The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
South and West.


quarry near Sparta, Ca, killed two coiored
| men
IN the fight between union and non-union
| fishermen on the Columbia River, in Oregon,
three men were killed and two wounded.
THE body of Editor Walker, of the Cosmo-
| politan Nagazine, who was accidentally
drowned at Weldon, n. c., was found.
THE house of William Holder, near Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, was burned and Holder,
his wife and one child perishe1 in the flames.
Six other children escaped in their night
| clothes.
W. F. LINDSAY. Deputy Postmaster at
| Helena. Ark, is $500 short in his accounts
| and fugitive.
THIRTY-FIvE thousand toilers, advocates
! of the eight-hour movement, parGlclpats1ln IN
the greatest labor demonstration ever wit
messed in Chicago. The line was fully four
| miles long There was no disturbance.
There were also pata1es Of workinymen in
favor of tho eiglt-hour movement at st.
Louis, louisville Cincinnati, Omaha, De-
troit, Cleveland and San Francisco.
ABOUT thrty-two thousand men were idle
| in Chicago, pending settlement Of the eight
hour question.
THE Wells-Fargo Express messenger on
Southern Pacific train was robbed OF S45, 000
at Eagleville, Texas.
DR.. c.. O'REILLY, of the Irish National
League of America, has sent from Detroit,
Mich, Sl2, 500 to aid the Irish Defense Fund.
BLooM1NGRovE, Texas. was struck by
hurricane and the postoffice, Presbyterian
and Baptist churches and other buildings
were wrecked.
THE power Of electricity as death-deal-
ing instrument was demonstrated at the
works Of the Brush Electric Ligat and Power
Company at indianapolis. Ind. James Clark,
an employe, was instantly killed by shock.
JOHN YATES AMI Gregory Squires two
miners, were killed in q cage accident at
Butte, Montana They fell l2O) feet.
THOMAS SAUNDERS and John Young were
killed by lightning near Tioga, Texas.
TEN dwellings in HazlehurSt, Wis, were
destroyed by fire.
A HURRICANE struck Wilspoint, Texas and
every house in the town is more o: less dam
aged. Two persons were killed outright and
| several injured. The hurricane also VISITED
Mesquite, Thornton, Terrell and other points
in its track, doing great damage
JOHN Low, farmer of Winamac, Ind,
hired Michael Connor, q youth OF sixteen, to
kill James McManns The boy fired load
of buckshot into McMannis, killing him in
stantly.
THE private bank Of Chas. A. Mather &
| Co., at Berlin, Wis, made an assignment to
Joseph Yates. James NJ. Hawley, the junior
member of the house. has disappeared. The
assets are placed at $1,000, and the liabilI-
ties at $1,000
DURING gale of wind large section OF
the tin roof on the State Capitol at jackson,
Miss was blown off.
MARTIN RYAN, Con. Downey AMI Will
| Cosgrove, fishermen, were drowned by the
capSzing of their bout in San Francisco Bay,
| in California.
Ex-Governor ANDREW SHUMAN, OF
Illinois, died suddenly Oh the streets Of Ch.'
cago of apoplexy.
ANNIE and Bessie Pariick two young b.
hsmiau girls employed as servants i'll Chl-
cugo ull.) boarding house, were found dead
in their be Is, having bsen suifocatei By es-
eaping gas.
THE great carpenters strike for eight
hours in Chicago has been finally settled,
the strikers winning signal victory. The
necessary papers were signed and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration.
C.M. BURT and his bride, of Fairfield,
Neb who were at a hotel at Grand Island,
Neb, on their wedding tour, blew out the
gas. They were found in their room next
morning dead.
A HowL1NG snow storm prevailed in Iowa
| for two hours.
A TERRIFIC storm passed over South Geor-
| gia, leveling acres upon acres OF fine pine
| timbered lands, raising buildings, unrooting
dwellings and knocking fences down.