The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-24
South and West,

In Kemper County, La, CASTOR Jones, COL
ored, shot and killed his wife and then blew
his own brains out.
Two colored men, Richard Fleming and
Richard johnson, were hanged at Quitman,
Miss, for murder.
GEoReM's new million dollar Capitol was
formally presented by the Capitol Commits
sion to the State. Captain F. P. Howell
spoke for the Commission, and Governor
Gordon received the Capitol on behalf of the
State.
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas, also issued a
proclamation against the fight between Sulh-
JOHN N. MAe1NN1s, leading business man
rious William NJ. Tweed. was killed by light
ming in his bath house at Ocean Springs, La.
SHERIFF G.. E. BRANsoN and one Of his
deputies, Ed Funk, were killed at Kerbyville
Mo, by Bill and Jim Miles, the two brothers
now under Indictment for the murder Of the
Bald Knobber chief at Forsyth.
A CONVENTION was held at Chipley Fla,
to consider the proposition of annexing
West Florida to the State of Alabama. There
were about two thousand people present.
DAVID G. CoLsoN, of Bell County, was
nominated for State Treasurer by the Ken
lucky Republican Convention in place of
John Barrett, who declined to run. Although
but twenty years old he is member of
the Legislature, and has been in public life
seven years.
JOHN FOYER. aged seventy, and his nine
yeax-old granddaughter, Carrie, were killed
while driving across the railroad track at
Akron, Ohio.
Hell D. MILLER, cashier Of the Malta
National Bank, of Malta, Ohio, has fled, and
his accounts were reported SS2, 600 short.
LYMAN R. WILLIAMS, for nearly thirty
years Superintendent Of Schools in Steuben
County, Indiana, committed suicide by
hanging. Mr.. Williams.served two terms as
County Treasurer.
THE bones, representing all that remains
of what it is supposed were fourteen or
fifteen persons killed and burned to death in
the late wreck on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, near Thaxton's, Va. have been
buried in two collins in the City Cemetery of
Roanoke, Va.
LEWIS CHARRIERE, who for years has been
the agent of the American Express Company
at Houghton, Mich, has left for parts un-
known. His defalcation is estimated at from
$4,000 to s5O,0Oo.
HENRY HAGE, was robbed by highway
men in Minneapolis, Mimi, Of $40, 900.
KBoNsBERG, Mimi, a little village of fifty
people, was visited by windstorm and every
house in the village was more or less injured.
Two children were killed.
Mrs. JESSIE HUNTER was shot and killed
by saloon-keeper named Parks at Agnews,
four miles from San Francisco, Cal. Parks
then shot himself in the breast and died from
the wound.
Two men were killed in Chicago by the
falling Of trestle in the power house Of the
Milwaukee Avenue Cable Railway.
GENERAL WILLIAM A. PILE, noted in
Methodist annals as ''the fighting parson,"
died few days ago at Monrovia, CAL, aged
sixty years. He was minister in st. Louis
when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted
and became Major-General in the volunteer
service. He was subsequently member of
Congress from Missouri and Governor Of
New Mexico.
NOTWITHSTANDING the proclamation of
Governor Lowery, Sullivan and Kilraln en-
gagged in brutal prize-flght for the ''cham-
pionship' near Richburg, Miss, the former
winning in seventy-five rounds. More than
5000 people paid $40 and SIS to see the law
violated.
HERBERT A. PEARSON, millionaire mine
owner from Bonanza City, Idaho, was
drowned while bathing in the lake at Chi
cago.
FIRE in the business part of Carson, Iowa,
destroyed an entire block, with the exception
ofone building. Loss S65, 900.
THE twenty-ffth anniversary of the battle
of Monocecy was celebrated on the battle
field, three miles from Frederick, Md. Ex-
soldiers were present from Vermont, Ohio,
Kansas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania