The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-06
South and West.

A VIOLENT wind and rain storm damaget
Monroeville, Ohio. Lightning struck Ottt
Goldner's house, killing three sons-Freddie
Willie and Otto-who were sitting on 6
lounge.
THE Farmers Alliance Convention in
Minnesota nominated S. II. Owens for Gov
ernor.
The Natural Bridge property in Virginia
has been sold to Massachusetts, and Virginia
syndicate for $4,000. 1t was purchased
from Colonel b. C.. Parsons aud James G..
Blaine, vino have owned it for number OF
years.
JOHN STEELE, the Mayor of Tuscumbia,
Ala, was shot by John W. Goodwin. He fell
dead in front of Curry & Abernathy's drug
store. Goodwin was fatally wounded
GREEN JACKSON (colore3 was lynched at
Fort White, Fla, by neighbors of Mrs. Rob.
ert Pritchard, white woman whom he had
attacked.
CYRUS CRAIG. for many years local agent
at Maryvile, No., for Bartlett Brothers,
brokers and real estate dealers, has disap-
peared, and it has been discovered that he
has defraude1 the firm and others out of an
amount variously estimated at from $780,
600 to $3.50
JOHN P. BUCHANAN, President of the State
Farmers Alliance, was nominated for Cover
nor on the twenty-sixth ballot by the TenneS-
see Democratic Convention at Nashville after
heated struggle extending over four days.
R. G. NORTON, JR., shot and killed two
brothers named Willie and John Bird at
Guyton, Ga. Norton refused to return q
mule for which he had traded with one Of
the Birds.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES PETER WALKER
]. htsh h1 it, -far> n
Mr.. Walker was born in Tennessee in 1851.
This was his first term in Congress. He was
a Democrat, and member Of the Committees
on Invalid Pensions, on Improvements or
the Mississippi River and on Expenditures
on Public Buildings.
AT Hubbard Mills, small village in Knox
County, KY, the Smith and Messer factions
met and when the smoke had cleared away
four were dead: The Messers lost two young
men named Mills, and the Smiths lost Bob
Porchett and Hubbard.
WHILE Louis Pippin was digging in a well
near Anderson, Ind, his pick broke through
into hollow at the bottom. There was q
rush of gas and Pippin droppel dead. His
son-in-law, David Walker, was lowered into
! the we'll and he, too, was suffocated. The
bodies were recovered two hours later.
A SINGLE bolt of lightning at Nappanee
Ind, killed Charles Hathaway, weu-known
contractor, and Edward Neufer, who was
driving at the time.
Or the eight Apache prisoners who mur
dered Sheriff Reynolds and deputy at Tue
son, Arizona, and escaped, all save three have
been killed. kid and two others are at
! large.
LIGHTNING struck shed at Minerburg,
La, and killed Victor Marchand, fatally in
| jured Edgar Charles and seriously hurt Ed
ward Williams. A dairyman was also kiuec
by lightning at Gentilly, La.
No elevator in North Dakota will store
grain this year, as has been the custom here
tofore, and henca 1000, 900 bushels of wheat
will have to be rushed on the market. This
action is taken because of the new law max
ing elevators pay license of $3.50 for each
100 bushels stored.
ONE man, the engineer. was killed ant
thirteen passengers were injured in an acc!
dent on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad, near Limon, Col.
A HOT wave still sweeps over Kansas, ont
there is further damage to tho corn crop
The yield will not reach half that of las
year.
TIE Wisconsin ProhibitionistS nominatet
DR.. Alexander, Of Eau Claire, for Governor