The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-30
LATER NEWS.

1T Iev York City 4. F. Oskes, Henry G.
Payne and Henry L. Rouse were appointed
:ecsiyers o; the Northern Pacific Railroad.
TLis action was due 20 the remarkable fall
ils eff in traffic and consequently in earn
inge, lis troubl ssome floating debt Of S11,-
Gce, 600 and the general financial stringency
throughout the country. .... .-.-.s7s.z; >
AT {. meeting OF twenty-five persons who
have Seen attending the Moody conference
in NortiGeld, Mass, a35 900 was pledged in
thity-Ave minutes towIri the erection OF 9
$4,000 auditorium.
Four hundred chair pushers at the Worlds
Fair have struck for higher wages.
IT is reported from Rife, COL, that war
has broken out between cattle men and
sheep men and three cattle men have been
killed. ,. e, a... ..-sts.
JAMES n. BIourT. United States Minister
to Hawaii, returned IS San Francisco on his
way to Washington Es reported affairs In
Hawaii very quiet. 80 :. : - : Z,
lung tuo LOW SuiuSo- nii2iosoh " tAV
United States, arrived In San Francisco.
MArcHwooD, Michigan town OF 200 In
habitants. has been almost entirely wiped out
by fire. The people saved little, being com
PEELED to fly for their lives. Bruce Crossing,
Mich. "a small town., was totally destroyed
by fire. The wife and child Of a lumberman
were supposed to have been burned g
THE President nominated Charles q. Page
Collector Of Customs for the District OF Ore
gon. Owen J. b. Simmons United States,
Attorney for the Northern District Of Flor
ida. Jefferson A. Hui Judge OF Probate In
the County of Grand, Utah. s. s.
The number of suspensions OF pensions
under the recent act of Congress which pro-
vides that no pensions shall be paid to nom
resident who Is, not a,citizen Of the United
States, except for actual disabilities incurred
in the service, Is 2463. The total number of
foreign pensioners originally on the rolls
was about $4,000. .e.
Z CONSERVATIVES have won the sestin tho
British Parliament recently vacated by Mr..
Grenfell, aLiberal, who resigned because he
declined to support Mr.. Gladstones Eome
Rule policy.
THREE deaths from cholera have occurred
in Berlin, Germany.
MARTIAL law prevails In Buenos Ayres,
Argentina. Federal troops have been
stationed at all advantageous points for
suppressing uprisings. l.. ;,,. ?
A FISHING feet was oyerhauled by q storm
in the Baltic off Hapsal, Russia. Many boats
foundered. Seventeen fishermen were
drowned T.. sHA$i.
RzcErvKRs W. "rpointed for the Gilbert ,
Car Manufactui Company and the Troy
On. ~ Steel and Iron Company.
MORE than thousand hungry unemployed
men engaged in spontaneously arranged
parade in New York City without bands or
leaders and afterward held a mass meeting,
a. which they demanded "work, not char
ity."
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed diagonaliy
across .Pawnee County, Aebraska. Farm
buildings were destroyed, stock killed and
crops seriously damaged.
THE Iowa Republican State Convention
at Des Moines nominated for Governor F.,
D. Jackson, OF Des Moines. D.
. REpoRrs from the Texas cotton belt are
favorable for heavy yield. The first pick
ing will be delayed BY rains in some parts OF
= the State. Planters say the fibre is equal to
the best ever raised, and factors are prepar-
ing to handle large yield. ~
ASSISTANT SECRETARY REYNOLDS, in de-
cision just issued, held that attorneys In
pension casesmight hereafter demand Zee
: of 90 in increase claims under the act OF
June q, 1880. -.
AT the request OF Representative Bland,
MIR. Preston. the Acting Director OF the Mint,
sent to the House statement showing the
number Of grains of standard silver in;the
dollar at the following ratios: Seventeen to
one, 1880; eighteen to one, 464.40 nine
teen to one, 4sO.2O, and at twenty, to one,
SIG. s o. ..-.
MARTIAL law has been extended to all parts
of Argentina. The state OF siegs will DO
continued for sixty days and the National
Guard will be modified. ,
CHOLERA is reported to be spreading In
Austria. .s.s.. s-.p$E-
Docron CHAncor, the eminent French
physician, is dead. -.