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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
South and West.

THE American Wheel Company of Chi
cago ILL.,, has been declared insolvent. Inc
assets are 81, los, 900 AMI the liabilities sl,-
900, 900.
Two masked robbers held up a freight
train near Kansas City, AMI after rooblny
the conductor, shot the brakeman dead.
EDWARD BLAIR was hanged at Columbus
Ohio, for the murder Of Arthur Henry.
GEORGE HAMILTON, Of Ironton, Ohio,
went out with his wife to make call, and
when they returned home they found their
three children, aged respectively eight, four
and two years. snotherei to death In large
tool chest.
CHARLES HAWKINS. the murderer of
CITY Marshal Dan Bruce, was taken from
the Jail at Shelbyville, Ind, and lynched,
CHANDLER BROTHERS, savings bankers,
real estate and insurance agents at Mont,
pomery, Ala, have assigned, with assets or
about $9O, 900; liabilities about SoS,oJO
Mrs. AMELIA BEHRwALD was shot dead
nv her brother, Albert Zinkie at the christ
ening of her child in Chicago, III. The bull
let was intended for her husband.
JAMES WELLS and son were caught outi
a rain storm at Petersburg, Va, and sought
shelter in a barn. They had been in the
barn but short time bsfore the building
was struck by lightning, and both OF them
were killed.
KILLING frosts have fallen in the North
west
A PARTY Of fifteen white men wearing
masks descended upon three Chinese garden.
ers living near Missoula, Montana, looted
their cabin, destroyed the structure, broke
all the furniture, cut off their queues and
maltreated two of the Cinnamon in terri
BILE manner.
ANDY FORD, colored, and companion OF
Harmon Murray, the desperate who wasre-
Gently killed, was lynched at Oak Grove,
Fla
WILL LEWIS, colored. aged eighteen years,
was taken from the calaboose at Tallahoma,
Tenn, by eight masked men, and banged tc
a tree. Lewis was drunken rowdy.
THE town of Charleston, Ark, has been
burned. Total loss $50, 900. The court house
records were destroyed. At Moody, Texas,
a disastrous fire occurred, destroying hall
the business portion of the town, including thu
D ,stotice. The fire was the work OF an ln'
cendiary.
NEAR Nicholasville, KY, a special engine
ran down and killed Mrs. Mary Richardson
and two children, aged eight and six.
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STARTED OUT TO KILL.
Two Men Slain and One Wounded by
u Father and Four Sons.

Two Men Slain and One W oun0eu Dy
u Father and Four Sons.
Milton Kendall and his four sons-George,
Lamar, Popsey and Milton-went into
Georgetown, Ky, on a recent morning for
the purpose of killing their nearest
neighbors, John James and Burrill James.
They succeeded in killing John, mortally
wounding Burrill, at the same time killing
John A. Montgomery, Coroner OF Scott
County.
The Kenialis went that morning to the
house OF widow James, which Is SIX miles
from Georgetown and within half mile of
their own They accused Burrill James of
having robbed their watermelon patch and
said they intended killing the entire James
family. As they were armed the James boys
ran away. John James swora out warrants
for the Kendalls and they were arrested but
gave bail to appear that day for trial.
On the trial morning the James boys ar
rived in Georgetown first. About l0.3o
o'clock John James went to barber shop
where he had left his rife and secured the
weapon. As he stepped out the door young
Milton Kendall, who was standing
within thirty feet, shot him through
the right lung. He was carried into back
room whittier Milton and George Kendall
tried to follow him for the purpose or I'm
ishing him. The BARRIERS begged them not
to shoot any more AMI they left.
Burrill James had in the mean time run
into John Montg omery's hardware store to
get gun, hit old man Kendall saw him,
and fired, killing Mr.. Montgomery.
Overtaking Burrill James at the back
door, the elder Kendall fatally shot him with
his pistol Immediately over the heart He
then Joined his sons near the Court House,
and together they dcsiel arrest for half an
hour finally giving up their arms and going
to Jail.
All the parties are we'll connected Old
man Kendall has been a Magistrate, aud was
for years Chairman Of the Democratic Com
mittee of Scott County.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
THE LABOR WORLD.
INDIANAPOLIS talks of labor hall.
NEW YORK has 10000 night workers.
TIE flint plnss workers have $500, 900,

INDIANAPOLIS talks of a labor hall.
NEW YORK has 60, 600 night workers.
The flint glass workers have S5O0,00
New York has an italian cloal.-makers'
union.
LONDON button hole makers get thirty five
cents day.
TIE English Trades Union Congress has
s00,0 members.
New YoIK union laundry workers want
the Chinese boycotted.
ONLY one person in four in London earns
more than IS per week.
NEW YoRXletter-carriers want to be re-
tired on half pay after twenty years serVice.
A STATE convention of typographical
unions is to be held at Syracuse y. Y, on
October 6.
THE cooperative foundry at Somerset,
Mass, has failed after an existence OF twenty
four years
MISSOURI employers are obsel wing tha
law compelling the payment of wages every
two weeks.
THERE are at present over 1909 papers In
this county devoted to the Labor and the
Farmers movement.
THE receipts on the street cars in New
York City average about $50 per day, while
the actual cost is about S..
MUNICIPAL markets where meat is for sale
at cost to the citizens having paid up their
taxes for the year have been established at
San Crstobal and Tres Equinas, Argentine
Republic
THE Brotherhood of Machinists, comprising
branches in Pittsburg and Beaver Falls,
Penn., and Youngstown, Ohio, have amalga.
mated with the International Association OF
Machinists.
OUT of Il45 strikes in England last year,
in which 344 $40 people took part, Att were
successful, 207 were failures and ninety-four
were undecided. The average duration OF
strikes wos eighteen days.
AT the thirteenth congress Of tho New Jer-
sey Federation of Trades. held in Paterson,
resolution to petition the Legislature to ap-
propriate an additional $1,000 per year to the
State Labor bill for thu purpose OF securing
more definite statistics, and various recon-
mendations were adopted.
WOODWORKING machines have caused
twenty-siN fatal accidents in Ohio last year,
while 159 persons were disabled by machines,
causing total loss Of wages Of SlO,S2L25.
The report Of the State Factory Inspector
says that woodworking machines are more
dangerous to life and limbs OF workmen than
any other machines.
STATISTICAL comparisons show that wages
are independent of the form of government
Mexico, a Republic, Malta and Ceylon, un-
der British rule Algiers and Tunis, French
dependencies. pay less than Russia or Spain
The Anglo.Saxon pays more than the Ger
man, the German more than the Latin, the
Latin more than the Semitic and the Semitic
more than the Malay and Mongolian. The
highest average wages are pait In the Aus,
tralan colonies, and the highest III the United
States at San Francisco.
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DAMAGE BY FLOODS.
Bridges, Dams and Tracks Swept
Away in Pennsylvania.

Bridges, Dams and Tracks Swept
Away in Pennsylvania.
Great damage was done to property in
Pennsylvania by storm, and much fear was
occasioned, but fortunately no lives were re-l
ported lost.
Conformation reignei at the Bowman
Evangelical Camp Meeting near Mohrsvilla
Penn. Lightning struck number Of trees
and some Of them falling came dangerously
Of water rushed through the woods and car
ried away bedding and furniture.
Near Wernersville, Penn, on the Lebanon
Valley branch of the Reading Railroad, just
after the engine of a freight train passed
over a culvert in safety, the culvert was
washed away and the entire train Of ten
cars plunged into the culvert and were car
ried off. August Kohn, a tramp stealing .
ride, had leg broken and his arm injured
Over one-third Of mile OF track was
washed away. Z
Another culvert at Fritztown, Penn, on
the Reading and Columbia Railroad, between,
Reading and Lancaster, was washed away.
At Mohrsville, Penn, eight dams, each
half an acre to an acre In extent were
washed away and the hat factories and mills
breasts have teen rebuilt.
The bridge and three piers Of the Residing
and Southwestern Railroad Company at
Hendelton, Penn, were carried away, and e
mile of its track belonging to Daniel Riegef,
John Mogle and William F. Roller, were
destroyed BY lightning. The loss is $40, 600.
The breast OF the big dam at the Robeso-
MIA furnace which furnishes Robesonia.
Penn, with water, broke and gardens,
fences, vegetables gardens and roads we're
all washed out and trees uprooted. over
800 feet of the Reading Railroad Company's
track near Robesonia Station was carried
away. =
The storm in Northern Lancaster County,
Penn, was the heaviest in sixty years.
Seven bridges, number Of buildings, sheds
and fences were washed away and many
cattle were drowned. At Millway an Inn
mense oil tank was carried 100 feet. Halt
mile Of track of the Reading and Columbia
Railroad at Denver was washed away.
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DUEL IN A CAR.
Bryant, a Train Robber, Killed by
Marshal Short, Whois Also Dead.

Bryant, a Train Robber, Killed by
Marshal Short, Who is Also Dead.
Charles Bryant one of the noted Dalton
gang of train robbers, who was captured the
other day in the Cherokee Strip by Deputy
United States Marshal Ed. Short, was shot
and killed by his captor after he had fatally
wounded Short. The duel occurred on q
Rock Island train, on which Short had placed
his prisoner, intending to take him
to Wichita, Kan. He placed Bryant In the
baggage car, going outside to guard against
sny attempt at rescue. he left a revolver
with the baggageman for protection. The
bargageman laid the revolver down and
Bryant soon secured it.
As the train was slowing up at station
he opened the door of the car and immedt-
ately began firing at Short, who was on the
platform, bullet going through Shorts
BODY. Short returned the fire and gave
Bryant death wound. Short was
also mortally wounded, but both men
Kept on firing until their weap.
ons were emptied. Bryant was the
first man to DROP and he fell head foremost
down the steps, Short caught him by the
leo and held him with his head almost touch.
ing the ground. He called to the conductor,
and when he got to him, he said: =,
81 have got him. Jim, and he has got me-"
The prisoner was dead when picked up, and
Short died in ten minutes.
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the Danube Company's steamer Apostag eS-
p,oded, killing five persons and seriously in
juring two Others.
THE Peruvian Cabinet has resigned, the
Ministers having refused to answer the SEN
ate's interpretations in regard to the at
tempted revolt of December 8. A new Min
istry has been formed.
AN explosion took place at colliary near
Merthyr Tydvil, Wales. Two persons lost
their lives by being suffocated in the
mine.
EAGLE STAR, the Sioux chief with Buffalo
Bills show, died from locLjaw at Sheffield,
England.
News has been received of a hurricane in
Senegal in which an Italian steamer and
two cutters were wrecked at Rufsque and
eighteen persons were drowned.
The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from
an English port for Dronthein, caught fire
and was burned to the waters edge when
near Bergen. Eight Of her crew were
drowned. Seven were saved.
EXTENSIVE floods are reported in West
moreland County, England.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

KATE and Mary Walton, sisters, aged
nineteen and twenty-five, belonging IN
Dorchester, Mass, were drowned In South
Boston Bay on their return from moon
light yachting cruise.
FIVE men were injured by an explosion OF
dynamite In stone quarry at HowellsVhle'
Penn.
GENERAL w. L. BRAGG, Interstate Com
merce Commissioner, diel at Avon-by-the-
Sea, N. J. He was born in Alabama IN
1885, and was appointed Interstate Commerce
Commissioner by President Cleveland IN
1889.
A GREAT throng of peopl, listened to an
address by President Harrison at Saratoga
After the address the President held recep-
ton on the piazza of the Grand Union Hotel.
JOHN G1BSEY AMI wife aai their four
year-old boy were crossing Union street
bridge, Schenectady, v. Y, when the child
fell through an opening in tas iron WORK.
The father jumpel into TIL, water to save
the child aud both were drowned.
The President spent Sun lay quietly at
Saratoga, \. Y.
DAMAGE estimated at s1OO. 900 was done by
a cloudburst at Pottsville. Penn.
THE President was the recipient of many
social attent ons at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
THE sessions of the Chautauqua On. "
Assembly for 1891 came to close.
THE search for bodies in the ruins of the
collapsed buildings in Park place, New York
City, was continued; thirty-five IN all nad
been taken out up to midnight OF the third
day; twenty-six were identified.
GOVERNOR PAGE, of Vermont, informed
Rsdfiel1 Proctor, Secretary OF War, that ne
would be appointed to succeed Senator Ea-
munds as Senator from Vermont.
PRESIDENT HARRISON journeyed from
Saratoga, N. Y, to st. Albans, "; ne
made eight speeches in the course of the
trip.
THE National Convention of the Dan3n
ters of Liberty was held at Waterbury,
Conn. A membership of over nine thousand
persons was reported.
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Of the eighteen recovered dead thirteen
have been identified. The five unidentified
bodies were taken to the Morgue.
One of the saddest features of this disaster
is that its long list Of victims were in the
main the fathers of families who leaned on
their support for tn, necessaries OF
life, or sons and daughters with
those dependent Oh their earn
ings. A largo majority of them were in
youth and with few exceptions they were all
of the best class of American working pco
pie. Nearly every death recorded means the
deso,atiou of home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
DESPERATE CONVIOTS.
They Seize a Train and Attempt to
Escapc-Two Killed.

A desperate attempt to escape was made
at tho Walla Walla Washington Peniten-
tiary By convicts. A train load of material
was run into the brickyard, and as
soon as it stopped several con-
victs seized the Warden of tue prison. while
others got into the locomotive cab. The en-.
Ciueer, however, reversed the wheels and
aitched the train, which frustrated the orig
inal plan OF the prisoners.
The Warden was being hurried away to
another gate by tho convicts when the
guards began shooting. The entire force
finally came to the rescue Of the Warden,
and after two convicts had been killed AND
another wounded order was restored. :. ).
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
REVENGE OF A SWITCHMAN.

He Wrecks Passenger Train in Bo-
hcmia killing Twelve Persons.
At Bu5entsch, Bohemia, passenger and
q freight train collided Twelve per-
sons were killed and many in
iured in the wreck. The snashu? was
caused by a Czech swtcA.nan who had re-
Gently had quarrel with the ensineer, OF the
MESSENGER train, and took this method Of re-
venging himself for On alleged insult,
The switchman was arrested, and but for
strong police, protection would , nave Deen peer
lynched by the indignant villagers and pas
SenScrs.
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a is 4,S23,3 34, an
in ten years.
torn swept over tho
iri1. Lightning struck
). Three women were
hunting party was struck
Ie member OF the party was
lot.
" PLAYED JAIL !"
Snothcreu Three Children in q
Little Iron Box.

Ahe mystery surrounding the recent trag-
iy III whica tho children of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hamilton, of lronton, Ohio, were
fcun.l smo:!i.:al to death in chest in
which they had been fastened has been
cleared up.
William Warwick, playmate of the
Hamilton children, admitted to his mother
that kirche Gurliche and a boy named Penn
berton, together with himself, while 'play-
ing JAIL" locked the children in the chest.
and being called to supper shortly afterward
forgot to let them out
When told that Warwick had confessed the
boys told the same story. The mothers Of
the children are crazed with grief, but it is
not likely anything will be done in the mat
ter as none Of the boys Is over eight years
old. .-
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IN big trees the new State of Washington
IS quite rich. A Seattle paper mentions a
fir in Sumas which is eight and one-half feet
in diameter. Near Stanwood there is q
cedar seventeen feet in diameter. thirty
three feet from the roots and twelve feet in
diameter l12 feet from the roots. NookSacS
reports fr twelve feet in diameter.
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TEN Cinnamon were arrested on WILDLY
Island, near Port Townsend, Washington,
and taken before a United States Commis-
sioner, who ordered them returned to China.
The Cinnamon were found scattered about
the Island, working on farms leased by Chi
ness farmers.
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Washington.

SECRETARY NOBLE has returned to WASH
ington from his summer vacation In the
Adirondack Mountains.
IT is said that tho British and United States
Governments will subscribe 81, 500, 600 to
complete the building of the Chignecto Ship
Railway. The British Government will fur
pish two-thirds of the amount.
BEFORE the American Association for the
Advancement of Science at Washington
Professor Riley reai papsr entitled, "Fhe
Grasshopper Outlook" He says there is no
longer any danger Of serious injury to the
crops by them this fall.
THE Bureau Of American Republics at
Washington is informed that the total Gus
toms receipts in Brazil for the first six
months OF 1891 were sIS, 1889, as compared
with SIG, 53l, ,36l during the first half OF lS9o.
The internal revenue receipts amounted to
s5,652, 2s2, as compared with s3.56l,Sol
year ago.
SECRETARY NOBLE has instructed the
,mmissioner Of Indian Affairs to direct
t Bennett Of the Union Indian Agency,
-1dtan Territory, to seize oil packages
1t may be shipped into the Indian
we'd at the War Department
that the carriage for
cl-loading rifle-the
,ich has boon On
v j.. proving
'ctory test.
"onstruc-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
ARTIFICIAL RAIN.
General Dyrenfurth Turns Arid
Plains Into Green PrairieS.

General Dyrenfurth Turns Arid
Plains Into Green PrairieS.
The labors of the rainmakers whom Secrs-
tary of Agriculture Rusk sent to Midland,
Texas to try to pump water out of cloud.
less skies are practically at an end so far as
that particular locality is concerned.
General Dyrenturth is highly pleased with
the success Of the experiments and has per-
'>ct faith that the power Of making rain has
n secured.
I'M barren, dry alkali prairie Tom
County, Texas, has been transformed
'st-class pasture land.
belongs to Nelson Norris Of
>vers 300. coo acres. Before
came there had been no
7ch for three years
ore intervals which
the experiments
me tremendous
been q day
lass IS get
con-
-.
Arizona republican., 1891-04-05

blow given by the wealtbiest man in New York or London or Paris would be resented by the poorest with as much as surance of the laws aid as if their con ditions were reversed. Indeed there are those who complain that we have gone to the other extreme. and that juries habitually favor the poor. ths simple and the untitled. the widow as against the corporation, the orphan as against the guardian and the laborer us against the employer.
 Wealth still has great power, but more and more every year 1t finds its ac- count in increasing the general comfort. Our railroads, steamers, factories, etc., do not make dividends by catering to the rich few, but to the middle mill ions. All modern inventions, nearly, are in the line of increasing convenience. The ancients excelled in works of the colossal kind, temples and palaces, pyra- mids and monolithic constructions; the moderns have formed the sewing ma chine, spinning jenny, locomotive, steam press and scores of agricultural imple- ments. Nineteen out of every twenty inventions of the last century have been such as to give an increased product to labor.
 Perhaps the greatest of all gains has been in cheap and rapid transportation. Within thirty years we have brought it about that wheat and meat can be taken from Iowa to New York city at less than the former charges from Buffalo,
Arizona republican., 1891-04-05
Something Like a Suit of Clothes,

Henry Fang, of Toledo, was in De. troit a day or two ago, carrying con. cealed about his person one of the larg. est stories of the season. "I have just had great load taken of my mind, V he said. Our firm has just completed what is probably the most extensive suit of clothes ever made. The suit was for John Craig, farmer living near Mill vile, Ind, who claims to be the largest and heaviest man in the world. He is not museum freak, but a quiet, law abiding citizen. His weight is GOT pounds, and forty-one single yards of cloth were required for his suit. The pantaloons took five yards. Mir. Craig's hip measures 8 feet 8 inches; waist measure S4 inches. He weighed bnly thirteen pounds at birth, but when 4 months old his avoirdupois had increased to 200 pounds. He is 35 years old and married, his wife weighing only 180 pounds. Detroit Free Press.
Arizona republican., 1891-04-05
New York's Small Boy in Winter

A park policeman remarked recently that the winter has had no effect on the pet enemy of his comfort. 1.-The howl ing wind and the falling snow," he said, "haye no terrors for the venturesome small boy. He is out here in all kinds of weather. As soon as thin coating of ice begins to form on the lakes he wants to test it. He races across the lawns, climbs trees and is up to no end of mischief all day long. Of course we are constantly on the lookout to prevent the boys from doing harm and from coming to grief through their pranks, but they are active and fleet of foot, and can usually get away from us. They are like locusts. They swarm all over the park at once and invent mischief as easily as they breathe. The other day little chap who had been wandering around finally brought up at the menag- erie and handed a baseball bat to Tip, the elephant. Tip took fancy to it, and his keeper was nearly three hours get. ting it away from him. He narrowly escaped with whole head at that."- New York Sun.