The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-01
South and West.

JOHN OSCAR TURLINGToN was hanged at
Bonneville, Mo-, q few days ago for the muir
der Of Sheriff Granger, of Cooper County.
His neck was broken.
NEAR Emmett, Mich, Daniel McMahon,
farm hand, cut the throat of Annie Mur-
ohy, daughter of his employer. She was
:ound dead in her room. He then cut his
own throat.
JAMES CRUMP, O colore1 desperate from
West Virginia, was shot and killed at Rad
ford, Md, by Town Sergeant Hardwick
after duel at close quarters. HardwicS
Vas slightly wounded in the arm.
THE court house at Archer City, Texas has
oeen burned, together with nearly all the
county records. Loss estimated at $50, O0O
TEE suit of Hope & Co., the Amsterdam
bankers, to compel the Board Of Liquidation
to fund over "a, 100000 Louisiana State
bonds has been decided by Judge King in the
District Court at New Orleans in favor of
the Board Of Liquidation.
THE North Carolina Legislature has re-
iistricted the State making eight Demo-
cratic and one Republican district, and has
appropriated s25,000 for an exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
w. W. BARKEHURST, sixty years old,
who has not lived with his wife for somo
time, went to her residence at Tuscola, ILL.,,
and told her to make her peace with God.
de then fatally shot her through the head,
after which he turned the pistol upon him.
self and inflicted slight wound.
AN epidemic of pneumonia is raging among
:he members of the South Dakota Legisla-
.ure at Sioux Falls. Three have died, and
twenty-five are seriously ill.
The hardware store of G. ". Russell, at
Shelbyville, Tenu., was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000.
JOHN JACKSON, Of Arthur City, Tenn, up
braided his brother William for drinking,
and William shot him dead.
TIE printing house OF Gibson. Malt, Mil
.er & Richardson, at Omaha, Neb., was de-
;troyed by fire, caused by boy smoking
cigarette in the press room. Loss $500, QUO.
The epidemic Of trichinosis in the German
settlement at Ida Grove, Iowa, continues,
Ind two more deaths have occurred, making
i've deaths in all.
Two children, a boy and q girl, age four
md six years, Of William Brinkman, were
burned to death at West Milton, Ohio, in the
absence Of their parents.
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN and his son were
instantly killed, and Mrs. Mclaughlin
'atany injured by passenger train near
Shaftsburg, Mich. The family was driving
home from visit to relatives.
TIE Alaska shaft, with the Back Ridge
md Bear Valley collieries, of Shamokin,
Penn, and the Mount Carmel coal mine have
suspended operations indefinitely owing to
;he depressed condition Of the coal trade.
Over thousand miners and laborers have
,een thrown out Of employment.
The Legislature of Idaho has appropriated
2O, GOO for Idaho's exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
HENRY CUMMING LAMAR and Miss Louise
ling Connolly, whilo out rowing on the
anal at Augusta, Ga, were drowned. The
,oat was sucked through the food gate at
shamrock Mills. two miles above the city.
MRS. o. C. HANSON, Of Pelican Rapids,
dinn., hanged herself and her one e-year-old
ably She fastened a string on the edge of the
loor just above the hinge, on which she
angel the baby. She then drove nail on
he top of the door casing and attached
tout string to which she hanged herself. No
ause for the suicide is known.