The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-14
South and West.

THE yield of spring wheat in Minnesota
and Dakota is placed aJ go, 000, 900 bushels.
JESS COLEMAN, q young man, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at
Xenia, Ind, and then killed himself.
JOE Cook and Sol Dorsey, two colored men
Of Trenton, La, quarreled after q church
meeting and killed each other.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. j. B. Helwig, Of Springfield, for Gov
ernon
THE North Dakota Constitutional Conven-
tion decided to submit the prohibition ques-
tion to popular vote, and the Constitutional
Convention at Olympia, Washington, has
approved the taxation Of churches, private
schools and charitable institutions.
Two little sons Of Fred, Droenke were
killed while playing on the railroad tracks
at Elmhurst; III.
JAMES KELLY, (colored, who assaulted Mrs.
Peter Crow, wife Of section boss, was taken
from Jail and hanged to bridge at Paris,
KY, by mob.
W. T. DAVIS, who for three years has been
the Secretary Of the Tennessee State Wheel,
a farmers association, mysteriously left
Nashville after confessing in a letter to Off
GERS of the organization that he was short
$1,000 in his accounts and intended to commit
suicide.
AN English syndicate has purchased sew
enty-eight grain elevators in the Van Deu-
sen system in the Northwest.
MUCH damage was caused by storms in the
Northwest; excessive rains threatened to
ruin the wheat in shock.
Tom BOWLING (colore6 was hanged in
the Jail at Baton Rouge, La, for the murder
of Philip Walsh white. Charles Sellars,
who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richland
Parish, La, was hanged at Raville, La.
hanged at ValdoSta, Ca. for the murder of
Willis Miller, also colored.
COLONEL E. A. JONES, Surgeon-Gen of
Ohio and prominent resident Of Cincinnati,
was found in a manhole, murdered. His col
ored servant has confessed to the murder.
CHARLES s. CRysLER, a prominent law
yer of Independence, Mo-, is defaulter to
the amount Of $50, 900. He has fed.
THE joint commission, between the two
Dakotas at Bismarck, has reached an agree
ment, North Dakota agreeing to pay South
Dakota S42, 500 to square accounts.
FIVE railroad hands were reported to have
lost their lives by an explosion Of dynamite
twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind.
In Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa,
Wesley Elkins, but little more than eleven
years Of age, murdered his father and STEP
mother.
TIE Cannon Fruit Commission and the
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were
burned out in Wichita, Kan. Loss, S170,-
900. =.
The five men accused of completely in the
murder Of DR.. Cronin-Coughlin, Beggs,
Woodruff, Kuenze and O'SulliVan--were ar
raigned in Judge Horizons court In Chicago.
All pleaded not guilty.
THE steamboat Colchester on her way
from Baltimore, Nd, to Deals Island, ran
down q sail boat There were five persons
in the boat three Of whom, Mary Kalb,
Mary Wiener and John Bitz, were drowned.
THE signature of White Cloud, the leading:
Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an
agreement by which 100000 acres Of his
tribes reservation will be thrown open to
settlement. His signing ends the labors Of
the Commissioners. /;
FIELD fires have burned twelve dwellings
and killed numerous cattle and horses in
Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50, 900.
FOREST fires have just destroyed vast
amount Of property along the Missouri
River in Montana. An area Of over four
miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Sew
eral mining camps and quantity of tim
ber were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunni-
son, in Colorado.
MRS. SNoDGRAss and her two children
were drowned at Rockford, Ark, while
fording the White River.