The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-12
LATER NEWS.

W. g. RUSSELL, arrested at Rochester, N,
Y, confessed that for year he had made
his living by stealing bicycles. He says that
in the year he stole fifty.
The President accepted the resignation OF
Joel B. Erhardt as Collector Of the Port of
New York and has designated J. Sloat Fas-
sett, of Elmira, N. Y, as his successor.
The proprietor Of the New York Herald
was indicted for publishing all the news of
the recent quadruple electrocutions in Sing
Sing Prison in violation of the new law.
The business men Of Johustown, Penn,
have decided to sue the South Fork Club for
damages sustained through the great flood.
The new pudding mill Of the Pittsburg
Oil Well Supply Company at Frankstowu,
Penn, collapsed, killing three men and se-
riously injuring three others.
JOEL MOORE, wealthy citizen Of jean
nette. Penn, who mysteriously disappeared
recently, was found In an old cave, half fam
ished and almost dead from exposure. The
old man had been taken to the cave by
Joseph and Madison Johnstown, two desper'
ate characters, and robbed.
WILLIAM HACKER, one Of the most prom
inent Masons in the United States, died re-
Gently at shelbyville, Ind.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, de-
cided to call an extra session Of the Legisla-
ture for August II to act upon the whole
penitentiary question.
A DEFICIENCY Of $75, coo has been discov-
cred in the express Office at Kountze, Texas.
THE Maryland Prohibition State Conven-
ton at Baltimore chose by reclamation the
following ticket: Governor-Edwin Hig-
gins, Of Baltimore; Comptroller-Joshua
Levering; Attorney -General-Hosea B.
Moulton; Clerk Of the Court Of Appeals
Levin 8. Nelson.
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and San Domingo has been
signed.
A STATEMENT prepared at the General
Land Office shows that there were issued by
the Office during the year ended June 30
over 114,00O patents for agricultural lands.
These include pre-emption, homestead and
other classes of entries.
AT the meeting of the Republican National
Executive Committee in Washington Sena-
tor Quay resigned as Chairman Of that Com
mittee. and Colonel Dudley as Treasurer.
The designations were accepted. James s.
Clarlison was chosen as Quay's successor.
THE Navy Department approved the re-
port of the Board of Examiners for foremen
or master mechanics at the Mare Island Navy
Yard and filled all the places by the appoint
ment of tie candidates the board recon-
mended.
TIE Census Office issued bulletin show
Ing the total production Of coal in West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia,
Georgia and North Carolina in 1889 at H.
CAS-, ,o66 short tons, valued at SIC, 943, 0S9.
DISPATCHES received from Mecca say that
the death rate from cholera is 40 day at
that place and thirty daily at Djeddah.
SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHTS Unlted
States reciprocity resolution was voted down
in the Canadian Dominion House by eighty
eight to ia.
FOURTEEN employees of the Essen (Prussia)
Water Works were drowned while crossing
the Ruhr River.
AN immense crowd of people, estimated at
%, COO. gathered at st. Mande, France, to
witness the funerals Of the victims OF the
terrible railroad disaster. There were
twenty-four he.rses in the line, and thou
sands of mourners followed the bodies to the
grave. All the houses of st. Mande were
draped with signs Of mourning.
JOHN DILLON and William OBren, the
Home Rule Agitators, have been released
from Clomnen Jail by the British authori-