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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Sout.h and West.

ATERR1BLE explosion has occurred in the
| Calumet and Hecla copper mine at led
Jacket, Mich, by which three men were in
stantly killed, two fatally injured and seven
more badly hurt.
CHARLES SANDERS, colored farm hand,
was shot and instantly killed by his en-
ployer, David Strange, in Woodford County,
KY, because the man had cursed him.
CHARLES HARTMAN, saloon keeper at
Sandusky, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded
his wife and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
SMALLPOX is raging at Socorro New Mex
| leo, and eighty-seven fatalities are reported.
| The city is quarantined.
FIRE bugs are again at work in Helena.
Mont. The old vigiante warning, '3-L-U,"
is posted on the streets, and special officers
are searching for the fiends.
The savage warfare between the McCoys
and Hatfelds, the two Kentucky factions,
has been renewed, and a number of people
have been killed.
In railroad wreck, eight miles from
Rome. Ca, the fireman and brakeman
were killed, and the engineer was fatally IN
jured.
The trial of Boyle, the Catholic priest at
Raleigh, n. c., for felonious assault, has
ended in his conviction and sentence to
death.
FELIX KANPF cut his son and daughter to
death at Charleston, W. Va. he was drunk,
and the children refused him shelter.
BY the bursting Of a boiler near st:
Thomas, Dakota, three men were killed and
one fatally injured.
LATER returns from Montana give DEM
ocratic majority of seven on joint ballot in
the legislature Toole Dem), for Governor,
has O majority of about 800. Carter Rep.),
for Congress, has a majority Of about 1900.
GENERAL CHALMERS, Republican candi-
date for Governor of Mississippi, has with
drawn.
BY the bursting of steam pipe in the
Galaxy -four mills of Minneapolis, Frank
Banks, assistant engineer, and Joseph Evans,
fireman, were killed.
GEORGE T. RICE, an aeronaut, made bal
loon ascension and parachute descent at
Mount Vernon, Ohio. In dropping he fell
into the Ohio River, and was drowned. 1t
was his Tooth ascension.
MRS. FRITZ KATz, a young wife, poured a
half bottle Of carbolic acid down her baby's
throat and then swallowed the remainder
herself. Both are dead. The mother is sup
posed to have been crazed by sickness.
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Rather Old Story.

Cowardice often parades behind the
mask of courage. A fellow, hearing the
drums beat up for volunteers for France
in the expedition against the Dutch,
imagined himself valiant enough, and
thereupon enlisted himself. Returning
again, he was asked by his friends what
exploits he had done there. He said
that she cut off one of the enemy's legs"
Being told that it had been more honor
able and manly to have cut off his head,
"Oh!" said he, "but you must know his
head was cut off before"
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AT THE WHIPPING POST.
Thirteen Lashes Laid Upon Wife
Beater's Back.

John Eisenburger, who was sentenced at
Baltimore, Nd, to thirteen lashes and term
of thirty days in Jail for brutally beating
his wife, has been introduced to the whipping
post. -,
Eisenburger was brought out from his cell
clad in only trousers and shirt. The latter
was removed, and Eisenburger was forced
against the crosslike post with his back ex-
posed. His legs were fastened to the post
and his arms were stretched along the cross
piece, his hands being fastened, one to each
end, thus stretching his skin and rendering
it more susceptible to the lash.
The prehminaries were quickly arranged:
and Deputy Sheriff Roseman, mounting the
platform and raising his arm slightly aloft,
brought down the lash with sharp quick
movement upon the bare back. A great long
welt showed where it had fallen. Eisenbur-
ger WINGED, gritted his teeth, and then set
himself to receive the other twelve lasheS.
They fell at short, regular intervals of about
one second each until the bakers dozen or
dered by the court had been administered.
Eisenburger endured the ordeal without a
murmur, never opening his mouth through
out the whipping. There were thirteen fresh
welts across his back, which were rather
CORY looking, the blood having spurted from
the places where the ends of the cat struck
and broke the skin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Against Flowers.

In Bulak, suburb of Cairo, is the ma
tional museum of Egyptian antiquities,
founded about thirty years ago BY
Frenchman commonly known as Marietta
Bey. One department is devoted to an
interesting collection of specimens Of
plants which have been found In the
sepulchral monuments of that country.
It is remarkable that, though the
botanical collection is large, and contains
many varieties, every plant is still to be
found growing in the valley OF the Nile.
Moreover, the closest examination fails to
reveal the slightest difference between
the plants that fourished fifty centuries
ago and those which the traveller sees to-
day on the banks of the river. The very
flowers which the boy Moses or the chill,
dren of Joseph picked still bloom un-
changed, even in color. There are to be
seen here blue sprays of larkspur, which
loving hands laid upon the bodies OF
those who died a thousands years before
Abraham and Sarah went down into
Egypt. In the tombs of later date have
beer found, together with apparently
simply ornamental flowers, as hollyhocks
and chrysanthemums, the various fruits
vegetables and grain for which the land
has ever been renowned, as figs, dates,t
olives, grapes, pomegranates, onions,
beans, barley and wheat. Around the
necks and upon the breasts of those who
died at the time Solomon reigned IN
Jerusalem, about 1000 B. c., were found
garlands of celery, which does not ap-
pear to have been used at that time as a
vegetable by the Egyptians.
All these plants, when they were pre-
pared for the funeral ceremonies, were
subjected to great heat by which their
form and color were preserved, but their
terminating power was destroyed. Hence
all the stories which have been told OF
wheat having been raised from grains
which have lain in the wrappings OF
mummies for fifty centuries are untrue
Unscrupulous natives have sold to credu-
lous travellers wheat in which modern
grains have been mixed with the ancient,
but only the modern grains can GERM.
nate.-Kouth's Companion.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

W1LKE COLLINS never kept scrap-booko
Mr.. VANDERBILT pays his cook $15, 600
year.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS will write an Afri-
can-American story.
THE King of the Belgians is contemplating
q voyage to the Congo.
WnK1E COLLINS left an estate valued at
something under $50, 600.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,, is the
finest ingdist in Congress.
EMMoNs BLAINE and his bride will reside
permanently in Baltimore, Md.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has received
SIS, 600 for his story, "Ben Hur."
TIE German Emperor has given his Por-
trait to Lord Salisbury, the English Premier
LORD TENNYsoN says that one of his great
est regrets is his failure to visit this country.
henry IRVING, the actor, has grown much
stouter, and has placed himself on antl-1at
diet.
SECRETARY WINDOW is great believer in
the benefit 20 be derived from pedestrian
exercise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the noted
novelist, is ambitious to become successful
playwright
JUSTICE FIELD says that Terrys widow
may attack him some time and she is avery
desperate woman.
COUNT AHGo VALLEY, the German Am
bassador at Washington, is over SIX feet high
and built accordingly.
SENATOR INGALLS, has purchased new
home in Atchison, Kansas, to replace the
house which was sburned.
Ex.GovERNoRsJoHN A. MARTIN, Of Kan
saS, died at Topekaa few days since. He WaS
born in Brownsville, Penn, in 1889.
MARY ANDERSEN, the leading American
actress, has been staying for some time at
Iban with William Block, the novelist.
SIP JOHN IT, MLLA1s (the eminent English
artist has SPENT bis vacation this year chiefly
in salmon fishing, in which ho is an expert.
AMY LEVY, theyoung English girl who had
become famous HI literature at bound, died
few days ago Suddenly at theage of twenty
three. @
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is moving his
family from Chicago to Washington, where
they will occupy Senator Van Wyck's former
home on Massachusetts, avenue
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
TURNED INTO TRAGEDY.
A Terrible Accident Results from ;
Proposed Gas Well Display.

A Terrible Accident Results from a
Proposed Gas Well Display.
The citizens of Jerome small town in
Indiana, arranged for gas well display the
other night, and took for the purpose the
Diamond Plate Glass we'll, just drilled there,
and the strongest well in the State. A sixty
foot four-inch pipe was laid from the well,
and to this was attached four-foot elbow
vertically. When the torch was applied the
end which projected upward was pushed over
on the ground and the immense pressure
hurled the sixty feet of pipe among the spec
tators with terrible force
Most Of the younger people in the crowd
were able to escape from the roaring flames
which burst from the pipe, but several were
caught. Among these were Chusa Warmon,
pastor of the Friends Church. The flames
struck him full in the face, and he fell to the
ground corpse. He was burned to a crisp.
Frank La Rue's leg was broken. John Hague
was fatally burned, the flesh falling from
his body. Hiram Overman's skull was
crushed in the fight for life. He was dead
when found.
The little town was in mourning The
flag on the village hall was nailed at hall
mast and all business was suspended.
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The Green Fir.

A correspondent of the northeastern
Lun5srman says green fir trees will burn
like tinder. He saw green tree of that
species 1T Whatcoai burned half down,
by simply having an auger hole bored
through it, with an upward slant on one
side, so as to create an air draught, and
stuffed with kindling. The interior of
the tree being thus ignited, the trunk
burned like q torch. That struck the
correspondent as decidedly against fir
timber as permanent investment. He
thinks that since numerous settlers have
recently gone into the Puget Sound re-
gion, and are clearing farms, the liability
of fires has greatly increased, and will
continue to do so in ratio with the pro-
rress of settlement.
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Farming for Olive ON.

Olive culture, says L. O.. Brown in the
american Agrieutturist, has attained
enormous proportions in Italy. It is
computed that the amount of oil pro-;
duced annually in the entire kingdom Is
thirty-three million gallons. Frances
production, although much less, is still
considerable, being seven million gallons
annually. The olive tree thrives best IN
dry soil on slopes toward the sun, suf-
ficiently sheltered. It attains height Of
twenty feet usually Ito even fifty feet in
some localities), and frequently reaches
an age which appears almost fabulousJ
one specimen near Nice, recently care
lessly destroyed, having had positive
record of five centuries, and measuring
thirty-six feet in circumference when It
fell. The foliage is evergreen, having
lanceolate leaves, which are gray under
meath, and its flowers, which appear in
June, are white and resemble those ofthe.
elder. The fruit is oval in shape, With;
ligneous kernel inclosing an almond
shaped seed. The flesh of the fruit,
which when ripe is of an intense violet
black color, yields about seventy per
cent. of its weight in oil.
The gathering of the crop begins inf
November and continues until May. The
harvest is divided into three periods Of
two months each, the first yielding g
high h-colored oil called 'sfne," the Sec
ond straw -colored oil called sssuper-
fne," and the last a pale-colored oil
called "extra superfne." The fruit is
gathered from small trees by hand, and
from large ones it is knocked off with
poles.< Women and boys are employed
for this purpose, for which as wages they
receive seventy-seven cents for every
twenty quarts gathered. When the
fruit is collected, it is taken to mills,
where it is reduced to paste. Itis then
placed in bags of esparto Spanish rush.
and squeezed under press, the oil es1i
Gaping into receptacle underneath. !
This first pressure produces what is
known as 'svirgin OIL" The bags are.
then removed, soaked in boiling water
and placed second time under the press,
thus yielding the ordinary oil Of com
merce. A third pressing follows, yield
ing an inferior oil used for illuminating
purposes.
The dangers to which the olive trees
are exposed are frost, wind. hail, and the
dacus, a little insect which appears in the!
fruit, when it begins to get ripe, eating
through the little stem which joins the
fruit to the branch, thus destroying an;
nually more than six hundred thousand
dollars worth of olives. The olive is
also attacked by a disease called the.
naorpAua or fumago, which turns the en-
tire tree black, and which lasts about ten
years. There is as yet no known reme-
.dy. An acre averages from seventy five
to eighty trees, from which the proprie-
tor receives a net profit of $26 annually. !.
A great deal of care has to be exercised
lest the trees or roots should be injured In
any way, thus producing decay. It will
be seen that this crop can be made pro-
ftable only when the cheapest labor IS
obtainable. .r.,
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A DISASTROUS STORM.

Seven Vessels Wrecked or Ashore on
Lake Huron-Threc Lives Lost.
A heavy northwest gale that blew over
lower Lake Huron was disastrous 10 lie anu
sbinpinc, Two seamen were killed on Lake
Huron. off Sand Beach, and woman COOK
IN the Wend the Wave was drowned near
the mouth of the Detroit River. 1,u,,,
The boats ashore or sunk on Lake Huron
and Lake Erie, near the mouth OF the De
troit River, are: Rhoda Emily, ashore at
White Rock; C. H. Weeks, ashore ana "a a
total loss; Lady Franklyn, ashore d 'pdaab mabc :.
a1sssow ass1n; a Ashore on Pelee Island; Wend the
Wave, sunk by collision.
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LATER NEWS.

TIE New York Electrical Execution law,
which came up before Judge Day at Auburn
on a habeas corpus proceeding in the case
of Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, he's been
sustained.
THE Triennial National Congregational
Council opened in Worcester, Mass.
FIRE in the wholesale grocery establish
ment of William Edwards g. Co., Cleveland,
Ohio, destroyed the upper part of the build
ing and most of the stock. Loss Sis, 900.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL ROGERS, Of Louisi-
ana, has made public the statement that
Major Burke, ex-State Treasurer, deliber-
ately issued or failed to destroy State securi-
ties to the amount of s40O, 1000. Major Burke
is now in England.
MAYOR ORwAN, of Horace, Kansas, was
burned to death in the caboose Of freight
train en- the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The
caboose caught fire from the engine of pas
senger train.
Four successive failures of crops in Ste
vens County, Kansas, have rendered the peo-
pie there destitute.
THERE is an epidemic of typhoid fever at
Aurora, W. Va, and in that vicinity. Scarce
ly enough people to nurse the sick remain
well.
THE magnificent stone residence Of Glenn
Studebaker at South Bend, Ind, which cost
shout $3OO 600 has been almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Studebaker was danger
ously injured.
The east wing of the prison at Jackson,
Mich, has been burned, and fire destroyed
the Jail at Pineville, Ky.
A NUMBER of Knights Templar were en-
tertained at brilliant reception by President
Harrison.
SIR BENJAMIN SAMUEL PHILLIPS, ex-Lord
Mayor of London, and the second member of
the Jewish faith to occupy the position, has
lied in that city.
A RIOT occurred at Bristol, England, on
the arrival of number of laborers to replace
GOO gas stokers who were on strike.
CARDINAL TAscHEREAU, Of Quebec, pre-
sided at the creation of several canons and
the unveiling of a statue to the late Bishop
Guignes at Basiica. Over $50 priests were
present.
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MONGOLIAN THUGS.
4 Murdcrous League Revived in San
Francisco.

4 Murdcrous League Revived in San
Francisco.
Posters are distributed throughout China
town, San Francisco, CAL, calling for a
meeting of the League of Heaven and Earth.
The existence of this league was only known
to its members, and the issue of the call for
the meeting caused much surprise among
many of the residents of Chinatown. The
league is said to be powerful one. 1t was
originally formed in China To bring about the
overthrow of tho Tartar dynasty and has
been prescribed in that country since the
Tapping rebellion. The objects of this
league, like the Highbindcrs' societies, is
blaclmail and vengeance. Its victims are
completely removed, no trace of them being
left to serve as a clew. Within the last six
months half a dozen Cinnamon have mysteri-
ously disappeared and it is believed their re-
moval was ordered by the league.
Not the slightest clew to their where
ebouts has been discovered.
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SHIP AND STEAMER SUNK.
Many Lives Lost Off the Newfound-
land Coast.

The transatlantic steamer Geographic, Of
the Bossiere Line, Captain Pausset conf
manding, bound from Montreal to South
ampton, England, with cattle, sheep and
cargo Of general merchandise, collided with
the Nova Scotian sailing vessel Minnie Swift
forty miles off St. Pierre, Newfoundland, at
2 o'clock in the morning.
The Minnie Swift sunk within two minutes
drowning, as nearly as can be ascertained,
two women, three children and ten men,
The others, with part of the crew of Norwe-
gian vessel who had previously been picked
up, got on board the steamer, which, des-
pite all efforts, also sunk.
Two boats containing about thirty-hve
persons, which put off from the steamer ear,
" in the morning, were missing. The third
boat, with the Captain and fifteen Others,
was picked up by the schooner Sister Bell
and taken to st. Pierre.
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FOUR VICTIMS OF FLAMES
Destruction Of q Restaurant With
Loss of Life.

A fire broke out about twenty minutes to
three A. N. in R. E. Lofts two story restam-
antat Winona, Miss. Nine men were asleep
in the upper story, four Of whom were
burned to death.
All Of them were prominent citizens Of
their respective communities and. were en-
route home from Memphis, where they went
topurchase goods. Every effort was made
to save them, but the flames were well under
headway before discovered and by the time
sufficient help arrived the walls had fallen in.
The bodies Of the four victims were shipped
to relatives
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FATAL FAMILY FEUD.
Three Killed and Three Wounded
in West Virginia.

A bloody family feud is now raging in
Lincoln County, ". Va. Floyd Dingess, a
son of justice Of the peace and prominent
man, married one of the Hall girls. He
auarrelled with his wife. They separated,
and the next day Dingess and his wifes
brother met, and Dingess was shot dead.
Alfred Blumfield had married Dingess's SIS
ter. He swore to be avenged on Hall and
fatally wounded one of the Hall brothers.
A few days ago Brumield and his wife
were waylaid and Mrs. Brumfeld was shot
Through the head and died. Brumheld was
Terribly wounded. Two days later Purvis
Brumfeld was shot. Then George Dingess,
a brother Of Brumfeld's wife, was shot
through the leg in fight with one of the op
Desing party.
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CELEsr1N PAUL, who died not long ago al
bis farm near Reggie Station, parish OF St
Bernard, La, was said to have been 1!S years
old. His daughter writes that he was eighteen
wears cid when he went to live on the farm
where ne died. That was just 100 years ago
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THE national memorial to the late German
Emperor, William ], has, produced lively
competition throughout the Empire: Ihe
designs sent in at present number IA with
orty-ssIen la rye models.
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JOHN MCPHERSON, President OF Lodge1 OF
the United Order of American Carpenters
and Joiners. has been appointed by Mayor
Grant, of New York city, a member Of the
Permanent World Fair Exposition Com
mittee. .
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THE Empire Of Japan has $1,000, 600 inhab-
stants who are slowly but surely adopting
western customs in dress as well as IN clVlh-
zatim and methods of research.
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A UNIQUE UNDERTAKING.
A Railroad President Starts on
Walk Over His Road.

President D. J. Mackey, of tho Mackey
system Of railroads, has just begun what was
perhaps never undertaken by such an official.
He has started from Mount Vernon, ILL.,, on
foot. and declares it to be his intention to
GO over the four hundred miles of the system
n that way.
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The average in wheat for all Europe is 81
this year, compared to 90 in 1883 and 110.5
in 1887
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Return of the Conreid Opera
Company.
WALLACK's SCRAP OF PAPER.
Temperance OF the Home Club
Booth, Barrett and Modjeska
-Maritana.

That merry troup of singers, the
Conreid Opera Company, who, if they
did not give US any distinguished stars,
made a deeper impression by putting
forth the biggest and best opera chorus
ever seen on our stage, come back to US
this week with q new work and new
crowd of principals, but with the old
chorus built up and increased, so says
the agent, to upwards of 100 voices. The
Gypsy Baron will not be done on this
visit, but may be reproduced on the re
turn trip; the Ri. g's Fool, the new
opera, is said to be great 60, and it
will hold the stage both nights.
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PERSONAL.

P. F. Goss was in from Eureka yss-
terday.
W. a. G. BRYAN was up from Nephi
yesterday.
G PETERSON. of South Jordan, came
into town yesterday. ..,... ,g......,-.l..
WILLIAM STREEPER, of Bountiful, was
in town on Saturday. r> IS,
s. S. PAGE. of Pagson, was among the
visitors TO Salt Lake, yesterday
MRS ELLEN C1AwsoN who has been
quite i'll recently, Is onethe road to re-
covery. ~ @
JOHN A. GRoEsBEck has retu ned
home after a very pleasant visit TO
Southern California.
REED SMooT. of Provo, was one of
those who enlivenec the proceedings
before the examiner yesterday Hsis
confident that Provo will scoop in
Ogden and give Salt Lake black eye
within very short tine. s~ -.
MAJOR KENT returned yesterday
morning from the south country, where
he put in a weeks hard work with the
bands of Provo, kayson and Spring.
vile. He reports that all these organi-
cations are making excellent progress.