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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-08
A FATHERS FRENZY.
Frank Hancock, of Addison, N. Y,
Kills His Four Children and Himself.

Kills His -Four Children and Himself.
Mrs. Frank Hancock, of Addison, N. Y,
on opening the bedroom door of her house
discovered her husband dead body suspended
from rafter, and four of their children lying
dead in pools of blood.
One of the boys, only year DID, who was
sleeping in the cradle, was unharmed. The
father had left a note, found on the cradle
with silver watch, in which he said:
II leave my watch to baby. Care for him.
and when he grows up give him the watch
and say it is from papa. Bury. me and the
children in the cemetery at Sabinsvllle."
The fendish father cut the throats of all the
four children, and not content with that, dis
cmboweled them. The oldest was ten and the
Youngest four. The fathers body showed that
he had stabbed himself twice in the abdomen
and gashed his throat. These wounds not
being fatal, he slipped q rope around his
neck and over q rafter and stood upon soap
box, and then kicked it from under him and
strangled to death.
An examination of the fathers body
showed that he stabbed himself twice with
butcher knife and haggled his throat before
hanging himself.
At tho Coroner's inquest Mrs. LIAM
cock said that she and her husband had not
been living happily together. She admitted
that she and her husband had agreed to
separate on May l, dividing the children be-
tween them
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

EDWIN BOOTH has ''sworn of" smoking.
ROSE ErYNGE is going a-staring through
California.
DR. Won BULow will return to this country
next spring.
IRv1se's profit out of Macbeth" isreckoned
at $500 week.
NILE. RHEA has made hit in her new
play "The Case Vidal"
THE transportation Of the Wild West show
from New York to Paris will cost Sl6 00o.
TX M1ss MARY ANDERSON has landed IN
Queenstown, greatly improved in health ana
spirits .,.
IT is said that NJ. Coquelin's acting in tins
country netted him about $50, for OLD
season.
LEoNA DARE proposes to astonish Paris oy
leaping from the Eiffel Tower during the
coming exhibition.
SARAH BERNHARDT said recently that In
her opinion Ellen Terry was the most perfect
actress on the stage.
IN Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr.'s, support next
season will be H. B. Conway. an English
actor Of high reputation.
PAULINE HALL, the comic opera prima
donna, has renewed her contract to appear
with the New York Casino Company.
J.W. ScANLAN. the Irish comedian, be.
gan a three months tour of ten large cities
Of Great Britain, opening in shaun ma
Laun."
GEORGE ". CH1LDs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, surprised everybody by going to the
theatre the other night, for the first time In
many years.
A NEW opera, "Gorinshka,' by Anton
Rubinstein, will be brought out at the I'M
perial Opera of st. Petersburg during tha
present season.
ASH WEDNESDAY no longer interferes
with theatrical performers in London: Form
erly all theaters closed on that day, but this
year not one did.
MANAGER F. F. PROCTOR has secured a
life contract with Charles 7. Ellis, the
comedian, and will star him as long as ne re-
mains on the stage.
"RoBERr ELsMERE," the play founded on
Mrs Wards novel, has been drawing Sood
houses at the Hollis Street Theater, Boston,
and the critics speak well of it.
The candle in Othello and Desdemona's
bedroom, now being played at La Scala.
Milan, is an electric light. no other form OF
Illumination being permitted there.
THE Prince of Wales now practices upon
the Dan1O Oh ''SaulOrlllti Ndlp, us IL - ~ lS1
in his district, with great persistency, and
the Car is hard at wor! upon one of tho
lower wind instruments.
HELEN DAUvRAY WARD, after having
engaged nearly all her company and booked
her tour for next season, has now decided not
to return to the stage at all, but to return i'll
stead to domestic life with her husband, John
Montgomery Ward, the baseball player.
IT is of record in single copyist's office in
New York city that 1000 plays were worked
of on the typewriting machines of the house
within one year. OF the total only five ever
saw the boards and of these five there was
not one that could properly be designated
good drama
The latest freak of English society is an
amateur minstrel company, headed by a
noble Lord, and embracing among its MEM
aSistoerscy p @ they black up 'e do clog dances
and sing plantation melodies. They give per-
foTnances for charities.
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Foreign.

NOTICE has been served on the Belgian
Government that the doings of the BoulanS-
lists in Brussels displease the French Govern
ment
GENERAL, BoULANGER was warned that
he must leave Belgium Of his own accord or
the Government would expel him. He de-
cided to 60 to London.
A PARTY of Soudanese attacked and de-
feated some Egyptians who were building
fort at Port Halaib, Egypt. The Egyptians
lost ten killed and wounded.
LORD BRoMLow.will succeed Lord London
derry as Viceroy of Ireland.
THREE public meetings in Edinburgh,
Scotland, protested against comforting the
freedom of the city on Mr.. Parnell.
The strike of the carmen in Vienna has be-
come very serious. Already many persons
have been injured in the collisions which have
taken place between the strikers and the
police and the trouble threatens to extend
to the inclusion Of workmen of other occupa-
tionS.
EX-k1NG MILAN has become Monk of
Jerusalem with view to eventually becom.
ing Patriarch of all the Servians.
THE body of Mr. Ashworth, the British
vice-consul at Castellamare, Italy, has been
found at the foot of a precipice at Vico
Equense, on the Bay of Naples. It is believed
that he committed suicide
QUEEN VICTORIA has arrived at Sandring.
ham Hall on visit to the Prince and Princess
Of Wales, whose county seat she not seen
since 1871, at the time Of the dangerous i'll
ness of the heir apparent.
A BATTLE occurred in Hayti which re-
suited in the capture by Legitime's forces OF
the village of Petite Riviere. The village
consisting of 800 houses was burned. 1t was
said that 200 men lost their lives in the battle.
THE German Emperor and Empress went
to Dresden to visit the King of Saxony.
The freedom of the city Of Edinburgh,
Scotland, was rendered to Mr.. Parnen by o
vote of fourteen to thirteen.
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South and West.

SYLVESTER GRCBB, the murderer of Gertie
| Downey, has been hanged in the Jail yard at
Vincennes, Ind.
ABRAM W. MARSHALL, q leading citizen
and Office holder of Lunenburg County, W.
Va, formerly one of the richest men in his
section, blew out his brains with a shotgun in
the presence Of his wife.
The steamboat Everett, a lumber raft
boat, was sunk at the head Of Otter Island,
Iowa, and FIVE of the sixteen persons on board
were drowned.
FIVE Mormon missionaries who had formed
a colony in Dale County, Ala, to 60 to Utah,
were severely whipped by indignant citizens
and driven from the county.
MALACHI ALLEN, a one-armed colored man,
and James Mills, half Indian and half .colored,
were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark. Allen was
convicted of numbering Shadrack Peters and
Slas Love in the Chickasaw Nation, and
Mills killed John Wicdom, in the Seminole
reservation. .
Two men were killed and three injured in
the wreck Of a mixed train near Berwick,
Ill.
FOREST fires in the interior eff Wisconsin
destroyed East Depere and Buckabee, both
numbering towns, and did considerable
damage to Marion. Loss about 81, ,O0o,000
A FIRE at Dennis Hotel, a cheap lodging
house at Detroit, Mich, caused the death Of
three men and serious injury to fourth.
MRS A. II. LUCAS, her two daughters and
hired man were attempting to ford swol-
len creek two miles below Carthage, Mo-, in
a wagon, when the rushing water carried
them down stream, drowning the horses and
whole party.
THE trouble between the Minneapolis
Poilr a,,6 re
odd striking employees eliminated in a
bloody riot, in which upward of fifty per-
sons, Including thirty policemen were more
or less injured, two fatally. The rioters were
clubbed into submission.
FRANK LYNN shot and killed his landlady.
Mrs. Noah. at Lebanon, Ohio, and then COM
mitted suicide.
SIMEON HoCTs. of Attica, Ind, killed his
wife and then shot himself through the head.
Jealousy was the cause.
A RoBBER entered the railroad station at
Pattonsburg No. and robbed the safe of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 in money. He COW
cred the agent with his pistol while he was
searching the safe.
THREE men were drowned in the lake four
miles west of Grayling, Mich. Nobody knew
who the men were or where they came from.
FOREST fires have done great damage in
Marathon County, Wis.
T. F. BURGESS, the Treasurer of Durango,
Col, is defaulter to the extent of Sc, ,0O0
He has fed.
SCOTT BAILEY, colored man, was taken
from the jail at Halifax Court House, Va.
and lynched. He was accused of attempted
assault on young lady.
The Morgantown Female Seminary. at
Morgantown, W. Va, was burned. Loss
S25, 900.
THE New York and Philadelphia syndi-
cate which about three weeks ago paid
50, 5000 900 for the Laclede gas works of ST.
Louis, has just captured the other gas COM
pany at nominal cost of S., SOC, GOO making
total investment in ST. Louis Of So, OOO, ,00O
in less than month.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A SUGAR famine is possible.
FRANCE has 17S war vessels.

| A SUGAR famlne Is pOSSlDle.
FRANCE has ITS war vessels.
ENGLAND has 1000 -four mills
CROP indications are all favorable.
THE sugar trust has been dissolved
BOSTON money-lenders are very busy.
ABOUT 500, 600 wooden cars are in use. Y
BALTIMORE has population of 500, 0OO
CH1L1 owes this country and won't pay,
CHICAGO is rapidly becoming club city. !.
NATURAL Gas has reached Louisville, KY.
PRAIRIE FIRES have been raging in Dakota.
IT is unlawful to keep bees in Los Angeles,
| Cal.
THERE is activity in the Brooklyn Navy
| Yard.
In Paris there is one suicide to every 27Oo
people.
MAPLE SUGAR is abundant and of good
quality.
FIVE Kansas towns have elected women as
Mayors.
Both Etna and Vesuvius are in an eruptive
condition.
The Austrian wheat crop is said to be
nearly failure.
OVER 1000 letters are received at the White
House every day.
The European exodus is not only larger but
earlier than usual.
CALIFORNIA roofing slate is said to be the
finest in the world.
The Mayor of Denver, Col, cowhided
man the other day.
PRISCILLA DAVIS (colored), los years old,
Is dead at Baltimore.
RICH veins of copper have been found In
Southern California.
GALVESTON, Texas, is going to have semi
centennial celebration.
A COLONY of old soldiers is about to start a
township in Oklahoma.
THERE are &c, 600 members of the Mormon
Church in this country.
JAPAN leads the world in the number of
houses destroyed by fire.
SPRING wheat is backward both in the
United Kingdom aud in France.
THE highest peak in New Guinea is to be
named after William E. Gladstone.
FISH pirates on the st. Lawrence are Civ
ing the Canadian authorities trouble.
Boston is said to be the greatest market in
the United State for the sale of lottery tick
cts.
A NUMBER of towns in Vermont are prepar-
ing to choose their postmaSters by popular
vote.
THE Rothschilds have secured control of
more than half the trade in Russian petro-
leum.
FAREWELL banquets to retiring American
ministers and conSulS are heard OF all over
Europe
OWING to the scarcity of water the area of
cotton culture in Egypt this season. is much
restricted.
THE German court dress is to be changed
to style similar to that i'll vogue at time of
Frederick l.
THERE are said to be 213 clubs Of women
in New Orleans devoted to the study Of po-
litical economy.
\ CANTILEvER bridge, to cost $40. 900. .O00
is to be built over the St Lawrence River at
Quebec, Canada.
THE total Of failures in the United States
from January 1St to recent date IS 3SI3
against 1862 in ISIS.
WISCONSIN has been transferred from the
Military Department of the East TO the De-
partment OF Dakota.
THE annual report of the Canadian Depart
ment Of Fisheries shows q decided decline III
the value of the fisheries.
SECRETARY BLAINE estimates that there
are upward of $500 applications OIL file IN his
department for 2l0 conSulships
The prejudice against horse flesh has now
so faded out in Paris that there are 1872 rec
ognized butcher shops where horse flesh is
openly sold. <
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HEADLoNG TO DEATH.
Sensational Suicide in the Presence q
Crowd. =.

CrOWu. -.... ry-.tzsi
James Hogan, who had been staying at th,
Spain House, Chicago, became suddenly I'd
sane from an over indulgence of liquor, and
rushing to the roof near midnight swung him
self over. He was singing and shouting, and
soon attracted large crowd which stooS
spellbound.
Don't jumpr' shouted spectator, and
Hogan climbed to the roof again, Laughing
boisterously. Several times he repeated tha
performance, singing and shouting. all th3
time the crowd, which by this time had
swelied to hundreds, watching him breath
lessly.
Two policemen rushed up stairs and ou]
upon the roof, but the maniac discoverea
them before they could seize him, and rum
ming to the edge of the roof, swung his bod3
into space, hanging tightly with his hand
from the cornice. A woman in the crowd
tainted and there was rush to clear til,
sidewalk. ~,
Don't you touch me-" Hogan screamed
as the two officers crawled toward him, t.o]
I'll let co." 4
Just then the crazed man saw an of3cei
feet of him. ~
mo, you DON'T" he shrieked, and suddenly
released his hold. -. s.il
His body shot downward, turning IN ii
descent, and striking sign which extended
out from the second story it rebounded and
then struck the stone sidewalk with
a sickening crash squarely on the head
Hogan's brains were scattered all OWED
the flags and the front windows of the hotel
death resulting instantly. The head wa3
literally broken to pieces. One of the o6icer3
who rushed to lift the body became sick. a
the sight. reeled and fell. yls.
The suicide was man of middle age and
was well of at one time. His only relatiytI
in Chicago is a married sister.
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A HORRIBLE CRIME.
A Family Of Six Murdered and Their
House Burned.

A horrible crime was reported from Macon
County, n. c. W. P. Wood, an industrious
farmer lived iu the country at least five
miles from any neighbors. His family
consisted of his wife, three sons
and two daughters Three of the
children were grown, and the other two were
aged twelve and fourteen years. Wood had
saved some 800, and had always
kept his money in an old trunk.
Wood was called away from home on busi-
ness. When he returned he was Mortified to
find his house in ashes. y short distance from
the ruins he found three axes and two bowie
knives, ell stained with blood, and the old
trunk i'll which he had kept his money. The
trunk was broken open, and its contents were
gone. Among the ashes charred bones were
found, showing that the entire family had
been murdered before the house was fired
There were no clues to the murderers.
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LATER NEWS,

TIE Edison General Electric Company.
with S12 00O, 900 capital, has been incorpo-
rated in New York city. The company's OBJ
ject is the purchase and sale of electrical ma
chinery.
RETURNS from all cities and towns in Mas
sachusetts show that the majority against
the prohibition amendment is A, 400.
JoHNW. BRocKIE, ex-Postmaster of Mount
Carmel, Penn, has been arrested on the
charge of issuing about $4,000 of fraudulent
money orders.
JOHN WADE and wife, an aged couple, liv-
ing at Appleton, Md, and John NJ Linder-
man, a boy of Wilmington, Del, were in
stantly killed by an express train at Newport,
Del. They were in a carriage, and were
driving across the railroad track when struck
by the train.
The wife OF e:c-President Cleveland has
leased the cottage of Rev. Percy Browne, at
Marion, Mass, for the coming season. The
house is located on Bartlett's Hill, next north
of the summer home of r. W. Glider, the
editor of the Century Magazine.
The Simpson dry dock at Newport News,
Va, the largest in the United States, was
formally opened in the presence of party Of
distinguished visitors.
AT Grigsbys Precinct, ". Va, during an
election on the liquor license question, a
difficulty occurred between William Porter
ebo
times, and expired in few minutes. While
trying to quell the disturbances Joe Sar-
gent and Martin johnson were mortally
wounded.
A TREMENDOUS storm of rain and hail
broke over Atlanta, Ga. The walls Of the
Jackson building which was gurted by fire
fell killing two firenen and injuring several
others.
THE Secretary of State is informed that
Russia will send delegates to the Marine Con-
ference, which meets at Washington on the
10th of October next.
TIE Postmaster-General made the follow
ing important appointments: W. b. Cooley,
of Pennsylvania, to I've Chief Of the Money
Order Department.; Frank VI. Smith, of
MARYLAND, and S. G.. Sullivan, of Ohio, to be
Superintendent of Mails at Baltimore and
Cincinnati, respectively; John A. Chapman,
of Illinois, to be Chief Of the Inspection
Division; Edward G. Carlin of Pennsylvania,
to be Assistant Superintendent of the Rail-
way Mail Service.
COMMISSIONER TANNER has discharged
twenty travelling pension examiners because
theappropriation for their pay was exhausted.
WI DULMAGE, Crown Timber Inspector
at Rat Portage, Manitoba, left town sud-
denly a few days ago, $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
An explosion has occurred in the Brance-
peth Colliery at Durham, England. Five
persons were killed.
THE street car strike in Vienna has been
ended in favor Of the men who have re-
turned to work.
A BRITISH expedition has destroyed the
chief town of the Wendell tribe, on the Suly-
NAH River, Africa. and released 5000 slaves.
A BRIDGE on the Aroya Railroad, in Peru,
valued at $500, 900, has been swept away by a
cloud-burst.
GENERAL BoULANGER, Henri Rochefort
and other members of the Generals party
left Belgium for England, and arrived in
London after an extremely rough passage
across the channel and established head
quarters at the Bristol Hotel.
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A SONS QUADRUPLE CRIME,
Patricide, Arson, Assault and Suicide
by the Same Hand.

Patricide, Arson, Assault and Suicide
by the Same Hand.
At West Farms, hamlet about five miles
from Westfeld, Mass, Joseph King, aged
seventy-eight, whip manufacturer for half
a century, wen-to-do and highly respected,
was shot while sleeping in his bed by his dis
spated son of forty-four years.
After shooting his father he attempted to
kill his aged maiden aunt, Miss Cynthia Tut,
tie. He then burned down the house, and
three hours later, within dozen rods Of the
burned buildings and within hearing Of the
neighbors who were about to institute a
search for the murderer, put bullet through
his own brain.
Where had stood a peaceful dwelling, moth
ing but few charred embers remained, and
q few rods distant, in small deserted house,
lay the dead bodies Of father and son. The
father had pistol-wounds in chest. neck and
eve, either of which would have been fatal.
The son had ball through his temple.
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A WONDERFUL RECOVERY.
A Bullet Extracted From O Would-Be
Suicides Brain.

A year ago, while crazed with drink,
George Lucas, of Dubuque, Iowa, fired a
volyer. He recovered from the wound
sufficiently to attend to his business A few
DAYS since he visited his physician and
complained that he felt something in his
head. The wound was probed, and the
It had penetrated the front lobe of the brain
over an inch. The doctor says there is no
doubt of Lucas's complete recovery The
case is an extraordinary one and has been
widely discussed by the medical fraternity.
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A HERO OF 1872,
Death of John Fielding at the Ripe
r. Old Age of 10 Years.

!; John Fielding, soldier Of the war of 1912
and native Of Virginia, died in Laurens
Comfy, S. c., a few days ago at the age of
ITO years. In 1877, when Fielding was eight
years of age. his parents moved to South
Carolina and settled on the Tiger River. AT
Ethe breaking out of the war Of 1912 he volun-
teered, and served until the war ended. He
married three times, the last time at the age
of eighty-fve, and his wife is still living. He
fhad, three living children by his first wife, and
they are aged men. He was successful far
mer, and although impoverished by the late
war; he leaves his widow well provided for.
Until within the past three years he has been
remarkably active, and in 1884, when at the
age Of 1O3. he walked four miles to vote the
national Democratic ticket. One or two of
his sons, then middle-aged men, were in the
iAfeSica0 war ..-
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DENNIS T. FLYNN is the name Of the man
who will enjoy tle honor of being the first
bona fde white settler in the new Territory of
Oklahoma. Mr.. Flynn is former resident
of Buffalo, N. Y. He is young Irish Amer.
ican, twenty-eight or thirty years Of age,
who drifted West decade ago to grow up
with the country.
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Department, has been accepted by the Post
master General

master-General.
REAR ADMIRAL KIMBERLY has forwarded
the engine of the Nipsic, which passed through
the hurricane at Samoa, has been tried and
marked well. The report says that the ship
can lie moved by steam if required.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
Marine Hospital service in Washington, has
been informed by the President of the Board
of Health of Sanford Fla, that case Of
yellow fever existed in that city.
The Secretary of War ordered the COM
randing officers of all military posts to fire a
national salute of thirty-six guns on April
30
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FIVE MEN DROWNED.
A Whole Party Lost Through One
Mans Lack of Nerve.

At the Alabama Midland crossing of the
Cattahooche River, near Bainbridge, Co.,
Two boats with seven and eight men re-
spectively, were crossing the river, when one
of the boats commenced sinking, and one Of
the men jumped to the other boat and cap
sized both boats. Five men were drowned.
They had been breaking rock for the
Alabama Midland bridge.
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, PROFESSOR HoRNADY, of the Smithsonian
Institute, estimates the total number OF Wild
buffaloes DOW in existence at7QQ /,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-01-26

One of the curioslties of the Tama
(Iowa) High School museum is an insect
or reptile which the Tama Herald de-
scribes as being cross between the
grasshopper and the horned toad. A boy
caught it while fishing.
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WELL" said Parson Poundtext, 81
stuck to my text this morning, anyhow"
You did that, " said the deacon, YEARLY
''you stuck to it till we thought you
grown fast to it. Seemed to me you'd
never let 60"
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A Mailman at Large!

He is 6 well-known citizen, and his
nearest and dearest friends do not suspect
his insanity. How do we happen to know
about it? Listen; his appetite is gone, be
is low-spirited. he don't sleep we'll, he
has night-sweats, he is annoyed by a
hacking cough. These symptoms are the
forerunners Of consumption and death,
and yet he neglects them. Is it any
wonder that we call him mailman? If
you are his friend tell him to get bottle
of DR.. Pieroe's Golden Medical Discovery
without delay. 1t will cure him if he
takes it in time. 1t will not miraculously
create new lungs when the old ones are
nearly gone. but it will restore diseased
ones to a healthy condition. Tell him
about it, and warn him that in his case
delay meaus death.