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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
LATER NEWS,

The State Senate at Albany, N. Y, con-
firmed the nomination of James F. Pierce,
to be Superintendent of the Insurance De
partmsnt; six Republicans voted for him.
HAROLD E. SPAULDING. Cashier of the
First National Bank and Treasurer of the
North Middlesex Institution for Savings, at
Aver, Mass, has disappeared aud with him
has gone about $50, 900 in cash. The two in
stitutions have closed their doors.
The official statistics of loss of life and
limb in the Third Anthracite Coal Mining
District of Pennsylvania for the year 1890
show that this was the most disastrous year
In the history Of the region. One hundred
!! men were killed, fifty-fve of whom left
widows, with a total of seventy-six orphans.
THE Secretary of Agriculture has just
issued his Texas fever regulations ito the
maaagers and agents of railroad and trans
portation companies Of the United States,
stockmen and Others" in accordance with
an act Of Congress.
The conference of Sioux with ths Com
missioner of Indian Affairs ended at Wash
ington.
The Acting Secretary Of the Treasury is
sued warrants for the payment Of 81, ,000 900
on account Of pensions aggrsgating $50, 0O0,-
600 due in the quarter ending March 4. The
latter amount represents the present avail
able cash balance of the Treasury, so that
the only Treasury surplus that will! exist
after these payments shall have been met is
now estimated at less than sl0,00O,000.
JUDGE ". H. CLAGGETT was elected
United States Senator by the Idaho Legisla-
ture; he will contest the previous election of
Dubois
NATHANIEL GREENE, bookkeeper for
Farnsworth G. Ruggles, San Francisco, Cal,
has been arrested charged with the embez-
element of $4,000.
GEORGE J. GIBSON, Secretary of the
"Whisky Trust" was arrested in Chicago,
ILL.,, and held in $50, 900; he is charged with
bribing gauger to blow up an antitrust
distillery.
The Kentucky Union Land and Railway
Company has gone into the hands of re-
ceiver, temporarily, as means of protection
against numerous suits.
A COLLISION occurred at Ingleside, No.,
between west-b bound Wabash extra train
and an east-bound freight train. W. NJ.
Bush and Keefer, brakemen, were killed.
John Broderick, conductor, and John Con-
ley, a fireman, of the Wabash, were seriously
injured.
Mr.. PARNELL has abandoned hope Of
coming to an agreement with The McCarth-
ties; Mr. O'Brien has issued statement
concerning the reason for the failure Of the
negotiations.
INFORMATION received from the Rio do Ia
Plata districts of the Argentine Republic
shows that locusts and drouth have reduced
the maize crop to quarter Of what the crop
was in 1890.
THE United States steel cruiser Baltimore
sailed from Toulon, France, for Chill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD.
Six Lives Lost in the Storm i'll Ne
braska and South Dakota.

Six Lives Lost i'll the Storm i'll Ne
braska and South Dakota.
The blizzard in the Northwest having
ceased the work of restoring interrupted rail.
way communication went on as rapidly as
possible.
The blockaded trains on the Union Pacific,
near Cheyenne, Wyoming, were the first
moved.
Reports show the loss of six lives during
the big storm. In South Dakota man and
woman who drove out Of Rapid City, bound
for Elk Creek, have been found frozen in
Near Rushvile, Neb., Mrs. Milton Cum
mings was also fatally frozen in her buggy.
Near Kearney, in the same State, two boys,
Eddie Chedster and Steve ST Peters, We're
frozen In a cornfield while trying to make
their way home from hunting expedition.
NJ. L. tissent is missing from Chadron,
Neb., and parties are looking for his body.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
THE LABOR WORLD.
HERE is q dearth Of sailors.

THERE IS dearth or sailors.
THE South has 1924, 335 spinilers.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, has 2O.0 900 unemployed.
DENVER COL, boasts 100 manufactures.
Four THOUSAND strikes occurred in 1890.
THE Iron Moulders' Union pay 500 at
death.
NEW YORK has Hebrew Federation Of
Labor.
BROOKLYN N. ~ furniture hands work
nine hours.
THERE are about IS, 900 female typewriters
in this country.
THE Amalgamated Society of Engineers
has 80, 900 members.
SHEEP butchers at the Chicago ILL., Stock
Yards are on strike.
The strikers on all Scotch railways have
returned to work at last.
ARMOUR, the great Chicago GIlJ pork.
packer employs 5000 men.
ANOTHER outbreak Of strikes in English
shipping circles is threatened.
E1GHr-HoUR demonstrations will be held in
every part Of Portugal Mayl.
THERE are 100000 miners in the anthra-
cite coal regions Of Pennsylvania.
GIRL delegates have been admitted to the
Central Union of San Francisco, Cal.
THE Fur-skin Dressers' Assembly is being
reorganized. It died three years ago.
BALFoUR's light railways in Ireland have
given work to 7412 unskilled laborers.
OF the 5000 striking cigarmakers at Ham
burg, Germany, not one deserted the union.
AT Cologne, Germany, 1900 idle men will bs
employed by the city at eighteen pence
day.
THE Ohio House of Representatives passed
a bill making eight hours days work, except
farm labor.
hasnearly doubled waged and reduced hours
almost half.
OF the 100000 wage earners in this
country, 1000, 900, or forty four per cent, are
engaged in farming.
STENoGRAPHERs and typewriters can be
had In punches at "a a week. Cooks at S3O
a month cannot be found to supply the de-
maud.
The laborers working at the salt works in
the Government Of Kursk, Russia, receive
twelve cents for twelve hours hard work
one cent per hour.
C.G. Conn, horn manufacturer, Of Elk
hart. Ind, has determined to divide seventy
two per cent. of his profits for the year in
January 1892, among his employees.
FREDERICK H. FISHER, railway engineer
who died in Chicago, ILL.,, recently, had been
in active service for over thirty years, and
during that time never had an accident.
The Federation Of Labor has decided to
eschew politics, maintaining that labor Or
ganizations which went into craftsmanship
have waned in influence and membership.
THE New York factory inspector recon-
mends that women under twenty-one and
youths Of eighteen in mercantile houses be
limited to sixty hours week, and the pre-
venton Of overcrowding.
THE dwellings for workmen which the
German Government proposes to build in
north Berlin will cost $1,000 each. They will
be purchasable on terms equal To deposit
of SIS and weekly payments of Sl.25.
MANY labor organizations have Of late ap.
pointed press secretaries whose duties con-
sist in furnishing correct reports to the
newspapers, all other members being for
hidden to talk to reporters or write to edl-
tors about the business Of their OF iganza-
tions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04

IT is nearly twenty years since John
W. Keely announced to the world that
he had discovered a new force which
was destined to revoluticnize the whole
system of locomotion. The inventor is
now fifty four years old, and it seems
probable that his secret, whatever its
value, will die with him. The original
capital of the company formed to de-
velop the discovery was half million
dollars, and after this had bacome ex-
hausted Mrs. Bloomfield Moore sup
piled the inventor with funds to pro-
ceed. Now she proposes to retire from
the concern, and its finances will suf-
fer accordingly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
In the House.

50TH Day.-The Sundry Civil Appropria-
tion bill was considered {. On motion oil
Mr.. Mckinley by unanimous consent it was
ordered that during the remainder of the
session the House shall meet at eleven
o'clock.
5lsr DAY.-The Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks,
Of Boston, Mass, delivered prayer. .Th,
Bland free coinage rider" to tho Sundry
Civil bill was ruled out on point of order. {.
Mr.. Bingham reported the Postofice Appro-
priation bill and it was placed on the cal
ender AT its evening session the House
passed 115 private pension bills and ad-
journed.
SD DAY.-The House went into Com
mittee Of the Whole (Mr Payson OF Illinois
in the chair on the Sundry Civil Appropri-
alton bill. The pending question was the
decision Of the Chair on Mr.. Mason's point
OF order raised against Mr.. Chandler's
amendment to the Worlds Fair item.
The Worlds Fair was discussed at great
length. Without disposing Of the bill the COM
mittee rose. Mr.. McMillin said that the
sad duty deyolved on him Of announcing the
death at Nassau. where he had gone in search
Der of Congress from tie Tenth District of
Tennessee. Mr.. McMillin then Of
fered the following resolutions
That the House has heard with profound
sorrow and desp regret Of the death Of the
Hon. James Phelan. That committee cf
seven members Of the House, with such menl-
bers OF the Senate as may be Joined, be ap-
pointed to attend the funeral. The Speaker
appointed Messrs Washington, McRae,
Wichman, Enloe Stockbridge, Montgomery
and Coleman as said committee, and then, as
mark Of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased, the House adjourned.
SD DAY.-Mr. Geary introduced bill
providing for the free coinage Of all silver
the production of American mines. 9. In
Committee Of the Whole, the Suudry Civil
and Legislative Appropriation bills were
discussed; the former measure was after
ward passed In the House. Mr.. Lodge in
troduc d a resolution proposing two amend
ments to the House rules intended to pre-
vent the use Of the Journal of each days
proceedings as means Of obstruction.
54TH DAY-The Barrundia affair was dis
cussed. Mr.. Dalzell defending Commander
Reiter's action and Mr.. Lodge uphoiding the
Secretary Of the Navy. T.. The Dallas Texas
Public Building bill was passed over the
Sl0O month the pension of the widow Of
General Custer was passed.
55TH DAY.-Messrs. Adoo and Fitch
spoke against the shipping bill. The Leg
islative Appropriation bill was considered
:. "A resolution was adopted calling on the
Secretary Of the Interior for information as
to what rules Of evidence are recognized by
the Pension Bureau governing examiners in
the adjudication Of pension claims. ...On
motion Of Mr.. Evans of Tennessee, a reso-
luton was adopted calling on the Secretary
of War for q list Of the names Of retirel
army officers now in the Civil Service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
FLOOD, FAMINE AND FIRE.
Crest Loss of Life, Destitution, anu
Destruction Of Property in China.

A letter from Shanghai gives the details
of terrible floods and famine in Northern
China, The Governor-Ge General Of Ii Hing
Chang reports that the people Of Shuan sui
fered terribly by food which destroyed
temples, bridges and city walls in no iess
than ten districts III Wen Chuan the loss
of life will reach fully thousand.
Immediately following the floods ae ~ 5el
Chang fire started and destroyed tnlrty-nve
houses. In three other places houses were
burned to the number of 2OO Tho suffering
among the poor is something terrible. The
roads everywhere are difficult of passage and
crowds of Starving wretches are on their way
to Shanghai, and how to deal with them Will
be an anxious and difficult problem for those
in power to solve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
Mine Disaster.

By an explosion of gas in the new shaft at
Simpson & Watkins's mine at Wyoming,
PENN. two mon were instantly killed and
two fatally injured. Gas from q feeder in
tho side OF the shaft was ignited from the
lamp Of one of the workmen. 1t exploded
with terrific force, dashing the men against
the side Of the shaft. Those who were killed
were Nat Kane and Charles Kirk, both mar
ried, and William Ross and Luther Michael
were fatally Injured
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
TEMPERANCE.
COUNTING THE COST.

COUNTING THE COST.
Crouched on the dingy, old stone pier, .;s@ :
Watching the water dark and deep, &
Sits poor, old, blear-eyed Carl LIE Mere,
Mut'ring as one 10 troubled sleep;
20 artful flend, with cursed bowl,
You've robbed me Of all that man counts
dear;
Now mc.k in delight at my pain and fear.
"Friends. Lome, happiness, heaven and rest,
Relentless you've taken. What have
now?' ..... ....-
The voice rose higher; the hands were
In anguish against the fevered brow;
"For all of this, o iend accurst,
What have you given? You answer
It sweeps Ger my soul in burning thirst,
An earnest, in truth, Of the drunkard's
helln
Backward he sank to the pier again,
Mut'ring, and gazed in the water dssp;
s'Oh, for an end Of the gnawing pain,
Oh, for the old-time restful sleep! -.
Water, you ever have been friend, i
Cover and hide my wretched face;
Let me come to the bitter end,
Graded at last in thy cool embrace"
The veil of twilight sank over day, y
Along the headlands the beacons shons;
But never cheering, hopeful ray
Came to that soul as it watched alone. =
The night wind echoed the sailors song,
The waves moaned sadly against the piars
They had not meant to do wrong "a
In answering poor old Carl LIE Mere. -
Sadly they sobbed along the shore,
And laid their burden upOn the sands Fl
Then rolled away. with muffled roar,
To beat the death march" in other
lands, ..r..>s 3
And passsrs look on the wreck, shore
driven, ...
And looking, linger to count the cost z
Home, happiness, life and hope in heaven,
All staked with demon, and lost-alf
lost. s
-JennyL. Emo, in Temperance Banner. 4
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
Drowned Or the SciIIy Islands.

The steamer Chiswick, bound from Cardiff
sand-par off Scilly Islands and sank. The
Captain and ten seamen were drowned.
Eight men, who had life-belts around them,
chung 70 an overturned life.boat for seven
hours, until they were rescued by boats from
q lightship. A steamer conveyed them tx
Penzance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
DEATH OF A HERMIT.
He Begged for Food, Though He Had
Amasscd a Fortune.

Amasscd a Fortune.
Thomas Thomas, hermit aged seventy.
five years, residing at Germantown, N. j.,
died few days ago after several months
suffering from cancer The deceased was
we'll known throughout the county and had
lived the life Of a miser for many years and
since his wife's death has lived by himself,
doing his own housework. The old hermit, it
is said, is worth about $50, 900 in money and
owns several fine houses. He has been knowil
to beg food and on election day himself and
five sons voted for the party who paid them
best During the spring of last year q fierce
forest fire ragged in the woods near his house,
and, fearing that his property would be de-
stroyed, he ran into the house ana IN a lew, ss%
full of money, it is said all in $50 gold pieces
Six children, all married, survive him. he
owned considerable quantity of real estate
in different parts Of the county.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
THE MARSHAL KILLED.

The Blockadcr Whom He Tried TO
Arrest Fatally Wounded.
William B. Jones, Town Marshal, was
shot and instantly killed at Forest City,
eighty miles from Charlotte, N. c., by John
Paris blockader, who was also mortally
wounded in the afPray. Eighteen or twenty
shots were exchanged.
Paris and his brother had been around
town selling liquor on the sly. Jones' assisted
by Mr.. Harrill, attempted to arrest them
when Jones resisted, using pistol with the
above result. As Jones fell Harrill fired,
hitting Paris in the right shoulder. Paris
was not expected to live.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
Three Children Burned to Death.

Mrs. Hampton Shrout, living few miles
south of Martinsvile, Ind, left her three
children alone in the house on a recent eve.
ming, while she went on an errand. A five
year-old girl began playing at the fireplace.
Her dress ignited and she was burned to
death. The other two children were fatally
burned
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
THE ONLY SAFE WAY.

Archdeacon Farrar, in one Of his temper
artist, offered $500 for proof Of violent!
crime committed by a total abstainer; and,
the money remains unclaimed to this day. ]
offer as much for proof Of any one case;
either in the church or out Of it-where
drunkenness has been cured without total
abstinence. Under present circumstances;
the only safe way Of drinking-as an Irish
man put its to leave of before you
harit, - -, n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
OVER THE VETO.
The Dallas Texas Public Building
Bill Passed by the House.

Bill Passed by the House.
In the House Of Representatives Mr..
Abbott, of Texas from the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, reported back
the bill providing for an extension of the
public building at Dallas, Texas, at q cost of
300, 900. This bill passed Congress last
session, but was vetoed by the President.
The Recommendation of the committee is
that the till be passed over the Veto The
bill was passed-yeas, l4l; nays, sixty-nine:
the necessary two-thirds voting in the
affirmative.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
Six Killed by an Explosion.

By the explosion of boiler in Giles's
steam sawmill, near Reidsville. Tatnall
County, Ga, six men were kiIled-four
colored and two white.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
ORPHANSBURNED TO DEATH
Horrible Scenes at q Fire In an Asy-
lum III Russia.

A terrible fire occurred in an orphan asy-
tum in Moscow, Russia, on recent night.
The building was burned to the ground, and
most horrible scenes wcre witnessed as the
youthful inmates were being rescued. As it
was nine children were burned to death,
and number Of others were so seriously ln-
iured that their lives were despaired of.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-04
AT HOME And ABROAD,
Domestic and Foreign News by
Telegraph and Cable.
A Fearful Blizzard Rages in the
Western States.

A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming,
says: Six Union mail, passenger aud express
trains are blockaded by blizzard at Chey-
enne, Sydney, Neb., and intermediate sta
tions. Three Of them, with 400 travellers,
are on the side tracks here. Ths storm,
which is characteristic bowling blizzard,
opened at 10 o'clock in the night and continued
furiously for seventeen hours. Snow is piled
up packed and crusted. The wind was
sharp and the temperature below zero.
Severe range losses are predicted, but it is
doubtful if much stock will succumb, as this
is the first storm of any sort. Cattle will Le
chilled, but, under sunshine, will recover.
Sheep, if out Of the pens, huddle in packs
like sardines and smother themselves.
There is not little distress in towns
along the roads. Only the strongest men
have cared to face the storm. Many were
caught short Of food and fuel.
The storm is pretty general in the North
west, although North Dakota seems to have
escaped to some extent. In South Dakota
the storm has extended over the entire
State. Aberdeen, Huron, Pierre and other
points reporting very severe blizzard.
The st. Paul Mimi Pioneer Press corre-
spondent at Pierre says the worst blizzard
since 1883 occurred there. The thermometer
went as low as twenty degrees below zero.
The Huron correspondent of the Pioneer
Press says the snow storm developed into a
gigantic blizzard almost equal In fury to
that of January, 1888. 1t ragged all day, the
wind blowing at velocity Of from thirty
five to forty miles an hour, driving the snow
in binding clouds and drifting it as high as
the fence tops.
Starvation in the Leeward Islands.
Sir W. F. Haynes Smith, the Governor Of
the Leeward Islands, has forwarded to the
British Government a report that a serious
famine exists in Anguilla, one Of the little
islands constituting the colony Of st. Kits
Anguilla. This island has an industrious
black population of about $500 people. Tho
natives have no industries such as sugar
or cocoa raising, aud depend entirely upon
provision crops. Their last crop has utterly
failed, owing to long. continued drought, and
they have been on the verge Of starvation.
The Government of the f.eeward Island has
been compelled to give food to at least $500
of them to keep them from death.
All the assistance thus far has been in the
shape of food. Four months more will
elapse before any other provisions can be
raised. The Government has provided the
people with seed for the next crop, and
meantime has made special provision for the
sick, aged aud children upon whom the
calamity has fallen with special severity.
All the children are provided with one
substantial meal each day at the school
houses, and the aged and infirm arc being
taken care Of through the agency of the
Door laws. The Governor says that all the
islands are doing their utmost to relieve the
distress, but that tho tax upon them is very
heavy, and he appeals for help from Eng
land
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JAPANESE silk merchants last year lost
s25, ,OOO, 900, and according to present appear
ances the loss will continue for some time.
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KILLED WIFE AND SELF.

The Woman's Face was Partially
Eaten Off by Cat.
Charles Knack, of Leopolds, Wis, shot
and killed his wife and himself last week.
The bodies were not found until six days
afterward. The face Of Mrs. Knack had
been partly eaten OFF by cat which was in
the room. Knack and his wife did not live
sgreeebly together, and 1t Is supposed the
deed was done during quarrel.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-13

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strikes directly Mt the root Of the evil,
by driving the impurities entirely out
OF the system, and with fresh stream
OF pure blood flowing through the veins,
nothing but the softest and fairest Of
compilations can result.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-13

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