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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-22
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

SHERIFF ROBINSON, of Scranton, Penn,
was Inortally injured by an exploding giant
firecracSer.
WHILE a ferryman namei Mickey was
rowing party of eight across the Monon-
gaheia River at Braddock, Penn, the boat
was upset and Mickey and two unknown
men were drowned. Ths party was attend
ing picnic and several Of them were lntoxl-
Gated.
JOHN LUTEY and Philip Forkel were killet
by the explosion Of the Moosic Powder Conl-
pany's press mill at Scranton, Penn, in
which they were employed.
THE Cunard steamer Servia bro ke her
shaft when two days out and was towsd back
to New York by the oil tank steamer Ches-
ter. Prince George, of Greece, was on
board.
CHARLES H. BURTON Secretary of the
Burton & CORY Cider AMI Vinegar Com
pany. of Albany, N Y, is missing, and it is
found that he owes from $4,000 to $50, 900.
The greater part of this is distributed among
his relatives
THE President and Postmaster General
Wanamaker. at Cape May, N. j., discussed
plans for applying the Postal Subsidy law.
JAMES SLocUM Harris A. Smiler, Joseph
Wood and ShiGuya Jugiro, the japanese,
were executed by electicity at Sing Sing IN.
" Prison. The first named was killed at
4:3S O'Clock in thu morning and the last at
6:06. The execution was success, the four
murierers dying instantly.
THE Internal Revenue receipts from the
Connecticut District, comprising that State
and Rhode Island, were $g6S, 936. IS for the
year ending June 30, the largest since 1881,
when the district was formed.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The Gulf of Mexico has risen over a
loot since 1852.
A fish with two tails is the chief curi-
osity at Madison, Penn.
Brass bands are not allowed to play in
The streets Of. Nashville, Tenn.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount Of sickness in human life.
There are about fourteen hundred
places of worship in London, England.
There is difference of only twenty
Two square miles between the areas OF
England and Iowa.
Francois Coppee, the French author,is
fond of cats that surround his desk and
aibble ct his pen when he writes.
Camden, N. j., boasts of a blind bar
Der who can shave as we'll as if he had
perfect sight. He works every day and
makes regular wages.
Alabama has new religious sect, one
of whose tenets is to pay no taxes to the
support of secular government, even to
The extent of a dog tax.
Girls are no longer tc be fogged in the
industrial schools of Kirkdsle, in Lam
cashire, England. Such IS the order OF
the Local Government Board.
The famous four-post bedstead in Anne
Hathaway's cottage at Shottery, England,
is rapidly disappearing, being gradually
Clipped away by relic hunters.
The most successTuI farmer in Aroos-
took County, Me-, and the owner OF the
largest potato field in that section, is a
man paralyzed from his hips down.
The King of Ashantee is allowed 1888
wives. Many Of them are the daughters
of the chiefs of tributary tribes over
which the King has jurisdiction, and are
sent to him as hostages. -.
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AN INDIAN EXECUTION.
A Seminole Murderer Sits on a Rock
and is Shot to Death by Two Braves.

A Seminole Murderer Sits on Rock
and is Shot to Death by Two Braves.
At Waheka, Indian Territory, the capital
of the Seminole Reservation, Umest a full
blooded Seminole, was executed. A month
ago Umest engaged in a quarrel with a fel-
low Indian. and after knocking him senseless
with a hoe, literally chopped his body to
pieces with it. He was tried by the Seminole
Council, convicted and sentenced to death.
The penalty was inflicted at noon on the
council grounds Umest was led to low,
fat rock. and bandage YVES tied over his
eyes He was not bound In any way, but
sat erect, with his hands resting in his lap,
and as much unconcerned as II his
photograph was about to be taken.
Two of the braves were selected by
lot as the executioners. They. were
given loaded rifles, and at the word each
sent a bullet into the condemned mans
heart.
The only evidence that Umest had been
shot was painful raising of the shoul'
ders.
The e1ecutioners quickly ran to him and
laid him at full length on the ground. where
he expired in two minut,s. His body was
burned by the council on the edge OF the
council ground.
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WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

A HERD of eighty-fve buffalo will be ex-
hibitel at the Fair.
AN enterprising Nebraska man says, that
he will take to the Exposition crowd OF
$1,000 school children from Omaha and VIZ
cinitS.
IT snext to certain that the Exposition
will be open eyeningsin all Of lts depart
ments. The Directory has called for plans
and estimates for lighting, By electricity, all
Of the buildings
AN exhibit from Alaska will be collected
under the auspices Of the Governments In
dian bureau and geological department, pro.
vided Congress appropriates money Tor tnat
purpose, as it is expected it will.
AS soon as they can be prepared 100, 900
copies will be issued of a fine water color
lithograph representing a biro's eye view OF
the Exposition buildings and grounds. The
work will appear in sixteen color<.
KwoNG Wo CH1oNG, Chinese merchant
in Hong Kong, has applied for space for an
exhibit of Chinese goods. Applications for
space are getting to be very nu nerous, and
already many have been sent in from foreign
countries.
APERMANENT art palace will be built also
in Lake Front Park towards the erection of
which the Exhibition will contribute $500,
600. During the Exposition this building
will be Used by the Worlds Congress Auxili-
ary for the holding of some OF its numerous
congresses.
LIEUTENANT LITTLE, of the Navy depart
ment, has sailed for Europe to complete the
plans for reproducing the caravals which
forme the feet Of Columbus. He carries
letters OF introduction from the State De-
partment to Minister Grubbs and other re-
presentatives of the United States abroad.
AT meeting of representatives of various
religious benevolent and retormatory or
sanizations, held recently in New York for
the purpose, committee Of five was chosen
to arrange, if possible, for the erection OF
q separate building at the Exposition. in
which can be shown the metho Is and results
Of every description of religious missionary
and philanthropic work in this country.
THIRTY acres in the northern portion of
Jackson Park, Chicago, have been reserved
for sites for the State buildings. The ground
has already been apportioned among the
States consideration being had for the size
and Importance of each ard the amount it
will probably expend upon its tuilding and
collective exhibit The entire space will be
artistically divided by beautiful walks and
driveways.
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THE LABOR WORLD.
The Paris bakers strike collapsed.

THE Paris bakers strike collapsed.
CINCINNATI has women carpenters.
AMERICAN railroads employ 5000, 900 per-
sons.
SAN FRANCISCO blacksmiths work nine
hours.
New YORK Hebrew bakers run cooper
ative shop.
MECHANICS head the list as inventors, then
come clergymen.
INDIANAPOLIS sewing women recently
held mass meeting.
New YORK CITY has z Of L. assembly
Of church choir singers.
berries in South Jersey.
TIE Welsh tin-plate workers threatens to
come over here in droves.
LOWELL (Mass.) union men demand that
police patrol-wagons be covered.
TIE Switchmen's Union withdraws from
the Federation Of Railway Employees.
THE Workingmens Society Of New York
wants Friday half-holiday for clerks.
A HopcARRrERs' union composed Of col
ored men has been organized In Brooklyn,
LII.
TIE managers Of the Topeka Kan.) peni-
tent;arv ref1se to observe the Eighthonr
law.
THE United States Treasury Department
is called upon to decide if pugulists are Ia
borers.
YPs1.ANr1 (Mich.) woolel-mill owners
fine hands twenty-five cents for talking, and
the mills run on holidays.
SOME New York capmakers struck against
depositng part of Their wages as a guaran-
tee that they would not strike.
CHINESE workmen who labor at the looms
making mating consider themselves lucky
IL they earn five cents day by hard WORK.
The formation Of labor unions in Finland
had reached the point Of resolving to hold
general meeting in Helsing gfors this summer,
buta ukase from the Car stepped 1t entlreiy
A CONVENTION Of labor organizations To-
Gated on the Pacific Coast will be called py
the Trades Council of San Francisco, which
will eudenvor to form labor federation III.
dependent Of the American Federation OF
Labor.
AN enterprising Chicago man, who i'm
ported two "iinrikishas" and Japanese men
to draw them, free, at the Chicago Exhibit
ton, has been ordered to send the men DacK,
as being brought here contrary TO the alien
labor law.
The Worlds Fair Association Of the Com.
mercial Travellers, recently formed, decided
to hold two weeks congress at the World'a
Fair. All organized bodies OF travelling men
in tue United States, and foreign drummers
as WELL will beinvited to participate
THE National Association of Furniture
Manufacturers, at It's recent convention. In
Boston, decided to make an extensive exhibit
at the Exposition, and provided for commit.
tees to look after the matter. The e1hlolt
will occupy space in the main building Tor
manufactures.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Electric blasting is a success.

Electric blasting is success. :
Sea water is heavier than fresh water
because of the salt dissolved in it.
Warming of street cars In winter Is q,
new possibility of the trolley electric sys-
TEN.
Professor W. A. Henry found that o
pound of mutton can be produced cheap
er thsn a pound of pork. !
For simple hoarseness take fresh egg,
beat it and thicksn with pulverized
sugar. Eat freely of it and the hoarse-
ness will soon he relieved. ::
It is said that Harry Edwards. the
actor who died recently in New York,
owned a collection of about 100000
moths and butterflies, which he had in
sured for S17, 900.
A sure cure fer infammatory rheuma-,
tism is made by taking one ounce pull
verized saltpeter aud putting it into q
pint of sweet oil. Battle the parts
affected and sound cure will speedily
be made. !
Sir William Siemen's method of apply
ing electric light to grow flowers and
fruit by night or on cloudy days has
been employed with good success on
board West Indian steamer TO keep
alive exotic vines and other plants.
A striking conclusion has been drawn
by Boulanger, that the great Cretaceous
Hydrosaurus of New Jersey was the an
cestral form from which three great
groups of reptiles the lizards, Pythono-
morpha, and snakes have originated.
The only proper way to keep a gun,
barrel in good order is to wash it out,
with boiling hot water, dry with linen:
swabs and oil with vaseline or cylinder
oil, every time that it is used. It should
never be laid aside unattended to for q
day or two after firing.
The sea-snakes are now regarded by
Boulanger, on account of the different
shape of the teeth in the three genera
known, as the descendants of three ter
restrial genera, the close similarity in the
shape of the head, their color and habits
being due to adaptation to their pelagic
life.~
A handy lamp holder has been devised
whereby perfect comfort can be secured
for the eye, while bright light is main
tanned. The holder can be placed in any
desired position and by use of "half
shade" the light can be concentrated on
any subject-a desk, typewriter, copy
stand or a piano-and all strain on the
eyesight is avoided.
Hailstorms do not occur in we'll
wooded districts, according to the OBJ
servations of a noted Swiss forester. In
evidence of this he points out that
district formerly exempt from such
storms has been visited by very fierce
ones, since gaps were made in the forests,
and that upon replanting the cleared
ground with frs, the storms ceased en-
tirely.
Blending as means of effecting spec
ial improvement has, it is we'll known,
long been used for raising the quality OF
wine, but new application of the pro.
cess is now being made. A new method
of producing gas from oil and mixing
the same with coal gas has been invented
in England. 1t is said that the new pro-
cess has wonderful effect in enriching
the gas as a whole. 1t has the further
Recommendation of considerably cheap
ening the supply. -.
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South and West.

0ouCu dHtt "S9t.
GALVESTON, Texas was flooded along the
waterfront, and the shipping there suffered
severely from terrific storm.
j. D. SHAW, editor of the Bishopville
Eagle, was stabbed and killed by Dalles
Kelly at picnic at Camden 5. {.
A TERRIBLE thunderstorm at st. 1nigoes
Villa, st. Mary's County. Nd, caused thS
death by lightning of three scholastics OF
Woodstock College-Johu B. Lamo, Will
lam j. Holden and James Walters.
THE Chilian insurgent steamship 1tata,
which ran away from San Diego, Cal. on
May without customs certificate OF clear-
ance and with deputy United States ma-'-
shall aboard, arrived in the harbor there
Her envoy, the United States cruiser Charles
ton, did not put into port, but came to
anchor outside, where she engaged III target
practice.
instantly killed at Boone Iowa, by tho rum
ming away of their team.
MOSES BROTHERS bank at Montgomery,
Ala, suspended payment. The liabilities
are about half million dollars. They dida
savings bank business and have mauy scores
of depositors among the poorer people.
GRAssHoPPERs stopped tie Rock Island
passenger train on recent night east OF La
mont Junction, Kan. They covered the
track for distance OF five miles.
A BIG labor demonstration was held at
Steubenville, Ohio.
The drouth in Indiana is becoming serious.
Grass is like tinder and constant alarms OF
fire keep farmers along the railroads busy.
Several wheat crops have already been de-
stroyed by the fire.
The Bank Of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala,
closed its doors. The failure is due to that
of Moses Brothers, of Montgomery.
THE two fnasted schooner Silver Cloud, OF
Milwaukee, was wrecked near Port Washing
ton, Wis, and Captain johnson and his wife
and child were drowned.
FIFTY men, mounted and armed, took
Roland Brown, colored man charged with
assaulting Mrs. Berry, from Jail at Black
shear, Ca, and riddled him with bullets.
The Circuit Court at Los Angeles, CAL,
dismissed the libel egainst the Robert and
Minnie; the Attorney-General ordered that
the Itata be libelled.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE best fighting team in the League Is
Cleveland.
WHEN the New Iiorks fail to bat they al
ways field poorly.
A FEMALE base. ball team is ravag1ng the
Pennsylvania coal regions.
McCLUSa has been reelected captain OF
Yale team for next season.
CLARKsoN, Of the Boston League is rap
idly regaining his usual effectiveness.
WHITNEY, of the Cincinnati Association,
is playing phenomenal third base this sea-
son.
THE once famous pitcher, Larry Corcoran,
is umpiring satisfactorily in the Illinois-Iowa
League.
CATCHER DAILY, of Brooklyn, Is making
many of his wonderful running fly catches
this year.
DAHLEN, Chicago's new third baseman,
is not twenty-one years old, and Is the father
of two children.
CLARKE, the catcher of the New Yorks,
was married recently to Miss Adele For
bush, of Charlestown, Mass.
IN Lowe Brodie and Stovey, Boston's
League team has an outfield which has few
equals and no superior in the throwing line.
ANsoN of Chicago, has been hitting with
his old-time skill and strength Of late, and
has finally managed to get ahead OF his colts
in average.
THERE is possibility that "Buck" Ewing,
Of New York, has Joined the dead-arm
crowd. It is more than likely that he may
not be able to play at all this season.
In the League Joe Quinn leads Boston at
the bat: Tiernan leads New York; Ward,
Brooklyn; Hamilton, Philadelphia; Beckiey,
Pittsburg; Arson, Chicago; Davis, Cleve.
land and Holiday the Cincinnats.
Brown, of Philadelphia, has uade more
long hits than any other player in the coun'
try. He is credited with thirty-two, includ.
ing sixteen doubles fourteen triples and two
homers Joyce comes next on long hits.
In the Association Brouthers leads the
Boston batsmen, Werden the Baltimores
Donovan the Louisvilles Kelly the Cincin.
natis, Boyle the St. Louis Browns. Murphy
the Washingtons, Duffee the Columbus and
Wood the Athletics
RUs1E, Of New York; Clarkson, Of Boston,
and Hutchinson, of Chicago, are having o
close and interesting race for the honor OF
being the best winning pitcher Of the League.
, Each leads his club in victories. For Pitts
burg Glavin leads, for Cincinnati Mullane,
for Brooklyn Lovett for Philadelphia
Thompson, for Cleveland Young.
MAYOR J. B. SARGENT, Of New Haven,
Conn.,, created a sensation by appearing as
O player in q hotly fought baseball contest
between the officials OF the city aud town
governments. AS the Mayor is nearly seven
ty-fve years old his playing in the pitchers
box was something phenomenal. An I'M
mense crowd gathered to see the game.
BROWNING received his release from Pitts
burg for poor work in the field and obstinacy
at the bat in refusing to sacrifice. He has
accented the terms of the Cincinnati League
Club. He. will play centre field in place Of
Long John Reilly who will resume his old
sand at first base. "Pets" will be paid at
the rate Of $500 for the season, and will re-
ceiye $500 advance money.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
The Venerable ex-Vice- President Dies
OF Heart Disease.


Hannibal Hamlin, one of the founders of
the Republican party, who served as Vice
President during the first four years Of Mr.
Lincoln's administration, and who was the
last of the ex-Vice-Presidents elected by
the people, died at the Tarratine Club
rooms in Bangor, Me. The ez-Vice-
President visited the club rooms
that afternoon, as has long been his custom,
and was playing with some friends his IA
vorite game of pedro" when he was
stricken down with heart failure. He leaves
a widow and two sons, General Charles
Hamlin, Esq, a lawyer Of Ellsworth, and
Frank Hamlin, now living in Chicago. Mr..
Hamlin had been psrceptibly failing for q
year.
Hannibal Hamlin was born on a farm
near Paris, Oxford County, Me-, on August
81, 1899. His father intended to give him q
collegiate education, but died while the boy
was going through a preparatory course.
Thereat Hannibal returned home to take
charge Of the farm aud remained there
until he was twenty-one years old. Then he
went to town ami learned the printers
trade, and while at work at the case took up
the study of the law and in 1888 being then
twenty-four years old, he was admitted to
practice in Hampden, Penobscot County.
Within three years after he was admitted
to the bar he was elected as Democrat to
the State Legislature.
In 1S4O he received the Democratic nomina-
tion for Congress- But he failed of election
that time. In 1912 and again in 1874 how
ever, he succeeded.
In 1S46 he had become 80 prominent In the
State that he was chosen to serve out the un-
expired term -four years. Of Senator John
Fairfield, who had died. He was elected for
the full term in 1851, still as Democrat, but
in 1857 resigned because he had been elected
Governor OF the State as member OF there
Gently born Republican party.
In less than month";. e. on February ~,
1e57-he resigned bis Office as Governor be-
cause he had again boen chosen Senator for
the State.
In the Convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln as the leader Ct the
Republican party, Hamlin was placed
second on the ticket. On his election
he resigned his otlce ss Senator, and
from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1865, pre-
sided over the Senate. he was soon after
appointed Collector Of the Port of Boston,
an otfice that he resigned year later.
In 1869 he was again elected to the United
States Senate, and served there until 1881,
when he was sent as American Minister TO
Spain. He held this office but one year.
During the past few years Mr. Hamtin's
public appearances nave been few.
Early in 1889 he nlads an extended West
ern tour and was the recipient Of many
honors in Western cities.
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Through q Tcestle.

. A loaded passenger train on the Kanawha
and Michigan road crashed through thirty
foot trestle about eight miles from Charles
ton, W. Va, early on recent morning, and
only one Of the passengers escaped uninJure1.
At least thirteen pecple were killed outright
and more than fifty were hurt, some of them
fatally
It was Train No. /, which consisted of an
engine, combined baggage, mail aud express
car and two coaches.
The coaches were fllei with passengers
most Of whom were laboring people out for
q holiday in the country. The Order Of
United American Mechanics was en- route to
Poca TO spend the day, many Of them ac-
coupanied by their wives.
Many Of the passengers were employees Of
the railway com oany going to their homes
along the line to spend the holiday.
The train was passing over trestle when
there came crash. The coaches rocked and
shook, women screamed and stout men
turned pale with fear.
A moment more and fearful plunge was
made. The forward passenger car rolled
down the approach to the trestle, turned
completely, and rested right side up ten feet
below the track.
!, The other cars rolled over the edge, turned
bottom up ani fell twenty feet below the
track. In the terrible fall many persons were
crushed aud bruised, but to add to the horror
therear truck which remained on the track
fell over on top of the car. crushing
everything under it and killing nearly every
person who was in that portion Of the car.
One dead body after another was pulled out
through the window, most Of them horribly
mangleG.
OF the entire number ON the train only
four escaped without a scratch. Nearly all
the dead were cut or bruised about the head.
Immediately after the wreck relief trains
we're sent out with physicians from ST
Albans and Charleston. who did all in their
power to relieve the suffering OF the IN
tured.
The burning of the ties, which caused the
train to leave the track, is supposed to have
been caused by the falling Of hot cinders
from freight train that crossed during the
night.
The track walker. whose duty it was to
inspect the track daily, had started on his
trip from the other end Of his section, but
had not reached this place.
The engineer saw slight smoke but
thought it an early fog rising from the
creek until too late to save the train. The
engine and first car got over safely.
Walter Welcher and wife, with their in
FAINT child, were going for a holiday with
friends. The parents were killed, and the
little child of a year was bruised, and its
little fingers cut OFF. It never whimpersd,
and its great bl ue eyes never shed tear as
the surgeons dressed the wounds
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SmOkeless Fuel.

Pittsburg is at last assured OF smoke.
less fuel. During the last three years
the Westinghouse Company has spent
several thousand dollars experimenting
upon a process for the manufacture Of
artificial gas. The gas manufactured at
this point will be piped to the various
places where it is put into use. The diff
culties which many mills had last win
ter on account of natural gas will be
averted. It is said that the new inven-
ton will be cheaper than coal.--Nav
York Teleoram,.
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Two Soung Japanese women lost theis
mental balance over Tsuda's attempt to as
sassinate the Czarowitz One started out to
see the Russian Prince and make an apology
on behalf of her race. She failed to see him
and committed suicide. Another attempted
suicide by Drowning, but was rescued.
Tsuda himself attempted suicide and was
fatally injured.