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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-22
HURLED TO DEATH.
en- Engine Runs Into Street Car
killing Six Ladies.

en- Engine huns INTO q Street SAG
Killing Six Ladies. ~
A shocking accident occurred about $50
o'clock in the evening at the West Main
street crossing of the Michigan Cen;
tral Railroad in Kalamazoo, Mich:
A street car containing eight la
dies and two gentlemen was crossing
the track when o switch engine dashed down
upon it from the east side at a high rate OF
speed, and the driver being unable to get the
car out of the way the helpless passengers
were hurled to terrible death. 1t was bun
the work OF a moment.
The street car was carried almost to
Academy street, the pieces flying In all dn
rections. and the human freight oelns
Those in the car were: Mrs. Alexander
Haddocl, Mrs. NJ. E. Watles, Mss Gertrude
dleton, Mrs. Van Antwerp, Mrs. S. A!
Gibson, Mrs. Jonathan Barnes, W. Mr:
L. c. Lull and DR.. Sutton. Tha
flrst-narned six were killed, two beng
found dead in the cattle guard, one in the
creek near by, two on the tsckii
and Mrs. Middleton died an hour
later. She was thrown in the roadway:
Mrs. Gibson was injured in the head a. and
side and Mrs Barnes was bruised badly: Inc
two male passengers escaped. The driver OF
the car escaped by jumping.
The switch engine was running at high
rate of speed. The gates at the crossing
where the accident occurred are not used be.
tween $50 and 6:5s P. n, the gatekeeper go.
ing home at that time. This custom propaa
bly deceived the driver Of the street caE, VINO
was q new nan and probably supposed tnal
the gates would Of course be down Il an en-,
gine were coming.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-22
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Formally Opened by President Carr
not Amid brilliant Festivities. .

President Carnot, assisted by the President
of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, and
In the presence Of the constituted bodies Of
State, the Department Of the Seine and the
city Of Paris, opened the universal exhibition
In the main hall under the grand dome.
NJ. Tirard, chief of the Ministry, delivered
the address Of welcome. President CarnotS
rising to inaugurate the exhibition, said:
To-day completes century Of progress.
We salute the workers, and would give the
friendly hand Of peace and concord to all:
Visitors will find here a hospitable country
and city glad to receive them. France
worthy to be among the chosen nations, by
indomitable energy has raised herself above
her trials, and inspired confidence by keeping
faith in all her public engagements.
~ wish the guests of the nation welcome.
now declare the exhibition open"
The chorus Of 2000 voices burst into pat
riotic hymn, the assemblage cheered and sar
luteS were fired from the batteries in stha
Champ de Mars and re-echoed by the great
guns of the Notifications around Paris.
The ceremonial inside was brief, and shornf
Of much Of its splendor by the unreadiness OF
the preparations for the display Of the ex-
hibits. Attempts had been made to decorate
the central hall for the opening, but down
the galleries could be seen long rows Of un-.
opened packing cases and a wilderness Of un-
finished carpentry.
At o'clock the proceedings were over,
and then cortege was formed, and, with
the President at the head, passed as best it
could through the encumbered galleries. z
As night fell the Illumination began. Paris.
has seen no such spectacle before, many and
magnificent as have been the scenes Of this
kind in her history. The electric light was
for the first time profusely employed. and the
effects were wonderful.
The eccentric semi-circle Of the Tocadero
was the first to burst into many colored
flame; then the great dome Of the exhibition
famed out upon the blue black sky hemi-
sphere Of white light.
But the most startling was the rush Of fire
up the column Of the Eiffel Tower thousand
feet into the air, topped by an effulgent blaze
Of electric light from the lantern, which could
be seen in the remotest part Of the city, and
which made the exhibition grounds almost as
bright as day.
All the buildings public and private, along
the Seine, on both banks, the bridges across
the river, the steamers, boats and barges, full
of gay parties, were Illuminated. The Seine
was sea Of light and color and the center OF
revelry.
Shortly after nightfan torchlight process.
sion, embracing Is, 600 mounted cuirassier
and infantry on foot, most Of the musical 50.
cieties of Paris, both vocal and instrumental
with numerous brass bands drum corps, etc,
started from the Tuilleries palace, crossed the
Jena Bridge and marched into the central
garden Of the Exposition Grounds amid most
enthusiastic cheering. The number Of gas
jets blazing in the grounds was upward Of
100000.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

SN1PE are plentiful in Iowa.
LONDON has an electric om:!ibus.
THE Oklahoma boom is nearly over.
SPAIN is about to denude her forests.
YELLOW FEVER is epidemic in Brazil.
OHIO is to have compulsory education.
PENNSYLVANIA has 2S6 natural gcs COM
panies.
MONTANA leads the world in precious
metals.
s1yry-s1x diffe-entrailroa lines center in
Chicago.
The yellow fever has made It's appearance
in Florida.
A BRIDGE is to be built across the Missouri
River at st. Louis.
SKUSKs are said to be almost as numerous
in Oklahoma rs rabbits.
The first white baby born in Oklahoma has
been named Oklahoma Lewis.
IT is said in Delaware that full peach
crop may be expected this year.
New HAMPSHIRE has the largest divorce
rate Of any State in the country.
THE Mexican Government has decided to
give bounties to sugar-producers.
HIGH LICENSE has reduced the number OF
saloons in Pittsburg from I2O to lSS.
AcAREFuL estimate shows the strawberry
acreage in Florida TO be 10000 acres.
AN international anti-slavery congress Will
be held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July
THE sugar crop in Brazil and the West
Indies falls many thousand tons below tha1
of last year.
1T is estimated that there have been sold in
Japan 1000, 900 copies Of the Constitution IN
one form or other.
So far this year the country has done sllI
worth of business for every 500 worth up TO
same date last year.
ONLY $50 LIQUOR stores were licensed this
year under the new law III Boston. Last
year there were 1900
The Government estimated the value OF
mich COWS a year ago az $:224. Is per head. and
the ,-eSent figure is S2e3@.
THERE ar, now forty-siE. or including
branch stations nearly sixty, agricultural eA-
pertinent stations in operation.
In year the carnivorous animals in the
Central Park menagerie, New York city.
have eaten 57,7l5 pounds of horse meat at
two cents pound.
A BILL 70 prohibit the buying and selling Of
agricultural products and stocks and bonds
for future delivery has passed both houses OF
the Missouri Legislature
THE eleventh census will be collected by
.!O. 900 enumerators. against 10000 ten years
ago, with On original appropriation of 81. iGo,-
900. against So 900, 600 voted in 1879.
CAPTAIN MUERELL. Of the Missouri, and
his officers have turned over to the poor peo-
ple they rescued from tho Danmark all the
testimonial money given them at Philedel.
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Foreign.

JOIN DILLON, the Irish Home Rule leader,
is addressing monster meetings In Australla.
The centennial of the French Revolution
was celebrated at Versailles, Paris, and In
various cities abroad; President Carnot at
tended the Versailles exercises and made
spceches; in Paris blank cartridge was shot
at the President; the assailant, when arrested,
said he had no cesire to kill the resident.
TIE Brazilian Parliament was opened by
tie Emperor.
TIE voters Of Edinburgh, Scotland, have
decided by vote of IA, Gil nays to 3l9I yeas
rot to confer the freedom Of the city or
St>rnell.
TIE volcano of Vesuvius has been in ar
charming state of eruption. Streams OF lav9
t-,ursed down the mountain on the Pomper
side.
THE soap works of Messrs. David anc
William Gibbs, London, England, were
barned. Loss $50, 600.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN and Edward Harring.
ton. Irish members Of the British Parlla.
ment, were released from prison in order that
they might give testimony before the Par
nell Commission. Mr.. Harrington was
attired il the prison dress.
IL the British House of Commons the
budget recently introduced by Mr.. Goschen,
Chancellor of tie ExcheGuer, was passed by
large majority.
NJ. EI-FEL. the designer and builder OF the
EiTrl tower in Paris, was received, with his
employees, by President Carnot.
Count ToLsToI the Russian Minister OF
The Interior. is dead.
THE Samoan Commissioners Messrs.
Kasson Phelps and Bates and Lieutenants
Went Io ITiilce lis
marcl:'S pal2ce i'll Berlin and were intro
duce.l by Count Herbert. Tie Prince was
extremely cordial and spoke in English. He
said he was glad the conference was progress
Ing SO favorably. He hoped they would soon
bring their labors to successful close.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE funeral of Hon. ". II. Barnum, at
Lime Rock, Conn, was attended by large
number of people Among those present
were e--Presideut Cleveland and Colonel
Lamont.
The Centennial Committees expenses Id
New York were about 500. .OOO.
A TRAIN demolished coach in Philadel-
phia, killing two occupants, +. *. Womrath
and James DUNCAN, and injurlng three
others.
GUsTAvE Hos-EoU1sT and John Bullsley,
both of Middle&own n. Y, were struck by
train in New Haven, Conn.,, and killed.
HUNDREDS c. miners are starving in the
Pennsylvania cccl regions.
TREE miners TSro fatally in jured by a
fire-darlp explosion in the BeachWood col
iery, near PottGvlie, ecln.
ITALIAN railroad hands employed by the
Raritan River Railroad Company invaded
Furmans bricEyard at Sayreville, N. j., at
the dead of night to lay the tracks of an e!z-
tension. The b-ickyard hands resisted the
attempt and their foreman, man named
Gessenger, and another man were killed.
THE chiefs of State Labor Bureaus from
all over the country are to meet III Hartford,
Conn.,, for q four days convention on June
24
MELCHoR HCBEE, wealthy contractor OF
Scranton, Penn, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat. He had been drinking heavily
for some time.
LINCOLN CU-T1s, chief salesman for Cong
don s Aylsworth, wholesale boot and shoe
dealers of Providence, R. l., was arrested,
charged with the embezzlement of ST., OOO
JOHN DAVIDSON was instantly killed and
his father fatally injured by the explosion OF
a boiler at Beaver Penn.
MRS. JOSEPH SANDS, sixty years old,
hanged hersclf while insane at Bethlehem.
Penn.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
AZ leads the batting averages of the Bos.

RAY leads the batting averages Of the Bos
tons.
The Pittsburg club has released outfelder
Nichol
THE Southern League games are drawing
large crowds.
THE Kansas City American Association
club is playing great ball.
JOHN WARD has agreed upon terms with
the New York management.
RICHARDSON, of the New Yorks, appears to
have developed into slugger
EVERY man on the Philadelphia Giants IS
over six feet two inches in height.
THE Chicago club, it is alleged, offered
$4,000 for the release Of Long, Kansas City's
short stop.
EsTERBRooK has been deposed from the
Captaincy of the Louisville American Asso-
citation club.
ON holidays visiting clubs in the American
Association will receive only fifteen per cent
of the gate receipts.
The Brooklyns, one of the strongest of the
American Association nines did very poorly
in their opening games, but are beginning
to improve.
PITCHER AMES is doing very creditable
work for Princeton College. In the game
against the Jersey City team he gave them
only two hits.
IF one may Judge at all from the scores of
the baseball games SO far played, the new
rules have attained the desired object Of
securing freer hitting and more runs.
MCCLELLAN. the well-krown ball tosser,
formerly Of the BrooElyns, is said to be further
advanced in the degrees of Masonry than
any member Of the baseball profession.
A CURIOUS result OF being hit with base
ball is reported from Philadelphia. A stut-
tering man was struck in the mouth and
when he got well the impeachment in his speech
had disappeared.
The rigid provisions of the Interstate Com
merce law hurt baseball to very serious
extent. The railroads will get the biggest
slice of the receipts and the money put up By
the cities of the Southern League.
NEWSPAPERS will now contain such no
tices as the following from an indianapolis
Mr. Egyptian Wonder" Healy in the Indi-
annapolis ball club Mr.. Cigarette" Shreve
is still with us.
and Petit by the Chicago club was a sur
prise. Captain Anson says he let Baldwin
go because he was not C good enough player,
and the other three men because their habits
were not correct.
The New Yorks this year float three
championship flags from their grounds-the
League championship banner, the worlds
championship pennant won from the st.
Louis club, and the local flag of superiority,
wresteG from the Brooklyrs.
The League champions, the New Yorks,
are playing in much better form in the early
part of this season than they did at the same
time last year. The loss of their grounds in
New York city, which compels them to play
on Staten Island, has caused decreased at
tendance ut the games.
IT is remarkable fact that not single
game scheduled for the tour around the
world by the Spalding tourists was postponed
by bad weather. In foreign countries they
ere not frightened by bit of bad weather,
and despite rain, sleet and snow, every game
announced was played.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-22
4HE Wide WORLD OVER
Newsy Dispatches Describing
Some Important Events.
First Celebration Of Arbor Day il
the Empire State.

Arbor Day has been celebrated in the pub
lie schools Of New York for the first time.
Thousands of pupils in more than 222 schools
Joined in the exercises Of song and recitation.
The circular issued by the State Superinten-
dent of Public Schools, A. S. Draper, ex-
plains the object of the day set apart by the
| Legislature as follows: THE primary Pur-
pose of the Legislature in establishing Arbor
| Day was to develop and stimulate in the chill
dren Of the commonwealth love and rever-
ence for nature as revealed in trees and
shrubs and flowers. In the language of the
statute to encourage the planting, protection
and preservation OF trees and shrubs was be-
| lieved to be the most effectual way In which
to lead our children to love nature and rev.
erence natures God, and to seq the uses to
! which these natural objects may be put in
making our school grounds more healthful
and attractive"
In New York city the school exercises were
not as elaborate as the programme issued by
the Superintendent Of Public instruction
called for. This was owing to the day coming
so soon after the Centennial celebration. The
first portion Of the programme, the planting
of trees in the scnoo!yards, Yves necessarily
omitted downtown, but in some of the schools
in the Annexed district was carried out to the
letter. The musical and literary portion was
observed In all the schools with songs and recl-
tations
with the exception of the Prospect Park
exercises there vas nothing of public char
acter to mark Arbor Day in Brooklyn. In
Prospect Park an elm tree was planted at Eat
tie Pass By the venerable James S. 7. Surana-
han, who sor many years managed the De.
partment Of Parks. The boys and girls OF
Public School No. 9 and other schools near the
park took part in the exercises. Postmaster
joseph C. Hendrix delivered an address and
briex speeches were made by several other
citizens. 8,
Arbor Day was observed very generally
on Long Island. At many places trees we're
planted and there were public exercises. AT
breslau the teachers Of the Public SCHOOL
planted a tree and the tender shoot was
named "The Washington" in commemora-
tion of the Centennial.
Throughout other parts Of the State the
day was appropriately celebrated by the
planting Of trees and shrubs and by exercises
in many Of the public schools. The State
will be the gamer by many thousands OF
trees, and the first celebration OF Arbor Day
in New York is conceded to have been
great success.
Arbor Day is now observed in thirty -eour
States and two Territories.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

SH1P-BuILDERs have all they can do.
A GOOD many paper mills are going VI,
ELECTRICITY is now applied to tanning.
TIE St. Louis carpenters strike is ended.
GREAT activity prevails in the steel trade.
THrRE is still great deal of unemployed
labor
THERE are II, 1872, 900 workers in the United
States.
The boot and shoe makers of New England
are busy.
A LARGE steel car works is to be erected In
Kentucky.
THE United Kingdom fisheries employ $780,
600 persons.
THE anthracite coal production is 100000
tons per day.
P1rTssURGERs are going to bore for oil in
South Africa.
TIE Japanese have no instinct for laundry
work like the Chinese.
NAIL MAKERS have agreed to restrict pro-
duction twenty-five per cent.
HALE the iron molders in the country are
idle or working on short time.
CHICAGO shoe dealers have sold ten per
cent more shoes than last year.
SHlPBClLDlNG Oh UQo Clyue, Uue y uc duu
the Wear, in Great Britain, is brisk.
ORGANIZATION is rapidly progressing
among the weavers Of Fall River, Mass.
SEPTEMBER /, known as Labor Day, has
been made legal holiday in Pennsylvania.
SOUTHERN iron makers pays one-third as
much freight as do PENNSYLVANIA iron max
ers.
SAN FRANCISCO machinery makers have
lately shipped machinery for Chinese silver
mines.
THE average daily wages Of miners in
France and Germany, including children, Is
seventy cents.
SEVERAL of the tobacco factories at Dan
vile, Va, where there has been strikes, have
begun work again with white labor.
THE master joiners of Greenock, near Glas-
pow, Scotland have advanced the wages of
the men from thirteen cents to fourteen cents
per hour.
A LARGE number of railroads have now
taken measures to discontinue unnecessary
business on Sunday with view of giving
their employees rest.
ABOUT 1900 workers are employed at the
ruby mines Of Burmah, who work on the
most primitive methods and at wretched
rates Of remuneration.
LARGE numbers Of working people are
f1ocking' into Vienna to obtain employment
on new water works which are to be con-
structed, and which are to cost 800, OO0 600.
AMERICAN sewing machine makers ex-
ported last year two million dollars worth OF
sewing machines and beside nearly eight
million dollars worth Of machinery were ex-
ported.
By introducing the tank system Of manu-
facture Pittsburg hopes to regain control Of
the trade in fine glass, Of which Belgium has
for several years past had practically mo-
nopoly.
THE Swiss Government have invited Euro
pean manufacturing States to send represen-
tatives to conference in the Interests of the
working classes, to be held at Berne next
September.
THE fishermen at the herring fishery at
Ardglass, in the north of Ireland, hardly
ever sleep in bed during the season. When
they are not in their boats they lie sleeping
about the docks. Their earnings are very
precarious.
A COUPLE of Springfield (Mass.) men
have devised metal roll for drawing out
slivers that not merely does the work better
than the old leather covered roll, but will
save the spinners the pretty penny now paid
out in repairs upon them.
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Socth and West.


A MERCHANT named Mellick, at Blair,
Iowa. shot and killed his wife and two chill
dren, then set fire to his house and committed
suicide.
WARSAW, N. c., was struck by cyclone
few mornings ago. Many small houses
were blown away almost bodily, and large
ones were torn up so that they are not habi-
table, The seminary building was nearly
destroyed, and the Presbyterian Church
totally demolished. Many people were
seriously hurt.
MISS NASNITA DAISY, the Oklahoma
female boomer, was shot through the arm
by a railroad engineer named Stafford, who
had Jumped her claim. Miss Daisy was
making visit to her claim after fling it, and
was met by Stafford, who fired three shots ct
her. She was not seriously injured
WILLIAM TAUsoR, a Chicago mnchinist,
while temporarily insane dashed his chlld'S
brains out against the wall and murdered his
wife. Then he slashed his own throat.
The contract to build the United States
coast-defence vessel has been awarded to the
Union Iron Works, Of San Francisco, at
S1,62S,000.
The postal clerk and the engineer on a
Northern Pacific passenger train were killed
in q collision near jamestown, Dakota.
WALTER HARRIS and Robert Williams,
both colored, were hanged for murder at
Emporia, Va.
WILLIAM GILMORE, a prominent young
man of Albany, Ca, shot and killed his seven
teen-year-old wife, Fannie, and then killed
himself.
THE dock trial of the Unitel States gun
boat Petrol at Baltimore was satisfactory.
A BLAST at the Minnesota mine, ct Tower,
Mimi, killed John Oleson and fatally injured
Nelson johnson.
The entire business portion of Beaver
DAM Ohio, was destroyed by fire. But three
buildings were left.
TWaldron, Mich, thirty stores and houses,
comprising the entire business portion OF the
place, were swept away by fire.
The John Hpokins Hospital, at Baltimore,
the largest, most richly endowed and COM
pletely equipped institution of the kind in the
world, was formally opened in the presence
of distinguished officials of the nation, State
and city, and members of the medical profes-
sion from many parts of the country.
JAMES E. MCCORMICK, prominent con-
tractor CT Tacoma. Washington Territory,
has disappeared with upward Of $4,000, Sc;
cured through good influence and confidlng
friends.
STAFFORD, Kan, was totally destroyed by
a tornado Crops, farm houses and barns
were moved down. Three persons were
killed and about thirty injured in the vicinity.
Mrs. John Love was blown fifty feet from
her house into wagon. She was fatally in
jured.-
THE Michigan Legislature has passed bill
prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors un-
der seventeen years of age.
TWELVE blooded horses valued at $50, 800
were lost by the burning of Captain Noore's
stables at Paris, Ky.