The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
South and West,

Two Indians were killed and a cowboy
fatally shot in a pitched battle at Pine Ridge
| Agency, Col.
AN express train ran into horse and
buggy at the Jonesboro pike crossing, half q
mile east of Marion. Ind, killing Mrs. A. J..
Stone and two children and Mrs Poe Vim.
mer.
The boiler of an immense sawmill belong
ing to William Means in Upshur County,
W. Va, blew UP, killing Russell Hyre and
Floyd Wilson, fatally injuring c. B. Brake
and badly cutting James Whitslow, Joseph
Lemons and Tom Colcher.
Miss IDA SMITH, dressmaker, committed
suicide by jumping from pier into Lake
Michigan, at Chicago, Ill. A well dressed
young man undertook to save the woman,
and while struggling in tho water was seized
with cramps and drowned.
The army worm has made its appearance
on the eastern shore of Maryland, and is
playing havoc with the crops.
The Democrats of Alabama have nomi-
mated Colonel Thomas G.. Jones for Cover
nor.
THE two sons of Charles johnson, living
three miles south Of Chillicothe, Ohio, were
killed by lightning.
o. C. BROWN, a millionaire banker of
shooting himself He had been i'll and was
temporarily insane.
A wATERspouF did considerable damage
in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Dupont Paper Mills in Louisville, KY,
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss 1926, 900,
fully insured. A policeman was overcome by
the smoke and shortly afterward died
AT Curry & OBrien's rock quarry, near
ol i,, thn
slant death of B. Quist, John Anderson and
E. l. Endenbsrg. Eight other laborers had
narrow escapes.
THE bodies OF two brothers named Ray
mond were found terribly mangled on the
railroad track at Attica, Mich. 1t is sup
posed they jumped off train and fell under
the wheels.
THE general convention of the Order of
B'nai Birth began its session in Richmond,
Va
AT Denver, COL, Mrs. A. Morrow at
tempted to start the fire with kerosene. The
can exploded, and the woman and her boy of
three years and girl Of sixteen were burned
to death.
In a tenement house fire in st. Louis Mo-,
the aged father of tenant named George
Wolf was suffocated. Mrs. Charles Haua
and her seven-year-old son were fatally
burned and three other parsons received
painful Injuries.
TIE wife OF Christian Lieferiutz. a rich
farmer of Stanford, Ill.,, took poison with
fatal effects. She was respondent from III
health
A CLoUDBURST OF Lovelaud Iowa,
wrecked buildings and destroyed consider
able property The residence of Luke Saylss
was swept away and his wife drowned.
The sale OF the ten principll b:aweries in
San Francisco, Cal, to an English syndi-'
cate, for 81, so, 009, has been consummatei.
THREE persons were killed at Mansfield,
OHIO, by an explosion of powder caused by
lightning.
Mrs. MARY CoNxLIN attempted to cross
White River, near Brentwood, Ark, on a
horse with her ten-mo1ths-old baby in her
lap and two boys behind her, when the
saddle turned, throwing all into the water
and the boys were drowned.
BUD LINDSAY, United States Marshal, shot
and killed kits, a distiller in Campbell
County, Tenn. Lindsay wished gallon Of
whisky, and kits told him that he could not
sell less than ten gallons under his license.
EX-JUDGE HENRY S. AUSTIN, of Chicago,
ILL.,, a venerable old settler of seventy mine
years was sent to Jail by Judge Kohlsaat
until ne pays $685. I'll belonging to the estate
Of Henry L. Hail. of whose estate the ex-
Judge was made administrator in 1876.
A DUEL on horseback at Brenensvil!e
Tenn, resulted in thu killing Of Thomas ].
Herbert, wealthy young farmer, hy James
Boyd, the twenty year.od son OF District
Attorney D. R. Boyd. Ths pair quarrelsd
over hog.