The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-06-22
South and West.

TIE class of 1892 at the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Nd, having
finished the four years academic course, re.
ceived their diplomas from the hands of
Secretary Tracy. The class numbered
forty.
FIRST LIEUTENANT WILDER LovERrDeR
of the Third Artillery, United States Army,
shot himself through the heart while in his
quarters at Fort Sam Houston, San An.
tonic, Texas. He was thirty-two years old.
His death is directly traceable to the use Of
intoxicants.
The Florida Democratic State Convention
at Tampa placed Judge Henry W. Mitchell,
Of Hillsboro in nomination for Governor.
The delegates to the National Convention,
at Chicago, were sent uninstructed.
AT Ammonia, Texas, Charles Brittle, in
drunken quarrel shot and killed Ben Yelly
and was in turn shot dead by Yelly's son.
THE Tennessee Prohibition State Convsn-
tion, consisting of ln,ut $50 delegates. met
at the State Capitol, Nashville. E. 81. East,
q lawyer of Nashville, was nominated for
Governor. The convention indorssd st.
John as a candidate for the Presidency and
recommended the Rev. d. 8. Kelly, of
Nashville, for the nomination for Vice.
President.
THE steamer John Mathews, loaded with
corn, bound for Pine Bluff, Ark, ran against
the pier on the bridge over the Arkansas
River and sank. Four boat hands were
drowned.
COMMODORE W. W. HUNTER died In New
Orleans, La, aged ninety years. He en-
tered the United States Navy as a midship-
man May /, 1929.
AN excursion train Of colored people ran
into passenger train at South Carrollton,
Ky. and killed five persons and wounded
thirty.
J. F. MosELLY, County Recorder, has dis.
appeared from Stockton, Cal. His debts
amounted to 100000. He has also given
nine forged notes, aggregating $50, 1000.
CONFEDERATE Memorial Day was appro-
priately observed In all the Southern States.
A MOB of about one hundred and fifty men
from Willard. KY, compelled the jailer at
Grsyson to deliver the keys and then M
locked the Jail, securing Austin Porter, the
wife murderer, whom they lypched.
The Platte Valley Bank, one of the Oldest
and wealthiest institutions in Nebraska, has
been closed. 1t is said that Cashier Starrett
has lost $50, 900 bulling corn at Chicago.
WYOMING cattlemen report that they
found the bodies Of four men hanging to the
limbs Of trees near the seat Of the recent
war between the cattlemen and rustlers
A cLoUDBURsr between Harold and Blunt
in South Dakota flooded large section Of
country, doing damage to crops and wash.
ing out stretch OF the Northwestern Rail-
road track. Mrs. z. N. Foote and three
children, while returning from VISIT were
drowned in attempting to cross ravine
with their team.
RETURNS from the Oregon elections show
that Hermann, Republican, In the First
Congressional District, Is elected to Congress
by $500 plurality. Ellie, Republican, Is
elected from the Second District by about
4C0O plurality. Moore, Republican, is
elected Supreme Judge by at least 5000
plurality. The Republicans control both
branches Of the Legislature.
A FERTILE district in Illinois, twenty
miles long by four miles wide, has been
flooded by the giving way Of Mississippi
levee.
The boiler in Kinzie & Coughill's tile
works, two and half miles south Of Ida
vile, Ind, exploded, four men being killed