The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
South and West.

THE National Live Stock Commissioners
met at Springfield, ILL.,, and adopted resolu-
lions for the suppression OF contagious dis
eases.
AT corn shucking near Bristol, Tenn,
two bows. named Richard Matthews and
Jesse Lenmons quarreled over joke: The
former stabbed the latter to death and then
attempted suicide.
A coLoRED barber named Doc Jones
shot and killed John Westerield, white
barber, at Owensboro, KY. Shortly after
ward Jones was lynched.
A cINDER tap in the rolling mill at New
Philadelphia, Ohio exploded, shattering
portion of the building and instantly killing
a workman named Richard Horner. Another
man was badly injured.
FELIX KAMPFF, an old German, has been
sentenced to hang at Charleston, w. Va, for
the murder Of his son and daughter.
Four train robbers near San Angelo,
Texas killed brakeman and had one Of
their number badly wounded. They got but
little booty.
THE South Carolina House of Representa-
sives defeated bill requiring railroad com
panies to provide separate cars for whites
and colored passengers.
D1pHTHERIA in its most malignant form is
prevalent Ill POckiOIu, H. iue 1eoShloI "
Seminary closed with fifteen of its pupils
down with the disease. There were over a
hundred cases, and many people have left the
city.
A FIRE broke out in the Guernsey build.
inc. in st. Louis, and before it was extin-
vuished the loss amounted to $3.50, 000 The
fire was caused by electric light wires.
A GREAT sensation was caused in CONNER.
,ial circles at San Francisco by the sudden
and terrible death of Captain John H. Free
man, inspector for Lloyds, and F. K. Cation,
wealthy wheat merchant Both were
smothered while inspecting the damaged
cargo of the British ship Durham, which was
on fire at Port Costa.
NEGLIGENCE of brakemen resulted in a
railroad collision near Saxon, Mich. Brake
man RYAN was instantly killed, and Brake
man Connors and Engineer Chatham badly
hurt.
THE Nebraska Bank at Pawnee. Neb., has
failed.
A FAMILY named Wilhelm, consisting Of
man. wife and child, were suffocated by coal
gas from their stove, at Akron, Ohio.
WILLIAM EMMoNs, colored man, living
about fifteen miles northwest of Lima, Ohio,
was murdered by parties who lay In wait
for him as he was going home.
ONE of the side bars of an engine on the
Northwestern road, two miles west of Lake
City, Iowa, broke loose, tearing through the
cab. John Anderson, fireman, was killed,
and two others were fatally injured.
THE body of Joe Mooney, tramp hor-
ribly burned, was found near Lafayette, Ind.
A gang of tramps who had whisky are sup
Eosed to have quarreled and burned Mooney
to death.
CHARLES STEVENS, first mate, and William
Higginson, second mate of the ill-fated ship
Durham, which was damaged by fire at Port
Costa were drowned in the bay at San Fran
cisco
WILLIAM EUBANKS, Of Los Gatos, Cal.
becoming ncensed at his 16.year-old daugh-
ter's refusal to hand him her wages, shot and
killed her, He then cut his throat with
razor.
ROBERT MARTIN, a merchant of Martins.
S. c., was waylaid and killed the other night
by unknown parties.
Mas. IRENE SKEELS, who shot and killed
her husband while he was in the company Of
variety actress was acquitted OF murder az
Spokane Falls, Wash.
JOHN O'NEILL was shot and killed by his
son-in-law. William Harris, at Butte, Mon.
O'Neill was trying to shoot his wife. and
fired at Harris first. The Coroner's jury ac-
luitted Harris.
JOHN S. PARKER, a Grand Army man and
formerly a well-to-do real estate dealer i'll
Kansas City, Mo-, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Potomac River, at Washington.
Financial trouble was the cause.