The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
LATER NEWS.

I66u-S OdI-Olu DOy HuO Wdo iOuau
short distance south OF Philmont, Colum-
bia County, New York, hes fixed the crime
upon John Schmidt, the boys stepfather.
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats convened in
State Convention at Harrisburg. F. @. Os-
burn was nominated for State Treasurer and
s. F. Thompson for Supreme Judge.
"GENrLEMAN" GEORGE A. ELLwooD, q des-
perate criminal who last February began
twenty-five years sentence at the Rhode
Island State Prison for burglary, was shot
and killed, while attempting to escape, by
Deputy Warden Rowe, whom Ellwood at
tackled with heavy iron handle and hammer.
AT the request OF Lord Dunravent the date
tor the first race of New York between the
vigiant aud valkyrie has been changed 10
October 9Th.
Fob assaulting white woman citizens OF
Pineapple, Ala, took Riley Gulley (colored)
out Of jail and hanged him In the jail-yard.
DURING violent storm in st. Paul, Mimi,
Frank Miller and William Kessler were killed
by lightning.
ONE death from yellow fever and one new
case Of tho disease were reported In Bruins
wick, Ga.
THE remains Of j. Knox Polk, tenth Presi-
dent Of the United States, and those of his
wife, Sarah Childers Polk, were removed
from the tomb at Polk Place, Nashville, Tenn.
to picturesque spot in the State Capitol
grounds and there reinterred.
THE President has nominated James j.
Van Allen, OF Rhode Island, 10 be Ambassa-
dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Italy. Mr.. Van Allen Is man of wealth who
lives at Newport and is prominent in New
York society.
BY direction Of the President, Private Sec
retary Thurber has written President Peck,
of the Worlds Fair Board OF Managers, that
in view of the pressure Of official business,
it will be practically impossible for Mr..
Cleveland to visit the World g Fair on Chicago
day, October 9.
TIE Senate has confirmed Henry M.
smythe, of Virginia, to be Minister Resident
and Consul-Genera of the United States at
Hayti.
AaAS and four Women were burned to
death in fire in the Whitechapel district OF
| London.
THERE has been o great flood in Gifu-Ken,
! Japan. Many persons were drowned, ana
there is great suffering among the survivors
Embankments burst in sixty places, over
| 200 houses were carried away and over lOo
people were drowned. At Yawatka, IN
! Gunjo-Gun, a side Of . mountain fell away,
crushing over fifty persons to death. al
| Nara 154 persons were drowned.
| THERE were :vo deaths from cholera and
! ten new cases oi the disease in Hamburg,
| Germany.
A sKTrr which: left Collingwood, Canada,
for Nottawassa River with eight persons, in
Guiding two women, was struck by 4 squall
and overturned. Two men escaped. The
others were drowned.
EX-SENATOR JOHN W. TAYLOR, OF Newark,
n. j.. committed suicide by shooting himself
with u revolver.
IOWA uuy was Dlulldutiy celeoE1tcu ~ iuo
Worlds Fair.
Two men were fatally scalded by the ex-
posion OF steampIpe on the United States
cruiser Montgomery while on her trial trip
Off Thomas Point, Md.
WILLIAM LEA CHAMBERS, Of Alabama. has
been nominated by the President to he Land
Commissioner in Samoa, under the General
A., signed at Berlin juno 1t, 1892. by the
p.eaipotentiaries OF the Unitsd states. Ger
many aud Great Britain, vice L. J. Orna-
bee, resigned.
A NEW indictment has been found against
Colonel Ainsworth and the Others charged
with responsibility for the Ford's Theatre
disaster in Washington.
ADMIeAL MELLo. commander OF the rebel
Brazilian fleet, demanded the surrender OF
Rio de Janeiro, threatening another bonn
bardment II his demand was not Immediately
complied with.
DROUGHT in Central Illinois has prevailed
for over three months, and the damage to
fd &aI t,no tl.htI Ia