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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
CLEVELAND'S CABINET.
His Official Family Announced
Before the Inauguration.
Biographical Sketches Of the Pres
idential Advisers.

In defiance of numerous presidents in the
case Mr.. Cleveland removed the ban Of
secrecy which usually makes the compost
Hon OF the Presidential cabinet a mystery
until the inauguration, and as fast as hS had
chosen his advisers and their acceptances OF
tho positions were received official an.
Douncement Of the fact was made from the
Little White House" at Lakewood, n. j..
The list Of appointments as thus given Out,
supplemented by a biographical sketch OF
each cabinet minister, Is as follows:
Secretary OF State-WaIter 9. Gresham,
of Illinois.
Secretary Of the Treasury-John 6. Car
isle. Of Kentucky.
New York.
Secretary Of War-Daniel s. Lamont, Of
New York.
Secretary of the Navy-Hilary A. Her.
hort, Of Alabama.
Attorney. General-Richard olney Of
Massachusetts,.
Secretary Of the Interior-Hoke Smith, Of
Georgla.
Secretary of Agriculture-J. Sterling
Morton. Of Nebraska.
Secretary of State.
Judge Walter Quintin Gresham, who will
occupy q seat in the Cleveland Cabinet as
Secretary Of State, was born on March IL.
1889. In queer old farmhouse near Lanes
vile, Harrison County, Ind. His father,
William Gresham, was Sheriff OF q back
woods county, and when Walter was two
years old the father was shot while attempt.
iag to arrest an outlaw by the name OF
Spies. Judge Gresham was then next to the
Youngest Of five small children. His mother
was poor and owned a small farm. Hhe
managed by hard work to keep the family
together, and. as boy, Walter followed the
plow and studied by night. When sixteen
years Of age he obtained clerkship In the
County Auditors Office. and with the
money earned betrayed his expenses at
school and at Bloomington University.
Returning to Corydon he studied law In
the Office Of Judge w. A. Porter. When
twenty-five years of age he was ad-
nitted to the bar. In politics
he was a Wing, and joined the Republic
can Party when it was organized. His
partner was delegate to the convention
which nominated John c. Fremont in 1855,
and Young Gresham stumped the State for
the Pathfinder. In 1859 Gresham was elect
ed on the Republican ticket TO the Legisla-
ture. When the war broke out his constitu.
ents wished him to return to the Legislature
but Gresham wouldn't have it and enlisted
rs private in the Thirty eighth Regiment.
Almost Immediately he was made its Lieu
tenant Colonel. At Leggetts Hill, before
Atlanta, be was shot in the knee, and he has
never sincs that time recovered from the
effects Of the wound. After the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Postmaster-Generai.

Wilson Shannon Bissell, who succeeds Mr..
Wanamaker as Postmaster General. is But-
falo lawyer. He was born in New London, N.
Y. December 81, 1S47. and when be was six
wears old his parents removed to Buffalo. He
studied in the schools of that city, and then
enterei Yale At the age Of twenty-five he
had graduated and was studying law with
A. P. Lansing, wac subsequently, formed
partnership with Mr.. Cleveland and Oscar
Folsom. IL 1872 NJ. Bissell formed a part
nershlp with Lyman K. Bass, and a yeav
later the firm became Bass, Cleveland &
Bissell. The firm dissolved on the removal
of Mr.. Bass to Colorado and the election o:
Mr. Cleveland as Governor. Mr.. Bissell re-
organic the firm with new partners and
built up a large practice. He is regarded as
An able r-ilroad lawyer. He has been Presi-
dent OF 10 or three small railroads IN the
western art Of New York State and Penn
svlyanis. He Is also director in number
Of corporations. He Is man OF strong con-
victions, bns is uniformly good natursd. He
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ATLANTA, Ga is to have a new court
house and city hall under one roof The cost
Of the building will be over $500 600, and II
will be one of the finest public editces II
the South.
A SIBERIAN exhibition is to be held at
Moscow in 1895. The exhibition is being Or
ganised with the view Of bringing under, the
notice of European countries the pro luz
tions and resources OF Siberia.
AT Minneapolis. Mimi, one Garske be,
came angry at his horse for refusing to pull
a load OF gravel. He tiei rope on the
horses tongue, hitched another horse on the
rope and pulled the tongue out by the roots
He Ia under arrest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The Latest Intellisences From
at Home and Abroad.
Miss Julia Force, of Atlanta,
Murders Two Younger Sisters.

Just before o'clock few afternoons ago
at Atlanta, Ga, Miss Julia Force, thirty
eight years old, shot and killed her two
younger sisters Florence. thirty years old.
and Minnie, twenty-five, at the residence OF
their brother, A. W. Force, on Crews street.
Soon after Miss Force entered Police
Headquarters and gave herself up, say;
ing to Captain Wright: 81 have conN
mitted crime, and want to get
the protection Of the law" She is
thought to be Insane. She Is q member OF
an old and historic outhern family. The
tragedy was the result Of family differences.
A domestic employed by the family says the
young woman has been out OF her head for
months.
An officer was sent to the house. A. W.
Force, a brother Of the girl, had just got
home. Miss Florence Force, one OF the
slain sisters, had been an invalid for some
time. The position IN which her body lay
indicated that she had risen from the bed In
alarm, and just as her feet touched the floor
had received the shot which killed her.
She was lying on her back across the bed,
both hands pressed to her cheek in the attl =
tude of fright. Her eyes were wide open,
with the fixed death stare, and her features
were hard to recognize. She wore her night
OreSS Ouiys 4uofo "eAo AAS
struggle in the room. The medicine bottles
were In their places on the table by the bed.
Miss Minnie, clad in house dress OF dark
brown, lay at full length on her back with
her arms extended, as IT she had thrown
them up as she fell backward. She looked as
il she had been advancing to the door when
her sister entered, pistol in hand, and had
received the fatal shot directly in the face:
When the reporters entered this room the
aged mother Of the three sisters was bent
over the dead body OF Miss Minnie, moaning
and utterinq EXPLANATIONS of the deepest
grief. Mrs. Force had lseen down town when
The tragedy occurred. and had just returned
to the hotI se to find two Of her daughters
corpses and the other In the hands OF the po-
lice. 49,.
The room occupied by Miss Julia Force
was a picture of neatness and order. The
bed was neatly and freshly made, the toilet
srticles on the bureau were in their places,
and the only indication OF the, awful crime
that had been done was pistol, tho weapon
which had done the deed. It was q thirty
tyo calibre double action revolver. 1t was
new, and had never fred other than the two
shots.
The funeral Of the Misses Force took place
next day from their late residence. Epis'
copalian and Presbyterian ministers officla-
ted, one Of the dead women being an ardent
worker in the Episcopalisn Church and the
other in the Presbyterian Church.
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NEW WYOMING SENATOR.
A. G. Beckwith, Democrat, Appointed
by Governor Osborn.


A. c. Beckwlth, Democrat, a citizen OF
Evanston, and the wealthiest man in Wyo'
ming. will be United States Senator for
the next two years. His selection TO that
office was announced by Governor Osborn
few evenings ago. It became necessary to
appoint Senator on account OF the Legls'
iatr,re adiourning without electing one
The new Senator is genuine Westerner.
He has held but two Off ,es. One was mem
bers ,ip In the National Worlds Fair Com.
mission and the other membership in the first
Town Council Of Cheyenne. He went
to Cheyenne thirty years aIo, work
ing his passage across ths plains
With a bull team. He identified himsef
with the community by building its hrst
house and opening a grocery. When tee
railway came and went on he went WIN IL
and was a rich man besore hs settled In
Evanston, a thrifty town near the U tah line;
There he owns the local bank. herds OF
cattle and tracts Of range, Goa! mines and
coal and timber lands. bis hobby IS horses
and he bree Is trotters In the finest farm IN
tina mountains. Beckwith was born IN new
York sixty years ago, but was in Missouri
with party OF trappers at dftesn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
VILLAGE SWEPT AWAY.
Fatal Floods From the Overfowing
of the Danube.

A terrible calamity has overtaken the
village of Gergely, near the town Of Paks,
in Hungary, on the river Danube, about
sixty miles south Of Buda. Owing to sud-
den rise of the Danube the 1900 inhabitants
found the mud huts in which they lived sur
rounded by water.
The frail dwellings gradually yislded be.
fore the furious current ami the people took
refuge in the church and school, and, led
by their pastor, offered earnest prayers for
their safety, aud mothers and children chung
to the alter, beseechiug the intercession OF
the saints.
At last they decided that to remain would
mean destruction, and started out in the
food nearly to their waists in the direction
of Paks. One mother with five children sank
and perished. Many others were drowned.
The people of Paks gave the fugitives all the
succor possible.
Nothing could be done toward recovering
the bodies until the river, then twenty feet
out of bounds, retired within its usual
channel.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Congo Arabs Defeated,

The Congo State has received dispatches
to the effect that Commander Dhanis has
defeated horde OF Arao slave traders In
Africa, under Tipru 1ib's son, and has cap
tured 5tU prisoners aud CD rides.
The fight took place nsar Sefu, on the
Lomamai River. During recent sxlrnshes
between the Europeans and the Arabs N.
Lippens, formerly a resident OF Kasongo.
and Lieutenant De Bruyn were killed.
Lieutenant Chaltin routed the Arabs at va
dumOa and freed eighty slaves who were
dying Of starvation. Unless cannon bs sent
at once. he adds. the Europeans cannot hope
to hold their own
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
CENTENARIANS DEAD.

Mrs. Catharine Ross. of Nova Scotia,
Leaves 2O8 GRANDCHILDREN.
Three of the oldest people in Nova Scotis
died within week. One was Malcom Nc
Mullin, aged 10s. He lived at Catalone,
Cape Breton, with his son, grandson and
great-grandson, and for years past it was
daily occurrence to see the four generations
working In the fields together.
Mrs. Catharine Ross OF Northeast Mar
garee. died, aged 101, lesviug 20S grant,
children. Mrs. Donald Chisholm, aged 102,
died at Guysboro Iutervale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
CAPTURED BY BANDITS.

DesperadoeS Successful Raid In q
Western Town.
A few nights since just after Missouri.
Kansas and Texas passenger train No. 2
pulled out of Adair station, Indian Terri.
tory, three desperadoes confronted the agent
and robbed him Of $500.
Eighteen citizens who appeared on ths
scene wers made to hold up THAR hands and
were marched at the points OF the bandits
guns to one of the commercial stores In the
town, which was robbed OF $50.
The robbers then marched the men to tne
stock yards where their horses were hitcned.
They then mounted and departed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
SHOT WHEN EXTRADITED,

Desperate Lopez Executed Jus
Across the Mexican Border.
A special received from Lisbee, near the
Mexican border, states that Eduardo Lopez,
a desperate wanted In Mexico for thu muir
der Of prominent official at Fronteras, was
turned over to the Mexican authorities under
extradition.
The Territorial officers accompanied the
prisoner to the line. The Mexican officials
then took Lopez 300 feet upon Mexican ter
ritory, bound him to POST and shot him
dead. Lopez had killed score Oh men ID
Sonora and in Ariz 3na in the last five years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15

Hoko Smith. of Georgia, named as Secre-
tary Of the Interior, is thirty-eight years
old and was born in North Carolina. His
father was q. n. Smith, and the new conner
was named Hoke after his mother, who was
Miss Hoke. The Hokes are an eminent
Southern family, and are represented In
North Carolina. Georgia and Tennessee. He
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15

THE various German colonial societies
have pstitioned the Reichstag to protest
against the ALLEGED intention OF the onitea te
States to annex the Sandwich lslanos. tne
netition demands that Germany, if ths an.
nexation becomes a fact should at oncs
seize Samoa and the Tonga Islands.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Two Brothers Found Dead.

Thomas and John Pagan, brothers, aged
about eighty years, were found dead on the
floor in their house, four miles north Of Hol-
ly, Mich. They lived entirely alone, and it
is not known when or how they died, but
suicide is suspected.
They were rich, AMI their money is sup.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15

THE total railroad mileage in North Caro-
lima, according to the Railroad Commission.
ers report just issued, Is 5000 with record
Of 135 persons killed and 323 injured. Or
these, thirty-nine were killed and 121 in
jured on the Western North Carolina Road.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
WALTER O. GRESHAM.

surrender OF Vicksburg Grant and Sherman
recommended that he be made a Brigadier-
General, and shortly after he received his
commission. In 1866 he was brevetted
Hajor-General. After being mustered out
he started to practice law at New Albany,
Ind. Two positions were offered him under
General Grant as President and he refused
both. He ran for Congress twice and was
defeated by Michael G. Kerr. In 1889 he
was appointed United Utates District Judge
for Indiana and accepted. He Was Post.
master.G General under President Arthur.
At the close Of President Arthur's
term he was made Secretary Of the Treas
ury. but only held the position for short
time. Subsequently he became United
States Judge for the Seventh Judicial Court.
In 1885 he made some remarkable decisions
in the celebrated Wabash cases. he was a
candidate for the Republican nomination for
President in 1884 and again in 1888. He
seeded from his party IN the last compaign
and announced his intention ct voting for
Grover Cleveland.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
WILSON 9. BrsSELu.
Secretary of War.

Daniel Scott Lamont, who Is to be Pres.
dent-elect Cleveland's Secretary OF War, IS
now forry-one wears old. He was born at
Cortlandville, Cortland County, N. Y. For
thirty-five years, up to short time ago, his
father was a storekeeper In Cortland
County town called McGrawville. Mr.. La
mont's first work was performed as his
fathers clerk, and at the same time be at.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Ten Persons Drowned.

While a peasant wedding party was
crossing the Dniepsr near Ekaterinoslay
Russia, the ice broke aud two sledges, con-
tanning ten persona disappeared under
water. All were swept under the ice and
were drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Killed a Girl and Himself.

J. Frank Gilbough until few msnths
ago was q clerk in the freight department.
OF the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fs Rail-
road Company at Galveston, Texas.
People near Sixteenth street and
Avenue 1 wers startled at S o'clock
the other afternoon by ths report Of
three pistol shots. Gilbouzh's bo1y was
found lying across the sidewalk, his
head in a pool Of blood from wound Just
back Of his right ear. The body OF Miss
Dora Wassam was by his side. The father
OF the dead girl, A. NJ. Wassen, a real estate
dealer. said.
This is my daughter The man who
killed her is Frank Gilbouga. BE wanted
her to marry him, but my wife objected on
account of her age She was only seventeen
years DID,"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Murder, Her Mother and Cousin.

Murders Her Mother and Cousin.
Jennie Wonch, sixteen years Of age, MUIR
dered her mother and cousin, boy OF FIVE
years old, in shanty In which thsy lived
near Cralgleith, Canada Tne girl used an
axe, and the bodies Of her victims were hor-
ribly mutilated.
Jennie's brother says her sister wantedher
mother out Of the war so she could marry
her sweetheart.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15

posed to be buried. Their peculiar drsss and
habits have excited much comment in the
past. It Ia thought that they had been
dead several days.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15

In the British House Of Commons reso-
luton prevailed citing the editor OF ths
London Times to appear and apologize Tor
m;sstatements concerning the Irish.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
In the Senate.

1HK Norton heirs won che suit to compel
the city Of Superior, Mich, to purcoasA
sl58,O00 worth Of land for park purposes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Extra Session OF the Senate.

Extra Session OF the SENATE.
The President issued q proclamation con-
eening the Senate IN extra session on the
4sh of March. The proclamation saws:
Whereas, Public interests require that the
Senate should be convened at II o'clock on
the 4th day Of March next to receive such
communications as may be made by the
Executives
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President Of the United State. do hereby
proclaim and declare that an extraordinary
occasion requires the Senate of the United
States to convene at the Capitol in the city
OF Washington, on the 4th day Of March
next at IL O'clock noon, OF which all persons
who shall at that time be entitled to act as
members OF that boiy are hereby required
to take notice.
This is the usual course pursued at tho out
going OF each Administration, to enable the
Senate to ''advise and CONSENT to the
Cabinet selected by the incoming President.
It is also customary at the same session to
send in the names Of Ministers selected for
the most important foreign posts and other
leading Offices at home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
The Worlds Fair Tickets.

For a week the bank note factories at
Dalton, Mass, have been making peculiarly
distinctive paper that is to be used for
tickets of admission to the Worlds Fair.
The first order, which was for 5000. GOO
tickets, has been shipped to New York, so
that the American Bank Note Company
NAV have time for the elaborate engraving
on the ticket. It is expected that many will
be sold as souvenirs To guard against
counterfeits it has been decided that
between the sheets OF paper OF
which the card is composed there
shall be scattered planchets OF tissue
paper. These planchets are OF different
sizes, the largest as big as pinhead. They
ara OF three colors, blue pink and salmon,
the shades being plainly discsrnible through
tho thin paper ON both sides. The planchets
are not scattered all over the card, but SIM
DIV in a row less than an inch wide across
from top to bottom. The tissue cut In these
little disks is expensive. and considerable
will be saved by using them only in the cen.
trs of the ticket. The chief reason for plac.
ing them in this way is the increased diff.
Guilty in couuterfeitiug.
The sizs Of tho tickets will be ~ by ~
inches. The style Of tickets was approved
by the Treasury Department when w. Muir.
ray Crane was in Washington week ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-15
Five Life Savers Drowned.

, Sow and Pigs Reef, extending southwest
from the island Of Cuttyhunk, Massachu-
setts, was the scsne of thrilling fatality tho
other night. Five gallant life savers, while
attempting to rescus the crow OF the brig
Sagua, bound from Cuba for Boston, were
drowned. -,
The vessel ran on the reef early in the
evening and was discoversd'by. William Els
ener, son of the light keeper at West End,
who hastened to the village and sent word to
the life savers. Their boat was soon
launched, despite the terrible sea, and was
manned by Captain Timothy A. Akin, Jr..
Isaiah q. Tiltop, Eugene Brghtman, Josiah
TiIton, Riram jackson and Frederick Akin.
After hard battle they reached the YES
sels side, only to be struck by tremendous
wave and capsized. All Of the crew except
Josiah Tllton were drowned. Ttlton grasped
a rope thrown from the brig and was
dragged on deck. Another rope, thrown to
Captain Akin, was tied on him three times,
but slipped every time.
The loss OF the crew was not known to the
islanders until next morning, and then
wives. sisters, parents and children tramped
the beach in despair. The crew OF the brig
was rescued by means of a breeches-buoy,
the line being fired from the tug Elsie.
The Durham daily globe., 1893-12-16
AND STILL ANOTHER.

The J. Y. Whitted Tobacco company,
a concern in which B. L. DUKE held
large stock, and for which he had en-
dorsed, went into the hands of receiver
this morning.
The factory has made much plug to-
bacco, but during the hard times, per
haps for six or eigh: months past, it has
done but little business, compared with
good times trade.
CAPTAIN WHITTED who also held
large stock in the company will, it is
sincerely hoped by his many friends,
find way out Of this wreck 10 rise in,
and again be making his celebrated
brands OF plug tobacco.
The Durham daily globe., 1893-12-16
THEIR FRIEND.

The trusts could desire no better advo
cate than the present attorney general
of the United States, and if his views of
the powers of congress in respect to
such legislation are sustained by the
highest tribunal the monopolistic combi-
nations in restraint of trade will be Sc
cure against interference so far as federal
legislation is concerned. If the cOnClu-
siOns of Mr.. OLNEY are right the general
government cannot give the people relief
from the exactions of monopoly and
they will have to look to their legisla
lures for it. There is reason to expect,
however, that the conclusions of the
attorney general, in so far as they assert
that congress has no power to prohibit
the combinations and contracts described
by the supreme court, notwithstanding
the fact that they have for authority a
judicial decision of one Of the associate
justices Of that court rendered when he
was a circuit judge. Meanwhile the
trusts may feel entirely confident that
they have nothing to fear from the head
of the federal department OF justice.
The Durham daily globe., 1893-12-16
VIII call things by their real
YE STORY OF We DOGGE.

Once in ye very olden TYNE a Merchant
sayd too an EddytOr. Il doan't thynke adver-
tizing paycs."
Let inc show yov," said ye EddytOr. II
will pvtt lyme in my papyr and not charge
yov pcnnie."
"All right" rcplyed ye Merchant, "and we
will gee"
So ye Eddytor pvttc Us line in his papyr:
WANTED \ DOGGE. JOHN JONES, 25;
w Old Street.
Now Vt happened that 400 Peple cache
brovRhtc II Doggc on yC next dayc thereafter
so that Mister Jones (Which was ye Merchantt's
raymc) was ovcrrvnnc with DoggcS.
"Syncc there are SO manyc Doggcs, :" said he
II thyukc myght make some byiness and will
givo you Il pCnnie for cache Dogge."
Nc people tookc yc pcnnic each for his DOggC
bcCavsc there were SO manyc Doggcs, and
Mister Jones skynncd ye 100 Doggcs and made
bootcs and gloves from yc 400 hydcs and thvs
mayd
\ Bio FORTUNE
and thereafter added to Vt 10y adVcrtinngi in ye
Eddytor's papyr.-Amcrican Grocer.