The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-01
LATER NEWS.

THOMAS F. SEAMAN, a piano manufac-
surer of Boston and Roxbury, Mass, has
failed for $780, 900.
THE ferryboat New Brunswick, which
piled between New York city and the PENN
sylvania station in Jersey City, was burned to
the waters edge, causing loss of s65, 900.
WILLIAM T. MEEKIN, aged nine, died at
Fall River, Mass, of hydrophobia. He was
bitten on March II, and the wound was al
lowed to heal without being cauterized.
GENERAL SAMUEL KENNEDY DAWSON,
United States Army, retired, died at Orange,
| n. j., aged sixty. He was born in Pennsyl
vania, and graduated at West Point in 1S49
JAMES FIELDS was fatally shot by his wife
Mt Butler, Penn. Mrs. Fields was reading a
book and her husband ordered her to come to
bed. She refused, he struck her and the
shooting followed. Before dying Fields
exonorated his wife, saying sne had shot in
| sef-defense. When Mrs Fields appeared at
the coroner's inquest her face was mashed al
most beyond recognition.
THE Standard Oil Company has purchased
q controlling interest in the Ohio Oil Com
pany, thus coming into possession Of the
Lima oil fields.
IT is estimated that twenty-five lives were
lost during the recent prairie fires in Dakota.
THE United States Pension Agent, Bar
ger, of Columbus, Ohio, has just made the
fl,o1
private soldier Philip Flood. of Elyria, is
! the beneficiary. He is to be paid at the rate
of IS per month from Nov. IA, 1862; s25 per
month from July 4, 1864; sS1.25 from June
4, 1872; $50 per month from June 4, 1874;
ST2 per month from June II, 1878, making o.
total of s14,960. From this time on he will
be paid s72 per month.
The National Academy Of Science held q
meeting at Washington and the following
officers were elected: President o. C. Marsh,
of New Haven, Conn.,, reelected President
for term of six years. and Professor F. P.
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution,
Vice-President for similar term.
SUPERINTENDENT BELL, of the Foreign
Mails Office, has received communication
from the postal authorities of Germany re-
commencing the establishment Of ''sea post
offices" for the distribution of German-Ameri-
can mails on shipboard.
RED CLOUD, the big Sioux Indian Chief,
called on the President accompanied by
Agent Jordan, of the Rosebud Agency.
FROM one hundred to one hundred and fifty
fourth-class postmasters are now being ap-
pointed daily.
THE President made the following appoint
ments: Robert P. Porter, of New York, edi-
tor of the Press, to be Superintendent of
Census: J. W. Cunningham to be Assayer of
the United States Assay Office, at Boise City,
Idaho; William H. Calkins of Washington
Territory, to be Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Washington Territory;
John B. Donnelly to be Marshal of the United
States for the Eastern District of Louisiana,
and ex-Congressman Edward S. Lacy, of
Michigan, tAbe Comptroller of the Currency.
CHOLERA is epidemic in the Philippine
Islands. One thousand five hundred cases
are reported, of which 1000 have proved
fatal.
An explosion occurred in a colliery belong
ing to the Rothschilds at Tiefblau, Austria.
Five men were killed, two dangerously In
jured and six missing.