The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-11
South and West.

TIE Windsor, Commercial, City, Wichita
and Depot hotels, five wooden structures of
Wichita, Texas, we're burned, together with
six business houses.
Ex-SEcRETARY OF TIE INTERIOR ALExAN
DER HUGH HOLMES STUART died at Staun-
ton, Va, in the eighty-fcurth year of his
age.
By boiler explosion in the Touring mill
Of Churchill & Owsley, at Windsor, Mo-,
Hugh L. Smith and Tom Tillberry, boiler.
makers, who were at work on the boiler,
and Walter Beaman, engineer, and Charles
Sturtevant, miller, were instantly killed.
The large mill was blown to atoms.
ITALIANS stopped work on the Worlds
Fair site in Chicago, ILL.,, through fear of
the mobs Of unemployed workmen.
Mrs. HEDwIG WENDLAND, wife of an Illi-
nois physician, is the first victim Of treat
ment with Koch's lymph In Milwaukee
Wis. She died at Passavant Hospital few
DAYS since, but the matter has been kept
quiet by the physicians.
PRIVATE ALBERT FLAcKMAN, Of Battery
B, Fifth Artillery, shot and killed GottlieD
Nonneman, second cook Of the company, at
Preside, Cal.
STEPHEN HARDING, aged eighty. seven, ex-
Governor Of Utah, e1-Chief Justice Of Col
orado and e1-Consul to Valparaiso, Chill,
died recently at Milan, Ind.
MEXICO bandits attacked the ranch Of
Victoriana Hernandez, near San Antonio,
Texas. Oscar Duke, an eight-year-old boy
living at the ranch, was killed, and Victor
lana Hernandez, who is nearly eighty years
old, was fatally wounded One Of tbs BAN
dts was also killed.
The Worlds Fair Directory at Chicago,
ILL.,, passed resolution creating the Office Of
Solicitor General. Congressman Butter.
worth, who is now Secretary Of the local
Board, will assume the duties Of Solicitor
General and attend to the legal and legisla-
tive affairs of the Board.
8. B. CowLEs, President of the Pacific
Bank of Clarke, Neb, was arrested, charged
with the murder Of his wife.
GEORGE j. GIBSON, Secretary Of the
WHISKY Trust, Was indicted in Chicago, Ill,
for conspiracy to blow up Shufeldt's distiL
lery; the directors Of the trust issued O state
ment discrediting charges of conspiracy.
The Democrats and Farmers in South
Dakota made combination which resulted
in the election of l. b. Kyle as United States
Senator to succeed Senator Moody. Kyle Is
former Congregational preacher, and a
resident Of Aberdeen.
A MIXED passenger and freight train
Jumped the track on the Smyre trestle at
Newton, N. c. ". W. Ross, Of Chester,
S. c., and H. NJ. Morrow, Of Cleveland
County, were killed. ]. Hoag. fireman, Of
Chester, died two hours later from his in
juries.
The steamer Thomas Sherlock collided
with floating pier at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Immediately sank. Mrs Mclean. of Pitts
burg, was crushed to death and many Of the
crew perishe1.
THE ammonia tank in the Ice factory in
Suffolk, Va, exploded, killing the Superin.
tendent, Thomas B. Baldwin, and fatally in
juring two colored man.
TELLER RITTER. Of the First National
Bank, Evansville, Ind, has been ARRESTED
and held in bonds for trial on charge oi
misappropriating S77,O00.
JUST as the st. Louis express was pulling
out Of Bald Knob Junction, ARK, a passen-
ger mined J. ". Graeter, OF Vincenaes,
Ind, deliberately shot Isiior Meyer, drum.
mer The murderer next turned his weapon
on E. W. Leach, the Pullman conductor.
Both men were instantly killed. Graeter
then threw his weapon out Of the car win.
dow. The shooting was wholly u1provoked,
and it is quite evident the fellow is crazy.