The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-19
South and West.

A DOG licked the chapped hands of Alfred
Carbough, boy Of Sedalia, Mo-, and the
child died in terrible agony of hydrophobia.
BOB POPE. white man of bad character,
and his son, eleven years old were shot dead
while riding from Cummings Mill to their
home in Hampton County, S. c.
The officers of the Bankers Mutual Relief
Association Of San Francisco have fed with
the entire receipts The victims will number
over five thousand.
A DELEGATION from forty-two German
singing and other societies, representing 15,-
600 to 3O. 900 citizens, went from Baltimore,
Nd, to Annapolis to object to the provision
of the proposed High License bill.
THE rival Kansas towns, ingalls, and
Cimarron, are again at war. In hght
which has taken place one Cimarron man
was killed and five ingalls, men We're
wounded.
Miss ANNA HALL daughter Of W. G.
Hall, of Louisville, was drowned in the ocean
near Lake Worth, Fla.
BROWN WASHINGTON, colored, who as
saulted little white girl in Morgan County,
Ga, has been lynched.
j. BoYLAN. JR., observer at the United
States Signal Station at st. Vincent, Mimi,
has gone to parts unknown, leaving many
creditors Some of the Government property
at the signal station is also missing.
EXTREMELY low temperature was re-
oorted from various points in the North
west owing to "Norther" in Texas and high
wind, with snow, in Wisconsin and Illinois,
THOMAS O'BRrEN was hanged at Lexing-
ton, KY, for the murder of his wife, his
cousin, whom he had married secretly, and
then wanted to set aside for another girl.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es's installation at Des
Moines, Iowa, was marked by parade OF
Democratic clubs to the Capitol.
THE little town Of Bentonia, Miss, was
svc,t by a cyclone and large portion of it
destroyed
A NAN named Holmes, his wife and two
children were found dead a few miles west
of Shawnee, Indian Territory. They were
returning to their claim when they were
killed, it is supposed for their money, by the
outlaws that infest the Pottawatomie Re-
servation.
The wholesale boot and shoe house Of
Moves. Norman & Co., at st. Joseph, Mo-,
has been burned. Loss on stock, $500 on
building, $4,000.
"WHITE CAPS" surrounded boarding
house two miles from Rockingham, N. c.,
and severely whipped three women, man
colored and one white; also one white two
and one colored man.
TRAIN wreck occurred at Ithaca, Mich,
in which Conductor James Enright and
William Farrell were killed and three other
trainmen injured.
A FIGHT with revolvers took place near
Laytho Ranch, seventy miles from Ritz
vile, Wash. Six men participated and four
of them were wounded, two fatally.
The Edmiston and Jameson blocks at
Sioux Falls, s. D., have been destroyed by
fire. Loss $143, 900, insurance $40, 900. The
upper story was occupied by twenty persons
as sleeping rooms Several narrowly es-
caped from burning to death.
The steamer Wilkesbarre, Of the Lehigh
and WilkeSbarre Coal Company, of New
York, was burned at her dock in Charles
town, S. c., and will probably be total
loss. The fire caught in the coal bunkers.
The loss is s15o000.
Two drunken men at Chicago held Count
Leon Albert, German nobleman, up against
n wall and amused themselves shooting at
him. One bullet went through his silk hat
and another made an ugly scalp wound.
Mrs. MoLL1E SMITH and her two sisters,
Miss Julia and Emma Barnes, three promi--
nent and highly respected young ladies OF
Saybrook, ILL.,. have been lodged in the
county jail They were suffering from the
widest and most affecting emotional in
sanity upon the question OF Christian
science.
AUGUST GRoTH, brewer, cut his wifes
throat with razor at Saltwater, Mimi, and
then committed suicide,
FRED JACOBS, 16 years old, was stabbed to
the heart at Vicksburg, Miss by Ellis
Adams. another boy, and died instantly
THE body of Burke Martin, who shot and
killed a white man for purposes of robbery,
was found hanging to the railroad bridge at
Iltenaba, Miss The lynchers are unknown.
TWENTY masked students of Kalamazoo
College. Mich, seized Professors Ferry and
Trowbridgc, bound them hand and foot and
left them in all open field, two miles from
the college.
Two schoolboys became involved in an al
tercation at Cuyahoga Falls, ONO, and
George Patterson struck Edward Iraulman
in the head with stone, killing him.
ALDERMAN CHARLES HILcocK, OF Chi.
cago, was found dead in the street near his
home. Death resulted from apoplexy.
The Virginia Legislature has appointed
Commissioners to meet with committee OF
foreign bondholders and confer over the set
tlement of the State debt.
AT recent election held at st. George, w
Va. Mayor Miller wss elected, but failed to
qualify. The City Council then appointed D.
S. Minear, whereupon Mayor Miller quail
fled. Both claimed to be Mayor, and the re
suit was that no laws were being enacted or
enforced.
EDWIN CowLEs, editor and proprietor OF
the Cleveland Leader, has died in that city,
aged sixty-five years.
WHILE Henry Greenlee and his wife were
away from home their four children we're
burned to death in their cabin at Eupora,
Miss.
WILLIAM H. POPE, teller of the Louisville
City National Bank, has absconded with
100000 of the banks cash in his possession.
The Exposition buildings and street car
barns were burned at PlattSmouth Neb.
The loss is heavy.
HEAVY floods have caused much damage
along the Ohio River. At Cairo, III, the
river was fifty miles wide.
THE convention of the National League Of
Republican Clubs began in Nashville, Tenn.
UNITED STATES SENATOR ALLISON has
been reelected by the Iowa Legislature.
TIE Apaches went on the war path in Ari-
zona. A Afreighter was murdered near Point
Of Rocks and ranches were being abandoned.
United States troops started in pursuit OF the
Indians.
The banking firm of C. l. Lewis & Co.,
of Winchester, Ind, has failel. All the
county officials had deposits at the bank.
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