The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-11
LATER NEWS,

| WELLINGTON HART and R. A. Smith, we'll
known old farmers, were drowned near
Woonsocket R. I.
THE main building of the Hecla Iron Works
of Brooklyn has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about 100000.
IsApoR H. SULTzBAcH, retail clothing
dealer of Philadelphia, has assigned. The
| liabilities are estimated at from $50, 600 to
100000.
AT Anaconda, Montana, j. F. Holditz was
shot and killed by his son, who afterward
committed suicide.
LYMAN R. CASEY, of Jamestown, has
| been elected as the second United States
| Senator for Dakota.
The Territorial Asylum at Blackfoot
Idaho. has been destroyed by fire. Fifty
seven out of sixty-five inmates were rescued,
while eight persons were killed. The loss
is estimated at $500, 600.
President HARRISON has appointed Frank
Hitchcock. of Illinois, to be United States
Marshal for the Northern District Of Him
ois.
| ALBERT C. RIDGwAY, of Illinois, has been
APPOINTED confidential clerk to the Com
missioner of Pensions, to succeed Miss Ada
Tanner, resigned.
SECRETARY TRACY has made arrange
ments by which the Navy will be furnished
with the brown prismatic powder for large
p1,ns and the new smokeless powder for
smaller arms.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople states
that the steamship India, with 500 Moham-
| medan pilgrims on board, had been sunk N
the Aegean Sea, and that of all on board
only the Captain and two passengers survive.
ALL the cigar factories in Havana, Cuba,
closed up except the Gener factory. The
Gener factory>is the only one that does not
belong to the combination OF manufacturers
trust.
TWELVE HUNDRED Clyde engineers at
Glasgow, Scotland, went on strike.
Eighteen firms, under pressure of contracts,
were Obliged to concede to the strikers de-
mands.
AN explosion occurred at the Allegheny
Bessemer Steel Works, in Duquesne, Penn.
A night Superintendent named William
Marshall and a man named Cooper were
killed and number of others injured.
REv.W. LITTLE, of Elizabethton, Tenn, shot
and fatally wounded Daniel Hyde, well
known young man of that place, for betray-
ing the minister's daughter.
IT is announced that the Afro-American
Leagues Convention, called to meet at Nash
vile January Is next, will meet instead at
Chicago, the date remaining the same.
THE National Silver Convention met in st.
Louis; General A. J. Warner, of Ohio, was
chosen President.
OK train at Taltic Ark, conflict oc-
Cured between colored passengers and the
white train crew. and one colored man was
killed and several others fatally wounded.
AT Houghton. Mich, an explosion in a
drift in the Huron ffline killed two Finnish
miners. Alexander Steinbach, 0aaee~ Of them,
had the top of his head blown off, yet he
asked for his partner, and said he would die
L his partner was killed.
THE North Pacific whaling fleet arrived at
San Francisco. The catch was the poorest in
ten years.
SCHOOL TRUSTEE ]. ". WILLIAMS en-
tered the High School at Petersburg, Va,
and before the pupils horsewhipped the head
master for whipping his ten-year- old boy
with rawhide.
WARRANTS were issued for the arrest Of NJ.
G. and G. " Fredericksen, of Chicago, and
W.T.. Bidgood, their bookkeeper, charged
with obtaining about 100000 by fraudu-
lent land transactions.
ROBERT RUSSELL and Michael Foy were
found guilty of robbery at Chicago and a
jury fixed their punishment at "imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for the term of their
natural lives" This is the first conviction in
Illinois under the recent "Habitual Criminal
Act"
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER of the Census
Office, has appointed T. h. Wines, special
agent for the collection of statistics for the
eleventh census relative to pauperism and
crime.
THE President has appointed Otis Fl. Rus
sell Postmaster at Richmond, Va.
THE international Marine Conference
adopted an amendment that sailing vessels
under way shall keep out Of the way of sail
ing vessels or boats engaged in fishing.
THE Pension Commissioner has issued an
order that great care must be exercised in
the rejection of applications for pensions,
and that all letters rejecting claims must
be signed by the Commissioner
MEDICAL DIRECTOR FRANCIS NJ. GUN
NELL, until recently Surgeon-General of the
NAVY, will be placed on the retired list.