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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
South and West.

THE prevalence of smallpox at New Will
ming ton. Ohio, has caused general suspen-
sion of business.
The United States inspectors who are in
vestigating the burning of the Mississippi,
River steamer Kate Adams, at Plaquemine
La, have obtained evidence which convinces
them that forty-two persons were lost instead
of fourteen, as they reported several days
ago. 1t appears that eighteen children
among the deck passengers and ten of the
boats crew perished in addition to the vic
Tins previously reported.
THERE is great suffering and privation
among the Norwegian citizens in Walsh
County, Dakota. Seventy families are said
to be almost totally destitute Most of them
have no shoes and thin clothing, and are liv-
ing on porridge made by cooking frozen
wheat and oats
WHILE a number of farmers, who had
gathered at William Porter's grist mill at
New Hope, w. Va. were talking in the
wrecking the MILL Four men were instantly
killed, one has died since. another was fatally
hurt and two others were seriously injured.
A FoUR-CoRNERED duel between River
Crow and Gros Ventres Indians, in which
all the participants we're killed, took place at
Sweet Grass Hills, Indian Territory.
NJ. F. GAFFNEY, outgoing County Clerk
of Ashland, Wis. put bullet in his brain.
His accounts are about SJOOU short.
EX-As>IsTANT CASHIER BENJAMIN E.
HOPKINS, of the Fidelity National Bauk of
Cincinnati, when it was wrecked i'll the ia
NOUS wheat deal of 1881. released from the
Columbus Ohio Penitentiary a few days
ago on his pardon by President Cleveland,
has died at his home in Cincinnati.
GOVERNOR HOARD has been inaugurated
Governor OF Wisconsin at Madison. The
oath was administered by Chief Justice Cole.
THE dredging vessels prating the Mary
land oyster grounds are giving way before
the State navy. The police steamboat Gov
ernor McLane has added two more captures
to her list. She swooped down upon pirate
fleet and captured two ships and dispersed
the Others.
LEGISLATIVE Assemblies met in Califor-
MIA, Kansas, Colorado, Florida. Dakota and
Ohio.
GOVERNOR FoRAKER's annual message
shows that Ohio has a surplus Of nearly
$l,0O0,OO0.
THE village of Red Springs, Va, has been
nearly DESTROYED hy fire. Loss, $50. .0Ol. Thd
wife of Postmaster HecklinG was killed by
falling timter.
DWIGHT L. MooDY, the evangelist, hal
begun q series of meetings in San Francisco,
Cal.
THE steamer G.. H. Vaneatton of the Red
River Coast line struck snag eight miles
northeast of Texarkann, Ark, and sunk,
The cargo, which consisted of ECO bales o.:
cotton and 1900 sacks Of cotton seed, was lost.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Other Places.

A rain and wind storm came up suddenly
at $50 p. d., and blew over two
of the stacks of the Sunbury PENN
Nail Mills. They crashed through the
slate roof. completely demolshing the pud-
ding department of the mill. Thirty five
were employed in this department, and half
OF them were buried in the ruins. Six men
were taken out deaf.
A number of buildings were destroyed at
Steubenville, Ohio Several buildings were
blown down at Jeanette. on the leansyi-
yania road. kilograms report damage in
all the interior towns. Several bridges were
blown down at Altoona.
Brooklyn has been visited by genuine
cyclone. 1t came from the southeast, ana N
less than three minutes did many thousan"
6o.ilrs North Of dRu-.::ssss.- AQlssaL Hess W
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

rooted, trees torn ND, and the United States
Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard were de-
molished. Twelve marines we're injured. Two
gas tanks belonging to the Citizens Company
exploded, wrecEing nine houses in the neigh
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
At PittSburr.

There was an awful catastrophe at 1880
in the afternoon at Pittsburg caused by the
same cyclone that wrought such havoc at
Reading. At leas. fifteen persons were
kilIeG5, twenty-n:ne injured and several we're
missing.
The high wind that struck the city at that
hour completely demolished the large brick
building in process of construction in Dia-
mond alley. Immediately in the rear OF
Weldin Il Co S big bookstore.
The building had been completed to the
seventh story. 1t is a complete wreck, and
as it went down crushed the barber shop
next to it. The falling debris was thrown
against Weldin e. Co. S store, the front OF
which was knocked out
The rears of all the stores on Wood street
ss far up as the hat store of Pauison Bros
were wrecked. Six men were in the baroer
shop. Two have been recovered alive, two
are dead and two were still uuder the debris
There were at least fifteen printers in the
rear OF Weldin & Co. S store on the second
floor and many OF them were badly injured.
AS fast as they could he brought cut they
were carried on StretcherS to the various
hospitals.
One man, who was on top of the new
building, fell into the basement. His skull
was fractured and both legs were broken.
Throughout the afternoon the firemen and
police worked hard to rescue the victims or
recover their dead bodies
A large number OF physicians arrived Mt
the scene. rendering all possible assistance to
the injured
AT the time the whirlwind struck the build
inc most OF the men were on the frs floor.
It was the dinner hour and the men were
sitting around the fire eating. The
whole rear OF j. A. Gallinger's china
ware store was crushed in. Every
few seconds during the afternoon pitiful cries
would come from under the mass of wood
and brick, and encouraging shouts would 90
up from the crowd. The sight was heart
rending. and moved manv to tears in the
midst of their work OF rescue.
AT We!din's store the wreck becgars de-
scription. The means of the victims encased
under the debris were heartrending.
The cries of several men coald be heard
from the cellar. Yet it was impossible to
get at them and they perished as the water
was running on them in torrents from broken
water mains.
It is known that at least twenty-five men
were at work on the Wiley building and not
one of them has been heard from but the
three taken from the ruins. and the SUPPOSE
tion is that all the others are under the runs
still
Later in the day another section of the
wall fell down. Three firemen and Rev. Faith
er Canavan were buried under it and 1t is
believed that they were killed. Father Can
avan's head was cut and his back
cut and bruised. At 9:3O the
dead body OF colored boy.
name unknown, was taken out and removed
to the Morgue. A few moments later the ele-
vator hoy. James Caring. employed in Wei
dins store. was removed. He was un-
conscious and fatally injured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
A Convict for a Brothers Crime.

Ten years ago Jacob Bird was sent to the
St. Paul Mimi penitentiary from Dakota
County to serve life sentence for murder.
Recently the brother of the prisoner died,
and on his deathbed confessed the mur-
der for which Jacob was then suffering an
undeserved punishment The presiding
Judge. the prosecutor and others connected
with the original trial petitioned for Birds
pardon, and the Governor has approved the
application.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
BattIinr in Burmah.

The British troops have had an engage
nent with the Burmese rebels at Lwokow.
The latter were defeated with loss of
ljU killed. The British lost only five killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Destructive Canadian Storm.

Half way between Montreal and Toronto,
in Canada, all the wires are strewn on the
ground. Poles by the dozen are stretched
along the railroads, and a general de-
moraizatlon of travel and communi-
cation exists in Lower Ontario gen.
orally. Reports are coming in by mail
only, and these indicate that incaIculable
damage has been done by an easterly storm,
which, beginning Sunday morning, did not
cease for four days. The wind blew at
times as high as seventy miles an hour, ac-
companied by rain.
The greatest damage was done between
Cornwall and Napanee, including Kingston.
In the latter city the hurricane
diameter and blew them through the
streets like straws. Earl, Park, Wellington
and King streets are impossible with up
rooted trees and demolished fences. The
city park is mass of ice. Hundreds oftrees
were torn down by ice and wind, their crash
ing and bursting of the ice sounding like
rolls of musketry throughout the night
There is hardly a telephone or telegraph wire
up in the city. Several tall chmmeys fell
during the storm. In the country the dam
age has been fully as destructive.
Railroad tracks are impossible in some
places, having a foot OF solid ice upon
Them and the telegraph wires and poles
bestrew them at short distances apart.
From Vandreuil, Coteau Landing, River
Boudette, Lancaster, Cornwall, Morrisburg,
Iroquois, Prescott. Brockville, Cana
noque, Rideau and at Ogdensburg and Malone
on the south side of the st. Lawrence similar
reports are made. The damage cannot now
he accurately estimated, hut it will doubtless
approximate close upon million dollars.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Five Ships Lost.

The agents and owners of five ships, rang
ing from 40 to 30O tons each and valued,
with their cargo, at fully Sl.C0J,0JO, an
nounced on the New York Maritime Ex-
change that their vessels have Eeen missing
since the big storm of November 26. The
gentlemen are certain that their ships are
lost. These nre the vessels:
Samana, steamship, New York, November
%, for Haytj.
Nile. trig, West Intiies, about November
10, for New York.
Z. W. P. Armstrong, brig, Gaudaloupe,
November Is. for New York.
Ella A. Warner. schooner, Porto Rico, No
vember "a, for New York.
L. NJ. Bacon. schooner, Porto Rico, Novem-
Der Is, for New York.
The number of lives lost is put at fifty
four. The value Of the ships and cargo is
estimated to be about 81 .nOI,U00 the greater
part of which is covered by insurance.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30
ESTABLISHED 1865.
H. H. Dearborn & Co
REAL ESTATE BANKERS,
Room 2. Newiln Block.

Lots overlooking Lake
Union on electric motor line
ooxI2o feet, 5000.
Lots 6oxT2o feet, less than
a mile from business center of
Seattle, $3.50.
Lots within three blocks OF
Madison street cable power
house, soxI2o feet. only $500;
6oxI2o feet, $3.50.
Lots near Jackson street
cable $3.50.
Choice s-acre tracts, 81. so.
Business property and acres
at the very lowest price.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30
.srhe Ii,altea Fa.. Mali. !.

Leaves Portland dsiiy as 4 m. via Onion
Pacfic railway. with through aleerers and DIM
ing cara Time 90 Chicago only 20 hours Cali
ON oliver r. Briggs, ticket agent, City dock, or
r. VI. McGinnis. ticket agent possofiice build
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30
80 ACRES Sl2O.

The Portland City Real Estate Association is
selling COS lots In pool 81 si2D per lot 40
down and $40 per month; no interest. OF these
Cos lots 600 OF them are West Pogtlsnd, 5oxl00
feet lots two miles from river front. with
motor line under conssTusieonl aud of them
arc S9-acre timber farms" worth aow from
81 co.. TO $igG0 each. YoR get ore of these eos
lots. Every one has an equal chance of getting
sc acres. as division VIII re by lot IL you have
a mind 20 get home or make some M oney
new Is the time TO buy. Prices advance posi-
lively January l. Cali az the Office and secure
a bond at once. Don wait until prices 20 up
and then set in a row W, IN yourself for negli-
geaee. Address T, A. Wood. room 1, L o. O. +.
Temple.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30

Through Pullman vcstIhnled sieepers and din
ing cars. also lstest improved tourists sleeper
through TO the Eass via Northern Pacific raj
fCsH. Once. Vit second street, Boston block.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30

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ginss and Boilers Trass Gseas. LIB heaters rs.r !.
tors Inssiratsrs Chsnssal Fi.s Engines. csal a
Krisbsl Engines. Compression Grsss and capa c.
School Bells. and IN fact anything ysu need.
ONCE Foot Of morrison Street poRrt...
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
George B. Bunnell,

Everyone ill this country knows George B. Bunnell, who has attended to the amusement wants of the public for more than twenty years, during one half of which time he was the head man of the Barnum show. In his long career he has given as much pleasure to the public as any man in the business. Beside his present tent show, which is merely an experiment., Mir Bunnell runs the Hyperion theater and Grand opera house in New Haven and Bunnell's theaters in Buffalo and New York, Bun nell first introduced to the public the seven lOng-haired Sutherland sisters. whom he took from farm seven miles south of Lockport, N. Y. The St Benoit sisters, double nearly to the floating ribs; Martin Van Buren Bates and wife. the largest couple in the world; Gen Mite and Hop O my Thumb, the smallest people on earth; the German Rose. the musical prodigy-and popular prices tho biggest success of all. The show opens tonight on Spencer avenue, giving performances tonight and tomorrow night and grand matinee Saturday at p. m,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
MILITARY AVERAG Els.

Stnndin. of the Regiments During
 May and Also During the Entire
 Drill Season.
 Adjutant- General Barbour yesterday sent to all the organizations comprising the NationalGuard their percentages of merit during May, and also during the entire drill season-from November to May, inclusive, and the First regiment takes the front rank, both~fer~ May and for the whole season. Indeed, since the institution of these competitive per centages this regiment has always taken first place. But the Second regiment is a close second every time and during this last season the First regiment had | to be very prompt and precise in every detail of the service to surpass the men of the Second. The First captured 95.7: for May and 94.74 for the season; the Second 95.51 for May and 94.53 for the season. But Company of the Secono led all the other companies for the sea son with the great record of 99.O0. l The ratings of the season for the differ ent regiments, the Fifth battalion anC Battery A are as follows: First regiment 94.74: Second, 4.53 Fourth, 9O.25 Third, S7.S5: Fifth, S342; Battery A 739S.
 Of the First regiment, Company G' percentage, 97.45, was the highest. Fol the month of May Companies A and I of the Second each captured 99.51. O. the Third company c took 96.49. Com pany D of the Fourth climbed up to 94. B. Company B of the Fifth battalion pressed up to 9l.35. Second platoon O Battery A was first in the battery with meagre S5.44. The standing of tn, local companies for the season was 99. 69: G, 94.65. Company A ranked second and company G. eighth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
vEWS OF THE RAILHOADx.

The Philadelphia and Reading company has ordered POO or more hopper bottom coal cars to supply It's rapidly increasing business.
 The Hudson connecting road which runs from the new Poughkeepsio bridge to Campbell hall, has placed It's first time table 1n effect.
 It Is announced that the construction of now railroad will soon te begun in Mexico. and 1t Is to be known as the Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihauhan railroad company. 1t is to extcnd from Deming, N. M., to Casa Grand. Mexico, and will bo 145 miles long. It will run through a territory rich in mineral deposits, which will be tapped, and tho products shipped to various nearby points for manufacture.
 The Long Island railroad is said to be the only one in this country that owns a complete loop of track. and by the use of it the finest train facilities imaginable are obtained. This loop begins at Long Island City, and after taking in the sea- shore returns ,o Long Island City. through the center of the island. It's course is through Long Island City te East New York, to Rockaway Beach. to Valley Stream, to Jamaica, to Long Island City. Morning trains are run via Jamaica and Valley Stream, and evening trains via East New York and Rockaway beach. People summering ut the sea- side are thereby enabled to sec differ. ent part of the island morning and evening.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
orF1cE1. AHEARN ASSAULTED.

Beaten Into Insonsibility by a Half
 Drunken Mob.-Two of His Assail-
 ants Sent to Jail.-A Busy Day In tho
 Police Court.
 Officer Thomas F. Ahearn was murder ously as saulted while attempting to ar rest Mathew Cayenaugh on the upper end of Washington street about mid night Wednesday. Upon being arrested for breach of the peace Cavenaugl eX- pressed his willingness to go with the officer, but asked to be allowed to take off pair of rubber boots which he wore. The request was of course granted, but when the boots were removed Cavenaugh refused to go and when Officer Ahern tried to take him the crowd of dozen or more jumped upon him and kicked and clubbed him into insensioility. Cav enaugh and Timothy Bowers were the leaders of the mob. After the policeman had been done up to the satisfaction of the crowd. he was left upon the ground bleeding from anumber of cuts upon the head. One side of his face was swollen to twice its natural size and his body was sore from the many kicks administered. The crowd then scattered. Bowers was ar rested shortly after the assault by Officers Healey and Blakeley and Cavenaugh was brought in yesterday by Officer l DyTuGS. DOWcI Was llu0u 90 dIlO COoCS for drunkenness and $40 and costs for assault, the whole amounting to S7O.16. Cavenaugh was sentenced to four months in jail for assault and 30 days for breach of the peace. For stealing SS from Maurice Moriarty's saloon he was also found guilty and given an addi- tional thirty days in jail.
 This morning the prisoners box was filled to overhowlng with victims of the Fourth. Dennis Mccarthy pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and breach of the peace and was fined S5 and costs. John Kelly and F. J. Kelly went out on the street to wrestlc and became involved in quarrel; they were brought in by Officer Michael Sullivan. A fine of S7 and costs for drunkenness and the same for breach of the peace was infiict- ed upon each. Edgar B. Foster was drunk and fought Officer Cahey and a hackman with all his might vixen placed under arrest. His little diversion will cause his enforced absence from his usual haunts for sixty days. Edward Hayes, aged r, struck peaceable citizen in the face with stone. He claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity, but the court thought otherwise and imposed a fine of SlO and costs. A number of plain drunks were given the usual dose. Several boys who created Fourth of July disturbance Wednesday night were fined S1 and costs each.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
THE STAGE GENERALLY.

Lawrence Barrett will embellish "Gan- elon" with a ballet. Mmc Janauschek Is i'll again and soma of her dates have been cancelled. The next of Charles Hoyts idyllic dramas i, to be named "A Texas Steer. ' Yes, it was bound to come. A Boston playsmith is getting up drama on the Johnstown disaster. Tho title of Henry E. Dixey's new bur. lesque for next season IS "The Seven Ages"
 Emma Abbott is trying to buy the American rights for Massenet's opera, 1 "Esclarmonde." It Is quite settled that Mary Anderson will not come back to America for @ year or 80.
 Twelve of Won Bulow's entertainments In America next winter will be recitals and the other twelve orchestral concerts. Coquelin and Hading are playing to dreadfully small houses in London. That IS because they have raised tho price beyond endurance. It Is probable that J. l.. Toole's threat to revisit the United States will be car ried out in couple of years. He lost money here before. Edward Lassen Is to succeed Herr N1kisch as leader of the Gewandhaus or chestra in Leipsic. Herr Nikisch Is com- ing to Boston. The great Salvini and Charles Wynd- ham, with his company from the London Criterion, have the first ten weeks at Palmer's theater, New York, in the fall.
 Little Elsie Leslie Is enjoying her sum- mer at Poultney, Vt. In the "Prince and tho Pauper" she will be the central figure among sixty people.
 Undeterred by season of bad luck the Ludwig. Concert company, now in Eng land, wflrreturn to America in September and sing Irish music in the principal cities.
 Johnstone Bennett, 0 bright, pert. in- teresting little soubrette, is to have a play of her own next winter. She will ap- pear as negro girl.
 It is announced by one of the come dian's henchmen that Francis Wilson tries all "gags" on his wife before placing them in his lines. John Gilbert's maternal grandfather, a soldier of the Revolution. diod at the ago of 100, his great grandmother at 106, an uncle at 1O1 and four aunts at ages over 100.
 Morton Selton, one of the members of Rosina Vokes' company, has been en- gagged to support Mrs. James c. Blaine. IT,. in her forthcoming tour.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
Explosion In MfddletOxyn

Wednesday afternoon about o'clock there was sudden explosion in the Un- ion mill, owned by Cowles & Weeks at Middletown. The corn cracker mill burst while at work, flying into thous- and pieces. The superintendent, Roscoe Coles, was leaning over It. He was struck by the flying fragments and so seriously injured that the result may be fatal. He was picked up in an uncon. scious condition and removed to his home. One or moro of his ribs are broken, and his right arm is so lacerated that if he survives it twill have to be amputated. He is fearfully bruised in many other places.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
THE GREAT sENeERFEsr.
First Prize Captured by the Con-
 cordias of This City.

First Prize Captured by the Con-
 cordias of This City.
 Where did you get that hat?
 The question could indeed be asked last night as tho Concordias, the winners of the first prize in the state sengerfest, stepped from the train flushed with vic tory and elated with the success which had attended their efforts. The members of the society and their many friends had given free vent to their joyous feel ings and as consequence the new white hats which had looked sc nice on leaving Waterbury were unrecognizable on the return trip. It was great victory and the eagle which surmOunts the trophy of victory is ill fancy screaming his de- light for the successful culmination of the struggle for supremacy. As the DEMOCRAT predicted some weeks since that the other singing societies would have to hustle to beat the ConcOrdias, so the prediction has come true. Prof J. E. Bartlett will come i'll for his share of the praise, as it was principally to his untiring zeal and labor as an instruc- tor that the Concordias to-day rank first | in the state. Four prizes were awarded, two in the first class and two in the second class. Waterbury wins the first in the first class. It is a handsome silk banner, with a background of purple silk. Surmounting the pole which holds the banner is golden eagle with wings spread as if ready for flight to spread the l news of victory. On the banner are in, scribed in German the following words
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-05
. FIRST PRIZE. FIRST CLASS 4TH CONNECTICUT S.ENGERFEST: : SD AND 4TH JULY, 1889,
 New Haven. Connecticut.

The second prize ill the first class went to Hartford, who had "A points to Wa terbury's 77 out of a possible so. Bridge port won first prize in the second class and NOrwalk second i'll the same class.
 On the arrival of the train bearing the victorious singers last night they were met at the depot by the Concordia society and headed by the Canadian band short parade was made through the center and return to the hall. Fire works and Examinations of all kinds marked the line of march. The hall was a scene of gay and festive enjoyment and dancing, singing and every pleasure were indulged until the early hours. The Concordias may well feel proud fol their victory.