The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-30
South and West.

ROBERT BRASTON, OF SalG Lake ClCy, III
q fit of drunken jealousy fatally shot his
wife, then shot himself dead.
THE SoutherA yellow Pine Lumber Asso
citation met at Birmingham, Ala, and ad,
vanced the price of yellow pine lumber IL
per 1000 feet.
SUPERINTENDENT TIT WADLEI, ct Davis
& tamar's mine, near Langley, S. c., was
killed by the caving in of bank while he
was in the mine.
COLONEL CoNLEY, Of Chicago, has Just
bought the great trotter Axtel for $lO5, ,OOO.
THE switchmen in the yards of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Toledo, Ohio, struck ! for
higher wages, causing a suspension OF busi-
ness in the yards of the Pennsylvania, Hook
ing Valley and Ann Arbor roads.
WHILE boring for natural gas at Pueblo,
Cal, vein was unexpectedly struck and the
escaping gas taking fire from a lantern
burned one man to death and another very
severely.
THE large livery barn of Oxby Bros, at
Corwith, Iowa, has been burned. Six horses
in, iuding $500 stallion, were roasted in the
flames. Two men who slept in the barn are
missing
Al least 5Oo,00O pounds of tobacco in, the
county of Fleming, KY, have been entirely
destroyed by frost.
WHILE a wrecking crew was engaged in
clearing away freight wreck at Lansing,
Mich, the hosting beam Of the steam derrick
broke and fell, killing three men.
FIRE has destroyed the st. James Hotel
and three other buildings at Rico, Col Three
men were burned to death.
A WRECK on the Big Four road, ten miles
from Cincinnati, caused the death of En-
gineer Morris and Fireman Whitestone.
Two tramps and brakeman were also
killed.
SEVERAL arrests have been made end
indictments found for attempted jury
fixing in the Cronin murder trial at Chicago.
ROBERT BIGGs, colored, was lynched at
fernando, Miss. He confessed that he had
assaulted white woman.
HANS JEFFERSON was sentenced at Provo,
Utah, to five years imprisonment for
polygamy.
THE total vote for Governor in South
| Clure Uem.), 23,441 For prohibition the
vote was 39,5O9, and against, 80, ,456. The
contest for the temporary capital resulted i'll
| Pierres getting 2I,09G votes, to II, 9H for
| Huron, 1870 for Watertown, 11,7G3 for
Sioux Falls, 7516 for Mitchell and 414 fo!'
| Chamberlain.
An engine at Heinlein's sorghum mills at
BucyruS Ohio, exploded, killing the engineer
and two other men.
DAVID MENcIA and his son, Alphonse.
| quarreled on their ranch near San Antonio,
| Tex, and the father was killed and the son
fatally wounded.
| Both parties at last accounts were claim
ing the Montana Legislature
Dr.. w. NJ. TETT, of Nicholson, Miss, quar-
relied with F. C. Collins and shot him dead.
A few minutes after he met the same fate at
the hands of J. W. Turner, Collinss brother
in-law.
The nine-year-old daughter OF G. g.
Brown, farmer living near Harrington,
Kan, fell into vat Of boiling sorghum and
was scalded to death.
FIVE THOUSAND railroad brakemen assem-
bled in ST. Paul Mimi, to attend the second
annual convention of the Brotherhood and
had an imposing parade.
NINE men and three women, all colored,
have been arrested, charged with robblng
over 100 residences and business houses IN
Charlotte. NC. Robbery is capital offense
in North Carolina.
The stem of the new coast-defence vessel
| has been successfully cast at the Pacific Roll-
ing mills in San Francisco. Sixteen thousand
pounds Of molten steel were poured into the
mould for the stem.
ROBERT BERRIER, who shot and killed his
mother-ir-law, Mrs Walzer, near Lexington;
N. c., was captured near Greensboro ana
taken to Lexington, where he was hanged to
a tree on the outskirts of the town
REPRESENTATIVES of an English Syndicate
have purchased the three largest brewerles
in Indiana, all situated in Indianapolis.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, arrived
at Atlanta, Ga. and met with most
enthusiastic reception, he being escorted 10
his hotel with fambeau1.
A FRIGHTFuL collision has occurred at
Sterling, CAL, between Burlington and g
Union Pacific passenger train, in which about
thirty passengers were killed and many In
jured.
ers' Alliance and the town party at Dothen,