The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-12
South and West.

GOVERNOR CAMpBELL's bill making the
Cincinnati boards non-part1san was passed
by the Ohio Legislature, after which that
body adjourned.
Two Mexican sheep herders have been
murdered and their bodies horribly mangled
by Indians about twenty miles from Silver
City, New Mexico. A posse Of deputy
sher1ffs went in pursuit of the renegade MUIR
derers The Indians beat off their pursuers
after two of them had been killed.
The stallion Superior, valued at SIS, 900.
owned by Dubois Brothers, horsebreeders,
of Pueblo, Cal, was accidently killed by a
train.
THE Maine stallion. Nelson, trotted the
fastest half-mile on record Q:03 at Cam.
bridge City, Iud. Belle Hamlin and Justina
lowered the team record at Independence.
Iowa, by trotting mile in 2:13H.
THOMAS J. MINIS and Miss Gertrude Pill
man, of Brewton Ala, were married at the
Alabama State Fair, Birmingham. Rev. S.
NJ Adams, President of the State Alliance,
performed the ceremony. The young couple
then stepped into the car of monster gas
balloon, and with Aeronaut Baldwin sailed
off on bridal tour.
The bursting of steel standpipe flooded
the town of Temple, Texas.
THE machine shop blacksmith shop and a
portion of the large mill OF the Youngstown
(Ohio) Rolling Mill Company, were burned.
Loss about 500, 900.
FIFTEEN armed men burned down the build
ings OF l.. B. Varnes in Coffee County, Ala,
because of his supposed participation in ths
late riot. Governor Cor don called out the
militia to repress the moo.
A DESPERATE duel to the death was fought
near Danielsvile, Ga, in which William
Sanders, prominent planter, was killed,
and William Martin, his neighbor, was fa-
tally wounded
Two italian laborers were buried alive in
land slide in canyon fifty miles north of
Ogden Utah. Another man was rescued
fatally injured.
THE entire wharf front of Apalachicola,
Fla, was swept by fire. The Kennedy and
Kimball lumber mills, in each Of which were
from two million to three million feet Of
lumber; the Apalachicola iron works, Gra-
dy's store, the Apalachicola ice factory, Gould
& Warren's planning mill, the Orman build
ing and a number Of frame structures were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at from
SIZE, 900 to S20OOOO.
FIRE broke out in Morley's shoe store
at Andover, Ohio, and spread rapidly. The
town had no fire apparatus and an engine
was sent from Jefferson. The fire was ex-
tinguished after fifteen buildings, including
the postofice, had been completely de-.
stroYed.
AN unknown colored passenger boarded q
train at Navasota, Texas He refused to
pay his fare, and having some words with
the colored porter drew revolver and fred
three shots into the porter, killing him in
stantly. He then pulled the bell cord and
as the train slowed up jumped off and
escaped.
TEN miles below Austin, Texas, on cotton
plantation, four Mexican gamblers fell out
over monte game, when one of them drew
his pistol and Shot and killed the other three.
BILL DARNwELL, cx-policeman and
keeper Of 'chili con carne" stand at Austin,
Texas, shot and killed a woman, Maggie
Null, and then blew out his own brains.
IN Gwinnett County, Ca, Fanny CHAM
bers, colored girl, who quarreled with
Pierce Wright, her lover, cut off his head
with razor.
FIRE started in H. S. Collns's jewelry
store in Eureka Springs, Ark, und con-
sumed property valued at 500, 900. The
Perry House. Springfield House, Ohio House
and thirty-fve other business and dwelling
houses were destroyed.
JOHN WEBER and Henry Switzer, living
at the same cabin on the line of their adioin-
ing claims, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Territory, were called to their doors by per.
sons unknown and shot and killed
THE train carrying Barnum &, Bailey's
circus was wrecked at Macon, Ga. John
Kelly, from Michigan, and Mack Glenn. from
Macon were killed outright, and eight valu-
able horses were killed.
THE books of John j. Irving, late Circuit
Court Clerk of Hamilton County, Tenn,
have been found short between $4,000 and
$4,000.