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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-10
Foreign.

SEVERAL cases of cholera ha ..,. apparel
in the vicinity of Berlin, Germany.
An explosion occurred in one Of the out
houses OF the Government Powder Mill at
Waltham, England Two men were blown
to fragments and several others were ir-
iured.
DENNIS LYONS and his two sons, aged ten
and twelve. were drowned by the upsettia5
of their boat az Factory Creek, Canada.
THE Argentine Ministers of Finance and
War have resigned.
The United States Consular Conference on
the Mckinley Customs Administrative bill
began at Frankfort, Germany.
THE French steamer Amerique ran down
and sank the English steamer Relbrook off
st. Nazaire France. Three persons We're
drowned.
THE town of Szany, near Oelen5urg, Hun
gary, was destroyed by fire. Nine lives were
lost.
ADvICEs received from the New Hebrides
Islands states that the natives Of Amba ISL
ana maSsacred the crew OF a German labor
vessel. A French war ship subsequently
shelled the villages on the island
ANOTHER battle has been fought in Cen
tral America, in which the army of Saliva
dor was victorious over that Of Honduras.
EMPERoa WILLIAM, of Germany, bid fare.
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OEc Source Of Railway Accidents.

A railway accident happened recently
which might have been prevented If
conductor had applied the power brake
which was at his command, instead of
putting on the hand brake. The
Railroad Gazette, in mentioning the fact,
calls attention to an important point.
Conductors have got so in the habit of
thinking that they must pull the bell
rope when it is necessary to make an
emergency stop that they are likely to
forget that the immense power of the
air brake can be applied from the car
rs we'll as from the engine. Even with
a pneumatic or electric connection with
the engine, which is so much surer and
quicker than bell rope, there is theo-
retical advantage in applying the brake
direct from the passenger car, for there
is only one operation to be performed
instead of two, as when the engineer has
to act when signaled by the conductor.
Where the conductors valve is made
accessible from any point in the car by
means of q cord running the whole
length, this advantage is certainly ap-
preciable in every case. As the neces-
sity of making an emergency stop comes
up very frequently in the experience of
a conductor or brakeman, there would
seem to be no certain way of changing
their mental habits in this respect, ex-
cept by putting them through a course
of training, on the same principle that
shopmen are trained to respond to an
alaFmof fire.. u
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we'll to the Car and left st. Petersburg,
Russia returning to Berlin.

we'll to the Car aud left St. Petersburg,
Russia, returning to Berlin.
A SEVERE hurricane has prevailed at
Maisau, Austria. During the storm light
ming struck twenty goods trucks on the
Franz Joseph Railway, throwing them down
an embankmen5 and smashing them.
AN epidemic of disastrous fires has oc-
Cured in the frontier towns of Prusslan
Poland. In all, these fires have rendered
$50 families homeless.
ELEVEN Russian soldiers were killed dur
ing the recent maneuvres by the blowing up
of pcntoon bridge on the Looga River.
A TORNADO did much damage in the city
of Perugia, Italy, and devastated the COM
mune of Citerna.
FIRE destroyed the whole of the town of
Tokay, Hungary, with the exception OF thir-
teen houses. Tokay is in the centre of the
celebrated Tokay wines
THERE are four thousand cases of small
pox in Pernambuco, Brazil and there is an
average of twenty deaths daily.
FIRE has swept away the Soukaras forest
in Algiers. Two villages were destroyed by
the confagration.
A LARGE mass meeting Of German Social
lists was held at Berlin.
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LATER NEWS.

SoUTHoLD, Long Island, N. Y, celebrated
the two hundred and fftieth anniversary Of
its settlement.
JOHN Crow and his nine year-old son were
killed at the Webster street crossing New
Haven, Conn.,. by passenger train.
STEPHEN BECK. wealthy fugitive from
illinois, jumped OFF an express train near
Burlington, n j., and was killed. His ten
year-old daughter jumped after him and was
fatally injured.
JOSEPH MITCHELL snd Frank Duffy,
miners at Port Dram, N. j., were killed by
falling ore. They had set OFF blast in the
Hurd mines and entered it before the earth
settled.
FIVE women ~. ihtally injured in an
electric car accidental the corner Of Com
monwealth avenue and Baylston street, Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Democratic Convention of the Ninth
Congressional District renominated Roger
@. Mills at Temple, Texas, by reclamation
and without opposition.
A MAN named Fielder, living near Nebo,
ILL.,, was killed by his fourtesn.year-old SON.
The boy wanted to plant certain piece of
ground in wheat and the father objected,
whereupon the boy went to the house, got a
gun and shot the old man dead.
Rev. W. A. OvERToN, one of the most
prominent Baptist ministers of Georgia, CON-
mitted suicide at Greensboro by shooting
himself.
THADDEUs E. CROWLEY, of Pickaway
County, was unanimously nominated for
Secretary of State by the Ohio State Demo
cratic Convention at Springfield.
GENERAL MILLEDGE L. BoNHAM, Rail-
road Commissioner, was found dead in his
bed in his room at HAYWOOD, White
Sulphur Springs N. c., from hemorrhage
during the night. He was born in Edgefeld,
S. c., December 25, 1913.
The Wisconsin Democratic Goa vention, at
Milwaukee, adopted resolution opposing
the Bennett law. George W. Peck was nomi-
mated for Governor.
In the House of Representatives, during
the filibustering on the Lard bill, Mr.. Car
non used vulgar language toward Mr..
McAdoo, and Mr.. Wilson, of Washington,
slapped Mr.. Beckwth's face. and the latter
in turn struck Mr.. Williams, of Ohio, who
was trying to separate the combatants.
The Senate confirmed unanimously the
nomination of DR.. Baxter to be Surgeon
General of the Army.
THE peace protocol between Salvador and
Guatemala has been signel.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED acres Of forest land
have been burned over in the vicinity Of
Carlstadt, in Croatia. 1t is believed the fire
was started by an incendiary.
A TERRIFIC storm has visited Trieste, Aus
tria, causing great loss of life and property
Many wracks are reported on the Adriatic
Sea, and the crews of several vessels have
perished At Wittingau three parsons were
killed by- !ig4 Lightning and much damage was
done to property. ->,-- ....
Count V1LLANovA, with a guide and two
porters, has perished while making an ascent
of Mount Blanc in Switz ariand.
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KILLED IN A STORM.
Four Persons Meet Death Instantly
and Three Fatally Injured.

Four persons were killed, three fatally in
jured and three others seriously hurt by the
falling Of a wall Of the stables Of the
Twelfth and Sixteenth Street Car Company,
at Twelfth street and Susquehanna avenue,
Philadelphia, during the prevalence Of Sc
we're wind and rain storm.
The killed are August Paul, car driver
and his wife; Charles Severn, conductor;
Charles Fisher, driver.
Henry Jacoby, conductor; James j. Mar
tin, driver, and Charles Brown, passenger,
were so badly injured that it was probable
they would die.
Henry Trodwelter, a stableman, son of
August Paul, and an unknown boy. were
very severely hurt and their recovery was
doubtful.
John Christy, horse changer, has been
missing since the wall fell, and it was be.
ieved that he was buried in the ruins.
Driver Paul was an old employe of the
Toad. His wife, accompanied by their only
son, had brought his supper to him, and the
three were sitting in the car together while
Paul ate his meal.
In this car were also Conductor Severn and
Charles Brown. When the wall fell in this
car was completely crushed and the horses
killed.
Paul and his wife were instantly killed
Severn expired in few minutes after being
taken from the wreck.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

WALTER HOWE, q prominent New York
resident. was drowned at Batemans Beach,
R. I. He was III bathing with number OF
cottagers
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR attended
the camp Of the Vermont National Guard at
Bradford and was received with due honorS.
The Secretary took an active interest III the
battery practice and personally aimed one OF
the guns.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and the members OF
his family took dip in the surf at Cape May
Point, after which the President went out
for ride The President and family also
visited Five Mile Beach, n. j., on the invita-
ton Of General Sewell.
THE attendance at the American Farmers
Encampment at Mount Gretna, Penn. was
nearly 10000 Colonel L. L. Polk, OF Wash
ington, President of the National Alliance,
addressed the farmers
A SHOCKING accident occurred at Athens,
Penn. during the sham battle at the sol.
diers' encampment at that place. A cannon
was prematurely discharged, killing William
Bosom, aged twenty, fatally injurlng james
n Castamore aged twenty, and tearing OH
the thumb of Gabriel L. Mullock.
THOMAS ATHLY and C. Buddensick hired
q boat at Cranes boat house. Railway, Nd,
to 20 fishing in the Railway River the other
day. Nothing was heard Of until next day
when the bodies of the two men were found
floating near the Staten Island shore.
WILLIAM STONE, of North Chippin's Hill,
Conn. eighty-two years old, and bedridden
from rheumatism, had been melancholy for
some time. The other morning breakfast
was not brought to him promptly in his room,
and he opened his jacknife and punctured the
radial artery of the left arm, and slowly bled
to death.
The President and Mrs. Harrison attended
services at the Presbyterian Church Cold
Spring, n. j.
A COLLISION between excursion barges and
the ferryboat Baltic in New York haroor
imperiled the lives of 6OOO excurslonists or
the Arthur Club.
The seventeenth annual National exhibi-
ton of the Grangers opened at Williams
Grove, near Mechanicsburg, Penn. More
than 1000 people were on the grounds. Inc
exhibit OF machinery is much larger ann
more complete than heretofore.
The total population Of Rhode Island is
given as 81, 3343 against 276, ,53l in lSoO, an
increase of 69,Sl2, or PASS per cent.
The officers of the Knights of Labor have
ordered about 1000 Knights who are still at
work for the New York Central Railroad to
60 on strike Knights of Labor formerly
employed on that road held mass-meetlng
in Union Square, New York city.
WILLIAM SMITH and his wife were struck
by an express train near Scottsvllle, n. u,
and both were instantly killed.
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South and West.

THE Idaho Republican State Convention
met at Boise City and nominated George l..
Shoup, of Lewhi, for Governor.
THREE men were killed and three serious
" injured by the running wild Of stone
train in the vicinity of Lyons, Col.
SEVERE frost is reported in portions OF
Minnesota and North Dakota.
GEORGE EARLY and Bird Woods, two Of
the four colored men convicted OF the burn
ing of Rocky Mount, Va, on the night OF
October s, 1889, have been hanged at that
place.
BETWEEN seven and eight thousand men
were temporarily thrown out of employment
in the stock yards at Chicago, Iii: on account
of the strike Of the engineers and firemen OF
the Railway Switching Association.
THE immense sugar mills at Ness City,
Kan, which were erected three years ago at
cost of 800, 0O0 were completely destroyel
BY fire with all their valuable machinery.
The Supreme Council of the Federation of
Railway Employees held an all day session at
Terre Haute, Ind, but arrived at no decision
as to general tie-up Of the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn.
CLIFTON RoDEs BARRETT, private banker
and stock broker. Of Louisville, KY, has
failed with liabilities of $4,000. The failure
was due to the stringency of the money mar
ket.
SrEUBEyv1LLE, Ohio, held celebration
in honor Of Baron Steuben, the Revolution
ary hero.
The business portion of Pembroke, KY.
has been burned.
The Supreme Council Of the Federation of
Railway Employees, at Terra Hautr, Ind.
approved of Mr.. Powderly's course in regard
to the trouble on the New York Central
Railroad but decided not to order strike.
THE Hanna Wagon Works ut Peoria, ILL.,,
have been burned Loss, $50 000.
GOVERNOR FERRY, of Washington, issued
q proclamation convening the Legislature in
s0eciai session f5f -purpose of reappor-
tioning and redistricting the Sta6ss. >~--
Hon. WILLIAM H. MCKINLEY was renonl-
mated at Massillon, Ohio, for Congress from
the Sixteenth District.
McVIcKER's THEATRE. in Chicago, ILL.,,
was almost completely destroyed by fire,
causing loss Of Sl5O,OOo.
IDAHos first Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Boise City and nominated Ben
jamin Wilson, Of Boise County, for Gov
ernor.
The total count of thepopulation of Idaho,
as announced by the Census Bureau is 81, 229
In 1880 the population was $3.50; increase
since LSsO, 81, ,6l9, or 15S.29 per cent.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Blue eyes ocuiists consider to be the
best.
A Philadelphia medlcant is said to be
worth $40, 900.
It is stated that oysters ten inches long
are found in New Guinea.
Alexandria, Egypt, possesses the larg-
est artificial harbor in the world.
1t is believed that the hollyhock was
brought to Europe from China as early
as the year 1873.
In the United States there were ID, 779
murders between 1884 and 1889, and
only SIS legal executions.
In Bradford County, Fla, is hollow
stump from which comes noise similar
to that of q boiling kettle.
A Harlem CNew York; bride received
among her wedding presents o receipted
gas bill of S17 from her father.
In clearing up the postofice at As
toria, Oregon, recently, u package OF let
tiers mailed in 1887 was found.
Five generations of one family sat for
their photographs in single group at
Springfield, Penn, few days ago.
Under the laws of China, the adult
who loses his temper in discussion is
sent to Jail for five days to cool down.
The King of Dahomey has sent an en-
bassador to Germany to engage band
of musicians to play, not serve, for his
dinner.
1t is said that in many Welsh villages
the yew tree and the church are of the
same age, the one being planted when
the other was built.
A carpet used in room of the United
States Mint after being in wear some
years, was recently burned in pans and
yielded S2500 worth of gold.
The Mexicans eat salt with their
oranges, both because they prefer the
fruit so seasoned, and because it is con-
sidered to be more wholesome with salt.
1t is asserted by DR.. Francis Bowling
that at least one person in three between
the ages of ten and forty years is subject
to partial deafness.
An English medical writer asserts that
cancer is not hereditary in the vast
majority of cases, no less than eighty
nine per cent. being caused by external
influences upon the sufferers.
1t is estimated that the amount of gold
in the world is about six hundred and
thirteen cubic yards, and it would fit in a
room twenty-four feet each way il in
solid cube.
Out of seventy-six Irish Kings who
ruled between A. D. and 1172, no less
than ffty-two died violent deaths either
in battle, by murder, or by thunderbolts
;by the latter three were slain).
A faithful dog in Hamilton, Ohio,
didn't abandon its attempt to arouse its
drunken owner who had fallen asleep on
the railroad track, until an engine cut
off its leg The man escaped injury.
A japanese paper states that at Kama
waza family of six generations live.
The oldest is said to be 132 years Of age
and to be great.great-great-grandmoth
er, her husband, aged 13O, also being
alive.
The first elephant seen in England was
sent as a present to Henry III. by the
King of France about the year 1855.
Numbers of people crowded to see the
curiosity, and special building was
erected for it at the Tower.
A good deal of interest has been ex-
cited at the antipodes by the appearance
after twenty-seven years of subnersion,
of the wreck of the British wa1ship Or
pheus, the singular loss of which, with
nearly 200 hands, caused such commo-
ton at the beginning of the last Maori
war.
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The Greatest River Tunnel.

The workmen engaged upon the two ends
of the st. Clair River tunnel between Port
Huron, Mich, and Sarnia, Canada, shook
hands with each other few mornings ago
under the St. Clair River and made the
great subterranean highway echo with their
cries.
When but 100 feet of the tunnel proper
remained to be completed work was sus-
pended, and an eight foot drift was begun.
This was to enable the engineers to adjust
the massive shields so that they will form
perfect lining for the tunnel when brought
This marks the completion of the greatest
river tunnel in the world, and possibly the
greatest piece of engineering in this country.
It is eleven feet longer than the Brooklyn
Bridge. The tunnel will not be in use for
some months, as 1900 feet of approach is
to be dug on the Canadian side and one Of
5000 on the Michigan.
Mr.. Hobson, chief engineer of the tunnel
and Mr.. Millman, engineer in charge; Mr..
Eames, mechanical superintendent, and
Mr.. Murphy, who has charge of the
excavation, passed through the tunnel,
going in on the American side They made
the trip through in thirty minutes and were
greeted upon their arrival on the Canada side
by all the steam whistles on the river.
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A SWITCHMAN'S BLUNDER,
Two Freight Trains Collide and
Three Persons Are Killed.

Owing to a misplaced switch two freight
trains Oil the Burlington and Missouri River
road collided at Mullen, Neb., and three per-
sons were killed and six seriously injured.
The dead are: Myrtle WillGus, daughter Of
a farmer living three miles southeast of Null
len; John Wymore, station foreman at that
place, and an unknown: tramp.
The westbound train was run in on side
track to allow the eastbound train to pass.
The switchman, however. was unable to
close the switch and attempted to stop the
other train but waited too long before doing
50, and the two trains came together with u
terrific crash. A box Car III one of the
trains in which thirteen men were stealing q
ride was crushed into small pieces, but only
one Of the men was killed, the others escap.
ing unhurt. Six of the trainmen were badly
hurt.
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A MARTINET'S MASSACRE
A Strict German Coloners Brutality
to His Men,

There is intense excitement at Berlin, Ger
many, over the conduct of Colonel Schoeller,
commanding the Ninth Regiment of Infan-
try, who compelled his men to march from
Wurzburg to Marketbreit with the mercury
at ninety-one degrees.
The men were in heavy marching order,
with full field equipment, winter oVercoats'
tents, etc. ;.
Before Marketbreit was reached, a dis
tance of thirty kilometers, 400 were COM
pelled to leave the ranks
OF those undergoing treatment fifty were
thought to be in dying condition:
Fully no men fell from sunstroxa Three
of them died in the ranks.
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At HOME And ABROAD.
"A Days Important Events Oh
Two Continents.
Terrible Scenes During the Drown
ing of Seventy six Cinnamon.

The first detailed story Of the loss of the
ship Oneida and the drowning of seventy-six
Chinese in Cooks Inlet, Alaska, are given by
John Ericsson, one of the crew Of the wrecked
vessel, who has just arrived at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
He says: "When we thought we were we'll
out from the land, the shock came. The
water was flowing into the ship at furious
rate and the order was given to get out the
boats. The scene that followed that order
was simply terrible. Two hundred Chinese
fishermen, who were in the hold, came
,swarming up on deck, and it was if imps
were let loose. They cursed and swore and
cried and kicked and charged on the boats,
and had to be driven off the deck by the
crew. Some ran up into the rigging, then
down to the deck again. They attempted to
take possession Of the boats which by this
time were manned.
"It was necessary to push out from the
side of the ship. To attempt to hold them in
check was impossible. They were like
demons Many of them leaped into the
water and were drowned. None Of the white
mien were lost.
Twenty minutes after we struck there was
nothing to be seen Of the ship. She landed
fairly on top of the rock and was broken in
two. As the ship was settling three dories
were washed out Of the davits. There was
q scramble for them by the panic stric ken
Chinese. but only four Of them got into
the boats
: sit was terrible to listen to the walls Of the
doomed creatures. We could give them no
help. A number Of them were caught like
rats In a cage and went to the bottom on the
Oneida. We reached land safely, aad when
day broke we went out to see if We could
find any survivors We found twelve China
men floating on the whealhouse two days
later.
'Three, of the Chinese had managed to
reach the rock, but these were not found
until seven days later, and two of them in
the meantime had perished from exposure:
The third had found keg Of spirits and had
kept himself alive on its contents"
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A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Six Men Instantly Killed and Thirteen
Badly Injured Near Chicago.

There was terrific explosion in the Stand.
ard cartridge factory at Blue Island, twelve
miles out of Chicago, III. The building was
torn to pieces, and window glass was broken
for half milo around. The explosion oc-
Cured in the packing house. There was
nobody at work in this portion of the factory,
but the conclusion destroyed the engineers
room. where several men were employed.
Charles Seidel and five fellow laborers
were killed outright and thirteen others
were injured, four of whom will die. Thes,
areE, L. Burke, Lazarus Kitterhouse, John
Sanders and Martin Vanderhouse. the bod
les Of the dead were so badly manSled that
Identification was impossible.
When the Rock Island passenger train
rolled into the Lake Shore station that night
il had a car full Of men who were bleeding
from wounds. They weTe taken to the
county hospital in three ambulances. The
cause of explosion is not known.
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TIE heal of the list of ten men chosen to
represent the Department of Dakota, United
States Army team in the division contest to
be held at Camp Douglas, is occupied by
Private John Gordon. He is the first colorei
man who has attained this honor. His score
WAS 5S2
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REVOLTING EXECUTION.
Shocking Scene at the Hanging ofau
English Murderer.

A dreadful scene occurred in the jail at
Birmingham, England, when Frederick Da-
yis, who was sentenced to death for the mur-
Ter of his wife, was executed. His head was
half torn of and the windpipe and
carotid artery were severed, and blood
spurted all over the scaffold. The hangman
explained that the unusual occurrence was
caused by the victim having too long neck.
Davis was given six-foot drop.
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Two Men Burned to Death.

The Queens Hotel, together with its con-
atents, vas burned at Sundridge, Canada.
Fhe guests, of whom there was large mum,
Eber, had great difficulty in escaping Thomas
ssPowers and Herbert Layton. the latter. 1t Is
said, belonging to Ottawa, wers burned to
death, and two others were badly injured
The building was insured for $4,000.
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Six Men Blown to Atoms.

One Of the most disastrous boiler explo-
sions that ever occurred in Southern
Indiana took place at. four o'clock
the other afternoon at the large flour
mill of G.. C.. White, six miles west OF Column
bus, Ind. The large frame structure was
torn to pieces six men were blown to atoms,
and eight others were seriously injured; The
shock was terrific breaking window-glasses
in residences one mile away