The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
South and West.

JOHN WAIVER, q full.blooded Choctaw,
about fifty years old, was hanged In the Jail.
yard at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for
the murder Of John Daugherty, Of Flint Dis
trict, last July.
THE Wyoming Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Cheyenne and elected delegates
to the Chicago National Convention. The
only instruction given was that the delega-
tion should vote as a unit in the National
Convention on candidates and measures.
ROBERT STEVENSON, Paymaster of the
Empire State Phosphate Company, at Her
nando, Citrus County, Ala, and Mr.. Payne,
mail-carrier, have been murdered and
robbed Of $500 by unknown assassins.
The New Mexico Territorial Republican
Convention was held in Silver City. Un-
instructed delegates were sent to the
National Convention.
FIRE destroyed the main building of the
Clarke University, for colored students,
near Atlanta, Ca; loss $4,000
TIE Washington Republican State Con.
vention assembled at Seattle and chose eight
upinstructed delegates to the National Con-
vention. The platform adopted indorses the
Administration Of President Harrison and
reafhrms devotion Of the party to all its
wen-known principles.
The Georgia Republican State Conven-
tion, after being In continuous session In
Atlanta for over twenty four hours, ad-
journed. A Harrison delegation to the
National Convention is the result.
In Cuba, Rutherford County, N. c.,
Weldon Atkins, while intoxicated. threw q
stone at his father, Charles Atkins, crush.
ing his skull and resulting Ia almost instant
death
THE Spanish Government has agreed to
exhibit at the Chicago Worlds Fair model
Of the Columbus caraval.
WILLIAM RADLoFF. a German, twenty
seven years old, was found burned to death
at Seattle, Washington, and there is evil
dence that murder was committed in order
to secure his life insurance OF S55, 900.
Low BACH and 10 Geng. Cinnamon. were
shot and fatally wou nded by highbinders in
st. Louis, Mo. Tue shooting Is said to be
the carrying out in part OF a determination
among the higabindsrs to kill all Christian
Cinnamon.
A MOST unique strike took place at Fort
Dodge, Iowa. The school teachers refused
to teach the boys and girls in the public
schools unless their salaries were raised, and
many Of them Left town to seek employment
elsewhere.
A FIRE broke out in the Northwestern
Mattress Factory, at Kenosha, Wis, and
before it was stopped three blocks Of build
ings and lumber piles were destroyed. The
loss reached $500, 900.
FOUR colored men have been lynchei at
Inverness, Fla. for the murder Of Stevenson
and Payne. About midnight strong body
Of armed and masked men surrounded the
Jail and took out three prisoners and hung
them to trees nearby. These three made
confessions and implicated fourth. Then
this one was secured and hanged about 2
o'clock that same morning.
LAaKIN LANCASTER, colored, was hanged
at Pulaski, Tenn, for the murder Of Alonzo
Dickson, a boy seventeen years old.
A DESPERATE fight between United States
authorities and band of moonshiners took
place near Big Bay, Ark, in which T. G.
Bryan, one Of the moonshiners, was killed.
The MarshaPs posse captured several stills
and a quantity Of whisky.
The election in Louisiana and New Orleans
passed Off withouta serious disturbance any
where. On the morning after the polling
there was no doubt of the election Of Foster,
anti-lottery Democrat over Leonard and
BreauT, Republicans, and McEnery. Demo-
crat The famous lottery amendment to the
State Constitution, which has been fought
over for two years. and which was the cause
of the division in both Democratic and Re-
publican ranks, was defeated unanimously,
not receiving vote in the State.