The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
South and West.

RILEY SMART, young man of Monroe
Township, Ind, died from the effects OF being
stung in forty-two places by yellow jacks.
OssEo, Wis, has an epidemic of typhoid.
Almost every resident is i'll. There have
bean five deaths.
FEzEKIAH RANKIN, colorei, shot Fred
Taylor, white, at AslsVilla, n. =. Acrowd
lynched Rankin promptly.
The westbound limited mail struck car
riage near Centreville, Ind, in whlcn wera
Joseph Black. his wife and two daughters.
Black his wife and one daughter were in
stantly killed, and the other daughter was
fatally injured.
MAYOR HEyNEMAS, OF Spartanburg, S.
c., was shot and killed in that city BY coi-
ored man, John Williams. Williams was
beating a colored woman, when Henneman
interfered. Williams pushed the Mayor out
and shot him.
COLONEL BRADFORD DUNHAs, Genera
Superintendent OF the Alabama Midland
Railroad, shot and instantly kille1 James
Cunningham, young man, nineteen years
old Dunham surrendered himself
Two fires in st. Louis, Mo-. destroyed the
great establishment of the Plant Milling
Company, the one story Missouri Pacific
warehouse and the seven story building of
the Monsur-Tibbett Farming Implement
Company. The loss by the first fire Is $780,
900, and by the second S5OO, 900. 1t was sup
posed that two firemen, woo were missing,
were killed by the falling in Of thereof.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt
throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky AMI Tennessee. People dst
from their houses in alarm, but no great
damage was done to property.
IN. GADDIs, Sheriff OF West Carol
Parish, had personal difficulty with Jeff
Dunn at Floyd. la. Eugene Yarbrougn,
the Sheritf's son-in-law lnterfered. The
Sheriff then securei pistol and emptiei
several chambers into Dunn's back and ran
away, Dunn snatched YarbrouSh's pistol
and hred after Gaddis, missing him. He then
fired at Yarbrough, breaking both his arms,
and shooting him between the eyes and in
the side. Dunn and Yarbrough fell together
and died where they lay.
ANDREW ANDERSON, Martin Nelson, and
man whose name is unknown, were
drowned by the capszing of rowboat near
Madeline Island, Ashland, Wis.
HENRIETTA MURRELL, colored, was
hanged in Smithville, Va, for drowning her
eight-year-old child. She confessed the
crime and said sue committed it because
she could not support herself and the child.
EMMET B. STANLEY. Superintendent Of
the Money Order Department OF Ine foS0-
office at Atlanta, Ca, has been arrested on a
charge Of embezzling $500.
EDWARD POWELL and James Leeper were
hanged in the Jail at Gatesvllle, Texas, for
the murder, in 1889, Of j. 7. Matthias.
The Colorado Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Denver. The only business was
the nomination OF Chief Justice Of the Su
prene Courtand the adoption Of a platform.
After efecting an organization ard trans
acting some routine business the conventio,
put in nomination Judge L. NJ. Goddard, o
| Leadville.
In gale at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich, a tn
sank. Her crew OF six were drowned.
RUFUS FERRY, hackman. and Carrie
Green, n mulatto. were drowned in tn,
Chicago River, at Chicago. Ill.,, at th'
Washington street bridge, Ferry driving
into an open draw.