The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
South and West.

F.F. KIMBALL, United States District At
torney for the Western District Of Missouri,
has died in Kansas City.
BY the explosion of boiler in saw-mill
at Marshall, ILL.,, two men were killed, and
three badly injured.
JAMES HICKEY, who had confessed to
being concerned in some brutal murders,
was Iynched in Chiffon County, Ala.
R.F. PETTIGREw and Gideon c. Moody
have been elected United States Senators by
the South Dakota Legislature.
The Presbyterian Synod which has been
holding its annual session in Baltimore, con-
cluded its labors and adjourned to meet in
Wilmington, Del, next year.
A TRAIN struck a broken rail at Howell
Kan, and was ditched. Over twenty people
were injured.
FIVE Apache Indians, convicted of murder
at Florence Ariz., have been sentenced to be
hanged.
WILLIAM L. JORDAN, son of the Postmas-
ter of Richmond, Va, has been arrested for
robbing the mails.
THE police have discovered that the incen-
diary fires which have occurred in Kansas
City, Mo-, were started by band of school
boys. They were regularly organized, and
called themselves Captain Kids Pets"
HENRY DEsoBY went to Crosse Tete, La,
with the intention Of killing Henry Wilbert,
manager of the Rosendale Lumber Company,
but not finding him he killed the foreman in
the yard.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, and party
visited Knoxville Tenn, and received the at
tention of all classes of people.
The Texas and Pacific roundhouse at
Longview, Texas, with six large freight and
one passenger engine, has been destroyed by
fire. The total loss is Sl55, 600.
POLICE COMMISSIONER RICHARD C. An
DERsoN, leading citizen of Dayton, Ohio,
was shot in his office by an assassin, who
suddenly opened his door and fired at him.
THE village of Curtiss, Wis, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss is S1Oo, 900.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
BRYANT Switch coal mine near Fort Smith,
Ark Sixteen men were injured, five OF
them fatally.
EXTENSIVE forest fires have been raging
in the Northwest. Mrs. Hiram Whittier, Of
Greenbush, Mimi, was burned to death.
The residence of George Kessler, six
miles south of Van Vert, Ohio, has been
burned, and his six-year-old daughter and
her aunt perished in the flames.
A CROWD of colored men lynched col
ored man at Lake Carmorant, Miss, Tor
outraging young colored girl.
FRANK J. BOWMAN, notorious attorney,
was shot and killed at Ferguson, Mo-, by
B. NJ Chambers ex-publisher of the st.
Louis Times.
REPORTS from Northwestern Minnesota
and Western Dakota state that nearly one
thousand families are destitute from failure
of crops by drought.
A PASSENGER train was derailed forty
miles from Portland, Ore. James Nolan was
killed and the engineer fatally injured.
THE Belford- Clark Publishing Company,
of Chicago, which failed some weeks ago,
will resume business.
AN engineer and fireman were killed by
the explosion of locomotive boiler at Wells
boro, Ind.
In the village of Woodville, Ohio, there
have been in one week ten deaths from ty-
phoid fever and as many more from diph-
iberia.
LORD HINTON, son of an English Earl, is
said to have been engaged in some swindling
transactions in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A COMPLETE jury has at last been secured
in the Cronin murder case at Chicago, Ill.
The residence of e1-Mayor Ballard at Lex
ington, Mo-, has been burned, and Mrs. Bal
lard, who was of unsound mind, perished in
the flames.