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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern ahd Middle States.

| AT the inquest in the cases Of the five men
killed at the National Line Pier, New York
city, q verdict sE accidental death was rem
dered. Richard johnson, one of the victims,
was shown to haveleft three widows
Ex-PaEsIDES NJ CLEVELAND urged ballot
reform and Henry w. Grady discussed
the race problem in the South at the banquet
of the Boston Merchants Association.
A cAvE-1N occurred at Rundy's coal mine,
and fatally irjuiirg Frank Hauff, both min
erS.
Dr.. E. c. HIGBEE. State Superintendent
of Public Schools of Pennsylvania, has died
at Lancaster, aged fifty-nine years.
WARREN LELAND, JR., the well-known ho-
tel proprietor Of Long Branch, N. j.. has
made an assignment of all his property to
Joseph McDermott, a lawyer Of Freehold.
The liabilities including mortgages, are
S1G2, 900.
The injunction obtained by the electric
light companies, of New York city. restrain
ing the city from interfering with their prop
crty was dissolved, and preparations were at
once made to cut down defective wires.
THE State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
which met at Harrisburg, Penn, decided in
favor of giving farmers the same protection
enjoyed by manufacturers and against COM
pulsory education.
Two brothers, John and Alexander Nickel
lar, aged twenty-one and twenty-seven years
respectively, were buried alive by the cave-in
Of sand pit near Cassonvlle, Mich.
The Huron mine Office and boarding house
at Hancock, Mich, has been burned, and
two Finnish women and one child periShed In
the flames
A JOINT resolution wss adopted in both
houses of the Legislature at Richmond, Va,
urging Virginia:S Senators and Representa-
tiveS in Congress to vote for holding the
Worlds Fair at Washington.
THREE magazines, containing ten to2s of
nitro -glycerine, were blown up at North
Clarendon, Penn. Three oil derricks were
wrecked, twenty-five thousand barrels.of oil
burned, and windows shattered for dis
tance of a mile around. Loss SIC, 900.
THE American Federation Of Labor in ses-
sion at Boston made provision for strike
fund in preparation for the demand for the
eight-hour day on May1.
ANOTHER man has been killed by an
electric shock in New York city; and
vigorous onslaught was made on the over
head wires by city officials, with the result
that the town was left in comparative dark
ness by night.
AFLooD in the Conemaugh River carried
off several bridges and did other damage at
Johnstown, Penn.
THREE men were killed by a coal train
running through an open drawbridge over
the Overpeck River near Hackensack, n. j.
MISS ETA DURGIN, of Dover, N. H.,
while walking on the track in the railroad
yard, was run over and killed by shifting
train.
The delegates to the Pan-American Con-
gress visited New York city, and were en-
tanned by the Mayor and prominent citizens.
A BOILER exploded at the Cambria Iron
Works, Johnstown, Penn, and Engineer
Henegan was roasted to death by escaping
steam.
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South and West.

DIPHTHERiA has been raging at the little
town of La Grange, Mo. A dozen deaths oc-
Cured. Many persons left the town. The
public schools closed.
WILL CARDIN, a white man, was lynched
near Cleveland, Tenn, for an assault on
seven year-old girl.
JOHN MARTIN, Ambrose Donnelly and
Bert Sheldon, all little boys broke through
theice while skating on mill pond at Iron
ton, Wis Martin and Sheldon were
drowned.
BILL" EAsToN, alias s:Black Bill" Jack"
Powers and q conductor on the Northern Pa
cific Railroad were arrested at Tacoma,
Wyoming. for smuggling opium. They are
the leading men of gang of smugglers who
have been giving the authorities much
trouble.
w. c. SHU1TLEFF, of Waterloo, Ia, has
been appointed to the position made vacant
by the defalcation Of Cashier Silcott
The South Carolina Civil Rights law,
which provided that the same accommoda-
ton must be furnished for both races by
railroads, hotels, theatres, ETC., has been re-
pealed by the State Legislature.
THOMAS SPooNER was hanged at Port Al
len, La, for the murder Of Seth Sevearingen,
and Carter Williamson for the murder Of his
wife at Dorseyville, La.
A BOILER at Randall Brothers & Co.'S
sawmill. Covington, Tenn, exploded, COM
pletely demolishing the building and killing
Fireman Jones and Mr.. Stewart one Of the
firm. Two of the employees were seriously
injured.
HARRY WALTERS fell into vat in which
he was boiling maplesyrup at Union Springs,
Ala, and was scaldcd to death.
So serious has the epidemic of diphtheria
in Canton District, w. Va, become that the
County Board of Health has directed the
erection of a large hospital in the afflicted
district and will send competent staff of
physicians to take charge Of it. Many deaths
have occurred.
JOHN HENIMER, aged eighty-fve, while re-
TURNING from church at Chicago, was struck
by train az grade crossing and instantly
killed
FIVE prominent Mormon officials at Salt
Lake City, Utah, have been arrested, charged
with conspiracy and appropriation OF
public funds
FIVE men entered the express Office at
Brownswood, Texas, knocked down the ex-
press agent and robbed the safe OF $1,000.
Two brothers, Swedcs, named Berglund,
were instantly killed in the Cleveland mine
near Ishpeming, Mich, by the unexpected
explosion of a blast.
AN election in the First Colored Baptist
Church, Kansas City, Mo-, ended in a riot.
Two men named Benjamin and knight were
fatally cut and number of others seriously
hurt.
FRANK Hurry, Chicago travelling man,
met r. E. Smith. a travelling man of Louis
vile, at Mt. Sterling KY, and demanded an
apology for a remark made about his wife.
In reply Smith shot him fatally.
GEORGE GuEHTHER, aged seventy, OF st.
Louis, Mo-, was fatally beaten by his son
Emil. The boy bears q bad reputation, and
is only seventeen years old. The quarrel
arose over the refusal OF his mother to furnish
him with money.
SIX bridges on the California Southern
Railroad have been washed out at Salidad
Canon, Cal, and the storm there has done
$200, GOO damage.
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SAD DROWNING ACCIDENl
How a Mother and Three Childre
Lost Their Lives. IS

hOSC AkSSSs rtfai.3tf
A terrible and peculiarly sad accidsl
occurred the other day, by which mothl
and her three children were drowned
Saukville on the Milwaukee River. Ad:
year-old son Of Claud Augustin went to q
river bank and ventured out on the ice.
suddenly broke and he fell into the waite
His mother heard his cries and rushed to b
rescue. Frantically throwing herself M
the icy water she endeavored to save ~
drowning boy. In few minutes she w
beyond her depth and drowning herse1
Her seventeen-year-old daughter Angus
heard the cries and fastened to the spq
Seeing her mother in the water she hastent
to her rescue. The ice broke with her a.
she was thrown into the chilling torreI|
Mother and daughter, locked together I'M
death struggle, sank beneath the water az
ice.
They were Just disappearing when q fot
year-old son Of Mrs. Augustin who had be
with the sister toddled out on the ice. w
plaintive cries of Mamma, mamma, wa
YOUR he ran over the ice until he reach
the hole in which his mother, his sister
his brother were buried. The little fellow
his mother and sister sink, and threw hiI
self, as he supposed, into his mothers arm
In an instant he was carried beneatn
ice.
A man named Christian Nilssen saw
tragedy, but was powerless to render q
He was on the rotten ice and broke seye1
times before he reached the spot where
family had been wiped out. When ne ma
reached there thev had disappeared.
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TIE CRONIN Case.
Verdict of the Jury in the Great
Murder Trial at Chicago.
Four of the Prisoners Found
Guilty and One Acquitted

At last the great Cronin trial ut chicago IS
ended. Every one Of the five men charged
with the murder of DR.. Philip H. Cronin es-
capes the gallows. One of them, John Il.
Beggs, goes scot free. John Kunse goes to
the penitentiary for three years. Dan
Coughlin, the big ex-detective; Patrick
OSullivan, the iceman, and Martin Burke
are condemned to life imprisonment. After
long deliberation the jury rendered the fol-
lowing verdict:
We, the jury, find the defendant, John =.
Beggs not guilty.
We, the jury, find the defendant, John
Kunze, guilty of manslaughter as charged In
the Indictment, and fix his punishment at
Imprisonment in tie Peritentiary for term
of three years.
We. the jury. find the defendants. Dan
Coughlin. Patrick OSullivan and Martin
Burke guilty of murder in the manner ana
form as charged in the indictment. and hS
the penalty at Imprisonment IN the Penl-
tentiary for the term of their naoural hVes.
The Jury was out seventy hours, but an
understanding was not arrived at as to the
guilt of the four men found guilty until the
day before the verdict was rendered. -.
Previous to that time Juror Culver. one of
the Jurors, insisted upon an acquittal, and re-
fused to give up. The arguments brought to
bear upon him by his fellow jurymen, how
ever induced him to come to terms and he
reluctanly Joined with the others in verdict
of guilty as to Coughlin, Sullivan, Burke and
Kunze Culver made the fight for 'Beggs
on the ground that the State he'd confessed
that it had not proven the appointment OF
the secret committee which sentenced DR..
Cronin to death.
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EcIipses for 1890.

There will be three Eclipses this year, two
of the Sun and one of the Moon-neitter Of;
them visible in ths United States and q
Lunar Appulse.
l. A Lunar Appulse, June 8. The nearest
approach Of the Moon to the Earth's shadow
occurs at 1h. 37min. morn, Washington
time Whether a contact of the Moon and
the Earths shadow Umbral will occur is mn:
certain, owing to the uncertainty Of atmos.i
pheric conditions. If contact occurs it win
be visible throughout the United States.
2. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, June IL,
visible generally through the eastern cont.
nent.
g. A Partial Eclipse Of the Moon, Noyem-
ber 26, invisible in the United States ~.
4. A Central Eclipse Of the Sun, December
1,;visible in the Indian and Southern OceanS,s
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ROASTED TO DEATH.
Electricity Claims Victim in Obi

Electricity Claims Victim in Ohio.
Edward Dalton, foreman of the improve
ment gang Of the Lake Shore Railroad, who
resided at Elkhart, Ind, met horrible
death at Toledo, Ohio. He was engaged i'll
repairing q skylight in the roof of the old
Union Depot, and in some manner fell upon
an electric wire on tEa roof close by. His
clothing was dampenod by the drizzling rain
which had been falling all day, and he was
Immediately prostrated by the heavy cur
rent He lay there for half an hour
before the current was shut off. When
picked up it was found that he was terribly
burned and swollen, literally cooked. BE
was forty years of age and leaves q family.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BREWER Is nepheS
Justice Field.
PHYSICALLY, Speaker Reed is the -
man in the House.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY, the British scient
Is confirmed dyspeptic.
GENERAL BouLANGER has signed
tract to deliver thirty lectures IN Amer1c'
NEITHER Queen Victoria nor the Prin
OF Wales ever carry money about WIN 10
EM1S PAsHA's real name is Schnitzer.
is an Austrian, and was born at Appeln
1S40.
THE Prince of Wales makes point "
visiting anywhere of not being seen tW1cf
the same coat.
CARDINAL HAYNoLD, celebrated HUI
rian botanist, has suddenly lost the fac]
of reading and writing.
SENATOR QUAY's chief recreation Liz
novel reading. He is very fond OF t1eio|
Dickens, Bulwer and Thackeray.
BUFFALO BILL is said to be investing
recently acquired fortune i'll w WeStern
and Washington ID. c. real estate.
SENATOR BECK is still an invalid, AMI
physicians tell him he must do little oI
work during the present session OF Cong
SENATOR FRYE is Under the met
height and stoutly built. His hair
moustachc are generously sprinkled
gray.
SECRETARY BLAINE eats eggs for b
fast, cracked wheat for lunch aud roast
for dinner This diet has greatly imp1
his health.
TEE new Chinese Minister at Washi1
is exclusive, and discourageS the membd
his Legation from accepting lnvltatic
Washington drawing-rooms.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is Ell
nine. He says that he still relnembe
early days when he got only two dollar
an article. and was glad to get it.
PoRFoR1o DIAz, the President of NJ
combines sallow skin and rigid moutl
blue-black, closely-croppcd hair and g
ing moustacEe tinged with gray.
Count SCaEREMTzEFE, who is the
man in Russia, is the only one of the r
mobiles whom the Car condescendSto
with his confidence and intimacy.
EX-EMPERoR Don PEDRO will pa
winter at Cannes, France, occupying Uii
of the Duchess of La Tour Naumberg,
an intimate friend of the ex-Empress.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany
rousingly cheered for assisting Won
bafore a large crowd, in putting
miifsary cloak and then buttoning
him. ... ~
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Of the two Senators just elected to repre-
sent the State of North Dakata in the Con.
gress of the United States, Gilbert A. Pierce
IS by far the best known Although still a
young man, his journalistic work and his
position as Governor of the Territory of Da-
kota have given him large acquaintance
throughout the Union. 1t was while he was
Chicago newspaper man, in 1885, that he
first visited Dakota, as member of a news
paper excursion to Yellowstone Park. Mr..
Pierce was appointed Governor of Dakota, by
3, 1884. He eserved until superseded by Louis
K. Church. Since the expiration of his term
rs Governor he has lived in Bismarck. His
nomination for Senator was made by accla-
nation, and the Legislature wished him to
have the 'long tern;n but in the drawing at
Washington, Senator Pierce drew two-year,
and Senator Casey four-year term.
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LYMAN r. CASEY.

Lyman R. Casey. the second Senator elect
ID, was born at York, Livingston County,
New York, in 1887. His family removed to
Ypsilanti, Michigan, while he was still very
young. He prepared for course of study in
The Michigan University, but never entered
While still young man be went into business
in the hardware firm of Tefft. Kellogg &
Casey. in Toledo, Ohio. The firm prospered,
and in 1877 Mr.. Casey went abroad, and spent
Eve years in European travel and study. In
1882 he settled in Darlington, Foster County,
Dakota, ON farm which now contains 5000
acres. He is Secretary and General Manager
Of the Casey Darlington Land Company, a
concern which owns or controls loo, 600 acres
Of land and whose capital Is put at $500, 900.
In person the new Senator is tall and slender,
with blue.eyes, pale face, and black mus
tache. He lives in Jamestown, and has a
wife and three children
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Horace Boies will be famous as the first
Democrat elected Governor of Iowa. He
was Republican until a few years ago. In
the last National campaign he worked and
voted for Democratic President for the first
time. Mr. Boies was born in Aurora Erie
County, New York, December 7th, 1927, and
was educated in the common schools and
academy in that town. He was admitted to
the bar in November, 1852, at Buffalo, and
practiced in that county for fifteen years.
He was a member of the New YORK Lcgis-
lature in 1858, and moved to Waterloo, Ia,
in April, 1867, where he has practiced his pro
fession ever since. He divides his time be-
tween farming and the practice of law, il
both of which callings he has been highly
successful
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Noble upon their agreement to cede their
land in the Dakotas to the Government.
PRESIDENT HARRISON through Secretary
Blaine telegraphed his congratulations to
Henry NJ. Stanley at Zanzibar.
THE japanese Minister to this country has
been called home by his Government
THE President has nominated John W. ia
cobus prominent New York city Republ-
can, to succeed General McMahon, as Mar
shall for the Southern District OF New YORK.
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FOUR ROBBERS LYNCHED.
Speedy Justice bv an Arkansas FiSi-
lance Committee.

Four robbers have been lynched in Maumelle
Township, Ark, by vigilance committee.
Henry Wright, a well-to-do farmer, went to
Fletcher's store at Big Maumelle, and while
on the way home four masked mon stopped
his team, drew their pistols and demanded
his money or his life.
Wright was unarmed, but made desper-
ate fight with his fists. He was knocked out
of the rear of the wagon, falling to the
ground insensihle Next morning Wright
was found by his neighbors, who had gone in
be rallied sufficient ty to describe his assai!-
ants.
A vigilance committee was at once organ
!zed. and the murdcrers were caught anu
iy nchtul
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RIVER PIRATES.
Eleven Of Them Captured After an
Exciting Chase.

Eleven Of Them Captured After an
Exciting Chase.
Eleven Mississippi River rirates-eight
men and three women-have been captured
below Cairo, Ill.,, by Marshal Malone and a
posse after an exciting chase. The gang had
come in a shanty-boat down the Mississippi
from Alton, and worked at various points.
One night they made a raid on the office OF
a stave-factory, on the Mississippi side of
Cairo, overpowered the Waterman and fire.
man, blindfolded them, and blew the safe to
pieces, carrying off $40 and valuable papers.
Marshal Malone and posse armed with
Winchesters, followed them down the river
in tug, and brought them back with their
plunder. A fight was imminent when the
ting with the officers was sighted by the fugi.
tives, but the officers made them throw uI
their hands and surrender. r.---.---.----.--.-
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MURDERED BY A WOMAN.
A Girl Shoots a Man Because He
Teased Her.

Teased Her.
Louisa Epperson, daughter of wealthy
farmer, of Barkersville, Mo-, shot and killed
Julius Hofer, young man employed by her
father, as he sat at the family table eating
his dinner. Hofer had been in the habit Of
teasing the girl about her admirers, and at
the breakfast table Hofer made some remarks
which incensed the girl. She told Hofer that if
herepeated the remark she would shoot him.
Hofer promised to refrain, but at dinner be-
gan again on the same subject The girl,
without O word, arose, left tho table, walked
deliberately into another room, picked up a
3S-calibre revolver, and returning to the
dining-room, shot Hofcr in the right side OF
dead The murderess is described as an un-
usually attractive girl about nineteen years
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Morning Stars.
Venus, until Febru-
ary Is, and after
December: 8.
Mars, until February
Jupiter, from Janu-
ary 10 to May /.
Saturn, from August
80 to December s.
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Season for 1890.

Winter begins December 81 1889, and
lasts SO days.
Spring begins March 20, $780, and lasts go
days.
Summer begins June 81, 1890, and lasts 94||
days.
Autumn begins September o, 1880, and
lasts 80 days,
Winter heoinS Decenater 21 1890. .li.G5slfLfe}
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A COMPANY of Hcllanders who have been
growing celery in Michigan find the industry
amPhfy1ng so that they now propose to buy
aand to turn them into celery fields. -
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THERE are now such a large number ot
foreign officers studying at Berlin that the
German Government has established an i'll
ternational military academy for their az
commodation. There are a great many
Turks and also several Chinese Officers
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Planets Brightest.

Mercury, January 10, May 8, August 81,
and December 25 setting after the Sun; alsoI
February &c, June 26, and October 1s, rising |
before the Sun. Venus, October 90. Mars,
May 81. Jupiter, July so. Saturn Febru-
airy 18. Uranus, April IA.
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Evening STAR

!. Evening Stars
Venus, from Febr
ary 1s, to Deced
Der s.
Mars, after February
8. |
Jupiter, until Janu-
ary 10, and after
May l. u
Saturn, until Aug
ust 30, and after |
December 8.
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THE SOUTH'S POPULATION
An Increase OF fThirty-threc Per Cent.
in Ten Years--Whites and Blacks.

The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesmam has
reports from the Governors and State Comp
trollers of the Southern States giving their
estimates of the present population of each
State. These estimates are based largely
upon careful inquiry instituted by the State
Comptrollers on behalf of the Trddesman.
The estimates are as follows:
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Total 10. .IS4, $50

The total was il. 63S, $50 in 1850. showing
an increase in the ten years in the whole
South Of over thirty-three per cent. The
Governors estimate the whites and blacks as
follows: Whites u, 2lS, 430; blacks, 1870, 720.
The white population, according to these esti-
mates, has increased little over 3,2O0:0 600,
while the colored population shows an in
crease Of about 100000.
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AN exMbitlon OF ancient Russian curios
will be held at Moscow by the Russian
Archaeological Society. The church digni-
taries haze refused to send tth2;r tt-Sc:s.,-es-
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Washington.

THE Treasury Department is informed that
the Government of Venezuela has restored
the import duties on corn. rice, beans and
peas, which were placed on the free list last
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Church Days and Cycles of Time

Winter begins December 81, 1890.
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The Possibilities of the south.

Nothing more perspicuously brings to
the public mind the possibilities of the
South than the following pregnant fig
ures. When it is, too, taken into con-
sideration that the South possesses
more valuable minerals to the square
mile than any other section of the
Union, and that this wealth is still I'M
developed, and most of it untouched,
what the future holds in store for us
may be better imagined than computed
in figures. Capital is coming in every
day from the North, West, and Europe,
to share in the development that must
soon take place. The members of the
Iron and Steel Institute, recently on a
visit to this country from England and
Germany, were not only surprised, but
astounded at what they saw, and gave
such representations when they reached
their own countries, Of the bOundless
material wealth of the South, that the
papers have been filed with comments
and deductions as to what must follow,
and all in favor of the South.
skWe are indebted to the 1fa7satf actatae7s s,
Record for the collation. of figures given
"a publication that has done herculean
work for the Southern States, and is
still laboriously engaged in directing at
tention and capital to this section. AS
the Record presents it, the density Of
population of Southern States is as fol-
lou,c.