The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-29
South and West.

THE Sub Tropical Exposition was opened
; at Jacksonville, Fla.
CALVIN S. BRIcE was nominated by the
| Democrats in Columbus, Ohio, for the United
| States Senate.
A TRAIN struck a horse and wagon at a
| crossing near Nashotah Station Wis, killing
Olaf Johnson and fatally injuring his wife,
who died about an hour after the accident.
HENRY WARD, the colored boy who mur-
! dered W. Fl. Benson, an empiove of Trenches
| Circus, at Bayou Sara, La, was taken from
Jail by masked men and hanged to tree in
! Courthouse Square.
| a FAST mail train was wrecked near Sid
| ney, Neb., by broken rail. The two mail
cars and thc baggage cars were burned.
Most of the mail and all Of the baggage aad
express matter were destroyed, and several
people were injured.
l.. P. ScovILLE. of Chicago, a nephew Of
Guitesu, the assassin of President Garfield,
has disappeared. He was the Secretary of
local building and loan association, and it is
alleged that he is short in his accounts to the
extent Of about $4,000.
JULIUS HAMMEL, a German, died from the
effects of inhaling aoid funnos at tho phnS-
phate works of the Walton & Whann Com
pany in Baltimore, Md. This makes the
third death of this character in one week.
A BOILER in Morris & Co.'s printing es-
tablishment in Chicago exploded, and eight
employees, mostly girls, were injured, some 1T
was thought fatally.
J. CLAUDE PARRISH, forty-two years OF
age, was hanged in the Jail yard at Raleigh,
n. c., for assaulting his own daughter, about
thirteen years of age.
The town of Greenwood, ten miles south
of Indianapolis Ind, has been partly de-
stroyed by fire.
The Monarch distllery, in Peoria, Ill,
which cost S., 600, 600, was damaged by fire
to the amount of 1926, 900.
BELL Boy, the phenomenal three-year-cld
trotter, and forty-two other horses, many of
them valuable trotters, were burned to
death in their stable at Versailles, KY. Last
July Bell Boy brought S51, 900, up to that
time the highest price ever paid for horse
in America. The other burned trotters were
valued at 500, 900.
JOHN KERNs was fatally hurt and three
other men We're seriously hurt by the e1plo-
sion of dynamite blast at Quio, Ill.
ELEVATOR No. 8, on the north side Of the
Patapsco River at Baltimore, used by the
Northern Central Railroad Company, was
burned with all its contents An engineer,
fireman and seaman perished in the flames.
100000.
HENRY AND MARTIN REIdERs were run
Town and killed by a locomotive near
Wheeler Station, Ind.
Miss LUCY RAY. young lady who lives
in the outskirts of Dawson, Ga, shot and in
;tantly killed II. A. Suggs. She says that
Suggs came to her door about eleven o'clock
in state of intoxication, demanded adj
mittance, and upon being refused cursed
aer and tried to burst the door in.
AT the opening Of the Iowa Legislature
deadlock occurred over the election of Off
:ers in the House by reason of the five In
dependents voting with the Democrats and
creating tie.
E. K. WILSON has been reelected to the
United States Senate by the Maryland Legis-
lasure.
A PACKAGE containing s11 900 was stolen
rom the Wells Fargo express offices at Dal-
as, Texas. Just how the money disappeared
IS mystery.
The largest saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, was
closed, as was also the principal brewery
This was the first attempt to enforce the
,rohibitory law in that place Great excite
nent prevailed.
MISS Lou AsHBURY, Dan Ashbury, Lizzie
Bowler and Will Rose were drowned while
:owing on Car1ni Qll.) lake.
PROFESSOR CHARLES A. CLARK, Prn-
:ipal of Albion (Wisl Academy, is dead Of
lydrophobia, believed to be the result Of the
bite Of cat, received last March.
JUDGE MCCONNELL, at Chicago, granted
new trial to Kunza the Cronin convict.
put denied the applications of Burke Cough
in and O'Sullivan: the last three were taken
20 the penitentiarr.