The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
South and West.

NEBRASKA Prohibitlonists, at Lincoln,
nominated Dr. E. L. Paine for Governor.
REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH G. CANNON has
been renoninated for Congress by the Re
publicans of the Fifteenth Illinois District.
TIE Michigan Republicans convened at
Detroit and nominated James II. Turner for
Governor.
F1FTY-F1vE adobe houses were destroyed
and seventy families rendered homeless by
floods in the Plaza of Ingrez, FL Paso, Texas.
The loss will reach S75, QUO.
THR United States revenue cutter Rush
Is ordering the sealing pirates out OF
Behring Sea under threat Of seizure, and the
orders have been obeyed in every instance.
SOUTH DAKOTA Republicans at Mitchell,
adopted q prohibition plank and renominated
Governor Mellette.
INDIANA Democrats, at Indianapolis, nomi-
mated Claude Matthews for Secretary Of
State
JOHN NJ. CHENowITH was shot and killed
at San Francisco CAL, by Richard T. Car
roll. The latter then killed himself
A CYCLONE swept clean of buildings path
1o0 rods wide at Coldwater, Mich. Orchards
suffered severely. The loss was estimated at
10000.
The Arizona Territorial Convention at
Phoenix nominated George W. Cheney, Of
Cochise, for Congress.
The North Carolina State Convention met
at Raleigh. Charles Price, at present United
States District Attorney, was nominated for
Chief Justice, and W. F. Fairclota for Asso-
ciate Judge.
TIE Missouri Republican State Convention
was held at jefferson City. The following
nominations were made: Alexander Mullin,
of Linn County, Supreme Judge; James Z.
Merrifeld, Railroad Commissioner; Frank
P. Sever, Superintendent OF Public Schools.
THE Oklahoma Legislature was organized
at Guthrie by combination Of the Demo
Gratis and Farmers Alliance members. George
W. Goldenshire, Alliance member from
Payne County, was chosen as President OF
the Council. In the lower house it was found
that the Democrats and Alliance members
had combined, and had fourteen votes out OF
twenty-five.
THE Washington Democratic Convention
at Seattle nominated Thomas Carroll for
Congressman to succeed John I. Wilson.
WHILE Milton Reiden was performing on
a traDeze attached to a balloon anchored
about one hundred feet above the earth, at
Woodstield, Ohio, the rope broke and the
lOSc W guo lCi5ugOl AOVo kCSo' = oSA.
Reiden fell from exhaustion and was dashed
to pieces.
An epidemic of crime has been sweeping
over Cincinnati. There were six murders in
as many days, and numerous lesser crimes in
the same time.
THREE people lost their lives in a fire which
destroyed tie Wolford House at Como,
Col.
FIRE almost totally destroyed the town Of
Oxford, La.
LABOR DAY was celebrated in Chicago
San Francisco and other cities by big parades
of workingmen.
GOVERNOR EAGLE has been reelected
Governor Of Arkansas by On increased ma
jority.
Four persons were killed instantly and
eleven others injured by the wreck of pas
senger train on the Northern Pacific Rail
road in Washington.
The sloop yacht Petrol capsized just out
side the border of San Francisco, and the
six persons on board were drowned
SIX THOUSAND Chicago carpenters quit
work because a promised advance in wages
had not been made.