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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
VERMONT'S CENTENNIAL.
Defeating a Battle Monument
sss at Bennington.
Many Noted People Participate
in the Ceremonies.

The centennial observance of the admis+
sion of Vermont into the Union and the de-
dication Of the battle monument held in
historic Bennington the other day, was the
most notable and successful celebration that
ever occurred in the Green Mountain State.
The celebration was signalized by the pres.
ence at Bennington Of President Harrison
and members Of his Cabinet Senators and
Congressman, and the Governors Of Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire, and many
prominent men from other States. There were
also IN attendance military and civic organ
izations from sister States, who came to join
in this dual celebration. The day was q
charming one, and many thousand visitors
participated in the ceremonies and exercises
Of the day. The decorations were lavish in
the extreme, flags and bunting being dis
played on every building.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The price of rye has advanced heavily in
the New York Produce Exchange.
EIGHTEEN persons were hurt, several
seriously, by O collision between an express
and freight train at Egg Harbor City, n. j.
MANY notable people attended the funeral
of James Russell Lowell at Harvard Col
lege, Boston. The city bells were tolled as
the body was borne to Mt Auburn Gene.
terry.
The Centennial of Vermonts admission to
the Union was celebrated by the dedication
of the monument in commemorasioa o. the
revo utionary battle of Bennington. The
city of that name was complete mass or
bunting and flags, and President Harrison
and many other prominent people TOOK part
in the exercises
WHEAT jumped up thirteen cents bushel
in two days in the New York mar.Set. caus-
ing great excitement on tue Produce tx
change.
Mr.. J. BRIGGS, a farmer at Danbury,
Conn, was riding )on mowing-nacnlne,
when one wheel Of the machine struck
stone ani he was thrown off. The horses
ran away AMI he was drawn into the knives
and fatally mutilate1, both arms being cut
off below the elbow.
LEONARD WEAVER, forty-two years old,
were drowned in deep cess-pool at Pitts
burg.
THE upward turn in the price OF wheaton
the New York Produce Exchange was fol-
lowed by quite fall in quotations More
than 81, ,O0O, 0OO bushels were bought and sold
in one day.
JESSE PoMERoY, the notorious boy muir
ierer, was discovered at work on the oars OF
his cell with a case knife which had been
uotched so as to make a very good saw.
Pomeroy is serving solitary life sentence in
Massachusetts.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on his way from
Cape May to attend the centennial exercises
at Bennington, VT. made short addresses at
Kingston, Newburg, and Albany, N. Y.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, e1-Assistant Cash
ier of the broken Keystone Bank, OF Phlla-
delphia, found guilty OF conspiracy and max
ing false entries, has been sent to prison Tor
seven years.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Pennsylvania Republican Conven.
ton at Harrisburg nominated General
David N. Gregg for Auditor General, and
Captain John W. Morrison for Treasurer.
The steamship Teutonic, Of the White
Star line, arrived at New York from
Queenstown, having made the voyage in
five days, sixteen hours and thirty-two min
utes, breaking the record held by the Males
tic since August 5.
The fortieth meeting of the American As
sociation Tor the Advancement of Science has
been held in Washington.
MARTINIQUE, in the West Indies group,
has been devastated by hurricane. Every
vessel in the harbor at Fort de France was
destroyed. Many lives were lost.
TEN men were killed and forty injured by
the fall of scaffold at Nordenhamm. in the
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
TEN thousand we'll armed Chilian insur-
gents are to leave Caldera in transports and
war ships to land at San Antonio Bay or en-
gage the forts at Valparaiso.
MARcrANo MEDINA, peon of the village
of Lomos de Zamora in Colombia, has been
arrested for killing ten of his children and
three grandchildren. The old mans con.
fession tells with great detail the various
ways in which he murdered each one Of the
thirteen infants from 1859 to 1891. He
killed them all when they were less than five
months old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
BLOODY WORK IN CHILL,
Hundreds of People Killed in
Pisagua-The Governors Fate.

Hundreds of People Killed in
PisaGua-The Governors Fate.
James Knox, native of Chill, whose father
was English, he s just reached San Francisco
from Pisagua, Chill. He had been working
for years on the nitrate docks at that place,
but recently was discharged with 5000 other
Inen, mostly miners. He was an eyewitness
to the capture of the city by Balmaceda's
troops and the ferocious punishment inflicted
on all who opposed the Dictator. Governor
Valenzula. who had heau driven from the
city by the insurgents, returned with Baltna-
ceoa's soldiers and wreaked his vengence on
those who mad conspired against him. Ex-
ecutions became so common that they ex-
cited 10 notice. Although people were
starving in the streets, none dared complain
Of the Governors action in locxing up grain.
Twenty miners came in one day from the
mountains, and when they failed to get sup
plies attacked the Governors house with cob
rlestopes. He ordered the troops to fire on
the mob, and twenty-five persons, mostly
women and children, were killed.
Finally the city was bombarded by the
INSURGENTS. Out Of 300 troops only twenty
were alive when the firing ceased, and the
losses among the inhabitants were terrible.
taken on board war vessel which steamed
out Of the harbor. When it returned the
Governor was missing, but it was reported
that he had been cast overheard as food for
the sharks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
How the Arabs Eat Locusts.

A correspondent in Algiers writes:
One fine morning on rising we found the
locusts with us. I cannot better COM
pare the. sight than to a fall of snow; the
snowhakes were locusts buzzing about IN
the bright sunlight. I will not repeat
the old exaggeration that the sun was
da1kened. They were, however, disa-
greeably numerous, invading your rooms
If the windows happened to be open,
and Pickering you IN the face and drop
ping down your neck while out walk
ing. .,
The children amuse themselves with
catching them, attaching string to their
legs, and are very delighted with these
playthings. Others weave them into long
garlands. The Arabs are more practical.
Taking off the head, legs and wings they
boil them with salt, and then regale
themselves to their hearts content.
The mail steamers coming from France
have had their decks covered inches thick
as far out at sea as forty miles. Stringent
regulations are now enforced in the town
and district of Algiers, such as the COW
ing up of all sources of water supply,
wells and reservoirs, as an epidemic is
feared in case the locusts fall into the
water. In the meantime the munich
pality pay twenty cents per sack OF fifty
pounds for all locusts gathered. Ihe
outlook is certainly not promising, all
kinds of food and vegetables having
risen in price. We hope, however, Tor
the best, and trust the threatened danger
will be mitigated, if not altogether
ayerted. Commercial AduertlSer.
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Foreign.

The Moscow police have received secret
orders which mean the expulsion Of every
Jew from the district within two months.
HEAVY rains have caused the overflow Of
rivers in Lancashire and Yorkshire, Eng
land, closing all the factories and suspending
railroad communication.
DooRowsKY, the explorer, has telegraphed
from De Brazzaville, West Africa, that the
French expedition to Lake Tobad under Paul
Crawfel is a failure.
MEMBERS of the Haytien Cabinet resigned
after they had been censured for corruption
and incapacity by the Chamber Of Deputies.
Ten THOUSAND miners in Welsh tin and
:on mines went on strike
SERVICES were held in Westminster Abbey
by Canon Ferrar in memory Of James Rus
sell Lowell.
The international Socialist Workmen's
Congress was opened in Brussels.
The Central American Republics are tax
ng much interest in the Chicago Fair.
EIGHTY Haytians We're drowned by the
.all of the St. Marc stone bridge near For au
Prince.
PRESIDENT BALMAcEDA, of Chill, has is
med proclamation calling for an increase
u the army to 90, 900 men.
AT Uerm9u CaO neG COu1Cl IL WAS
resolved not to reduce the duties on corn.
The British Bank of Australia, at Mel
,ourne, has suspended with Liabilities OF
$500, 900.
HAILsroRMs in the Mosel and Sarre Fal-
eys OF Germany have caused damage to the
crops to the extent Of S25o,000.
OWING to the alarming extent to which
The midland provinces of Italy are being de-
populated by emigration ths Italian Minis
er of the Interior will Introduce bill in the
Chambers at the next session restricting
emigration.
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MRS. JAMES K. POLK DEAD.
The Wife of the Tenth President Dies
at Her Home in Nashville.

Mrs. James z. Polk, wife Of the tenth
President Of the United STATES, died few
mornings ago in Nashville, Tenn. She was
in good health until . few days previous,
when, on returning from q short drive, was
taken suddenly Ill. She was eighty-seven
years old. The bells in the city were tolled
throughout the afternoon.
Mrs. Polk was born September 4, 1903, at
Murfreesboro. She was married to Mr.. Polk
when still in her teens, and had lived con-
tinuously in Nashville except when in Wash
ington, during the Congressional career Of
her distinguished husband, and while mis-
tress of the White House. For the past fifty
years she had lived in seclusion
President Polk left very large estate at
the time of his death, which was kept to.
gether until the Civil War; when nearly
everything was destroyed or lost. Mrs.
Polk's income kept dwiDdling until
half dozen years ago, when she
found herself nearly penniless. A
bill was then introduced in Congress to grant
Of $1,000 year. 1t lacked one vote in the SEN
ate to secure its passage. That was the vote
Of Senate. Bowel E. Jackson, of Tennessee.
He offered to vote for the bill provided it
was so amended as to give annual pensions
Of 5000 to Mrs. Polk and to the widow Of
President Tyler as well as to Mrs. Lincoln,
and the bill became law. Since that time
Mrs. Polk had lived on this pension.
President Polk left one Of the queerest
wills that was ever lett by an intelligent
man. Everything was given to his wife.
and at her death was to be transferred
ito the most deserving member OF the
family bearing the name OF Polk, y"
the decision to be made by the State
Legislature. The nearest relative until
recently was State Treasurer Polk, Of Ten
nessee, to whom it was supposed the
estate would 80. 1t will be remem-
bered that a few years ago he be.
came a defaulter to a large amount and
fed the country, finally dying in Mexico.
His dishonesty cut him and his family of,
and just how the matter will be settled Is
now MYSTERY. There are no other deserv-
ing members of the family bearing the
name Of Polk, and now that Mrs Polk is
dead the courts will have to decide the
matter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
Washington.

TIE President has appointed Charles ".
Erdman. of Louisville, as Consul to Colon.
DIR. ROLAND h. FALKSEs, Of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, has been asked by the
Senate Committee on Finance to assume tbs
direction Of its coming important investiga
ton into the effect OF the Mckinley tariff
upon wages and the cost of living.
ABOUT 6OO clerks have been dismissed
from the Census Office.
COMMISSIONERS ROOSEVELT, Of the Civi
Service Commission, after investigating the
charge that the provisions o: the Civil Ser
vice law relating to political assessments
were being Violated by persons in the official
service OF the United States at Baltimore,
and that the influence Of Federal officers in
that city was also being unlawfully used to
control a primary election, declares the
charge sustained and recommends that
twenty-five Governmental employees whom
he names be dismissed the service.
THE War Department has determined to
appoint Board of army officers to select a
site for the western terminus Of the Henne-
pin Canal. General Pope will be Chairman.
WILLIAM o. THOMAS, of Tennessee, has
been appointed United States Consul at
Bahia, Brazil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
DROPPED TO DEATH.
Two Aer0nauts Make Their
Last Ascent in Balloons.
4 Man Drowned and a Woman
Falls 500 Feet.

Prince De I've, otherwise known as James
Buckingham. made balloon ascent from
Lake View Point, on Onondaga Lake, N. Y,
few days since. De I've was to drop from
a parachute into the water after performing
some feats while hanging to the parachute
ring.
The ascent was made in the afternoon,
and was the first Of proposed series to take
place during the week. The others will not
be made, for De I've fell to his death. He
was drowned, and his body has not yet been
recovered from the forty-foot deep water in
which it went down.
Special trains carried crowds to the place
of the ascension and three lines Of boats car
ried other throngs thither until 1000 people
had assembled about Lake View Point. De
I've made the ascent in his balloon just be-
fore sunset, as he has made hundreds Of
other ascentS.
His habit is to go about 1000 feet into the
air in the talloon, and then jump with the
parachute to which he clings until within
200 or 300 feet Of the ground, when he drops.
The parachute as rule floats away some
distance in the breeze landing where it will
do no harm.
The fatal ascent was made with the usual
features, and the thousands Of people on tho
lake shore craned their necks, watching the
rising balloon and then the falling parachute.
When Buckingham let 60 the ring to which
he had been clinging the excitement of the
onlookers reached its height. Buckingham
dropped into the water about fifty feet OFF
shore, and where the depth is about forty
feet.
The parachute dropped directly after him
in the same line, and just as Buckingham
came to the surface the heavy metal ring of
the parachute fell over his shoulders and
carried his head down into the water, while
his legs were kicking above the surface.
Not fifty feet from him was boat with
two hundred passengers, and the accounts
say that not one of them made move to
help the drowning man.
He sank soon after the parachute had fal-
len on him and never came to the surface
again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
THE LABOR WORLD.
oNDoN has 500, 900 factory hands.

LONDON has 500, 900 factory hands.
COPENHAGEN has 15,O 900 union men.
SPAIN poled 250, GOO votes for labor candi-
dates.
THE Journeymen Tailors' Union has l., 900
members.
New YORK railroaders have building
and loan association.
SIXTEEN labor papers have been excluded
from the German mails.
The first trades union of women in Bel.
GUM is an organization of women tobacco
workers in Antwerp.
Ten THOUSAND men are employed repair.
ing the Chinese palace. The carvers struck
and got S. day and three meals.
ENGLAND's representatives in the Labor
Congress at Brussels will be trade unionists,
and will form about oae-tIird Of the Con-
gress.
In many of the agricultural districts Of
the United States it is difficult to get first
class help, although the wages range from
SIS to 40 month.
STATISTICS show that for uuskilled labor
women are paid at least one-third less than
men for the same work. For skilled labor
they are paid much more than men.
WOMEN in Australia, according to evil
6elce given before the Workshops and Fac
tories Commission, are generally paid at
least one-third less than men for the same
work.
THREE years ago Austria had 103 labor
organizations with $4,000 members. and
eleven labor papers with Is, 400 subscribers;
it has now 200 labor organizations with A.
OO0 members, and forty-one labor papers
with 121, $50 subscribers.
TIE four children Of Jean Culina, who
was sent to prison for six years for alleged
instigation to riot at Fourmies, France, Oh
May !, have been adopted by the National
Executive Committee Of the French Labor
party. They will be cared for and educated
at the expense of the organization.
ABOUT thirty local and central labor
unions were represented at the recent con-
ventlon Of the Massachusetts, State Labor
Federation. During the past year three
unions were disbanded, while twelve have
been organized. The Legislative Committee
reported that several bills proposed by them
had been adopted by the Legislature, among
which the abolition Of the fine system,
amendments to the Weekly Payment act,
nine hours for county employees, restricting
child work, regulating the sweating system,
raising school age to fifteen, appointing wo-
men factory inspectors, and tenement house
statistics.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
RAIN MADE TO ORDER.
Further Experiments in Texas Prove
Successful

General Dyrenforth's rain producers who
were sent to Texas by the United States
Department Of Agriculture to see if they
could not draw some moisture from cloud.
less sky, have made some very sue
cessful experiments on the Nelson
Morris ranch, about twenty-five miles north
west of Midland They sent of large bal
loon filled with hydrogen gas, and when it
was at an altitude of one and one-quarter
miles they exploded it by an electric wire. A
few minutes afterward they exploded great
quantity of rendrock powder over about
two miles Of ground, and also quantity OF
dynamite attached to the tails Of kites flying
1000 feet high. The result was that it began
to rain Immediately, and at every explosion
the rainfall perceptibly increased. 1t con-
tinued raining for over four hours.
Next day they exploded some more kites
and powder and brought on another shower
People from all over the Western country,
gathered to see the rain made to order, and
The farmers took tremendous interest in
the work of the expedition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
THE WORLDS GRAIN.
Conditions Which Promise to Enrich
the American Farmer.

the A merican Farmer.
If the American farmer knows how to
seize heopportunity, says cable dispatch
rom Paris to the New York Herald, his
money bags will this year be filled to burst
jng. Rarely has an opportunity more
golden been within his grasp than is held
forth by the condition of the crops in Europe.
This was the impression received by
a Herald correspondent from converse
tion with United States Senator William D.
Washburn, Of Minnesota, who has during
an extended tour in Europe collected valua-
BILE information from strictly reliable
sources regarding the condition OF the
crops.
Senator Washburn said the prospect was
there would this year be a surplus OF two
million bushels of wheat in the States. To
all appearances Europe would want every
grain Of it. After a trip to the
North Cape, went from from @ StoeA,
to Moscow, with the view OF ascertain
ing by personal observation and inquiry the
real condition Of the crops Of wheat, ryeand
small grain in Russia. They are. If not alb
solutely failure, the very next thing to 1t;
in fact, they are 80 short the Government
has been obliged to take steps to prevent ex'
portation.
"That this isa grave condition Of things Is
evident from the fact that the MuScovite is
not IN the habit Of doing anything until the
trouble is right on him. The uGase Just
published forbidding the expectation OF rye
is mere measure for self-prot ection, even
Of self-preservation. There Is absolutely no
ground for the statement made by the Ber-
lin press that hostility to Germany was the
raison d'etre Of the ukase.
lowing to the ukase great anxiety pre-.
walls in Norway and Sweden, which depend
for their bread upon the rye from Russia.
Norway and Sweden will have to import
wheat from the States. From Russia
I went to Buda-Pesth, which is the
largest milling centre in the world after
Minneapolis then to Vienna. All the authori.
ties consulted were unanimous in estimat-
ing the crops Of Austria-Hungary at
thirty per cent. less this year than
last. In Germany the shortage is
less; it probably will not exceed Is per cent.
With respect to France I have not yet been
able to obtain reliable official information,
but understand it will be safe to say that
this country will have to import about half
its consumption.
"I don't think the short crops Of Europe
will result in any great corner IN the States,
but 1 believe it will create tendency
among farmers to hold their crops.
10 my mind it will not be possible
TO organize such general plan of campaign
as was suggested in the wheat circulars sent
out by the Farmers Alliance people, but the
effect of those circulars will undoubtedly be
to teach growers not to pile their wheat on
the market as they have hitherto done.
rs there any chance of a bread fam
ine?"
"Wel, the crops in the States were never
so large as this year, especially in wheat
and think we can take care Of the rest OF
the world. OF course the rest OF the world
will have to pay for it."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
The Ice Cure for Feyers.

Two years ago, or thereabouts,
writer in the North American Reris~
called attention 10 the therapeutic value
of refrigeration, and ventured the pre-
diction that climatic fevers would be
successfully treated in artifcially cooled
hospitals. 1t seems that the prediction
has been verifet by experiment. Ac-
cording to the Havana papers physician
of Santiago de Cuba has been treating
and with invariable success, yellow
fever patients in ''camara polar (polar
chamber), j. e., in an apartment whose
temperature is kept by artificial means at
about fifty degrees Farcnheit. with
our ice machines everywhere it would be
very easy to provide such hospital IN
in this country when need requires
PicavuNe.
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South and West.

Miss CLYDE RAGLAND, daughter of Squire
J. P. Ragland, wealthy farmer OF Louis
vile, KY, was thrown from horse, and,
her feet catching in the stirrup, she was
kicked to death.
Two men were instantly killed, a third
was fatally injured and TWO others were
badly hurt by an explosion in powder fac
tory at Kellogg, W. Va
CONGRESSMAN JOHN R. GAMBLE, of South
Dakota, is dead. he was born in Alabama,
N. Y, in 1S46.
THE price Of December wheat rose eight
cents a bushel, amid much excitement, on
the Chicago Board of Trade. Rye also ad-
vanced eight cents and corn three cents
bushel
j. L. BAY has been arrested at Little
Rock, Ark, on warrant sworn out by
State Treasurer Morrill,, charging him with
the larceny OF S10O, 900 State scrip.
MANY cattle were killed during heavy
storm in the vicinity Of Sumner. Ill.
AFTER the recent rise in the price of grain
in the Chicago markets there came big
break, and the gain was more than lost.
WHILE bathing in the Red River near
Grano Forks, N. D., the Rev. William T.
Currie, rector OF st. Paurs Episcopal
Church, Miss Ruth Currie, his daughter,
aged thirteen, and Mra. Dora Van Kirk,
were all drowned.
MICHAEL AHERN, Of Murray, Iowa, shot his
fourteen-year-old daughter for interfering
in quarrel between father and mother.
FARMERS have established shotgun
quarantine over the blue Bottoms" Dis
trict, near Independence, Mo-, where there
are twenty-five cases of smallpox.
A FIRE at Waco, Texas, destroyed dry
goods and house furnishing establishment,
causing total loss of $250,00o.
THREE young lady artists were drowned
by the upsetting Ct boat in the Ohio
River opposite Cincinnati.