The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
South and West.

DANIEL HARVEY shot and killed his aged
mother at Milwaukee, Oregon, and then
killed himself.
IT was decided to call the Worlds Fair
at Chicago THE Worlds Columbian Es-
position"
NEAR Lebanon Oregon, Mrs. Aurnsburgh
shot and killed her faithless husband, Grant
Aurnsburgh, and then blew her own brains
out.
THE United StateSrevenue cutter Corwln
sailed from San Francisco for Seattle, Wash
ington, on her way to the Behring Sea.
TIE South Dakota Democrats, in conven-
tion at Aberdeen, have nominated Morris
Taylor for Governor, Peter Couchman for
Lieutenant Governor, and Judge Z. III.
Thomas and W. I. Quigley for Congress.
GOVERNOR FrFER has called a special ses-
sion Of the Illinois Legislature to take action
on the Worlds Fair.
TIE street-car strike at Columbus, Ohio,
was settled by compromise.
JOHN and Garret Davis and Fred. Gros-
lette were killed in fight between cowboys
in Socorro County, New Mexico.
THREE highwaymen rode into Joshua,
Texas. and robbed the Postoffice. They got
three gold watches and 5000 in money.
EDWARD HOFFMAN and j. Nicholson, two
trainmen, were killed in freight collision at
Ortez, New Mexico.
CHAPMAN COLEMAN, United States Secre-
tary of Legation at Berlin, Germany. for
twenty years was married at Frankfort
KY, to Miss Mary s. Hendrick.
SHERIFF THOMAS C. CRANmER, of Boone
Vile, Mo-, was shot by prisoner namei
West and died at 6 o'clock next morning.
THERE were eight failures Of naval cadets
in the annual examinations at Annapolis, Md.
THE cause of ths threatened outbreak of
Cheyennes in Montana is the fact that the
Indians had been furnished with insufficient
food.
AT Omaha, Neb, fire destroyed the main
building Of the Carter White Lead Works, OF
that city, Loss $50, ,0O0
THE United States ship Iroquois was disa-
bled on attempting to 60 to sea at San Fran
cisco. Cal.
TIE treasury of the State of Kentucky is
empty and the deficit will probably amount
to $4,000. Governor Buckner will save the
States credit by advancing money without
| interest from his private fortune 70 meet all
urgent obligations. He has already advanced
$4,000.
| FIRE in st. Louis, Mo-, destroyed Mansur
g. Tibbitt's farm machinery store, and dam
aged the Sharpleigh Hardware Company's
store Loss, $l50,00o.
| c.. SHORTER Speaker of the Alabama
| House of Representatives at the last session,
| died at Eufauia Ala, after four weeks lii
ness of typhoid fever.
ONE Of the peaks of Mount Shasta, Cali
| fornia, has disappeared; it is believed to have
fallen into the crater.
THREE boys were drowned at Falmouth,
Ky, while fishing.
Two men were fatally hurt during fight
at a picnic near Elmwoo1, Ohio. A score o.
people, including several girls, were cut an!
shot
! 4 WIND and rain storm devastated trac
of land three miles wide and twenty miles
long, in Wilson County, n. c. Joseph Farmer
was killed by lightning.
TEE Arkansas Democrats havo nominated
James P. f. Eagle for Governor.
A FIRE which started in house about five
miles south Of Merced Cal, spread to thu
grain fields and ragged for Ava hours, when
| the flames reached all open space and were
! brought under control. A strip thirteen
miles in length was burned over. Loss about
50,0O0.
RICHARD GLASS, tho wealthiest farmer in
Southeastern Nebraska, died in frightfu
agony at st. Joseph, Mo-, OF rabbies, pro
duced by a cat bite.
GREAT flights of spacrows from Louisville,
Ky, invade the wheat fields on the Indiana
side every morning anu a:e destroying the
wheat crop within a radius of five or six
miles. In many instances they have already
looted fields to the amount Of one-thlrd OF
the crop.