The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-09
South and West.

JOHN SMITH Thomas Ryan and John Sui
livan attempted to 60 ashore at Santa Cruz,
CAL, in a small boat. The boat capsizsd and
Smiths two companions were drowned.
Smith clung to the boat for several hours be-
fore he was rescued.
A GENERAL tie up of the building trades is
now on in Cincinnati, Ohio, which throws
5000 men out Of work.
The Birmingham lAla.) car works were
destroyed by fire. There was no Insurance.
and the loss is placed at 100000.
DR.. F. H. RoFUs committed suicide at
Lincoln, Neb., by cutting his throat from
ear to ear He was an old citizen and we'll
known physician. He had lost three wives
in the last seven years under circumstances
which caused much talk, and it is believed
this seriously affected his mind.
COLONEL J. l.. SHEFFIELD, chief clerk in
the office of the State Superintendent Of
Education Of Alabama, while at Gunthers-
vile, Ala, shot and instantly. killed MaJor,
Buck May, a prominent citizen. Colonel
Sheffield is past sixty.
COMPLAINTS of great numbers of rats and
their destruction of grain come from all
parts of the country around Golconda, Ill.
Neighbors meet and have regular rat-killing
parties
closed its doors.
A SINGULAR and terrible railroad accident
occurred near Childs Station, Nd, by which
John Mcnamara, a fireman of the locomo-
tive, was instantly killed, and Charles Acken-
he'll, an engineer of tho Staten Island tN.Yl
Rapid Transit Company, was so badly in
jured that be afterward died. Among the
injured was Bishop Keane, rector o. the
Catholic University, Washington, D. G:
Thirteen other passengers, including son of
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas received severe
hurts.
THREE children Of John Lober, we'll
known farmer ten miles south Of Wichita,
Kan, were burned to death. Lober and his
wife left them locked up in their house while
they went couple of miles away visiting
neighbors.
Two colored men wers killed, two white
men badly hurt AMI several others were
shot and cut up in row which occurred on
al East Tennessee train, near Ellenwood, Ga.
WORTH DIcKERsoN has been chosen by thu
usual majority to succeed John G. Carlisle
as the Representative in Congress Of tbs
Sixth Kentucky District.
THOMAS Cox, the owner of a sawmill at
Leesburg, KY; Joseph Gilk, the engineer,
and two colored workmen were killed by tbs
explosion Of the boiler.
CHIcAGos population is put by the censu;
returns at 100000.
GEORGE W. McCREARY, Secretary Of War
during President Hayes's administration,
died in st. Joseph, Mo-, at the residence OF
his daughter. He had been suffering with a
tumor Of the stomach for some time. He
was born near Evansville, Ind, August 20,
1885.
TREES were uprootei, fences swept away
and the growing crops prostrate1 by severl
storm in Rockingham and Augusta Counties
in Virginia.
DR.. ORMoND BEATTIE, ex-President OF Cen
tre College, of Danyiile. KY, died after {
brief illness of congestion Of the stomach
He was born in Mason County, KY, Angus
13, 1915.
j. W. DELAPLANE, Of hampton, Va, witt
his son, daughter and nephew, was sailing.
The;on was knocked overheard by callisio,
with another boat, and in trying to rescue
him the other two men were drowned with
him.
A GREAT strike took place on the Illinois
Central Railroad at Chicago. Ill. Over one
thousand conductors, switchmen and brake
men quit work because Of the alleged obnox-
iousness of Superintendent Russell.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, plead
guilty at Purvis, Miss, to the Indictment for
prizs fighting with Jake Kilrain, and was
tined $500 and costs. He paid his fine and
was discharged.
THE entirs business portion Of Cerrillos,
New Mexico, fifty miles north of Albuquer-
que, was destroyed by fire. The loss is about
100000.
THE Illinois Republican State Convention
met at Springfield AMI nominated Franz
Amberg of Chicago, for State Treasurer
and DR.. Richard A. Edwards. the present
incumbent, for Superintendent of Public L.
struction.