The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-17
LATER NEWS, y

THEODORE DWIGHT WooLsEY, ex-Presi-
dent of Yale University, died few days ago
at New Haven, Conn, aged eighty-eight
years.
THE plant of the Reading Penn.) Iron
Works, which failed for over a million, has
been sold for $50, 600, subject to mortgage
of 5000, 600, to representative Of the Read
ing Railroad.
NINETY-sN yearlings from j. B. Haggins's
California ranch were sold in New York for
s11S,750.
WILLIAM SCHILz and Charles Schroeder,
two sixteen-year-old boys, were drowned ct
Riverside, ILL.,, while boating on the picnic
grounds.
FIRE in Savannah, Ga, destroyed the es-
Establishments of j. T. Cohen, M. Sternberg,
and L. E. Bycll 6, Son. Total loss $3.50, 900.
Two fremen were killed and eight injured.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM PIERCE, Superinten-
dent of the Public Works Department. Of
New Orleans, La, and for years Captain Of
that crack military organization, the Cont
mental Guards, has committed suicide in
that city by blowing out his brains.
A STOVE exploded at tBrashears Mill, Ark,
and Thomas Brashear, the owner, and two
bystanders were killed by being struck by
pieces of the stone.
ADDITIONAL consular appointments by
the President: A. Louden Snowden, of Penn
sylvania, to be Minister Resident and Consul
General Of the United States to Roumania,
Servia, and Greece; VIM. Hayden Edwards,
Of Ohio, to be Consul General Of the United
States at Berlin; Augustus o. Bourne, of
Rhode Island, to be Consul-General of the
United States at Rome; Eugene Schuyler, Of
New York, to be Agent and ConsulGeneral
Of the United States at Cairo.
A MONEY order convention between Ger
many and the United States has been signed
by the German Minister, Count D'Arco VAL
ley, and Postmaster General Wanamaker. It
increases the amount Of a money order that
can be sent by either country to the other
from $50 to 500.
SECRETARY RUsK has made the following
appointments: Thomas Taylor, of Massa-
chusetts, microscopic, $500; George Vasey,
Illinois, botanist, $500, and 81. E. Vande-
man, Kansas, pomologist, $500.
SECRETARY BLAINE left Washington for
Bar Harbor, Me-, where he will remain until
September.
THE reduction of the public debt during
June amounted to SIG, ,255, 9s5.H. The total
cash in the Treasury is s649, 11a172.01.
The Shah Of Persia arrived in England.
The Thames embankment was lined with
troops during the progress to Westminster.
He was received at the steps by the Prince of
Wales and sons, the Earl of Rosebery, Earl
Cadogan and Sir Henry Drummond Wolf,
the British Ambassador to Prussia, and
driven to Buckingham Palace.
ALDERMAN JAMES W1NsTANLEY, a Pro-
testant and supporter Of Mr.. Parnell, has
been unanimously nominated to be Lord
Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, for 1890.
FERD1NANDo DE LUcA, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary Of Italy
to China, died recently at Shanghai.
THE Massachusetts, rifle team contested
with the Honorable Artillery Company at
rifle shooting in London, England. The
American team won by score of 1015 to
961. The contest took place at the Nunhead
Range.
MnLEr's great masterpiece, the "Angelus,"
is to remain in France. 1t was purchased
for the Louvre by Anton Proust, the French
Minister of Fine Arts, at the Secretan ssle in
Paris for the enormous sum of S110,6o0. The
highest American bid for the painting was
$4,000.
THE semi-centennial of the founding Of the
Oldest normal school in America, that at
birmingham, Mass, has just been celebrated.
A wArERsPoUT broke over Altoona, Penn,
at about 10 o'clock at night doing great dam
age. The rain came down in torrents, over
flowing the streets and bursting sewers.
THE Chautauqua IN. ~ Assembly opened
its sixteenth annual session.
LIZZIE AND MAMIE HAWKS, cousins, were
killed by lightning while swinging in ham,
mock on the farm of John Hawks, about
three miles from Lockport, N. Y.
HEAVY rains have injured the wheat crop
in Minnesota and Dakota.
THREE colored men were drowned by the
accidental sinking Of a ferryboat at Hatcher's
Ferry on the Tallapoosa River, Ala.
FOUR business blocks were burned at Hal
lev, Idaho. The loss is estimated at $500, 600.
TIE loss at Durango, Col, by the recent
fire. is now estimated at s3,0O0,OOO.
THE Governors of three States-Louis-
lana, Mississippi and Alabama-issued pro-
carnations against the prize fight for the
worlds championship between Sullivan and
Kilrain.
THE President appointed Augustus j.
Kicks to be Judge of the District Court for
the Northern District of Ohio, and Daniel
Hogan Collector of Internal Revenue for
the Thirteenth District Of Illinois.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND workmen have struck
at Brunn, Austria, including all the bakers
in the city. A detachment Of military has
been sent there. The strikers demand an in
crease of thirty per cent. in their wages.
THE Portuguese Government has agreed to
tho British Premier, Lord Salisbury's pro-
posal to submit the questions involved in
cancelling the Delagoa Bay (Africa) Railway
Commission to arbitration.
RUGGIERE's fireworks factory in Auber-