The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-18
South and West.

DR.. WM r. WARING, a well-known ply.
sician of Atlanta, Ga, aged sixty years, fell
down stairs at his home and sustained IN
juries which caused his death.
A DISASTROUS wreck has occurred at
Credo, Ohio. The train was thrown from
the track by a washout. The engineer ano
two brakemcn were killed.
PATRICK McGLoIN, sentenced to five years
imprisonment at Denver, COL, for grand lar.
cency, made partial confession that ne was
one of four men selected to throw bombs at
the Haymarket riot, Chicago
NINE men were arrested at Berwin, In;
dian Territory, on suspicion OF having
robbed the Santa Fe train.
A BOILER exploded on John Bridgess farm
near Auburn, Kan, instantly killing Bridges
and fatally wounding William Carr and
Charles Webb.
JOHN McGoFF and John Carroll, nine.
year-old lad, were drowned in the Ohio
River at Benwood, West Va. McGoff drove
his team into the river to wash the wagon,
but he got beyond his depth, and the team
with the wagon and occupants were swept
away.
AT least eight persons were killed and
twenty injured by a cyclone in Beaufort
County, N. c.
FOUR little girls, children of Hugh Dunn,
Of ElEotsville w. Va, found key OF
powder in an abandoned shaft. In some way
they exploded it and were blown to atoms.
Their mother lost her reason when told of
the fate of her children.
EIGHTEEN men and boys, suspected Of
completely in the lynching Of Hans J. Oleson,
an old and partially insane man who was
somewhat quarrelsome and had been ordered
by neighbors to leave the vicinity of Pres
ton, Wis, were arrested and let go on bail
Six of the lynchers left the State. -Four
boys in Jail have made confession.
JUDGE R. B. Triple, of Atlanta, Ga,
committed suicide by blowing out his brains
He was thirty-five years of age, and had been
Judge of the City Court of Cartersyille, and
was afterward Assistant United States Dis
trict-Attorney.
PROFESSOR GILBERT MoTIER LEvETTE. Of
indianapolis, Ind, killed himself by blowing
his head off with shot gun. He was fine
chemist and at one time occupied the office
of State Geologist.
x-DIsTRIcr-ATToRNEY J. c. McKENNY,
~ Milwaukee. Wis, was found lying uncon-
scious on Broadway in that city. He had
been badly beaten, and his skull appeared to
be fractured,
A NUMBER of alibs were diSproved In the
Cronin murder trial at Chicago. detective
swore he found Dr.. Crcnin's knives On
Couehlin. one of the accused, when 10
arrested him. States Attorney Longenecker
began his address to the jury.
c. S. KING. editor of the Daily Union, Of
Ogden. Utah, was shot on the street by eX-
Deputy United States Marshal Exum, on &C
count of the publication of an article rehect-
ing upon the character OF Exum vile.
THE steamship Gaelic, which arrived at
San Francisco from China and Japan,
| brought news that the American ship Chese-
| boroIgh was wrecked by running on the
! rocks off Sluchi-R Hamar nineteen OF the
crew being drowned.
By the fall of some heavy timbers at the
| Salisbury mine, at lshpemlng, Mlch, t"o
miners were killed.
THE Jury in the trial at Baltimore of the
! Navassa Island rioters found George 5. Key
! guilty of murder in the first degree, Moses
/ Williams not guilty, and failed to agree IN
the cases of the other sixteen prisoners.
Two witnesses in the Cronin murder trial
at Chicago swore that they had seen the
two knives taken from Dan Coughlin, one of
the prisoners and identified by T. T. Conklln
as belonging to DR.. Cronin, in Coughlin's
possession prior to May !, the date OF the
! murder.
JOHN STAPLEToN and his wife, aged about
sixty years, and their grandson, aged ten,
were found dead at their house at Elgln, Ill.
They had been suffocated by coal gas
THE Washington Hotel, of st. Paul, Mimi,
has been burned. Two men. one Swede
and the other an Italian, perished from suf-
location.
a coLoRED man and his wife, living near
Franklin, KY, went to visit a neighbor,
leaving their three small children in the
house In their absence the house caught fire
and burned to the ground. All thres OF the
children pei'ished in the flames.
CYRUS FILLMoRE.a brother Of cx-President
Fillmore, died At Lagrange. Ind, aged eigh
ty-Sevcn.