The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-30
South and West.

A TORNADO caused damage in the Valley
of the Rappahannock in Virginia.
The Iowa Legislature defeated the High
License bill by vote of twenty-one to
twenty-nine.
The business portion of Pearsall, Texas,
has been almost completely destroyed by
fire. Loss, estimated at St, 900.
THREE boys were killed at Webb City,
NO., by the falling of slab of rock while
they were digging lead out of the side of q
mine
DEFAULTING STATE TREASURER ARCHER,
of Maryland, was arrested at his country
seat near Bel Air. He had made away with
$1,000 worth of registered State securities,
Of which no traces have been discovered.
WELLINGTON, KY, has been entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
BY the running away of team near Mans
field, Ohio, Mrs. c. lowering, of that town.
was fatally injured, and Miss Emeline Hill,
of Needmore, Penn, instantly killed.
JAMES SPEED, one of the wealthicst cattle
men of Southern Texas, was shot and killed
bv John Tomerlin at Moore Station, Texas.
THERE was great excitement on the Chic
ago Board of Trade because Armour, the
packing king and Hutchinson, the wheat
king, had ''cornered" May and July pork,
and May wheat. Pork sold at sl5.75 and
wheat at 81 cents per bushel.
The OBrien Wagon Works, at Tiffin,
Ohio, were destroyed by fire, involving a
loss of SS0,000
IN a secluded district near Wakefield,
Huron County, Ohio Revenue Collector
Waldorf unearthed illicit whisky distilleries
on the farms of several prominent and hith-
erto respectable farmers.
FIRE broke out in the Northern Pacific
, machine shops at Ellensburg, Washington,
and in q very short time they, with the
roundhouse, were totally destroyed. Loss
over 100000.
The Gilbert Starch Works at Des Moines,
Iowa, were burned; loss 5000 Three
employes--two girls and one man--lost their
lives.
STATE TREASURER ARCHER of Maryland,
was admitted to bail in $25, QUO.
GOLD and other precious minerals have
been found in large quantities in the Grand
Canon of Colorado.
The Detroit (Mich) Steel and Spring Com
pany, the largest concern of its kind in the
United States, has suspended payment, with
liabilities amounting to S3UO, OO0.
EDWARD GILLEM and Alex. Gatewood,
members of a Klu Klux band, were killed by
a fourteen. year-old boy named Holland at
Fike Place, Mo. They were about to whip
his father.
A STORM in Western Nebraska has de-
stroyed the prospects of the growing crops IN
several counties, and Governor Ihayer asks
contributions of wheat and oats for seed.
BoNsFrELD g. Co.'s wooden ware factory
at Bay City, Mich, was burned. Loss Sl5o,
600.
GOVERNOR JACKSON, of Maryland, re-
moved Stevenson Archer for malfeasance IN
office and misappropriation Of the funds OF
the State, and appointed to the vacancy Ed
win H. Brown, of Queen Anne County.
By the explosion Of a saw-mill boiler at
Gladwin, Mich, Engineer II. NJ. Carry and
his son Aaron were torn to pieces.
BOTH branches of Congress adjourned as a
mark of respect to Samuel j. Randall; CON-
mittees were appointed from the Senate
and House to attend the funeral.
THE United States Supreme Court has
decided that the State of California had no
jurisdiction in the case OF United states
Marshal Nagle, who was arrested for Killing
Judge Terry while protecting Justice Field
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received telegram from Indian Agent up
shaw, asking for troops to suppress threat
ened uprising of the Indians on the Tongue
River reservation in Montana.
THE annual session of the National
Academy of Sciences began in the hall OF
the National Museum building at Washing
ton, the President, Professor o. {. Marsh, OF
New Haven, presiding.
THE Judge Acknowledgement of the Navy
submitted preliminary report to Secretary
Tracy in the McCalla case, recommending
that Commander Bowman II. McCalla bG
tried by court-martial for maltreating sea
men on board the United States vesse
Enterprise.