The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-07
LATER NEWS.

PLEURo-PSEuMoNIA has again appeared
among cattle in New Jersey. Government
inspectors have been sent there to stamp it
out.
In the Hopkins.Searles will contest at
Salem. Mass, Mr.. Searles testified that the
annual income of the Hopkins estate was
about $500, 900. He and his wife received
forty-ive per cent. each, which was deposited
in his name.
The President on June granted a par
don to Robert Sigel, son of General Sigel,
Of New York, convicted Of forgery and SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment at hard
labor, the pardon to take effect at the e1-
piration of two years and nine months OF
actual imprisonment A few days ago the
President granted full pardon ''in view of
the extreme il!ness of the prisoner, and
the fact that the term will expire in Decem-
ber."
THE Ordnance Bureau of the Navy has sue
ceeded in procuring the most rapid Of rapid
firing guns in the world. The Dashiel four
inch gun was recently tested at the Indian
Head proving grounds with the service
charge OF Brown powder, firing in salvos of
five rounds. The first five were fired in
twenty-six seconds, the second in twenty-five
seconds, and the third in seventeen seconds
COMMODORE RAMSEY, Acting Secretary
of the Navy, received request that the
Cushing and Stiletto be allowed to take
part in race with the feet steam yachts
Eamoose Norwood and Javelin. Although
the naval officers feel confident Of the ability
of the Cushing to hold her own in such a
contest, the request was not granted, as
naval vessels are not permitted to engage in
racing.
ACCORDING to q census bulletin the real
estate mortgage debt Of Kansas, January l,
1890, aside from State and railroad land con-
tracts, was $.35, 4s5, 10s OF this amount
sl67, las, go is almost exclusively on farms.
"Ex.GovERNoR ALBERT P. MoREHoUsE
committed suicide at his residence in Marys-
vile. Mo. Several weeks before the Cover
nor was much overheated while driving cat
tie, and had been in a nervous condition ever
since. He was born in Delaware Comfy.
Ohio, July 10, 1885, and came to Missouri IN
1856. He was lawyer by profession.
The whole Of the business portion OF
Bradley, South Dakota, is in ashes. Nine
stores, the NJ. e. Church, hotel and one
house were burned
MAJOR MCKINLEY spoke at the Coal
Palace at Ottumwa, Iowa
W. q. DAVIS, who murdered his mother
and her alleged lover, James Arnold, at
Pueblo, Col, because they refused to give
him money with which to continue his
drunken spree, was executed in the prison
yard at Canon City, Col.
The Western and Brazilian Cable Com
pany has just laid new cable between San
tos and Pernambhco. The cable steamer Sill
vertown is about to lay cable from Per-
nambuco to the Island Fernando do Noronha
and thence to ST. Louis, Senegal, Africa.
RUSSIAN troops are being steadily mort1
westward: Russia is said to be meditating an
entrance into Rumanian territory.
The festivities in celebration Of the resto-
ration of peace in Chill passed without polit-
ical disturbance.
In Otto Prefecture, Japan, 1000 cases OF
| dyssntery are reported, with 70o deaths.
THE King of Belgium has received Henry
NJ. Stanley's resignation as Governor of the
Congo States. The post has been refused by
a German officer of colonial experience, now
in Africa.