The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-25
South and West.

JACOB SCOLL was WORKING IN TulcelIs GIG"
vator, Chicago, when one OF the doors gave
way and an immense quantity Of wheat
poured in upon him, burying him so that he
was smothered to death.
Two men have been blown to atoms and
two others injured by an explosion OF dyna-
mite on a Government lighter on the St.
Johns River, Florida.
THE South Dakota Democratic Ccnven-
ton has declared for tariff reform and nomi-
mated a State ticket headed by T. +. Nc
Clure, of Pierre, for Governor.
THE Union Labor party of Iowa, in con-
yention at Des Moines, has nominated S. Z.
. Downing for Governor, and Ezra Browneu
for Lieutenant Governor.
A FIRE in Laird, Norton & Co.'S lumber
yard at Winona, Mimi, has destroyed
property to the value of s314OOO
THE Republican Territorial Convention OF
Washington, which has been In session at
Walla Walla, has nominated Ex-Governor
E. P. Ferry, of Seattle, for Governor ana
John L. Wilson for Congress.
The business portion of the town Of Link
vile, Oregon, has been burned Inc loss
amounts to about $3.50, 600.
MRS. MYERS, the wife of a blacksmith of
Bourbon, Ind, threw vitriol in the face of
DR.. F. J. Linn, prominent physician, de-
priving him of sight. He had assaulted her
while on professional visit.
FOURTEEN colored men have been whipped
at East Point, near Atlanta, Ga, the whip
ping party consisting of white men whose
identity is not known.
DR.. DAVID T1LToN BROWN, formerly ply
sician in charge of Bloomingdale Asylum,
who had become insane and had been re-
ported dead, hanged himself in barn on his
sons farm near Batavia, ILL.,
A MOB of armed white men surrounded the
Jail at Columbia, Mo-, and took from his cell
George Bush, negro II years old, and
hanged him from one of the windows OF the
Court House.
The city of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, has
of over so 900 cubic feet daily. Forty
five thousand people visited the place In ono
day, and the excitement is intense.
THREE farmers while standing under a
tree near Albany, Ga, during storm, were
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
LOUIS NELSON and John Coleman were
killed at Minter City, and Wilson Porter
was hanged at Sunnyside. This swells the
total number of colored men killed in the
Mississippi riot to twenty-five.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was present at the
first davis exercises of tho celebration in
Baltimore of the battle of North Point.
Two freight trains came into collision on
the Lake Shore road near Millersburg, Ind
Thirty-six cars and two engines were wrecked
at loss of 5000, 900.
Two Italians working on the Midland
Railroad. near Clarksburg, W. Va, were
blown to pieces by the explosion OF cart
ridge, and others were seriously injured.
THE canvass Of the contested votes for
Governor in West Virginia, has given Judge
Fleming, the Democratic candidate,
majority over General Golf.
THE thirty-ninth anniversary of the adj
| mission of California into the Union was
celebrated in San Francisco by public hol-
| day.
BY a freight wreck on the Norfolk and
| Western Railroad near Lynchbmg, Va,
| Charles McDowley, G. fireman, has been
killed. and brakeman fatally injured.
THE Aurora Watch Company, of Au-
| rora, ILL.,, has made an assignment. The
liabilities are about $500, 900.
FIVE farmers have been killed near Car
bondale, ILL.,. by the explosion of threshing
machine boiler.
EIGHT colored men have been arrested
near Norfolk, Va, on suspicion OF being con-
cerped in the murder of a storekeepeT named
T. L. Waller.
DR. H. H. TUCKER, one of the leading
| baptlSp CleTSSyuleIl Ol INt SOuuiii 0iit Pto
prietor of the Christian lnder, has died
through falling from the window of his
house at Atlanta, GA.
The Washington Democrats have placed
State ticket in the field headed by Eugene
Semple, of Tacoma, for Governor.
! The striking miners of Spring Valley. H.,
have refused the employers terms. Ihey
ask the Governor to use the State Emergency
Fund in their behalf
ELEVEN influential citizens, Of Marian,
Ind, have been arrested charged with being
implicated in the White Cap outrage. In
which Mrs Aseneth Street and her d&ugh,,
ter were taken from bed at midnight and
fogged.
GEORGE ALLEN, one of the colored leaders
in the recent labor uprising in La Flore
County, Miss. was taken to Charleston, IN
that State, and hanged. 1t Is now estimated
that 100 colored people were killed IN the Le
Flore County riots.