The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-28
South and West.

REPORTS from the Northwest showed that
the rainy weather had seriously injured
wheat in the shock.
The storage warehouse Of Hunter q Co,
at Montgomery. Ala, was burned with
about 200 bales Of cotton. The loss IS Sl25,-
600.
A FIRE at Mayfeld KY, burned over
nearly six acres of ground. The Newport
News and Mississippi Valley freight and
passenger depots, the Western Tobacco
Company's warehouse and 600 hoysheads Of
tobacco and a number Of residences were
destroyed. Loss, 100000.
JOHN WILLIAMS. Company D, Tenth Kan
sas Infantry. and Peter Cusics, navy vet
eran, were run over and killed by the rapid
transit train at Leavenworth, Kan. Both
men were inmates Of the Soldiers Home.
JOE Coz, the colored assailant Of five-year-
old Lizzie Yates, was taken from Jail at
Omaha, Neb., by mob soon after midnight
and lynched.
A MOST remarkable and previously un-
heard Of occurrence took place at Manchester
College, st. Paul. MIMI, when the whole
senior class deserted the institution. They
did it, too, on the advice Of the Board OF
Trustees. What is at the bottom Of the af-
fair-fnances or bad feeling-is not known.
An elevator fell in ths Shelby Cabinet
Company's mill at Shelbyville, Ind, fatally
injuring three men, Joseph Schott Clint
Nicely and II. Thayer.
ROYAL VOORHEES, was instantly killed and
Robert Creque fatally wounded at Cham
paign, ILL.,. by Daniel Renner, the result Of
trivial quarrel, the men having been drink
ing.
COMMERCE on tae Great Lakes was
blocked for several days by the sinking, in
collision, of a wheat-laden barge in the
Sault Ute. Marie (Mich.) Canal.
JAMES MILLER, residing on claim near
Saltwater, Oklahoma, was shot and kille5
by his eighteen-year-olds stepson. Miller had
abused his wife and her children, and in or
der to gain revenge the stepson followed him
into field and shot him dead.
DR.. FRANK S. BILLINGS. investigator: of
infectious animal disease for Nebraska, has
completely demonstrated that a germ does
cause Texas fever. He has isolated this germ
from the blood OF Texas ticks, cultivated
them pure and killed cattle by inoculation
with them.
SHERMAN GREER, colored, shot and killed
his father. Rev. William Greer, in Wilkes
County. N. c. An accomplice named Wat
son held the old man while Sherman shot
him.
JUDGE GOODRICH has declared the Alien
Land law OF Texas void.
SIX laborers on q construction train at
Ensley City went to sleep in car where a
redhot stove was close to two kegs of pow.
der. The powder caught fire and exploded,
blowing the car to fragments. All were
killed.
The Minnesota Presbyterian Synod in ses-
sion at Minneapolis protests against opening
the Worlds Fair on Sunday.
ONE of the latest moves Of the Farmers
Alliance is the boycotting Of the town of
Laoonla, Iexas. The boycott was started
because the Town Council enacted a law
prohibiting the running at large Of stock in
the corporate limits.
REPORTS from Northern Minnesota and
North Dakota as far west as the Missouri
River are Of the most discouraging charac-
ter It showed and rained all over that Sec
tion for eighteen hours, and not wheel
could turn among the thrashing machines
1t was calculated that from 1000, 900 to S.
| 0Oo, 600 bushels of wheat would be utterly
ruined.