The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-27
South and West.

A FIRE has occurred in Petersburg, Va,
which destroyed property to the value OF
1850, 600, and caused the loss of one life.
AT Bayou Boeuf, La, a madman attacked
number of men with knife. killing one,
md badly wounding three others. He was
,fterward killed himself.
FREQUENT burnings of barns and hayricks
n McDonough and Hancock Counties, ILL.,,
ause much excitement among the farmers
Who are keeping a sharp lookout for the
orch bearers.
GEORGE HANCOCK. Mormon high priest.
las been arrested at Payson, Utah, charged
with numbering Mrs. Hatch and her son,
George Jones.
OSCAR BERGHsTRoM, of Willmar, Mimi,
while hunting, was drowned in Long Lake.
He accompanied Nordenskiold, the explorer,
IN hisexpedition north Of Asia.
A FIRE in a new thirteen-story Touring
mill in st. Paul, Mimi. has caused the de-
,truction of that mill, with a loss of $50, 600.
FIFTEEN convicts confined in the peniten-
iary at Huntsville, Ala, attempted to es.
ape. One of them was shot and killed and
.wo others were wounded.
HUNDREDS of cattle and sheep perished in
severe snowstorm in New Mexico, and at
east five cowboys were frozen to death.
FIRE has destroyed property to the value
Of 100000 at Columbus, Ohio.
The clothes taken from the body of DR..
Cronin by his murderers with his case of in
,trumentS, have been found in a sewer at
Chicago
ID. VAUN has been hanged at Summit
vile, Tenn, for the murder of North White.
He had tried suicide twice, and the rope
sank into the wound, breaking his neck.
A. II hun aH fro0
men took Owen Andrews, colored, eighteen
years of age, from jail and hanged him for
attempting to assault Miss Leith, a white
school girl.
THE convention of the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union began in Chi.
:ago.
A WOMAN, said to be an important witness
n the Cronin murder case, was sand
bagged in Chicago.
The Catholic Centennial was opened at
Baltimore by an imposing procession of
scclesiastics and pontifical high mass, at
which Archbishop Ryan preached the SER
mon.
GERMAN DAY" was celebrated in Louis
Vile KY, by Turner's singing societies and
other organizations to the number of Is, 600.
COLONEL WILLIAM GooDLoE died from the
counter at Lexington, KY, with Colonel
Swope, in which the latter was killed.
PATRICK AIRY, a pugilist of New Orleans,
was shot and killed by Andy Berrill.
MISS FRANCIS E. WILLARD was reelected
President of the Womans Christian Temper
ance Union, which met in Chicago.
A FREIGHT train was derailed near Kenton,
Tenn, and badly wrecked. Brakeman
Thomas Carter and Engineer Thornton
Emmons were killed, and Fireman Avery
Hudson and Conductor De Witt Newman
were seriously injured.
NEARLY complete returns show that Boies
Democrat) has plurality of about GOO0 for
Republican State ticket was successful by
pluralities ranging from 1000 to 5000.
CA. Ross, a preacher living near Locke
ford. Cal, shot and killed his wife, his eight
year-old son and himself He was Metho-
dist preacher for several years, but lately
had been an itinerant Congregationalist, en-
gagged in selling books.
CHARLES A. SMITH, prominent Alabama
politician, and brother Of eH-Governor VIII
lam A. Smith, was shot and killed by Calvin
Brown in Cloburne. The killing IS supposed
to be the result of a political quarrel
THE Catholic College at Baltimore adj
iourned sine die after adopting declaration
of principles.
A WOMAN testified in the Cronin murder
trial at Chicago that she saw Dr. Cronin en-
ter the Carlson cottage shortly before his
murder; heard blows, then something fall.
followed by cries of 20 God.' 80 Jesus
Her testimony had visible effect on the ac'
cused men.
THREE white men were fishing near Selma
Ala, when the river bank caved in upon
them. All three were killed.