with an axe, the woman
being struck three fearful blows over the
head
HENRY BETTER, a German residing at
Middetown, Conn, committed suicide by
shooting. Dependency following pro
tracted spree caused the act.
A FIRE in |Tatson's marine stores, at Brook
lyn, caused loss Of over quarter OF MILL
ion dollars.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

PATTI goes to bed at $3.50 P. Ii. and rises at
$3.50 A. N.
W. S. GILBERT, the English librettist, has
dramarized George Eliots "Romola."
SHENANDOAH" has finally been decided
upon as the title for Bronson HoWards new
play.
STUART ROBSON will star alone next sea-
son in "The Henrietta" and in a new play by
Steele Mackaye.
TEREs1NA TUA, the violin fairy, has bid
farewell to Berlin, and retired into tne COM
forts Of home life.
F. F. PRocToR has Just leased the Worccs'
ter (Mass.) Theatre. He now controls sixteen
places Of amusement.
EMMA ABBOTT, the opera singer. IS sald 20
receive net annual profits OF sI5,ooo from her
real estate in Denver.
DUFF's Queens Nate has captured
Chicagoans. The first two weeks receipu
are said to have aggregated $4,000
TIE receipts of "The Wife" at the Hollh
Street Theatre, Boston, for one week ART
said to have reached upward OF $4,000.
A NEW comic opera, to be called "Yetiva,'
with the scenes laid in Albuquerque. n. NJ.
is to be shortly produced in San Francisco
Mr. J. z. E,lMET will produce his new
play, "Fritz in Madhouse," at the -Four
teeuth Street Theatre, New York, on Aprl
23d.
Mrs. LANGTRY has fortune of s550, 600
Clara Louise Kellogg has $500, ,0G0; Fanny
Davenport s150,00O, and Kate Claxtor
$4,000.
ROSE CoGHL1N continues to be very sue
cessful in her new play Of "Jocelyn," which
she is now presenting in the West to large
audiences.
FANNY DAVENPORT is having the most sue
cessful season that she has known in recent
years. and is playing LA Tosca" to crowded
houses everywhers.
AN inventory of the estate Of William
Warren, the Boston actor, has been made
and it is found that the actor. left $2lO, 699.92
all in stocks and bonds.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Farm and Labor party Is a Minnesota
institution.
DEAR bread this winter Is what the labor
ing men must look forward to.
Mrs NJ. THOMAS Is practical shoemaker
living in Camas, Indian Territory.
New BRITAIN Conn.) Knights have de-
bates on the tariff at their meetinga
ENGLISH co-operators now number abou
$50, 600, representing over s., 100000.
FIVE New York Union cigarmakers were
fined s26 each for working during strike.
THE stone-pavers Of Omaha, Neb., have
organized a union, with l0o charter mem
berS.
SwITcHMEN along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad have struck for an increase
in wages.
THERE are thousands of idle carpenters on
the Pacific coast and no hope Of immediate
employment.
THE strike Of house carpenters in Dundee,
Scotland, for an advance OF haf-penny an
hour has been successful
"luosE who build palaces should not
dwell in hovels," is the motto OF the Brother
hood OF Carpenters and Joiners
THE latest statistics from London show a
marked increase in the number Of women
employed in the different trades.
THERE arc now about twenty shirt manu-
factories in San Francisco, employing alto
pether about 2JD0 neil anu women, ana turn
Ing out manufactures that will be worth this
year 81, ,N0.
NEARLY 800 delegates, representing til"
25,O0l employees Of the kealnS Kailronl,
met at Reading, Penn. to act upon fresl'
dent Corbin'S scheme to create RELIEF asso
citation for the company employees.
WHEN the new mills are completed Trlon,
Ga, will contain 234OO spindles, 600 looms,
and will consume l1,O00 bales cotton per
year. The number Of of @oparatives Will be eOo
and the payroll :2G,0OO per month.
MEMBER of the New York Musical N1u-
tual Protective Union denies the report that
i'dummies" were placed in bands supplied by
leaders of the union for political paraGeS.
The Balfe Club allows members onlyto play
in bands.
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POSTAL REPORTS.
Expenses Of the Railway Service and
Money Order Divisions.

Expenses Of the Railway Service and
Money Order Divisions.
, The annual report of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General of the United States
shows that the mail service is in operation on
nearly $1,000 routes, covering nearly 100000
miles. The expenses for the year were $751;
45G, ,s47, an increase of more than s5OoOOo
over tbe previous year. The expenses for
next year are estimated at S34, SIS, ,942O2. He
calls attention to the fact that he saved SGO,
600 by collecting old mail bags and having
them repaired. There were 100000 mail
bags repaired at cost of $4,000. He re-
conlmends the establishment of repair shop
here.
The report of the chief Of the money order
division of the Post Office shows receipts of
s54l,2 II from money orders, an increase
of eli ght per cent, and S1l7,SS5 from postal
notes an increase Of six per cent. He re-
commends an increase to 500 as the maxi
mum for international money orders.
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TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.
Astronomers Go to California to
Make Observations.

One of the corps Of astronomers attached
to the Harvard College Observatory will 90
to California with telescopes and other ap-
paratus 70 be used in,observing the total solar
eclipse which is due on New Years Day.
Later in the month Professor ". H. Picker
ing. A. Lawrence Rotch, Samuel Bailey, E.
S. King and Robert Slack, the remaining
members of the expedition, will join him.
The party will occupy position near the
town of Willow, in the Sacramento Valley.
the observation station having an altitude
of 2000 feet above the sea level and being
about two hundred miles from San Fran
cisco.
Tine telescopes to be taken are of thirteen
inch, s and eight inches diameter. and they
will remain for time on Wilson's Peak, i'll
Southern California after which they will be
taken to Peru and placed in the permanent
observatory there to he established by Har-
ward University to cooperate in the South
ern hemisphere with the observatory in Cam
bridge.
The work of making complete survey, OF
the Southern heavens upon the Cambridge
plan has hem for year or more in contem-
plation. and is to be prosecuted with all the
appliances commanded bT modern science.
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LATER NEWS.

| A PARTIALLY completed ice house in Ded-
! ham, Mass, was blown down and thirteen
men were injured, three of them fatally.
| THE iron workers of Pittsburg, Penn,
/ threaten a general strike against rear
rangement of working hours
A coLoRED man named Showers, sixty-five
wears old, has been hanged at Harrisburg,
/ Penn. for the murder of his two grand
children.
THE house of Mrs Frank Knecht at
Wilkesbarre, PENN, was burned while she
! went out to get some milk On her return
the woman saw her two children fall back
in the flames and burn to death
The General Assembly of the knights OF
Labor has begun its annual session at In
dianapolis, Ind. Reports were read showing
a vast decline in the membership of the Or
der as we'll as an almost empty treasury.
THE Chickasaw Indians are on the point OF
an inter-tribal war to determine who shall be
! Governor of the Nation in place OF Governor
Guy, who was recently assassinated.
Miss BELLE BRIDEwELL, teacher IN
school at Streator, ILL.,, was so badly kicked
in the breast by boy whom she attempted
to punish, that she died in few minutes
JUDGE WOOD, in indianapolis, Ind, drew
the attention of the Federal grand jury to a
reported conspiracy to influence voters on
large scale by the uss of money, and recon-
mended an investigation.
A PACKAGE containing $4,000. shipped to
Tacoma, Washington Territory, by the
Northern Pacific Express Company, has
been stolen by one of the clerks, who has
fled.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND made the follow
ing appointments: Howard Ellis, of New
Jersey. to be United. States Consul at Rot
terdam, and Charles B Trail, of Maryland,
to be Secretary of theUnited States Legation
at Brazil
The State Department at Washington has
been informed of the passage OF law by
Ecuador allowing foreign vessels to enter
their coasting trade.
THIRTY miners were killed by an explosion
of fire damp at Dour, Belgium.
THE mysterious white Pacha in the Bahr-
el- Gael district of Africa, has fought a
great battle and killed many dervishes.
THE Tagus Douro and Lizo rivers in Por-
tugal have overaowed their banks, flooding
the surrounding country and doing extern
sive damage.
DOUGLAS PYNE, a noted and aggressive
Irish member of the British Parliament fell
overheard and drowned while sailing be-
tween Holvhead and Dublin.
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ALASKAN STATISTICS.

Governor Swineford Reports Pro
gress in Our Icy Possession.
Governor Swineford, of Alaska, reports to
the United States Secretary Of the Interior
that the Territory is getting along nicely,
and has 49,S50 inhabitants, Of whom $500
are whites, 1900 creoles and 1850 Aleuts.
He urges that Congress make it pos.
sible for present squatters to acquire title to
their land, and says if this be done the
Territory will develop more quickly and
satisfactorily. He describes the mineral re-
sources of the Territory, and says it has four
teen public, eight Protestant two Catholic
and seventeen Grnco-Roman schools. The
Alaska Commercial Company, be says, treats
the people as little more than serfs where its
rule is supreme.
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JUMPED TO DEATH.
Six Men Killed and Four Fatally
Injured In Rochester, n. Y.

Six Men Killed and Four Fatally
Injured In Rochester, n. Y.
The most disastrous fire ever experienced
In Rochester, N. Y, has occurred at the
works of the Steam Gauge and Lantern Com
pany. 1t was located in building Of seven
stories, with two Easements Itwas situated
at the Gen. see Falls.
The fire broke out at thirty-fi minutes
past seven. The flames spread like lightning,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the fire
was discovered had reached the roof. About
forty people were at work, mostly on the
third floor. The smoke was very dense and
the men could not reach the fire escapes, and
they were forced to jump from
he third story. Fourteen jumped on
tne west side of the building and were fright
fully injured, six of them dying within an
hour. -Four Others were fatally injured
The building is a total loss. 1t was seven
story brick structure, owned s,gn ed by ~, w. h.
chinery aud contents were worth $4,000,
all insured.
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LITTLE THINGS.

One little grain in the sandy bars;
One little flower in field Of flowers;
One little star In heaven Of stars:
One little hour in year of hours
WHAT if it makes or what if it marsa .... -.
But the bar is built of the little grains;
And the little flowers make the meadows
gay;
And the little stars light the heavenly plainss
And the little hours of each little day
Gives to us all that life contains.
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Foreign.

AN explosion occurred in a coal mine in
Aulinania, Sicily, in which thirty men were
killed.
SEVENTY THOUSAND followers of the
Mahdi attacked the town of Wadai in the
Soudan, we,6 of Darfoor. The garrison re-
pulsed tie assailants and killed three thou
sand, but the Mahdsts reattacked and cap
tured the town. The Sultan of Wadai fled
to Ghiri.
A TERRIBLE storm played havoc with ship
ping on the British coast Two fishermen
were drowned off the Merecombe. The
steamer Akaba was wrecked oil Yarmouth
and seven lives lost Two ships boats
marked Glasgow and seven bodies came
ashore off the Cornish coast
AN attempt has been made to assassinate
Prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria
The heavy rains of the past few days have
caused floods in many districts of England.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has arraigned
the English Government in the House OF
CoHlnons for scandals connected Win the
judiciary.
GERMAN guards on the eastern frontier
between France and Germany have shot
thres French sportsmen, killing one Oh
them.
MANY children perished in fire which de- de-
stroyed large amount OF properly LII 'io
vicinity of Viletta, Colombia
COMPLAINT has been made recently con-
corning the condition Of the st: Ambrose
(Canada) city reservoir water. The auehorl-
ties emptied the water to discover tne cause,
and found the remains of eleven lntan1s a'
the bottom OF the tank.
| POLITICAL riots have occurred In SPAN.
Rioters assailed the carriage Of Senor Cano,
vas, the conservative leader, in Madrid, and
injured his wife.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, member OF tne
British Parliament, and neSotiator or the
rejected fisheries treaty between Englana
! and this Government, has arrived in Wash
!; ington for the purpose of marrying MISS
Mary Endicott, daughter Of the Secretary OF