The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-07
LATER NEWS.

FIVE murderers now in the New York
Tombs have been sentenced to be hanged on
August %. -
REPORTS of damage by severe thunder
storms come from all parts of New England.
PosrMAsTER-G WANAMAKER, Sec
retary Window end Supervising Archi-
tect of the Treasury Windrim met in the
room of Postmaster Van Cott, Of New York
city, to consider some needed improvements
in the Postoface building and to get an ap-
proximate idea Of the cost. They will en-
deavor to induce the city to buy the present
New York Postofice building, in which case
the Government will build another Postoface
up town.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, the author, and four
orfive other writers and artists, accompanied
by the fifty workingmeh selected by the
S1cripps league Of newspapers to visit the
Paris Exposition and points Of interest to
workingnlen in Europe, sailed from New
York for Havre.
COLONEL EMMoNs CLARK, e1-Colonel Of
the famous Seventh Regiment New York
National Guard, has declined the appoint
ment as Consul to Havre, France, recently
made by President Harrison.
SCOTT TODD and Charlie Hosier, two
bows. were drowned in White River at
Anderson, Ind, and Stephen Bilby met
like fate while trying to recover their bodies.
NEARLY all the business part of Little
Rock, ILL.,, has been destroyed by fire.
GEORGE LEWIS, colored, living near
Beiden, Texas, has been lynched for poison
ing the well of William Shaw.
CARBON & JOHNSON, big builders at lshpe-
ming, Mich, have failed; liabilities, SSo,ooo.
THE entire Chinatown district Of Sacra-
mento, CAL, consisting Of forty wooden
buildings, mainly rookeries has been des-
troycd by fire.
THE bodies Of three unknown men, two
white and one colored, were found at Zine,
Ind. All three Of the mems heads were
crushed, and it is supposed they were muir
dered while asleep and that the deed was
committed by tramps.
FATHER JAMES CURLEY, Of the Society Of
Jesus, probably the oldest priest in the world
certainly the oldest in America, and known
wherever the science of astronomy is known
died few days ago at the age Of ninety
four years in the infrmary Of Georgetown
District Of Columbia) College, where he had
lived for sixty-two years
COMMISSIONER PORTER has selected B. R.
Carroll, the editor Of the New York I,,de-
pendent, to have charge Of the work Of col
lecting religious statistics for tho eleventh
census.
THE King of Greece, accompanied by Pre-
mier Tirard, of France, visited the Paris E1'
Mbition and ascended the Eiffel Tower.
COUNT SpARRE, Swiss Of high family,
shot and killed his mistress Elvira Msdigan,
circus performer, at Taasinge, Denmark,
and then put bullet through his own brain.
THE Austrian infantry has been increased
by the addition Of 5000 men, raising that
branch of the service to war footing.
1T. HON. w. Z. OLADSiOENc e-no "tA0 LOW
lust celebrated in London the fiftleth annl-
versary of their marriage.
THE harvest has been very bad in Hungary
and South Russia owing to continual drought.
In Vienna this drought has been severely
felt through decline of the water supply,
| which has diminished to the extent Of 400,
| 600 hogsheads day.
THE American whaling schooners, James
A. Hamilton, Otter and Annie together with
sixty officers and men, have been lost In the
] Arctic Ocean.