The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-07
South and West.


$4,000.
South and West.
AT Butler. Ind, fire almost entirely de-
stroyed the extensive car shops OF the Eel
River Division Of the Wabash road. Loss
| 100000. Over 100 men are thrown out OF
work.
JEFFERSON KING, Albert Doltar and Fred
Beiflc, were killed and about dozen injured
by boiler explosion at planning mill In
Chicago.
ARSENIC was placed in the food of the four
children of Joseph Hunter, G planter, hvlng
| near Star CITY, Ark, and three OF them nave
died The criminal and his motive are un-
! known.
HALF of q four-story stone business block
in Columbus, Ohio owned by the heirs or the
Breyfogle estate, was destroyed by tire, caus-
ing a loss of over 100000.
THE accounts Of Auditor Graham, OF Leb-
anon, Ohio, who was supposed to have
skipped to Canada, were said to be $S0,o0o
short.
The United States gunboat Petrol, on her
second official trial trip off Baltimore, failed
| to develop for four hours the 1lOO horse power
required by the contract. A new test will be
made.
DIR. McDow, the slayer of Captain Daw-
son, editor of the Charleston Is. C) NeUS
and Courier, has been expelled from the
South Carolina Medical Society, and the
honorary members of the military company
of which he is surgeon are moving to with
draw from it.
WARRANTS were issued at Denver, COL,
| for the arrest Of Secretary Of State James
Rice, Sueriff Weber and his partner in the
furniture firm of Graham & Weber; NJ. H.
Lawrence & Co., who supplied the Assembly
| with stationery, and State Printers Collier &
| Cleveland All are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the State in the purchasing OF sup
plies.
THE bodies of Mrs. John McGregor and two
children were discovered in ten incnes OF
water in small creek near Youngstown,
Ohio. The woman had first drowned her
children and then herself. Her husband had
lefther in destitute circumstances ana sue
was seen begging for food the day before.
MARTIN P1PHER and William BoIe were
suffocated in fermenting tank at Santa
Rosa Cal.l winery.
ALBERT BULow has been hanged at Little
Falls, Mimi, for the murder of Franklin
Eich. This is the first execution to take
place under the new law providing that
criminals shall be executed in the strictest
privacy and that no newspaper men shall be
present Thirteen persons witnessed the exc
cution.
ANITA AND MIRIAM BoGGs, maiden sisters.
living In jackson County, Va, committed
suicide BY taking arsenic. They left letter,
signed Jointly, saying that there was moth
ing in life for old maids, and they were tired
of it. They were in good circumstances.
TON SIMPSON, Deputy Sheriff Morgan and
J. B. Howton were killed near Birmingham,
Ala, during family feud.
THE Oklahoma Territorial Convention de-
cided to partition the Territory into twelve
counties. The names recommended for Two
Of the counties were Harrison and Cleve-
Land.
THREE of the five colored men who muir
dered Pratorion, at Red Rlver Junction,
scene of the murder.
RICHARD LYMAN, aged twenty three. and
Bertha Head, aged twenty, were drowned at
Kenosha, Wis, while going bathing.
Ex-GovERNoR NELSON DEWEY, one Of
Wisconsins early Governors, has just died at
Cassville, Wis, aged seventy-fve years
PACKAGE Of forty registered letters, con-
tanning about $40, 000 was stolen from the
registry department Of the Milwaukee (Wis)
postoff1ce.
THE steamer st. Nicholas, with 500 COL
| ored excursionists ran into the closed draw
bridge over St. Augustine Greek, four miles
south Of Savannah, Ga, demollshlng the for
ward part of the steamer, killing two women
and injuring twenty-eight men and women,
some of them fatally.
J.P. SUssMILcH and wife, Of Rockford,
| Ill, committed suicide together by drowning
They were both seventy years Of age and in
good circumstances.
THE burning Of three elevators and their
contents at Hastings Nebraska, caused
$50, 900 damage.
E. E. PoLsTER, lessee of the Terra Gotta
Lumber Company in Kansas, has skipped to
Canada with $40, 600 Of stolen funds.
COLONEL RoDGER J. PAGE, editor Of the
Marion IN. C) Iimes-Register, while walk
ing with Texas Judge, fell dead, bullet
penetrating and breaking his neck. The
Shot was fired from the rear and at dis
tanoe of but few feet. The unknown as
sassin fired three shots more and fed.
THE Hon. John T. Clarke Judge Of the
Georgia Court, stepped off the train al
Smithville, Ga, and was killed.
ToM6Y WILLIAMS. aged five, andhi sister
Agnes, aged three, put lighted match II
coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children
were so badly burned that they died In ar
hour.
WHITE GHOST, head chief Of the Grow
Creeks, has signed the Sioux bill He wa:
the bitterest opponent Of the bill
PRESIDENT FRANK BRowN, Of the Denver,
Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, and
two of his assistants have lost their lives II
attempting to make a survey for that roao
through the CANYONS Of the Colorado River.