The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
South and West.

| NO collector has been SJaClOneQ al tne
United States Custom House at Osooyoos
Lake, on the British Columbia border, and
now the Indians have taken possession of the
structure formerly occupied b. representa-
tives of this Government. Opium is being
| smuggled across the line and cattle are being
stolen by border thieves.
THE New Orleans Grand Jury have in
dicted ex-State Treasurer Burke who is now
abroad, for forgery in uttering as true forged
| Louisiana bonds.
CHILDREN playing in barn at Muskegon,
Mich, set the building on fire, and little An
ME Michaels perished in the flames.
ALLIANCE DAY drew 6ocoo farmers to the
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga.
A NUMBER of vessels have been driven
ashore by bad weather near Norfolk, Va.
WHILE Hugh McCullogh, the Superintend-
ent of Perkinss cotton gin. near Memphis
| Tenn, was sitting in his office, an unknown
person shot him through the window and
killed him.
THE United States war ship Galena arrived
at Chesapeake Bay with a number of the
rioters from NavaSSa Island on board
FIFE at Port Clinton, Ohio destroyed
August Spies & Co.'S lumber yard, an eleva:
tor filled with grain, two dwellings, railroad
:ars and docks. Loss, $1,000
JOE HAROLD, the colored man who made
an assault on lady of Columbus, Miss, was
captured at Tupelo, and was taken to the
scene of his attempted outrage, fully ldentl-
fed and lynched. He confessed.
Two boys of Fultonvie. W., Va. drank a
half gallon of whisky and died.
THE steel cruiser San Francisco has been
successfully launched at the Union Iron
Works in San Francisco.
FIRE has destroyed property in Selma,
Ala, to the value Of nearly g. quarter of
million dollars.
MRS. CATHARINE CLIFFORD, a lodging
| house keeper in st. Paul, Mimi, has been
burned to death. While driving to the fire
which destroyed her house Chief Engineer
Cook was thrown from his carriage and IA
tally injured.
FIVE men are to be hanged in Hancock,
Tenn, on December %, for the murder OF
Henly Sutton, prominent stock buyer. The
murder was the result of a family feud and
the Tennessee Supreme Court has confirmed
the sentence of the lswer court.
| Mr. AND MRS. MILLER, an old couple who
ived near Unadilla, Ga were brutally mur-
i dered by thieves, and their house ransacked
and robbed.
F. NJ. ARTHUR was reelected Chief Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at
the convention at Denver, Col.
OLIVER GARRISON, seventy-nine years old,
who built the first steamboat to ply between
New Orleans and st. Louis, has committed
suicide at the latter city.
/ SERGEANT r. C. BARON, Thirteenth Regi-
ment, U. S. A, was fatally wounded by q
butcher named Taylor, during q drunken
brawl in Guthrie, Indian Territory.
FIRE in the packing g-house Of Arnlor & Co.,
in Kansas City, has caused loss of S110 600.
GREAT excitement exists at Lexington, n.
| c., on account of the arrest Of thirty white
men, charged with the recent lynching OF
Robert Berrier, who murdered his mother
| in-law.
FIVE Chinese lepers have been shipped back
to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
The forty-third annual meeting of the
American Missionary Society opened in Chi
csso.
THE drug establishment Of O'Neil & Dyas
AZ Akron, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire
| The loss is estimated at $3.50, 600.
THE United States ship Monongahela,
which arrived at San Francisco from Samoa
brought the body of Captain c. NJ. Schoon
maker, Of the United States man-of-"al
Vandslia, who was drowned in the great
torn of March Ii.