The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-30
South and West.

ALBERT w. WEIR Chief of Police of
Rockford, Ill.,, committed suicide when his
:orgerics were discovered.
FRED ARMSTRONG and Frank Hawk were
silled by black damp in the shaft of an
abanlonel mine neal. What Cheer, Iowa.
SMALLPOX is raging at Laredo, Texas. A
'arge number o. deaths have already oc-
cured AMI many new cases are daily re-
orted.
A FATAL riot occurred between whites anil
blacks near Stars Mills Ga \ pitched battle
beoan, in which six white men were shot
Ccx, Galloway, two Drews AMI two Others.
r. was reported that four colored men were
killed.
THE refinery of the Southern Cotton Sesl
Oil Mills, near Atlanta, Ga, WAS burned.
Over two hundred thousand gallons Of oil
were consumed. Loss SlO0,OJ0.
STATE SENATOR J. FISHER SMITH, Of Sa-
5ine, La, the man whose illness prevented
;he passage Of the Lottery Franchise bill
over the Governors veto, died during the
afternoon at Baton Rouge.
THOMAS CLAY MCCREERY, formerly for
two terms United States Senator from Ken
lucky, died at his home in Owensboro, KY,
where he had suffered for several years from
paralysis He was born in Kentucky in 1917.
CONGRESSMAN BUTTERwoRTH, OF Ohio,
was elected Secretary of the Worlds Co.
lumbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill.
Ex-L1EUrENANT GOVERNOR j.. R. WAR
WICK, of Stark County, was nominated by
The Democratic Congressional Convention at
Orrville Ohio, on the seventy-fourth ballot.
He will run against Major William Mckin'
icy.
INDIANA farmers arc thrashing and
r,,,hn
turning out only from thirty to forty per
cent. insteal OF from seventy to eighty, AMI
IS of light and inferior grade.
ALF COOPER, colorel was hangel at Bir-
mingham, Ala, for numbering friend.
William johnson, colored, was hanged at
New Orleans, La, for killing his mistress:
Armsteal Jones, q siXteen-year-old colore
boy, was executed at Orangeburs. S. G., for
the murder of his step-Inother. Edward ID.
Gallagher, white, was also hanged for muir
der at Vancouver, Washington.
FIRE at Ithaca Mich, destroyed twenty
nine buildings.
Count LEO yCN BLCcHER, n descendant of
tho Waterloo Butcher, was driving through
the streets of San Antonio, Texas when his
| horses ran away. They cana in COLLISION
| with street car and two persons were killed.
| Butcher was arrested.
AT Baden, Cal, n wagon containing III
| teen people was run down by II train. The
| people were tossed in all directions. Six Were
killed outright ami the others were injured.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over portions oi
| Minnesota AMI Wisconsin, and it was re
ported that noarly 200 people had beer
| killed.
THE Northern Pacific Express Company:
| Office in Chicago, ILL.,, has been roooei OF
| Sl4,000. There are conflicting stories Us u
how the robbery was done.
PERRY CoMsToCK, well-to-do farmer o
| Owasso, Mich, murdered his yo ung wife, a
tempted to kill his adopted son, Oliver, an
then committed uicide.
CHARLES PARROT, a wealthy planter o
Cleveland County, Ark, shot and kile'
Calvin AMI Thomas Huddlestone, two othe
rich planters near Orlando, Ark.
THIRTEEN people were out in boat OF
Alachua Lake, near Gainesville, Fla, an
the boat capsized. Three of tho party-A1rs
| L. J. Burkhem, Mrs. Burkhcim's son, ages
threo years and Miss Tillie Brown-wer
drowned. The others c.ung to the boat AM
were rescued.
HUGO DLINDsEE, aged fifty, and his tw'
sons were fatally injured at X ilroad cross
ing in Chicago, ILL.,, while crossing the track
in Il wagon. The accident was due to tn
fragrant stupidity of gate keeper.
TIE seven story warehouse of the Sccurit
Warthous, Company, OF Minneapolis, MINI.
was destroyed by fire. Loss nearly 81, ,0O0
! 600.
CROPS in the vicinity of Highland, Glas
gov and DeiGcr, Mimi, were completely dC
stroyCd by wind and hail. Every chinne
in the town of Elgin, Mimi, was knockc
over.