The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
SOuth and West,

IsHAM WHITE was executed in the Jail
yard at Helena, Ark, for the murder OF
Prince Malloy, colored man in good cir
cumstances.
FIFTY kegs Of powder exploded an:
wrecked the Alabama Great Southern Depot
at Birmingham, Ala.
WILLIAM CALDWELL, colored, was hanged
at Houston, Texas, for the murder Of DIR
). NJ. Shamblin just three years ago.
CASHIER KIRBY, of the City National
Bank, Marshall, Mich, has been arrested,
charged with Robin the bank of $4,000
A woaAN and three little girls were at
tackled by Texan cattle in the Cherokee
Nations reservation in Indian Territory.
Cowboys tried to rescue them, but all four
were gored to death.
In a collision near Charlotte. Sc, Henry
Brissenden, engineer, and W. c. Brown,
who was working his passage to Charleston
as fireman. were killed by jumping from the
engine before the collision occurred.
COMMANDER CHARLES MGREGoR, of the
United States Navy, died In Cincinnati
Ohio, aged forty-six years. General anc
Mrs. Sweitzer, his sister, attended him.
BAYLIss W. HANNA, ex-Minister to tn.
Argentine Republic under the Cleveland ad
ministration, died at Charlottesville, Ind
He was born at Troy, Ohio, in 1889.
MORRIS GODFREY, aged seventeen, died Of
hydrophobia in terrible agony at Saginaw
Mich.
JACKSON DoNNELLY, rich farmer living
five miles east of Arkansas City, Ark, and
his wife were found murdered in their house
REV. WILLIAM N. PERRY. aged forty,
pastor Of the Central Presbyterian Church
at Bowling Green, KY, fell dead in his pul
pit from heart disease while preaching.
THE large retail dry goods store Of Siegel,
Cooper & Co., at Chicago, ILL.,, was destroyel
by hre. The loss is $500, 00J. Ths flames
also caught stores in the rear which were
damaged $500, 600 worth.
RIanr Rev. KILIAN FLAscH, Bishop Of
the Roman Catholic diocese Of La Crosse,
Wis, died Of cancer Of the stomach. DR..
Flasch was born in Retgstait, Bavaria, II
1881.
OK Lock, Moore &c Co.'s stsam road,
twenty miles from Lake Charles, Ls, an al
tercation betweec the men employed there
took place in which ten men were shot. six
Of whom were killed at once and one mortal
ly wounded. The remaining three were seri-
ously injured.
THE State election was held in Kentucky
and on the day after it was estimated that
the Democratic State ticket was elected by
pluralities ranging from $1,000 to 0,000
The new Constitution was carried with a
sweep, and the majority for it was placed al
anything from 50,UoO to 100, 900.
AT special meeting the citiz,ns of Birm
ingham. Ala, subscribed Sl0a, 900 to mil
lion-dollar steel plant. The citizens were
asked by the promoters for Sl5O, 900 and the
other S48, ,000 IS in sight.
The Farmers Alliance and Democrats
sympathizing with them have a working
majority in the Kentucky Legislature.
JOHN W. GREENE, postmaster of Los
Angeles, Cal, died few days ago at the
age Of sl1ty-three years. He was a nativ.
of Michigan.
QIPHTHERIA in q malignant form is pre-
vailing at the South Dakota Hospital for the
Insane. near Yankton.
SAMUEL FREEMAN, a wealthy merchant
went to his home in Severance. Kan, anC
killed his wife and year-old child, and theI
fred bullet into his own brain.
PRESIDENT BAKER, Of the Worlds Colum
bian directors, Chicago, ILL, received a pro
position from NJ. Eiffel, architect Of the
Eifel tower, for permission to erect tower
on the grounds the enterprise to be backed
by French capitalists. The cable set fortt
that the tower would be superior to the one
at Paris.