The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
LATER NEWS.

POSTMASTER EDWARD S. UNISON, OF Ash
bourne, Penn, shot and killed a burglar VINO
was trying to break into the postoffice.
JOSEPH LUTON, aged fifty-fve, and A.
Lawson, aged forty, while returning home to
Vernon Centre, Conn.,, from Manchester
drove from the road down steep bank and
over wall into Tallcotville mill pond. Both
men and the horse were drowned.
The body of Mr.. James c. Anthony, a
brother of the late Senator Anthony, was
found floating in the river near Silver Spring,
p. I. He had committed suicide.
JACOB D. SHAULis, a wealthy farmer, sixty
years of age, who Eved in Jefferson Town.
ship, Penn, was found dead hanging to
tree near his house. Lying in the barnyard,
few feet away, was his young wife shoS
through the body and fatally wounded.
A RECEPTION was given to Chief Justice
Fuller by the Bar Association OF New York
city.
EVERY man in Pittsburg engaged in the
building trades, with the exception OF the
bricslayers, went on strike and work was
generally suspended The number of strikers
was computed at 5000. The principal gr lev
ances were the hours of labor and the en-
ployr1ent by the bosses of non-1nion men.
PATRICK McG1NN1s has been hanged at
Canon City, Oregon, for the murder of
Sheriff Robert Lockwood.
A TERRIFIC wind and hail storm passed
over the northern part of Bell County, Texas
covering a territory of twenty-five square
miles. The cotton and corn crops have been
DESTROYED, entailing a loss Of thousands Of
dollars.
FLOYD RICE, colored, fell through the dome
Of the Richmond Theatre at Richmond, Va,
distance of seventy feet, while hauling
down an American flag, and was instantly
killed.
The Centennial Celebration Of Washing
TONS first Inauguration was observed with
much enthusiasm in many cities-notably in
Chicago, Charleston, S. c.; Portland, Or;
Nashville, Tenn. Birmingham, Ala; Denver,
COL; Indianapolis, Ind; Lexington, Va;
Milwaukee, St. Louis, Staunton, Va; Gin
cinnati, San Francisco; Richmond, etc.
THE State Department has been informed
that the Government of Honduras will be
represented at the International Marine Con-
ference to begin in Washington on October
16, 1889.
SECRETARY TRACY declined to order
court of inquiry to investigate the loss OF the
men-of-war in Apia harbor, Samoa, being
satisfied that the disaster was one that could
not have been prevented.
IT was estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there had been decrease of S11,-
500, 900 in the public debt since April l.
TIE railway mail service has been placed
under the Civil Service rule Since March
ebout 1900 changes in the forces OF 5000 have
been made in the railway mail service
throughout the country.
The boiler Of dredger burst in the har-
Dor at Calais, France. The explosion killed
seven persons and injured several others. The
bodies of the killed were horribly mutilated.
WHILE twelve men and little girl were
crossing the Nicolet River at Ste. Clothilde,
Canada, in skiff, the boat upset and three
Of the men were drowned.
MALHroA, the deposed King Of Samoa,
having apologized, Emperor William has de-
cided that the ex-King may be liberated.
TIE London Telegraph, in an article on
the American Centennial, says that from no
e L. 1oIa at,,1o
heartier than those of Great Britain go to
America.
Ii the House Of Commons motion Of
Samuel Smith liberal, censuring the British
Government for fostering spirit drinking in
Indie, was carried by vote Of 11S to 1o3
HENRI RocHFFoRT, who fled to London
with General Boulanger, applied to the
French Government for a safe conduct TO en-
able him to attend the funeral of his eldest
son, who committed suicide at Bona, Algeria.
THE Washington Centennial was celebrated
by appropriate exercises in America
churches in Montreal, Canada; Rome, Italy,
and Paris France.
By an explosion in the Rechlinghausen col
iery at Dortmund, Germany, three persons
were killed and eight injured.
The steamship Berlin arrived at Bremen,
Germany, from Rio Janeiro with yellow
fever ON board. The ravages of the plague
on the vessel have been something frightful.
Over thirty were down with it. Three pas
sengers died and were buried at sea.
4 RIOT occurred in Guanajuta, Mexico,
originating in the arrest of five Jesuit priests
for the delivery of seditious sermons. In an
attempted rescue by the populace thirty
soldiers end policemen and 200 rioters were
killed.
LORD DUNRAvES's yacht, the Valkyrie,
which is to contest fo- the American cup
was successfully launched at Glasgow, Scot
land The frames are of steel, the top sides
deck and fittings are of teak, and the bottom
plankings are of hard wood. The length is
S5 feet; beam, 15.9 feet; depth, 11.6 feet, end
tonnage 56.7G. The length on the load water
line is Just under 10 feet.
0KLAH0MA'S METROPOLIS.