davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
LATER E W

THE Connecticut Senate met at Hartford
and after acting on the appointments of
Bridge and Ferry Commissioners, adj
journed.
The Cleardeld Hotel livery stable, at Al
toona, Penn, was blown up by dynamite.
The debris took fire, and spreading to adj
joining property destroyed five other build
ings. Eight horses were also consumed.
Thegreatest excitement prevailed, as it was
fearedb by the people that an organized effort
to destroy the town was being made.
The New York State Board of Canvassers,
at Albany, after decisions favorable to the
Democratic candidates, in the disputed Sem
ate election cases by the Conrt Of Appeals,
gave certificates of election to Osborne and
Nichols, Democrats, and Derby, Rspubli-
can, and refused q certificate to Sherwood,
Republican. This gives the Democrats the
control Of the Legislature by a majority Of
one in the Senate and six in the Assembly.
TEE Right Rev. John Loughlin, first
Bishop of the Catholic diocese Of Long
Island, died in Brooklyn, N. Y. of an acute
attack of gastritis. He was born at Drum
bunif, County Down, Ireland, December %,
1917, and was therefore seventy-four years
old. He had been in the service Of the
church for more than fifty years and for
t~hirty-seven Of Episcopal rank.
ANDREW JOHNSON and John Allore were
crushed to death by a derrick which fell
upon them while they were at work on the
Electricity Building of the Worlds Fair
grounds in Chicago, Ill. "
A MEETING of the Cabinet held at the
White House to consider the Chilian situa-
ton lasted two hours.
FULLY one thousand female school teach
ers and their friends from New York, Brook
lyn and New Jersey swarmed in the White
House departments and Capitol a few days
e The school marms had a great day
and proposed to see everything before they
went home.
The American Historical Society and the
American Forestry Association held their
annual meetings in Washington.
RECIPROCITY agreements with the West
India islands and other British possessions
were made public at Washington. The
terms show material reductions Of duty on
articles which are imported largely from
the United States.
EXTENSIVE bush fires have swept v e the
district Of Albany, Wagga-Wagga, Temora
and Nudge, Australia, causing great dam
age to the crops. A large quantity OF live
stock was burned to death.
TIE Abstaden coal mine in Altenessen,
Rheuish Prussia, was suddenly flooded. AL
escaped except four miners, who were either
drowned or tramplsd to death in the panic
The Japanese House Of Representative
has been dissolved by Imperial order.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
Foreign.

A COLLISION occurred near Querenavaca.
Mexico, in which twelve persons were killed
JOIN E. REDMOND, Parnellite, was elected
to the British Parliament from Waterford
City, Ireland, defeating Michael Davitt by
q majority of $40.
PRESIDENT MONT, OF Chilli, was inaug,l.
rated at Santia.o Minister Ezan was
absent from the ceremonies. All the other
foreign representatives attended.
THERE is much suffering in Several Next
can States because of tae lack Of fool. The
Governor Of Durango telegraphs that in
that State people are actually dying Of
starvation. Corn is being sold at cost to the
poo.
A WEALTHY squire named Hanback,, liv-
ing az Crate, Austria, shot two OF his sons,
six ana seven wears of age, AMI then COM
mitted suicide. BE had IN idea that his
sons, who sta,nmarel, had an hereditary
faint OF insanity.
THREE men in tbs Genim. Pass in the
Rernese Alps, Switzerlnd. were swallowed
up by an avalanche. They had tried TO cross
the pass, not needing the warning or tnelr
guides, who refused to accompany them.
HE Right Hon. Sir William Arthur
White, the British Ambassador to lurSey,
died from influenza at the Kaiserhof in Ber-
lin, Germany.
MANY lives lave been lost at the Gilbert
Islands, in the South Pacific, by a tidal
wave.
OFFICIAL advices from Pekin, China, re-
port severe fighting with the rebels, in which
| 5000 insurgents were killed and fifty leaders
were beheadei.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
OUTLAWS LYNCHED.
Six of the Sims Gang Hanged by .
Mob in Alabama.

Six of the Sims Gang Hanged by .
Mob in Alabama.
"Bob' Sims, the outlaw. sitter having been
besieged for a day or two, in his home, In
Choctaw County, Ala, by Sheriff Gavin
and a posse, began a parley with that officer
during the second afternoon. He had hoard
that a cannon had been sent for, and, rather
than have the women of his family blown
to pieces in their stronghold, he offered to
surrender. ALI he asked for was that the
posse should do him no harm, and that they
should protect him inc chose with him from
mob violence.
After a long debate of the officers agreed
to the terms Of surrender, and promised to
take Sims and his party under guard to the
county Jail at Butler.
At 1880 o'clock the Simsites laid down
their arms and came out Of the house.
The posse were astonished to see that
instead Of seven desperate outlaws
there were only three men and
a boy, as follows: Bob Sims, Thomas
Savage and two young Savages. nephews OF
Sims, with four women, Bobs wife and
three daughters. The men were at oncs
ironed and placed in a wagon.
The women were placed in q second wagon,
under guard. At 5 o'clock the procession
started Tor bQGler, Gno county StSt VI SnoS.
taw County. Sheriff Gavin commanded
silence, fearing that should any discussion be
raised his men might become angry and kill
their prisoners. :,
When the guard moved of with Sims and
the three Savage men, for there were three
Of them. namely, Thomas Savage and two
boys, sons of Con Savage. there remained
behind the greater part Of the posse that the
Sheriff had attracted to the scene, and these
Immediately held q consultation, and after q
debate, decided it would not do to permit
the desperadoes one chance OF escape. 30
they set out in pursuit.
On the way they met Con Savage, another
Of the Simites, and without any delay he
was strung up to a tree.
Later the guard was overhauled, but made
no resistance. Sims and the other three
were taken back to the tree upon which Con
Sewage had been hanged, and four ropes
were quickly adjusted to the branches
thereof.
Bob was asked if he had anything to say.
he replied: '"rake my hand, feel my pulse
and see if I'm q coward" He and one OF
the Savage boys were placed in a buggy, the
nooses were adjusted and the horse attached
to the buggy was driven forward, leaving the
men dangling in the air. The other Jwo,
father and son, were likewise speedily
hanged.
John Savage, who had been arrested the
day before on a charge Of being a member
of the Sims gang. was hanged to a tree at "
o;clCc.L +ha seine night
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
THE LABOR WORLD.
CHINA has one silk mill.

CHINA has one silk mill.
New YORK has II, 600 telegraph boys.
SOCIALISTS are organizing women Chi
New YORK has 5000 union females hotel
hands.
THE brakemen want a uniform car coup
ling adopted.
OYsTERMEN and fishermen will form q
National union.
PApEREwsK1, the Polish virtuoso, says we
make the best pianos.
GOVERNMENT plate printers at Washing.
ton protest against surface presses
THE Denver (Col., clerks are fined fifty
cents for smoking %non-union cigars.
Boston grain handlers want fifty cents an
hour and sixty cents for night work.
SIXTEEN tons Of steel pens arc exported
from Birmingham, England, weekly
The steel rail makers Of this country now
nave orders on hand for 100000 tons OF
rails.
The Boston Stone Masons' Union recently
rejected applicants who wera not skilled
workmen.
The New York Cement Labor Union has
fined q member IS for making
statements about fellow members.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
during November paid $4,000 for death
benefits; the receipts amounted to sS5,S9O.
The Hungarian Government, which re-
Gently fixed eight hours as q days work tor
miners, has increased the day to twelve
hours.
THE Knights of Labor Of Fort Worth,
Texas, report that in that city over fifty per
cent. Of the working people are out OF en-
ployment. .
The Federation Of Labor conventions at
Birmingham, Ala, adopted resolutions de-
%nouncing the Chicago police for breaking up
labor meetings.
GEORGE TAYLOR, amember OF Parliament
in Canada, is preparing an alien labor act
! for the Dominion with q view to prohibiting
| workingmen from the United States from
| coming over the border TO work.
IT is proposed to hold a convention OF rail-
| road employees in New York, on january
81, for the purpose of making one organiza-
ton Of the four orders now exlstlng-the
| conductors, brakemen, engineers and ire
men. The telegraphers will also be asked to
unite.
WILLIAM E. s. FALEs, the well-known
| Journalist, now in the Counsular service OF
| the United States Government, writes from
| London that the matchbox makers IN That
| CITY t,are about on par with the tea cooles,
of Ceylon. Women, by working eignteen
hours a lay. can make s2.53per week."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

DOh EbnSbo ico SSShs '-... ....# .Ef 10
RUSSELL SAGE now has a body guard.
BRET HARrE's hair is as white as snow.
SPEAKER CRISP is reported to possess q
phenomenal memory.
THE Emperor of Germany has made his
Chancellor, Caprivi a Count.
THERE are Eve Taylors in the House OF
Representatives, all Republicans.
TIE salary of the Emperor Of Austria
amounts to nearly 81, 00O, GOO yearly.
WHITTIER is two years older than Holmes
and Tennyson. BE was born in 1907, they
In 1909.
TIE newly celebrated italian composer,
Mascagni, is just twenty-seven years oio, Dus
looks younger. He Is married, n mas "
children.
THE late Duke of Devonshira, owned 1913,
COZ acres of English land, lying IN fourteen
counties, The rent roll Of his estate amounts
to $780, 600 per year.
srR Epw1s ARNOLD calls Edgar Allen Poe
"the Catullus or American literature" ana
thinks he should be better appreciated by
the reading public than he Is.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, editor OF Hdr.
ne1Js Weeklu. lives on Staten Island, pre-
fer-inp the semi.rural quiet there as pettsr
for literary work than the ga5ety or tne
town.
W N. PErH1cK, recently appointed man.
apinp director of the Chinese railways by Ii
HING Chang, who is running China at pres
emit for the young Emperor, was formerly q
citizen Of New York.
LIEUTENANT FREMONT, United States
Navv con of the great pathfinder, and Lsiu-
tenant Lawrence, grandson Of "Dont-give-
un-the ship Lawrence, took lunch together
the other day in New York City.
A !. DRExEL and other members Of the
DreIel family. Of Philadelphia, have given
mora than IS, O00, OOOfor charitable purposes.
This does not include Anthony ]. Dre1eps
numerous smaller gifts, which are compare.
lively unnoticei. OF these he keeps no track
hin,self-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS-.
In the Senate,

10TH DAY.-Mr. Henderson, President
pro tenn, presided in the absence Of the
Vice-President. Among other bills pre-
sented are the following; By Mr.. Frye
To authorize the purchase of the library Of
Herbert b. Bancroft, a library Of informa-
ton as to Western America. To amend the
law providing for the measurement of the
tonnage Of vessels. To amend the law re-
lating to shipments, payments and discharge
Of seamen. 70 increase the safety Of life
and property at sea by establishing rules
for free board or load marks for deck loads.
The Presidentpro tenn. laid before the Senate
two communications from the President.
One conveyed information as to the organ
ization of the Board to regulate geographic
names, and transmitted a copy Of their
findings as to the proper spelling Of Boring
Sea, which will be so spelled, instead OF
Behring's Sea, Chile, instead of Chilli, n
other spelling reforms-The Senate at 1880
went into executive session on motion Of
Senator Sherman, and at 12:40 o'clock ad'
journed until Wednesday, January 9.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JOSEPH SHADLE was killed, and his
brother Frank fatally wounded, by Officer
Krouse, while they were resisting arrest,
aided by their friends, in Littlestown, Penn.
THE three-story brick dwelling Of A. F.
Pritchard, in Pittsburg, Penn, was blown
to atoms BY an explosion Of natural gas.
Mr.. Pritchard, his wife and three childran,
a hired boy, David Bennett, and Barbara
Reich, a servant, were buried in the ruins
ISAAC B. SAwTELLE, while in Jail at Con-
cord under sentence of death for the muir
der of his brother Hiram, near Rochester,
N. H., died from a stroke Of apoplexy.
UNITED STATES soldiers at Fort Mcguire
N. Y, have been doing a lucrative business
smuggling Chinese over the river from the
Canadian side. A boatloa ! was intercepted
and a private arrested
FIRE destroyed property worth $500, 900
in Boston, Mass. The firms burned out are
Hosmer, Codding & Co.. and Parker, Holmes
& Co., boot aud shoe io5bers. Four fire.
men were injured.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT laid the corner stone
Of the Trenton IN. j. battle monument.
SINCE the discovery Of the counterfeit S.
Treasury notes, it has been ascertained that
Lawrence, Mass, has been flooded with the
spurious bills. The notes bear a poor portrait
of President Jackson, the engraving is
scratched and the seal lightly printed.
The people Of Mansfield, Conn, are ex.
periencing a reign Of terror just now. For
nearly five years a band of incendiaries have
burned farn-houses, barns and factories
there with %impunity. Fifteen fires have fol-
lowed zach other in rapid succession.
THE influenza ragged to an alarming extent
throughout the Eastern and Middle States.
In New York City ten deaths were reported
in ono dau and fnirtaaO wara raDOrkA1
on the previous day. Over 300 policemen
were Frustrated at one time. Many mem
beers of the Brooklyn IN. ~ Police and Fire
Departments were incapacitated. There
were thousands Of cases Of grip in New
Haven, Conn. The death rate was great.
The spreadof the grip in Rochester. N. Y,
was alarming.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
South n West.

STATE TREASURER FL. PoNs, Of Florida,
died in Jacksonville from cancsr Of the
stomach. he was hfty.eight years Of age
and Of Spanish descent.
In Choctaw County. Ala, the Bob Sims
gang Of outlaws killed four member Of a
family and wounded two others, and having
robbed q store intrenched themselves in
Sims's house, where they defed the Sheriffs
posse.
SOME unknown person fired into the mouse
of Lawson Lott, near Carrolton, Miss. Lott
was fatally wounded and Mrs. W. g.. Miers,
a visitor, was badly hurt. Pierce Miers was
suspected of having fired the shot. A posse
went to arrest him, and when he resisted he
was shot dead.
FIRE destroyed the leading retail business
houses Of Chattanooga, Tenn. The fire
district covers an area $50 feet square. In
all nineteen store rooms were destroyed.
with the several stores above them. The
total loss will reach $3.50. 600.
A COLLISION occurred between two
freight trains near Marquette, Mich. Fire.
man Emil Van Open and Brakeman John
Harlocher were Killed outright, and Engi.
neer John Reany died a few hours later OF
his injuries.
LEM JONES was hanged at Oliver Springs,
Tenn, forthe murder OF his wife and child
on June 26th, 1890.
GOVERNOR FLEMING, of Florida, appointed
Edward J. Tracy State Treasurer, vics
Francis j. Pond, deceased. Tracy has been
the Governors privats secretary since 1889.
He is a native Of Cuba. 9,
Two more of the Sims gang were hanged
by the mob In Choctaw County, Ala, max
Ing seven In all who have been lYnched.
TIE entire San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railroad system in Texas was tied up by a
strike. The paralysis extended over $50
miles of the system and $50 men were
thrown out.
GENERAL STANLEY, United States Army,
commandant at San Antonio, Texas, or
dered the post commanders along the Next
can border to take the field with detach-
ments and scout for the revolutionists
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
G%LADSFONE's BIRTHDAY,
his Eighty-second Celebrated In
England and France.

His Eighty-second Celebrated In
England and France.
The eighty-second birthday of the Right
Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, the English
statesman, was celebrated at his residence at
Hawarden, in Wales, Notwithstanding
the absence Of himself and Mrs.
Gladstone at Biarritz, the French watering
place or the Bay Of Biscay. where he is SEEK
ing to recruit his strength in order to per-
form the Parliamentary duties before him.
he is accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and
BY john Morley, his close personal and po-
Itical friend.
Early in the morning the church bells
were rung in honor Of the event, and the
day was observed as far as possible in the
manner usual when ths family is at home.
A number Of congratulatory messages
were sent to Mr.. Gladstone at Biarritz oy
residents Of Hawarden, his tenants and per-
sonal and political friends in London upon
reaching a hale old age and wishing him a
repetition of many birth lay anniversaries.
The municipal authorities Of Biarritz,
France, waited upon Mr.. Gladstone and con-
graduated him upon the occasion Of his
birthday. Fifteen members Of the British
Club, TO membership in which Mr.. Glad
stone and Mr.. Morley were unanimously
elected q few days ago, also called upon him,
presenting him with q floral 0 In the
evening Mr. Gladstone paid a visit 70 the
club house, where he was heartily congratu-
lated by the members.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
The Mau With the Largest Head.

49, mhA VEwEUG<A@-4sQ
There is q manin Washington who has
the distinction Of having the biggest
head IN the world. His name IS Lotus
Jones Parker, and his head measures af
little more than thirty-six inches around.
a twenty-one-inch girth Isl pretty 1air
sized head. Mr.. Parker Is forty-eight
wears old and Is q respected citizen OH
the National Capital. Heswa n busi-
ness on Louisiana; avenue, near Seventh
street, until about twenty years ago, Dun;
since then he has been leading 9 retlreol
life. He did not retire upon the accumu-
lations of an active business career, as
many worthy men do, but upon 2 ponus
or subsidy given by three prominent
physicians Of Washington, who wanted
to secure his remarkable head for an
autopsy when he came to shake on 2
mortal coil. he was then t~wenty-elgnt
and the enterpriing medicine men
thought that he would not hold out much
longer. They could not see how q man
with as big a head for q little body to
feed it could hang on beyond thirty
three wears, the average of human LIE.
( So the endowment was set aside LOT nls
maintenancy, the conditions beng that
he should not permanently leave fns
District of Columbia and that they snouid
have his body for scientific purposes
when he had no further use for it.
had a talk with this great physical
curiosity not long ago. he has q pretty
clear head; but there is . striking
regularity about his mental processes
which has led some people to think that
he has in his prodigious head two ols-
tinct sets of brains, which sometimes
work in unison and sometimes do not.
It is this singular feature OF the little
mans makeup that has excited the won!
der of the doctors. Dime museum peo'
ple have been after him for ten years.
but family pride has led him to refuse
some good offers. he remarked, with
Glance of cool. s~hrewduess, that if it
was any object for me to know it, two Of
the doctors who put up the bonus were
dead. Then, after a pause, ne aooeo:
.sIn regard to the third. I think my lease
of life is about as good as his"
A good many people about Washington
think that it is a simple case of hydro.
cephalus, though this is seemingly mega
tived by the fact that this peculiar all.
ment has never been known to allow it,
victim to enjoy forty-eight years OF ilfe'
good health and good wit.
Lotus Parker is one of the characters
of the capital. He is as d~istinctiveiy an
individuality as Beau Hickman, the most
noted of all Washington characters, and
is a figure at all outdoor doings of the
gay political metropolis. Music IS one
OF his passions. .,
It is singularly like the case of Blind
| Tom, but Of course he has greater intelll-
renee. He is a very religious man, and
is q member of the Metropolitan Metho-
dist Church. He was even an interesting
figure at Parson Newman's fervid dis
courses, and helped along with the wor.
ship BY his fine singing. He has a good
tenor voice, which has some notes re-
msrkable for sweetness and Vigor.-
! Pittsburq Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
Washington.

CHRISTMAS DAY was celebrated at the
White House, Washington, in merry fash
ion. An elaborate tree was dressed in the
upper corridor, on which were giftsfo Ben
janin Harrison Mckee and Mary Lodge
Mckee, the Presidents grandchildren. On a
table near by were Mrs. Harrison's gifts.
Three or four other tables held presents for
Dimmick, Mr.. Halford, Miss Sanger, and
all the household ~retinue. The President
presented to each employe an order for a
turkey or q pair Of gloves. Mrs. Harrison
added to this by a personal gift.
UNCLE SANS new postal cards were
placed on sale throughout the country.
They come in two styles, and in the Post
Office Department they will be Known as
Glass Al and "C!ass c." "Class B" Is the
old card that has bsen 10 use since 1873. By
the general public the new cards viii doubt
less be known as the 'ladies' card" and tbs
''big card" The ladies card" ispearl gray
in color.
The Secretary of War ~telegraphei Gem
eral David s. Stanley, commander Of the
military department at San Antonio, Texas,
to take decisive and immediate stems toward
putting down the troubles on the Mexican
border.
CORRESPONDENCE between Senator Wash.
burn and Secretary Tracy calls attention to
the fact that the Minneapolis miilers are pre-.
pairing to ship a cargo Of breadstuffs to the
starving Russians, the Senator suggesting
that a United States warship transport the
cargo to a foreign port. In reply the Score.
tary says he will do all In his power to
further the project.
THE State Department ~nounc that
United States Consul William T. Rice, the
oldest consul in the service, died a few days
ago at his post at Leghorn from acute pull
months, after an illness Of two days.
Mr. WHARTON, the Assistant Secretary Of
State, Washington, contradicts the state
ment that the United States has agreed to
pay italy an indemnity for the New Orleans
1ynchings. Since Baron Fava was recalled
there has been no official correspondence
with the Italian Government.
N. JULES PATENoTRE, the n~ewly-appoint-
ed French Minister, arrived in Washington,
accompanied by NJ. Depret, his secretary,
and A. F. Au1e, attacae. The party have
quarters at the Shoreham.
SECRETARY FOSTER spent a short time at
his office in the United States Treasury De-
partment for the first time sincs a month
apd a halt before, whsn he was taken i'll in
New York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13
4 DARING DEED.
British Troops Scale a Precipdce and
. Rout Rebels In the Pamir.

British troops Scaie q frectpice 6no
Rout Rebels In the Pamir.
A dispatch from Calcutta, India, gives a
account Of another engagement on t.
Pamir frontier in which Lieutenant Me-
ners Smith and q force OF 100 Kashmins in
the British service displayed great gallantry.
The force was divided into two corps Of fifty
men each. One was stationed at the foot of
q precipice, opposite Fort Nilt, near the en-.
trance TO a gorge, which the Remza-Nagar
rebels had fortified with a strong stone
breastworS.
With the other corps the lieutenant
dashed forward under cover of a brisk fire
from the supporting party. scaled the preci-
pice, sprans over the breastworis and with
bullet ana bayones routed the rebels rom
their stronghold. Seventy OF the rebels
were kille and many WOUNDED and lie.
prisoners were taken.
Pursuit was kept up relentlessly and
eventually tue British forces captured Gull
NIT, Pisau and Mayun.