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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
Viewing the Emperor's Body.

After the announcement Of Emperor Will.
liapl's death the aspect of Berlin became in.
tlicative of the national mourning. Officers
and soldiers all wore Grape on their uniforms.
The dense crowd assembled in Unter den Lin
den watched the court carriages conveying
persons of high rank to and from the palace.
Windows and balconies throughout the city
were draped, and most of the shops were
closed. Mourning wreaths were displayed
everywhere. The German Court has gone
into mourning for three months.
The coffin containing the remains Of En-
peror William as they lay in the Cathedral
was covered with purple velvet, with gold Or
naments. On each side of the catafalque
were three large candelabras, with lighted
wax tapers. Tabourets covered with white
silk worked in gold were placed alongside the
coffin The body was clad in the uniform Of the
First Regiment of the Guards, under q gray
cloak. The only decorations on the breast
were the Star Of the Black Eagle and the Or
der Pour le Merite. The Grand Cross of the
Iron Cross was suspended from the neck. A
laurel wreath was placed at the feet. An un-
broken column of people dressed in mourning
passed through the ediice for last look at
the dead monarchs features.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
The Storm Elsewhere.

The disastrous effects of the great storm
have been widespread, though confined for
the greater part to the States bordering on
the Atlantic coast The storm did not extend
west of Buffalo, N Y, and the trains west
ward continued running as usual. Within the
area covered by the nearest approach to q
blizzard the North Atlantic States have e1-
perienced for very many years the ruin
and dissolution which resulted was
fearful. The telegraph wires have
been thrown down; the railroads
have been compelled to cease operations;
trains filled with passengers. have been
stopped, in many cases far from stations or
any place where supplies could be obtained;
stock in transitu on the cars has been frozen
to death; the country roads have been
so blocked as to render travel upon them i'm
possible; in the various towns and villages
the schools and many of the public
buildings have been closed, and general
prostration of business has resulted.
At Albany the storm ragged with great fury,
and the Legislature was compelled to ad iourn
without quorum, many OF the legislators
being snow-bound at their homes
Advices from Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Brad
ford Carbondale and other points in Penn
sylvania stated that the storm was the worst
in many years and that the business of the
railroads was completely paralyzed.
All Eastern and Southern New York was
buried under huge drifts of snow, and busi-
ness was practically suspended. In and
about Boston the storm was comparatively
light, and travel was not seriously impeded.
Washington, D. c., was cut off from the
rest of the world for two days, many tele-
rrarh poles and wires having blown down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
A ROW WITH MOROCCO.

The Moorish Sultan Has Several
American Proteees in Prison.
The State Department at Washington has
received telegram from Consul General
Lewis at Tangier, Morocco, stating that the
Moorish authorities were disposed to disre.
gard the the treaty Of 1880, In refusing to re-
lease from prison certain Moorish subjects
who are under American protection. Secre-
tary Bayard said that the persons in
native Moors, probably Jews or Arabs, who
under the treaty claim the protection Of. the
United States. He did not anticipate any
serious trouble, and remarked that Mr..
Lewis thoroughly understood his rights
under the treaty and would be sustained in
maintaining them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
The Crown Prince Made Emperor.

The Crown Prince Made Emperor.
Crown Prince Frederick was a few hours
after the Emperor's death proclaimed by tho
German Reichstag Frederick III. Emperor of
Germany and King Of Prussia. The new
Emperor and Empress Immediately left San
Reno for Berlin.
The new Emperor forwarded from San
Reno the following ordinance to the Minis
ters Of State at Berlin on the subject OF pub
lie mourning:
"With regard to the national mourning
which has heretofore been customary,
we will not order any provision, but
will rather leave it to every Ger
man to determine how he will give
expression to his sff1iction at the death Of such
a monarch and how long he will deem it ap-
propriate to restrict participation in public
entertainments"
rye witnesses or the scenes at the death OF
the Emperor state that during the last few
hours Of his life he suffered no pain. Shortly
after o'clock all the members of the family
staying at the palace, the court dignitaries,
generals, and ministers OF state, were sum-
moned to the chamber in which the Emperor
lay dying. The Emperor was in half sitting
position on camp bedStead. All the mem
bers OF the Royal family took places at the
bedside. The room was crowded Prince
William stood nearest the Emperor, half
bending over the couch. He earnestly
watched the face OF the dying II onarch until
he expired.
The Emperor's remains lay covered with
white cloth on the bedstead on which he died
In the Imperial Chamber. The body was
surrunded with candles. The expression Of
the face was extremely peaceful and placid
Divine service was held in the mortuary
chamber Friday night
At the opening Of the Lower House of the
Prussian Diet on Friday Herr Won Puttka-
mer, Vice President Of the Prussian Minis
terial Council, arose and said: II have the
sad duty to make most painful communica
tion to the House. 1t has pleased God to call
his Majesty, the Emperor, in the twenty
eighth year Of his glorious reign, from his
earthly existence by peaceful death at $50
O'Clock this morning. You will not expect at
this most solemn moment when sorrow and
care SO deeply stir our hearts, to attempt
to depict the feelings with which the
whole nation is filed through the loss Of our
most beloved, exalted, and venerable ruler.
may, however, safely and confidently say
on this day Of sore trial that the Prussian
people and their representatives will now,
more than ever, be penetrated by the con.
sciousness that the sorrows of our exalted
soyereigns house are theirs, and. that tie
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
FREDERICK WILLIAM, TIE CROWN PRINCE.

FREDERICK WILLIAM, TIE CROWN PRINCE.
But his military instruction was not al
lowed to interfere with his other studies. He
read history eagerly, especially Frederick the
Greats account of the Seven Years War.
On the Sd Of October, 1907, he was made Sec
Cnd Lieutenant of the Foot Guards. After
this he attended drill regularly, and took
ordered to Konigsberg, and he accompanied
it to its new quarters
In 1913, when the Napoleonic war broke
out, he was made Captain, and went with his
regiment to the field. On the ISL OF January
he crossed the Rhine, near the mouth of the
Neckar, and while crossing witnessed the de-
feat Of the French on the opposite shore. He
was present at the battle of La Rothiere, the
first defeat of Napoleon by German troops on
French ground. At Bar-sur- -Aube he acted
as Adjutant, and was frequently in the thick
of the fray. After this battle he was decor
ated with the Iron Cross for bravery, anu re-
ceiyed, as further acknowledgement of his
rourage, the proprietorship Of the Regiment
Kaluga from the Emperor of Russia He
followed the army in ISIS. and after the bat
lie of Waterloo went to Paris.
He was married on June Ii, 1922, to Au-
pusta. the daughter of Charles Frederick,
Grand Duke Of SAKE Weimar- -Eisenach. The
day OF the wedding William and Augusta
distributed 1000 thalers among the poor Of
Berlin. His son, Frederick William Mic
olas, the Crown Prince, was born on October
Between then and 1910 his life passed as
usual amid military pursuits and other stud
les. The army he regarded as the backbone
of the nation, and he did all in his power to
strengthen it and make it efficient.
On June l2, IS49, an attempt was made on
Prince Williams life. He was driving from
Nieder to Ingelheim, and on passing field
of grain two shots were fired from the field
the coachman were injured, but the Prince
escaped unharmed. Several arrests were
made, but the person who fires the shots could
not be identified. While military Governor
he was frequently summoned to Berlin to
consult on important matters Of state.
On Jan, 1857. he had been in the army fifty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
South and West.

A DESPERATE fight occurred between
friends OF two rival merchants of New Era,
Tenn, named Rufus Kittrell and F. Ernstine,
in which four persons were killed and many
more wounded.
The Williamson county TENN Poorhouse
burned, and two crazy inmates perished in
the flames.
MACY WARNER was hanged at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, for the murder Of convict in
the prison Of that place.
The Methodist Episcopal University of
Mitchell, Dakota, was destroyed by fire, and
all the professors, students, and servants had
to leap from the burning building for their
lives. The list OF victims includes one dead,
three fatally injured, and eight seriously
hurt
JOEL BURNETT and his six grown sons of
Ravena, Texas, have been arrested charged
with numbering an old hermit named Morgan
for his hoardings, about 81, 500.
JUDGE DUNDY, of the United States Court
at Omaha, issued an order retraining the en-.
gineers Of the Union Pacific Railroad from
refusing to haul the freight of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road; also restraining
the engineers from striking, combining or
confederating for the purpose of organiza-
tion, or advising a strike
CHARLES RICHTER, the young son Of a
wealthy citizen Of Evansville, Ind, in a fit
Of insane Jealousy, killed his cousin, Louisa
Schmitt, and himself.
II. G. THOMAS. a wealthy planter of Tampa,
Fla, and his overseer, Thompson, ended a
spree. by drinking arsenic and both are dead.
Three Of the Thomas family drank of the
same poisonous mixture with fatal results.
The three-year-old son Of ]. G. Dills, Of
Leon, Kan, in sportive imitation Of hang
ing he had recently witnessed, put a moose
around his neck and leaped from wagon,
killing himself. -.
THE Republicans and Democrats of Mil
waukee have united on local ticket against
the Labor party. ...E
A BOILER explosion at Kavanaugh, Indian
Territory. instantly killed one farmer and
fatally injured ten.
A PREMATURE explosion Of dynamite at
Bremen, Ga, killed three convicts working
In quarry.
The town of Towsontown, Nd, suburb
OF Baltimore, has been completely destroyed
by fire.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
100000 DROWNED.

Offlcial Report Of the Yellow River
Disaster in China
The steamship City of Sydney has arrived
at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yoko
hama bringing advices that the Imperial
Commissioner who was appointed to invest
igate the loss Of life in the Yellow River in
undations has sent an official report to the
Emperor of China that the total number Of
persons drowned is over 100000, and the
number destitute is 100000, apart from
tho:e who have been driven into other
districts
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28

During the siege Of Paris the King of Ba-
varia requested King William to restore the
German empire. The other German States
united in the request, and on January is,
1871, William I. was proclaimed Emperor OF
Germany at Versailles, Bismarck reading the
proclamation Definite peace was concluded
with France at Frankfort on May 10, 1871,
and provided for an immense indemnity and
the annexation to Germany of Asace and
Lorraine.
Two attempts on the Emperor's life were
made in 1875, but although wounded once he
escaped serious injury.
By Empress Augusta, who survives him,
Emperor William had two children, the
Crown Prince Frederick William, born Octo-
ber is, 1881, and the Princess Louise, who in
1856 married the reigning Grand Duke Fred
March e last the Emperor was ninety
years o,d, and the civilized world united in
doing him honor, and the series Of public ap-
pearances which the Emperor made at that
time were almost his last. Until the Crown
Princes illness took on q probably fatal
phase "Unser Fritz as he has long been
lovingly known, was universally looked upon
as the next King Of Prussia and Emperor OF
Germany. But since the development Of the
cancerous disease hot-headed, warlike Prince
Wilhelm, the pet Of Bismarck, has been
recognized as the next successor to the
throne. Anxiety for the nation and grief at
the sufferings of his eldest son embittered
the last days Of Europe's most distinguished
sovereign.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate PROCEEDINGS.

SD DAY.-Mr. Beck's bill to provide for
the retirement of United States legal tender
and national bank notes of small denomina.
tions, and to issue coin certificates in lieu OF
gold certificates was considered ... Mr.. Hale
called up the resolution for the appointment
Of special committee to examine fully into
the present condition of the civil service in
all branches of the Government, and after
numerous amendments had been rejected the
original bill was passed.
54TH DAY.-Mr. Brown, of Georgia, spoke
in advocacy OF his bill to repeal all internal
revenue laws The remainder of the session
was devoted to routine business.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
Washington.

The President and Mrs. Cleveland gave q
dinner to ex-senator Francis Herman Of New
York.
THE ladies and gentlemen of the English,
German, Russian, Austrian, Danish and
Italian legations at Washington are in deep
mourning for the late Emperor of Germany.
Mr.. BUTTERFIELD, Of New York, has been
appointed Consul to Ghent.
The Chinese treaty has been signed. 1t
prohibits the entrance of Chinese labor into
the country during period of twelve years,
and gives an indemnity Of $275, 0OO for vio-
lence to the Chinese.
The great snow storm left Washington
practically cut off from telegraphic commu-
nication with the rest of the world for sever
al days. many wires and poles being blown
down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
RANDALL'S TARIFF BILL.
How the Pennsylvania Congressman
Proposes to Reduce the Surplus.

Proposes to Reduce the Surplus.
Congressman Samuel J. Randalrs long
expected Tariff bill has at last BEEN intro
duced in the House. It is voluminous-
as long as the Tariff and Internal Revenue
bills submitted by the Ways and Means Com
nittee. The bill proposes to repeal existing
taxes upon tobacco in all its forms, even to
the license tax upon wholesale and retail
dealers. 1t repeals the tax on fruit brandies,
reduces the tax on whiskey from ninety ycents
per gallon, the present rate, to fifty cents and
makes alcohol for use in the arts free. The
existing ta1 on sugar and wool Is not dis
turbed, and that on iron and steel is slightly
reduced. Tea and coffee are placed on the
free list: A large number Of articles here.
tofore free are made dutiable Mr.. Ram
dali estimates that his bill would reduce
the total revenue about $95, 600, 900, OF which
$70, 600 would be taken from internal
taxes and S25. 600 900 from tariff duties.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28

CAKES OF ice. Many people crossed from city
to city on the ice during the morning. The
general description of New York by day
light would also answer for Brooklyn and
Jersey City.
In the height Of the great storm the roofs
of block OF five tenement houses in Brook
lyn were blown away, and several children
were seriously hurt,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28

NEWS has reached Belfast, Ireland, of a
shocking case of hydrophobia which has just
occurred near Carrigallen, County Leitrim;
Over thirty people ate of pig which had
been bitten by rabid dog, and about week
afterward whole family, named Stewart,
was seized with hydryphobia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28

THERE is not single farm in Liberty
County, Ga, that is under mortgage, and it
is said that several other counties in the State
can claim similar distinction.
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deeper the universal pain at the decease or
our ever.remembered King, the stronger and
more indssoluble will be the link uniting
Prussia's Sovereign House and Prussia's peo-
pie in good and evil days. leave it to your
selves to take such resolutions as are suitable
to the gravity of the situation"
Herr Won Roller, the President of the
House, closed the sitting with the words:
"God protect the Royal House and the
Fatherland."
Messages Of coincidence to the remaining
members of the Evnperor's family were sent
to Berlin from all the European Govern.
ments, and from the President of the United
States
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28

THREE persons " re killed in the streets Of
New York City during the month Of Februl
ary by reckless driving Of carriages /
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
The Work of Recovery in New York.
lo,y yof <6oe 1,

solute blockade. On Tuesday the people
forced their way out of their houses to gaze
upon the spectacle of the greatest city on the
Western Hemisphere thoroughly paralyzed
by the elements On Wednesday after the
storm, when the city awoke, it was to realize
that something must be done and at once to
restore a normal condition.
Streets buried IN softly irregular billows of
feecy whiteness, with no small degree of
beauty in the general aspect, were changed
into narrow channels of yellow slush
through which horses and men foundered.
When the sidewalks had been cleared, and
piles Of snow along them built up so
high that one could not see across
the streets from one side to the other,
localities for getting rid Of the obstruc-
tions. Many men dug caves in the big
banks, and built fires in them to
melt the snow, while others, where
there was suitable apparatus, turned
streams Of hot water upon the big heaps.
Five thousand men and 900 horses
were engaged before 10 O'Clock. It might
be- said that the Street Commissioner
had organized a ,veritable shovel
mander- n-chief. The brigade was broken
up into detachments and assigned the various
points at which to attack the common enemy,
snow. Operations were not suspended when
night set in.
It would be almost impossible, however,
to calculate the amount of suffering that was
endured throughout the city from lack of
coal, wood, milk and eggs. No milk was to
be had, because none had been brought in
on any railroad since Saturday.
Coal and wood could not be delivered in
many streets because of the mounds of snow
which lined the sidewalks, and the supplies in
the yards were not plentiful. In some cases
coal was sold for sixty cents pail, or at the
rate of S4S per ton, while kinding wood could
not be obtained at any price.
The telegraph and telephone companies
made but little progress in restoring their
lines. The telephone linemen were impeded
by the quantities of snow on the houses over
the roofs Of which it was necessary to string
wires. 1t was both difficult and dangerous
TO work under such circumstances.
The blockade on the railroads was partly
broken, but scores of trains, some filled with
passengers, were still in drifts within few
miles Of the city. Every effort was made to
get them out, but as their rescue must be ac-
complished byshoveling the process was slow
The surface roads in New York made her.
culean efforts to resume operations. Con-
ductors; drivers ands stableman were enlisted
in the shovel brigade and were excavating
the buried rails as rapidly as possible. The
elevated roads were running with almost
rmal regularity
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
The Day After the Storm.

was completely isolated from the rest of the
world. Business was at a stand still.
The greatest precautions were taken to
prevent conhagrations, the f1remen and
entire reserve police force patrolling the
business sections all day and night.
One.third Of New York spilot-boat fleet lay
wrecked along the shores Of the harbor and
tertained for the fate of fifteen other,
Of cruising off the coast. The
first news that came of the mis-
haps to the pilots was brought by the tug
boats Zouave and Richards when they de-
posted their load of fourteen castaway pilots
at Stapleton. They were brought from
Sandy Hook, where five pilot-boats were
sunk or stranded in the Horseshoe. Not
long afterward came the news Of three pilot
boats wrecked at Bay Ridge and another at
crews foated ashore on huge blocks Of ice.
Several prominent citizens became lost in the
snow drifts and perished.
The appearance Of the city after the storm
in the early morning was picturesque spec
tacle never to be forgotten. The streets
were checked with ice and snow, varying in
depth from two to fifteen feet. Narrow
thoroughfares were blockaded COM
pletely for all kinds Of vehicles.
buildings "eIe OTIilllouSu III 1dituSeiS
style with deposits of snow and festoons OF
ice. Signs were obliterated and doorways
were hidden behind enormous drifts. On
some Of the cross streets there were
drifts as high as the second stories
and mountainous ridges Of snow extend
ed along the c,lrbs like bulwarks. The parks
were literally buried, and broken trees and
shrubs scattered over the white desert were
silent but eloquent testimonials OF the gale
Not a surface car track cou.d
be seen, and only the. long
blocks Of buildings marked the, chan
nels of travel. The elevated railroad struct-
ure was the most unsightly object above
ground. Many hats and caps blown from
pedestrians heads and not recovered lodged
in out-of-the-way places: Broken windows,
wrecked signs and awnings, and abandoned
cars and wagons were conspicu-
Gus monuments everywhere.
The river fronts were interesting points to
study marine pictures and arctic scenes. Tho
East Biver was gorged with ice from shore to
shore below the Brooklyn Bridge, and people
later crossed on the solid foes. The North
River was open. but filled with enormous