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

LUMBERToN, Ala, fifty-five miles north Of
Mobile, has been totally destroyed by fire.
AN extremely malignant and mysterious
disease resembling in some respects scarlet
fever has broken out in Illinois. A dozen
cases have proved fatal. The disease usually
runs its course within thirty-six hours.
MEREDITH STANLEY jumped from the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad bridge over the
Kentucky River. The height of the bridge is
2S5 feet He jumped into twelve feet of
water and was uninjured.
THE "Orange Belt" Railroad, from St.
Petersburg, on Tampa Bay Q54 niles to
Sanford, Fla, has been formally opened.
THE worlds conference Of the Latter Day
Saints or Mormons at st. Joseph, Mo, has
adjourned. The next conference will be held
April 6, 1890, at Lamar, Iowa.
LAW PRINCE, colored, of Savannah, Ca,
in fit of religious frenzy, killed his four.
year-old child.
The United States Grand Jury at Port
Townshead Washington Territory, have
found twenty-five indictments against Will
lam Harmed, ex-Special Deputy Collector;
eleven against Herbert F. Beecher, ex-Treas-
ury Agent, and twelve against Quincy A..
Brooks for stealing from the Government.
JOHN P. USHER, of Kansas, Secretary Of
the University Hospital, in Philadelphia,
while undergoing surgical operation.
The subscription for the Georgia Con-
federate Home, started at Atlanta, reached
1885, 600 in a weeks time.
JOHN JACKSON, President and proprietor
of the ST. Louis Grain Elevator Company, and
prominent and wealthy citizen, committed
suicide by hanging in the office of the
elevator.
EDDIE GALLERY, eleven years old, of
Chicago, was accidentally shot and killed by
his mother.
CHARLES F. HATCH, President of the
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railway
Company, and P. E. Lockwood a real
estate dealer and capitalist. formerly of New
York, both committed suicide in Minneapolis,
MINI
THE Governor of South Carolina has
granted full pardon to two colored lynchers
convicted Of murder. his ground being that
thev had simply followed the example Of
white men, who had never been punished.
DAVID LINDSAY, farmer over sixty years
old. living near Ann Arbor, Mich, shot and
killed his adult son in . drunken quarrel.
Gus SUNDERLAND. colored boy, living at
Moscly. S. c., was left by his mother to take
care of q younger brother, and getting tired
of the Job put rope around the baby's neck
and hung it to the rafter of the house. The
child was dead when found,
\ CYCLONE swept over Montgomery,
County, Ala. Two men were instantly
killed by lightning and several others were
shocked and seriously injured. Houses were
blown down and damage done to young corn
and cotton crops.
\ TERRIBLE forest fire i'll Patrick County,
Va. swept everything before it. One man,
six horses. large number of hogs and cattle,
and about 200 dwellings and tobacco barns
were consumed Many poor people are eft
in destitute condition.
JAMES 4. SEXTON has been appointed Post
master at Chicago.
w. H. PETIT. aged seventy-two, his wife
and his son. Washington. got into fight at
kearney. Neb. over a loaded gun. The fight
ended when the gun went off and blew the
old mans head to atoms.
THE schooner Rio Lupton capsized in Al
bermarle Sound. N. G. The Captain and one
of the crew were drowned.
CHARLES FUNK, q cigar manufacturer, of
KankaEee. ILL.,. shot his divorced wife fatally
and then killed himself.
THIeTy-FIvE residences and business houses
in Muir, Mich, were burned.
4 WONDERFULLY rich discovery of copper
was made at Duluth. Mimi, by workmen
excavating for public building site.