The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-05
South and West.

THE Afro American leagues in convention
at Chicago elected W. A. Pledger President.
THREE HUNDRED people at Carmi, Ill, have
been compelled to leave their homes by sud-
den rise in the Little Wabash River.
BY the swelling of dry timbers an $4,000
gallon tank collapsed at Jeffersonville Ind,
fatally injuring Joe Gable, Lowell McCloud
and William Hahn, workmen.
FOUR men were killed and several others
badly wounded by the premature explosion
of blast at O camp near johnson City,
Tenn.
THREE cars were hurled down an embank-
ment at Hampton, Utah, and eleven persons
more or less seriously injured.
JACOB ETTIyGER, a railroad conductor,
was run over at Union Station, Baltimore.
Both legs were cut off, and be died on the
way to the hospital.
THE Afro-American Convention, in
session at Chicago, decided to indorse no
political party.
WILLIAM BRANNoN, a violent patient in
the insane asylum at Chattahooche Fla,
broke the doors Of two rooms adjoining his
own and murdered three other patients.
A POSTAL CLERK named j. B. Devine was
arrested in Chicago, charged with 800 thefts.
Four lives were lost by the sinking of the
steamer Katie Robbins in the Mississippi
River.
A TRAIN wreck has occurred near Br-
minghain, Ala. The engineer, William
Derry, was killed, and several others were
seriously, perhaps fatally, injured.
D1pHTHER1A is epidemic at Hayes, Ill,
and several deaths have occurred Three
children in the family of James Woods died
within two days.
ELMER FREED, Silas Tracy, Charles VIII
son and Alexander Whitmore, of Gladstone,
ILL.,, started for dance, when their team be-
came unmanageable and backed the wagon
into the river. All were drowned.
FREIGHT trains collided at Waverly, Ohio,
and E. Stapleton, brakeman, was killed.
ALL the railroads that cross the Rocky
and Sierra Nevada Mountains were
blockaded by the snow drifts.
Al. Unionville, Mo-, the residen ,e Of Luther
McCalment was burned to the ground, and
Mrs McCalment's aged mother and two
children were burned to death.
PETER OGLEsBY, nephew of Ex-Governor
Oglesby, of Illinois, accldently shot AMI
killed himself whi hunting near Denver,
Col.
A BAND of thirteen Indians attempted to
cross the Flat Head Lake, Mont. Eight of the
party crossed in safety, but the other five,
who rode too close together, broke through
the ice and were drowned.
A FORT BEND rioter when placed on trial
in Galveston, Texas, was shot down by
brother of man he had killed; general fu.
sillade took place in the courthouse.
CONSTABLE LONG, of Guyandotte County,
KY. was murdered and his wife desperately
wounded by band of ruffians who broke
open the door and found the couple in bed.
SHERIFF DAVIDSON, at West Plains, Mo,
attempted to arrest John Langston. When
he approached Langston the latter made
motion as if to draw his revolver, when the
Sheriff shot him dead.
AsERIoUs fight between whites and col
ored mill hands occurred at Apalachicola,
Fla. Frank Horne was killed. The Sheriff
appealed to Governor Fleming for guns, am
munition and troops.
THE snow blockade on the Western rail-
roads has been raised. The first train in
week from the East arrived at Portland,
Ore Six hundred passengers and fifteen
hundred sacks Of mail have been released by
the opening of the road.