davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
THE NEWS EPITOMIzEl


AFIRE in Lynn, Mass, destroyed the T.
Lennox morocco factory: four-story
wooden building in the rear, occupied py
Harvey Brothers, morocco manufacturers,
and the adjoining two-story wooden pull9-
ing Five dwellings were badly damaged.
The total loss by the fire is estimated at
S250,0U0.
THE Presidents of most of the prominent
railroads of the country, representing aoou1
$4,000, ,O0O, 900, at a meeting in New YORK,
signed an agreement to restore and maintain
freight rates which have been in disor-
ganized condition for long time, and have
resulted in great losses to the roads.
JOHN T. TRAINoR, a railway employe in
Hoboken, n. j., threw himself before loco
tive and was killed, rather than allow it to
simply cut off his leg.
HENRY D. SCHooNMAKER, a prosperous
young business man, killed himself and
wounded his wife fatally, at their home, in
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mrs. KowoLsKL of Port Kennedy, Penn,
was accidentally shot and killed by her
daughter at their home.
GEORGE w. TUCKER, aged thirty-three
years, while chopping wood in the Bunker
Hill district, near Waterbury, ConD., was
struck by falling limb and killed.
HENRY and John Van Wormer, brothers,
aged respectively nfty.nVe ana IuIy-eign0
years, were killed at Oneonta, n. Y. The
west-bound train ran over them, manghng
them in horrible manner.
MRS HENRY HEPPLE, widow seventy
five years old, was burned to death at New
Haven, Conn. While making dinner her
clothing took fire. She jumped into bed to
smother the flames. The bed took fire and
she was roasted.
A FIRE occurred at Forest City, Penn,
which destroyed the home of Mrs. .lohn
Priestly. The woman and her grandson
were caught in the flames and burned to
death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
South and West.

A CONSTRUCTION train on the Arizona and
Southern Railroad, with some sixty laborers
on board. jumped the track near a coke
siding and rolled down high embankment.
killing eight of the men and wounding sew
eral others
SOME fends by exploding dynamite under
store at Wichita, Kan, killed two persons.
A BOILER burst near Frankfort, Ind, and
killed two men.
HERMANsvILLE, Mich, LAUNDERING settle
ment of about 400 inhabitants, has been
totally destroyed by fire. There is great
distress among the homeless people on ac-
count of the cold weather.
FACTORIES, dwelling houses and other
property, covering three acres, were de-
stroyed by fire in Cincinnati, Ohio. Total
loss, over $500, 600.
The steamer Lief Erickson, burned at
Alki, Washington Territory, and was total
loss Seven lives were lost.
AT the Ohio Coal Company's dock, Duluth.
Mimi, one of the bins, holding 600 tons of
stone coal, burst and buried John jackson
and John Oleson under the mass. Both were
killed.
A BOILER explosion occurred near Gold
Hill. COL which resulted in the instant death
of four men and the scalding of another.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
The Business Part of Marblehead,
Mass, in Ruins-A Heavy Loss.

The Business Part of Marb1ehead,
Mass, in Ruins-A Heavy Loss.
The entire business part of Marblehead,
lIass., about twelve acres, has been burned.
The fire was discovered in the house furnish
ing store of D. B. H. Powers on Pleasant
street, at about 10 o'clock p NJ The first
warning was a loud explosion Of naptha in
the store. The building was of wood, and
was rapidly consumed The buildings sur
rounding the structure were mere shells, and
it seemed everywhere spark fell fire
started. In fifteen minutes the entire busi-
ness section was burning The entire shoe
manufacturing district, the principal busi-
ness Of the town, was burned. Thirty-seyen
buildings we're consumed.
The estimated loss is SSSJ1, ,G00 with 1000 or
more men thrown out of employment and
many families rendered homeless. Though
the boundaries of the fire were almost identi-
cal with those of the big fire of June. 1877,
the losses are nearly double those by that
one.
For while there was panic among the
inhabitants, who packed their goods for re-
moval. Charles Choate, who broke leg by
jumping from second story window, is the
only injured person reported.
The heat on all sides was intense: curb
stones were cracked and crumbled, car rails
were twisted out of shape, tall chimneys
fell with terrific crashes, and boilers exploded
with the force Of cannon. None of the manu-
facturers think it possible to rebuild this
winter, and there is general feeling of de-
preston in the town.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
A TRAIN "HELD UP"
Two Masked Men Rob the Centra
Pacific Express of Bags of Money.

Two Masked Men Rob the Central l
Pacific Express of Bags of Money.
The east-bound Overland train on the Gen.
trail Pacific, from Sacramento the other
night, was robbed by masked men near
Clipper Gap. The express-car was ransacked
and many packages were taken. Two men
with masks suddenly appeared while the cars
were running slowly through long snow
shed. They broke the glass in the upper part
of the express car doors and covered the two
messengers with revolvers. Then, while one
stood guard over the men, the other went
through safe and packages He secured
considerable plunder, but, strangely enough,
he passed over one sack containing over
$4,000 in gold coin. and he also left behind
several small sacks containing lesser
amounts
When the train neared New England Mills
the robbers dropped from the door. They are
described as young men, but they were so
we'll masked that no description of them
could be obtained. Detectives were st once
sent by special train to the scene of the rob
berry. The railroad company claim that the
robbers only secured $500, but other reports
say that they got from $4,000 to S2O.O0J.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
LATER NEWS.

Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM L. ScoTf
has effected one of the most important coal
deals ever made in.the Monongahela Valley,
of Pennsylvania. He secures coal lands
valued at $685. 600 in the centre Of large
tract Of valuable lands.
A HALL at East Prospect, Penn, collapsed
with O party of about three hundred per-
sons, and the ruins took fire, but all were
rescued with no more serious damage than
broken legs
MICHAEL MANNING, employed about the
Cooke Locomotive Works, in Paterson, N. j.,
was whirled about a shaft until he was
killed.
A BOAT containing Leta Raumbaugh,
Flora, Clara, Harry and Samuel Smith was
capsized in the river at East Brady, Penn,
and Flora and Clara, aged twenty and
eighteen, were drowned.
The four-year.old son Of E. 7. Leidel was
burned to death at Milwaukee, Wis, while
lighting candles ON Christmas tree.
WHITE CAP outrages are reported from
Martins Ferry, Ohio.
The banking house of W. R. Morse, at
Clarks, Neb, has closed its doors. The
liabilities are placed at $4,000; no assets.
JOHN PEABODY, JR, teller in the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Bank of Columbia.
Ga, has committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head.
THE Denver Gas Company had 100 men
employed in excavating ditch, six feet
deep, along the side Of and underneath the
track of the cable car line, when suddenly
the track for an entire block fell, crushing
the life out of four men and badly wound
ing two more.
JOHN BRYAN, the little son Of farmer,
died like hero near Nebraska City, Neb.
The house caught fire. The father, mother
and five Of the children escaped. One little
girl was left in the house. The brave boy
went into the burning house and brought her
out safely. Then he rushed back to secure
some clothing for his mother and the chill
dren who were standing almost naked in the
snow. He was overcome by the flames and
died.
A BOAT containing party OF holiday
rry-makers was capsized in San Fran
Disco Call Bay, and three men and three
women were drowned.
THE remains Of the late General John A.
Logan have been removed from their tenn
porary resting place in Washington, where
they have been for the past two years,
guarded by United States soldiers. and
placed in the mortuary chapel, which has
been built by Mrs. Logan, at the Soldiers
Home.
The act placing General Andrew J. Smith
on the retired list of the army, with rank OF
Colonel, has been approved by the President.
CoNeREssMEN LODGE, of Massachusetts,,
Farquhar, of New York, and Bayne, OF
Pennsylvania, have announced themselves as
candidates for Speaker of the House.
The Abban Flour Mills at Waltham. Eng
land, have been burned. The loss is $3.50, 900.
THE death of General Loris Melikoff, the
well-known Russian officer, Is reported from
Nice. General Melikoff was born in 1894.
DEsERTERs from the rebel force at Suakin,
Egypt, report that there are many wounded
Arabs in Handoub. Osman Digna, is send
ing his women to Erymeit preparatory to
retreating to the Nile. The friendly Sheiks
strongly urge the British authorities to ad-
vance upon Handoub.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Washington.

COMMODORE ScHLEY, Chief Of the Bureau
of Equipment and Recruiting, appeared be-
fore the Naval Committee and made an
argument in favor of increasing the number
of enlisted men in the service to 10000.
QUARTERS have been engaged at the Ar
rison and tparty prior to the Inauguration
ceremonies. There will be in the party
General Harrison and wife, Russell Harrison
and wife, J. r. Mckee, wife, and two chill
dren, ex-senator Saunders. of Nebraska,
and wife (parents of Mrs. Russell Harrison).
E. w. Halford, private secretary, wife and
daughter.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland spent
Christmas quietly at the White House.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
BLOODY FIGHT IN HAYTI.
The Insurgents Under Hyppolite
Defeat the Army OF Legitime.

The Insurgents Under Hyppolite
Defeat the Army OF Legitime.
A battle has been fought in Hayti, and re-
suited in favor of the Northern army and the
utter routing of the forces under Legitime.
The conflict took place at Miro Calais, which
is thirty miles inland from Port au Primes
and ninety miles south of Cape Haytian.
The exact date of tie battle was not given,
but it is supposed to have taken place the
day before the Haytian gunboats made
their last attempt to lombard Cape
Haytien. General Hyppolite advanced on the
town early in the morning and during
the forenoon skirmishing took place without
serious loss to either side. But early in the
afternoon the Northern army closed in and
advanced in solid body, firing as they came
After short but decisive battle, during
which number were killed and wounded,
the army of the South gave way and finally
fled in great disorder some of them throw
ing away their brand new Winchester rifles
as they ran.
Hyppolite then took possession OF the town,
which he strongly garrisoned The wounded
Of both sides were then looked after and the
arms Of the defeated Southerners gatheSed
up for future use by Hyppolites soldiers.
The dead soldiers were buried near the field
of battle, every cartridge belt being first re-
moved.
It is reported that four cabled messages
have been received from Paris stating that
the French Government refused to recognize
Legtime as the head of the Provisional Gov
ernment Of HaYti.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ORCHIDS are drug in the English market.
BELvA LOCKWOOD received one vote In
Kentucky.
The export Of American apples continues
very heavy.
THE British Government says it will not
abandon Suakim.
TACOMA, Washington Territory, is to lave
electric street cars.
NEWARK, N. j., annually turns out l5O,-
0J0, 900 corkscrews.
A CONGRESS of colored Catholics is to be
held in Washington.
THE California raisin pack has been an ex-
ceptionally fine one.
APPLES are worth only ten cents bushel
in Bcutonville, Ark.
THERE were only twelve prohibition votes
cast in South Carolina
New ENGLAND made last year 10o, 600
pairs of boots and shoes.
A NATIONAL co!ored school teachers asso-
citation has been organized.
THE people of the United States wear 16O,-
600, 900 pairs of shoes per year.
THE Africans and the Arabs are cleaning
out the Germans in East Africa.
THE worlds gold product for the current
year is estimated at 500, ,OO0,OOO.
MINNEAPoLIS has finally outstripped st.
Paul in the matter of population.
MOUNTAIN towns in California are flooded
with counterfeit fifty-cent pieces.
THE amount of copper exported in 1887
was S,7UO, 900 and in 1886 9.573,uoO pounds.
DR.. TANNER, the famous faster, is soon to
marry the daughter Of a Partisan million
alre.
FIFTY-THREE persons under sentence OF
death are confined in the Kansas fenlten'
tiary.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the kansas
millers to induce the farmers TO sow more
wheat.
SOME sheep bred in the Argentine Republic
from imported stock were recently sold for
$40 per head.
ST. LOUIS is the only large city in the
country that will send sold Republican
delegation to Congress.
THE Honorable artillery Company OF
London, the oldest military body in the
world, has been disbanded
FORTY large English steamships have been
chartered to bring iron ore from Mediter-
ranean ports t. Philadelphia.
NJ. DE GIERs is about to celebrate the
Gftieth anniversary Of his connection with
the diplomatic service Of Russia.
GREAT distress is said to exist among the
fishermen of Halifax County, Nova Scotia,
owing to failure Of the inshore fisheries.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
THE HAYTIAN EMBR0GLI0.
The Seized Vessel Delivered Over
to the United States Authorities.


Advices received in New York report the
arrival of the United States war ships Ga
lena and Yautic at Hayti, and state that
the steamer Haytian Republic was handed
over to the United States authorities as soon
as the vessels appeared at Port au Prince.
The Haytian Government, it is reported,
had been informed that the men-of-war were
on their way to that country and had done
all they could to facilitate the passage OF the
seized steamer from Haytian to American
hands.
The vessels anchored in Port au Prince
Bay and the Haytiau Republic was imme-
diately given into their custody. The two
United States vessels then fired a
salute of twenty-one guns in honor
of tho island and withdrew with
the steamer. The people of Hayti were
much averse to giving up the steamer
and are extremely hostile to the
United States As the people there
have little idea Of the power Of the
States, they believe they could blow the
whole American navy into a cooked hat with
one of their funny little ferryboats, which
they call men-of-war
General Lcgitime has been unanimously
elected President and it is quite probable
that he will in short time have complete
order restored on the island.
IIIt was thought that England would take the
part of Hyppolire, but the decisive stand
taken by the United States has banlshed
such hope among the insurgents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
THE sOUDANEsE.
A Brief Statement Of What They
Are Fighting For.

The Soudanese, says the New York Sun,
have been suffering for lack Of the great
quantities of clothes, cutlery, and so on,
which they used to import. They have also
had no outlet for several years for their
ivory. hides, slaves, and other exports. By
running great risks they have kept up q
smuggling trade with Arabia by means Of
small dhows, which landed on unfrequented
parts of the coast. But this smuggling trade
was wholly inadequate to their needs.
Suakin is the natural port Of the Egyptian
Soudan, and is the only good port on that
part of the coast. Over a year ago the British
1orces were withdrawn from Suakin, and
Egypt was left alone to guard her port.
Khalifa Abdullah, the Mahdis successor,
decided that this was good time to take
Suakin, and thus secure port for his
country So he sent Osman Digma with q
force from Khartoum numbering about
1000 men to lay siege to Suakin. He told
Osman Digma to make no terms with the
Egyptians, but to drive them into the sea-
The siege has lasted about a year, and the
Egyptian Government while ago declared
her inability to drive the rebels away: The
British Government recently decided to send
troops to Suakin and compel the rebels to
raise the siege.
This was the position at Suakin when the
recent battle opened. Inc COWn IS on an
island in the Red Sea, which is connected
with the mainland by causeway three hun
dred feet long. It is protected on the land
side first by q high stone wall, about three
sevenths of mile west Of the town. About
half mile beyond this wall are two Egyptian
forts, connected by strong intrenchments,
protecting several Of the wells upon which
The town depends for its water supply.
From a quarter to third Of a mile west of
these forts were the deep trenches of the
Arabs, extending about mile north and
south. These defences were so well made
that it had been found impossible to shell the
rebels out. Eight miles north of Suakin,
near the coast, are the Handoub Wells, the
headquarters Of Osman Digma, where he
kent his reserve force.
Before the fight began two war ships were
sent up the coast for the purpose of shelling
any re-enforcements that might be sent from
Handoub to the trenches. Then the forts and
the men-of-war in Suakin harbor began
shelling the trenches. and the Egyptian and
British troops moved out and carried them
by assault 1he defeated rebels retreated
north 10 Handoub and were followed nearly
to that village by the cavalry.
The rebels who fought and died In the late
battle were not natives Of the Red Sea coast,
but their homes were on the Nile. They
were q part of the Khartoum army, and
most Of them were Baggara herdsmen, who
live most of the time in the saddle, and
whose homes are south Of Khartoum.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Foreign.

VICTOR STANwoop, United States Com
mercial Agent at Andakobe, Madagascar,
was recently shot and killed by Captain
Duverge, master of the American schooner
Solitaire, whom he had placed under arrest.
DISPATCHES to the Congo State confirm
the report of the arrival of Stanley and
Emin on the Aruwhimi.
The British have decided to build perma-
nent forts before withdrawing from Suakim,
Egypt.
THE Turkish marines in the arsenal at
Constantinople have revolted because their
wages have not been paid.
z THE British Parliament has been prorogued
until January 3lst. The Queens speech was
of pacific tenor.
HENRY A BLAKE, whose appointment by
England as Governor OF Queensland, was
opposed by the people Of that country, has
been appointed instead Governor Of ia
maica.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL HARRISON is skil;ful hunter.
JOHN SHERMAN carries $3.50, 900 in polices
on his life.
The Empress Of Austria is soon to visii
New York.
CYRUS W. FIELD hes almost wholly WITH
drawn from business.
DR.. JAcURs, who attends Robert Gar.
rett, the millionaire invalid, gets SIS day.
. En- GOVERNOR BERRY, of New Hampshire,
is rinety-two years Of age, Lut is in vigorous
health.
COLONEL BUFFALO BILL CODY has been
raised to the dignity Of General OF Nebraska
Militia
Mr.. HERTENsTEIN, the President Of the
Swiss Republic, died from the mai-;reatment
OF a corn
MRS. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX and Mrs
Frank Leslie are to be among the wlntei
visitors at Washington
NINE. CARNoT, the French Presidents
wife, is leading the way for the extensive
patronage Of IRISH lace.
KING KALAKAUA. =. of the Sandwich Islands,
is expected to reach Warrington in time for
Hhe Presidential Inauguration.
III. De LESSEPs has just entered upon his
eighty-fourth year, and seems to lose none
OF his extraordinary physical rlgor.
THERE is little hope that the Empress O.
Russia will recover from the nervous SnocR
caused by the recent railroad accident.
REAR ADMIRAL S. B. LUCE, United States
Navy, at present in command Of the NORTH
Atlantic squadron, will be retired next Eionth
on account of age.
PRESIDENT CARTER. of Williams College,
has a great record as beggar. he has
raised since he became President OF the
college about S6oO,OOo
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, Of the Supreme
Court, is very nervous, and when he is on
the bench he is always twirling his NOUS
tache or folding pieces of paper.
MOURNING Is of long duration in the
Queens house in England. Victoria VIII nos
receive any state guests for one year after
the death Of Emperor Frederick
If Mrs. Humphrey Ward had received
the usual royalties on the sale Of Robert
Elsmere" in this country, she would be S2O,
0UO richer than she is at present
KING OSCAR, of Sweden, spends from six
to ten hours q day at his history, and says he
would rather be remembered as the historian
than as the monarch OF Iis countrymen.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has scrap.book, in
forty volumes, that is entirely flied with
newspaper clippings referring to himself and
his administration Of the Navy Department
OsMAN nIGaA, formerly merchant in
Suakim, now. changed by fate into soldier,
and a good one, wants the English and
Egyptians whom he holds locked up in the
Soudan to evacuate
SENATOR BECK is back in Washington,
looking ten years older for his sickness. Hs
will not be able to attend to his Senatorial
duties this session. He will soon leave Tor
leisurely Southern tour.
ONE of the attractive ladies in washington
society this winter will be NINE. berraeti,
wife OF the former Minister to Italy. She IS
a brilliant woman, noted for her great
beauty, and she owns large interests N
cotton plantations on ths Mississippi hiyer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

AS things actually stand, the English posi-
t;on at Suakim, Egypt, is sufficiently ridicul-
ous. Seventeen hundred Arabs holding
scientific defences, and, firing accurately,
are keeping at bay about 1000 English and
Eeyptian soldiers, aided by gunboats and
ali the latest appliances of war. The Sharp
sbooters among the Arabs are as deadly az
we're the Russians in the Crimea.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

A COMPANY has been formed in Georgia to
.crane the entire bed of the Chestattee River
With dredges. 1t has always been known
That the bed of this river is wonderfully rlch
In loose gold, and the company proposes 10
ret the cold. Just after the war anothe.
ssompany attempted to accomplish the same
PURPOSE by fluming the river, but it cost SO
rmmch that the enterprise was abandoned.
The present company will build an expensive
dredging boat, capable of removing 500 ton'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

ISAAC STAPLES has sold $4,000 acres OF
bine lands on the Snake River, Mimi, to
Fred Weverhauser, of Rock Island, I'LL The
consideration is over $500 oOO0. The purchase
was made for down-river syndicate which
q RAPIDLY buying up all the pine lands on the
St Croix River and it's tributaries
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

A BILL has been passed by the South
Carolina Senate making it a misdemeanor
punishable by dismissal for any member Of
the Legislature TO accept free pass from
any railroad.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

A NEW volcano is reported from Hulman-
guillo district, Tobasco, Mexico, which Is
snouting forth large streams Of red water.