The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-03
South and West.

WALTER NJ. HESTER Baltimore Gnd.l
drummer, killed himself on Western North
Carolina train. He was suffering from mel
ancholia.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is raging at
Clementville, Ohio. There have been eighty
nine cases there, Of which twenty-five have
been fatal. At present forty persons are
stricken, and business is entirely suspended.
NEAR Millersburg KY. passenger train
ran into a hand car. James Finley was
killed, John Garrady had his legs cut of, and
three others received fatal injuries.
The most disgraceful college fight in the
history Of Western institutions took place
at Ann Arbor, Mich, between about 1OO0
students and squad of the State militia. 1t
resulted in the killing of one student and the
serious injury of dozen Others.
THE Wertheimer building, San Francisco
Cal, was burned. the loss being $3.50. 900.
THE business portion of the town Of Burton,
Ohio has been destroyed by fire. The loss
was heavy and the insurance light.
JUDGE DAVID R. MCLEAN, ex-Presidsnt of
a savings bank at Savannah, Mo-, has been
sentenced to two years imprisonment for
swindling the depositors out of 100000.
CHARLES JONES, brother of the Rev
Sam P. Jones, the Evangelist shot Jim
Young, colored, three times at Cartersville,
Ga. He died in twenty-five minutes. Jones
is in jail.
THE launching Of two steel vessels at
West Superior, Wis, intended for the
Atlantic coast trade, was a notable event
and was witnessed by 10, 900 spectators, in
Guiding shipbuiiders from all parts Of the
country. The vessels are known as ''whale-
backs.''
P.T. SMITH, an old farmer of Utica, ILL.,,
who had for some TINA been jealous OF his
wife, aged fifty years. shot and killsi her
few mornings ago. He then lay beside her
corpse and blew his own brains out. BE was
a notorious, desperate character, having
killed four men.
DEPUTY SHERIFF j. P. GILES, OF Harlan
County, KY, was killed at Rose Hill, w.
Va, Mr.. Giles was trying to arrest two
men and killed them both. Their friends
then shot him.
CONSTABLE HUGH Ross and his nephew,
James Ross, were both shot to death at
Huntingdon, Tenn, by farmer of the name
of Waddis, against whom they had an ac-
count for lawyers fees.
THREE boys, Charles Osterman, Edward
Brown and Fay Bartoe, sixteen, fourteen
and eleven years old respectively, broke
through the ice and were drowned while
skating on Elk Lake, near Phillips, Wis.
AT the annual meeting of the Knights Of
Labor, held this year in Denver, Col, T. V.
Powderly was reelected General Master
Workman. His salary was reduced from
5000 to $500.
HENRY SMITH (colored) was lynched at
Hilman, Ala, for an assault on Mrs. Mary
Calhoun, white woman sixty years Of age.
AT the annual session of the Woman'a
Christian Temperance Union, in Atlanta,
Ca, all the old officers were reelected as fol.
lows: President, Frances E. Willard; Cor.
responding Secretary, Mrs. Caroline E.
Buell.: Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary A.
Woodbridge; Treasurer, Miss Pugh.
FRANCIS E. WARREN, of Cheyenne, Gov.
ernor Of Wyoming, was elected to tho
United States Senate on the sixth ballot in
the Legislature. The new Senator was born
in Massachusetts, in 1874.
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON was elected to
the United States Senate from Georgia.
GOVERNOR STEEL, Of Oklahoma, vetoed the
bill locating the Capital of Kingfisher. This
leaves the Capital at Guthrie. 1t was be-
lieved this latest veto would end all attempts
at this session of the Legislature to move the
Capital.