The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-26
South and West.

RAMUND HoLzHAY, the notorious traln
robber, now in the penitentiary at Marquette
Mich, for life. tried to murder fellow con
vict and was shot and seriously wounded by
! the warden.
AN English syndicate has bought the F.
W. Wheeler g. CO. shipyard and dry dock al
Bay City, Mich, for $500, 600.
AN explosion occurred at the Armstrong
furniture factory. Evansville, Ind, starting
blaze in which three boys were burned TO
death.
THE village of Liberty, KY, has been con-
sumed by fire. Loss $40 oJO; no insurance.
The village hada population Of 325.
A FREIGHT train was derailed near Cisct1
Cal, and twenty-one beef cattle were killed.
THE American wire rod and nail mill of
Anderson. Ind, has been burned. The loss
will reach 100000. About 800 men are
thrown out OF employment.
BY the caving in of a saudoank several
railroad laborers were covered up near re-
tersburg, Va. Lewis Stewart and John
Dawson were taken out dead, and Archer
Griffin was got out alive, but fatally injured.
The private banking firm Of Belloc Freres,
San Francisco, Cal, has made an assign
ment and closed its doors. The Sheriff say;
that the liabilities, as far as known, Will
amount to s5OQ,0O0.
FELIX KEMpF the first man legally exc.
cuted in Kanawha County, W. Va, since the
State was organized, was hanged ng at Cnarles-
ton in the presence Of about 2ooopeople.
]. c.. McGREGoR reading clerk Of tine
Ohio State House of Representatives, died at
GAINESVILLE of diphtheria. Mrs: McGregol
died week previous, Immediately after the
death of four children, making SIX deaths IN
the family within alittle over two weeks.
WHILE trying to cross the river at John
sons Island, sixteen miles above Knoxville,
Tenn, three boys were drowned. Ihey were
In frail boat. which capsized.
The funeral of George H. Pendleton, late
American Minister to Germany. was held III
Cincinnati, OHIO.
JAMES McISTosH, of Spirit Lake, Mimi,
accompanied by two daughters OF James
Evans, while crossing the ice on East Oka-
boil Lake, drove into an air hole ana were
drowned.
TIE postofice at Greenville Texas, has
been robbed of several thousand dollars Inc
thieves succeeded in breaking open the mail
hoxes of the First National Bank and other
firms, and distracted the contents.
The warehouse of the 3. c. Clark Crock
ery Company at Kansas City, Mo-, has been
burned, with loss Of Sl02, CJO.
CHARLES W1LL1Ass and his twelve-year-
old son were found murdered IN their bed at
their home in Galena, Kan. Williams was
blind and lost both arms in g mine accident.
The Mississippi lcvees were reported
broken in Arkansas.
TIE house Of Charles Gibson >coloredl IN
Beaufort County, S. c., has been destroyed
by FIRE. His wife and child perished III the
flames.
Two trains collided near Inland, Ne5., and
Conductor Grant Norton and Brakeman
Canada Miller were killed and eighteen cars
were wrecked.
THE five story building in Cincinnati, Ohio
owned and occupied by Stern, Mayer & Co.
has been completely gutted by hre' LOS
about $500, 900.
BILL ALLEN and Witherford Trying, TIVE
colored men charged with the murder Of
Constable Belcher, were taken from the Mer
Ger County wv. Va.) jail, and shot to death
THE Missouri Antitrust law has been pro
nounced unconstitutional by Judge Dillon II
the United States Circuit Court at ST. LOUIS
THE United States steamer Iroquois ar
rived at Port Townsend, Wash, disabled
after beating against head winds nearly lou
months.
NORTH CAROLINA has funded s11, 600, 600 o
the old State debt into new four per, cent:
There is now only 81, GOO, 600 OF the oio den
outstanding.