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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
THE LABOR WORLD.

UTAH silver mines have shut down. ru
CHICAGO has 500 bona fie labor organiza-
lions.
FACTORIES are busy making summer
goods. ...5
IT is we'll known that over 100, 900 people
are at present unemployed in Vienna, Aus
trla.
A PROPOSITION to establish universal
'abor headquarters ls being considered by
Chicago labor men. -
LATE statistics show that in London more
than 300. 900 families earn less than seventy.
five cents each per day. .r
JOHN BURNS asserts that sixty per cent.
of the English workmen over sixty years OF
= age ara in receipt Of poor relief.
In Boston the bosses and the clothing-cut.
ters have joined hands to compel sweaters
to grant the demands Of their workmsn.
AT New Plymouth, New Zsaland, E. NJ.
Smith, a lamplighter, was elected mem-
Der OF the Colonial Parliment by the local
labor organizations.
A FEDERAL court in Macon in q decision
against the Georgia Central road held that
a man could not bs discharged simply be-
cause he belonged to labor union. 4.
ALL railroad employees of Russia who
udNo uOt eIuoTdCol Tue IdlLQ OIL Gu0 Ir60R
Church prior to February /, 1898, will be
discharged from the Governments service.
ONE HUNDRED miners at the slope mines Of
the OHIO and PENNSYLVANIA Coal Company,
at Salineville, Ohio, have struck. dis
agreement with the company over the size
OF screens used having arisen.
The privation in London among the un-
employed increases with the advance Of
winter. and. Notwithstanding the numbers
already there, multitudes continue to
throng in from other parts Of the country.
PETITIONS are circulated bv many work.
ingmen's organizations in France, asking
their respective municipalities to initiate the
example of the Common Council at Roubaix
in giving meals to the children in public
schools.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused in New Zealand by the action OF the
Governor in appointing four veritable work.
ingmen to the higher house Of the Legisla-
ture, whose members hitherto have been Sc
lected invariably from the class OF rich men,
or large land-holders, or prominent politi'
clans.
ADvrcEs from Lancashire. England, state
that the locked-out employees in the cotton
manufacturing districts had a hungry holi-
day, thousands Of them being dependent up
on charity tor sustenance. Hundreds are
walking about begging, and it is feared that
he rigorous weather will cause the loss OF
many lives.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
E,sterp and Middle States.

ADoNIRAM FA1RcHrLD, one of the Oldest
and most skilful divers in the country, was
killed while at work under the North River.
New York City, by the explosion OF
forcite cartridge. He went down to I'LL
eight holes in the reef Of rock that oostructs
the north slip at the foot Of Fulton street
He met his death while tamping down the
first cartridge.
DR.. CHARLES A. BRIGGs. after having
been on trial before the Presbytery of New
York for nineteen days on the charge OF
heresy, has been acquittel on, each or the
six charges brought against him.
THE overdue Cunarier Umbria was
sighted off Fire Island. Port of New York.
after being six days overdue. Hundreds OF
friends of passengers on board the vessel
were relieved by the landing Of all the peo-
pie. There were nearly 400 persons on board:
She was delayed at sea by the breaking OF
a shaft. She refuse1 all offers OF assistance
but made the necessary repairs and then
proceeded slowly under sail AMI steam.
MAYOR GILRoY. the new Surrogate,
County Clerk, Register an the Board or
Aldermen took office in New York City.
ARCHIBALD BARTLETT was killed and
Miss Maggie Kelly fatally injured at rail-
road crossing in Bedford, Mass. The young
couple were on their way to be married
when struck by the locomotive.
THE house Of William Phillips. Of Strong
Brook, N. Y, caught fire and two Of his
children were burned to death in the build
ing and a third died shortly afterwards
from his burns.
PROFESSOR EBEN NORTON HoRsFoRD, the
noted chemist OF Harvard, died, suddenly,
at his home in Cambridge Mass, of heart
disease. A widow and five children survive
him. He was born seventy-four years ago
in Moscow, Livingston County, N. Y.
The New York Legislator met at Albany
and the Assembly organized by the election
Of William Sulzsr, OF New York, as Speaker;
in the Senate lively debate took place over
the bill to postpone the Constitutional Con-
vention election. Governor Flowers message
was received.
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South and West.

Al. HUDsPETH was hanged at Harrison.
Ark. for the murder Of George Watkins
in 1887.
The boiler Of the saw mill OF Duse q
Blurus exploded, killing three colorei msn,
James Wilbanks Guf1n Phillips and Joe
Smith.
AFTER being forced under theats Of death
to surrender between $1,000 and 5000 to
two masked men who entered his office IN
the Courthouse, County Treasurer John ".
johnson OF Viroqua, Wis, was gagged and
bound and locked in his vault. He was
found there almost dead.
The bodies Of Adam Siler, aged eighty.
and his wife, aged seventy-two, were dis
covered lying on the floor Of their house in
Chatham County, North Carolina, by their
ten.year-old grandson. Siler had been shot
three times and Mrs. Siler twice.
A sNowPLow was wrecked on the line OF
the Great Northern in Washing ton State.
Four lives were lost. The plow was stand
Ing on the track and was struck by an ava
lanche which came down the noun tain.
The Legislature Of Montana, California,
Minnesota, Ohio and North Dako ia met and
organized.
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FOR GOOD ROADS.
Summary of Work Done so Far by
the National League.

Summary of Work Done so Far by
the National League.
The National League for Good Roads. al.
though less than three months old, is
bestirring itself in the new move
ment with much energy. A sum-
mary OF it is as follows: Local leagues
have been formed in Asline, New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jsr-
sey, Maryland, Virginia, District OF Colum-
bia, and Arizona; and a State league in
Vermont and county league at Rochester,
New York. Arrangements have been made
for holding State conventions in January in
Maryland, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois. Virginia
and Minnesota. The Governors Of twenty
five States have been persuaded to act as
State Vice-Presidents or have app ointed
substitutes. Five thousand railroad agents
have been supplied with documents and in
structed by their employers to aid in form
ing local leagues. Country banks and man
ufacturers Of road and farm implements
have also been enlisted in the work. The
Chamber of Commerce of New York and
other commercial bodies have taken q
marked interest in it. Colleges and county
clubs are forming local leagues. Prepara-
tions are being made to supply country
postmasters and school-teachers with blanks
and documents when the National Lsague is
able to pay for the necessary printing and
postage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
SPEEDILY LYNCHED,

The Alleged Murderers Of an Ala
bama Tax Collector Hanged.
When the citizens OF Green VILE. Ala,
arose the other morning they saw two
dead bodies hanging from above the Court
House steps. Late at night two stran-
gers went to Jailer Bergainer's house and
told him they had prisoner. He went with
them to the Jail, where he was met by
mob Of 100 armed and masked men, W ho mad
hidden behind a fence. They dema nded the
keys. Tho cells of John Hipp and Charles
Kelly, the alleged murderers OF Tax Collec-
tor G. j. Armstrong, of Butler Co unity, were
opened, and both men wers take out and
hurried to the Court House yard with ropes
about their nscks. Without being allowed
time to pray. they were hanged above the
Court House steps. The mob then dispersed.
The verdict OF the jury is that the men wore
hanged by unknown persons.
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a REMARKABLE YEAR,
A Comparatively Small Number OF
Failures in 1892.

Failures in 1892.
Bradstreess contains the following inter-
esting resume Of the statistics Of CO mmercial
disasters collected by it during the year
1892: 1.-THE number of business failures in
the United States during the calendar year,
with the exception Of SO nth Dakota, where
State law renders it unlawful to report
such information except under prohibitory
conditions, is 10,270, smaller total than
has been reported sincs 1881, with the single
exception Of 1887, whsn the aggregate was
o740.
"This Is not the only astonishing part Of
the exhibit, for the grand total OF liabilities
Of failing traders in the United States In
1892 appears to be only Sl0s, 5JJ, 900, total
also smaller than in any year since 1892.
without any exception. A similar compar-
son may be made as to assets, the total Of
which Is $54, 700.003.
1.-THE total business population o. the
United States in 1888 was S55, 000 CONNER
cial and industrial concerns, individuals,
firms and corporations Of sufficient stand
ing and permanepce to bs of record, and
the number Of failures in that year
amounted to 10,293, the first time
the aggregate had passei the 10000
mark. Yet in 1892, nine years later, with
business population Of 1 035, 0O0, a gain Of
twenty-one per cent, the number OF busi-
ness failures is only l0,270, or about the
same as nine years ago, aud the debts Of
failing trades are forty per cent. smaller
now than then. This is the mo st striking
feature OF the years exhibit with respect to
commercial deaths"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
Lightning and Lightning Rods.

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Iron roofs are often struck and badly
damaged by lightning, as also are the
large petroleum storage tanks, which are
made wholly of iron; consequently they
canrot be classed Us protected structures.
There is wide difference of opinion in
regard to the value of lightning rods;
Sometimes they appear to have guided
or conducted bolt of electricity safely
to the ground, while in other instances
the injury has appeared to have been
greater than if no rod had been present,
although the latter may have been the
result of faulty construction Or insulation
of the rod. A poorly constructed rod,
with bad earth connections, would only
add to the danger of injury BY lightning.
OF course, there is much to be said on
both sides, for and against the use OF
rods. but we notice that,f late years
they are going out Of use in the Older
States, whore the people have had the
most experience with them. On very
high buildings and steeples lightning
rods are still used, but merely as con.
ductors OF the electricity which may
have gathered in low, drifting clouds,
but they are not supposed to attract
lightning from any considerable distance.
Large bodies of iron ore do not attract
lightning, for if this was the case is
would be exceedingly dangerous to work
in iron mines or in any of our great
manufactures where immense quantities
of iron and steel are collected. II man
and his family think they would feel
safer and sleep better in house to
which one or more lightning rods are
affixed, we would say put them up by
all means.-New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
DASHED INTO a CAR.
Carelessness in Chicago Leads to a
; Terrible Accident.

Carelessness in Chicago Leads to a
Terrible Accident
Four persons were killed and eight injured
o few mornings ago by the collision OF a
street car and locomotive at Forty-seveuth
kreet and Stewart avenue, Chicago,
III The street car was crowded
and was passing the Fort Wayne
Railway tracks when q Fort Wayne
train crashed into it so suddenly that the
occupants had no time to escape. The dead
arr: George Blaka, Archibald Nc Andrews
unknown man found under the tender OF the
engine. Unknown woman died in patrol
wagon on the way to Mercy Hospital, sup
posed to be Mrs. Carson, as a card bearing
that name was found in her pocket.
The accident happened when the street
ear traffic was at its hesviest and the cars
vere crowded to the doorways with people
standing and sitting. The car was going
east ON Forty-seventh street to State street,
where it was to be hitched to grip
cnr, which was to bring it to the bust
ness centre Of the city. As 1t ap.
proachsd the tracks OF the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayp. and Chicago at Forty-seventh street
and stewart avenue, an engine came backing
down the tracks at a rate OF about
ple say For some reason the oc-
cupants of the cab did not seq
the car approaching, and. on account OF the
heavy coating OF frost on the windows OF
the car. the passengers did not ses the
engine bearing down upon them. In an IN.
stant the engine struck the car and passed
On.
The car was dragged for 15o yards, and
st every foot of the distance fresh injury
WAS added to those inflctsi. The horses
became detached from the car and ran away
uniniured.
The widest confusion reigned for the first
few minutes. Those who had come to tbs
work of rescue could hear the pitiful cries OF
the wounded and see the body Of one dead
man. George Blaka was the first one taken
from the wreckage He was carried to sa-
loon. but died almost as soon as he reached
there. The other wounded were then picked
up and carried into houses near the cross
ing.
Five police I,atrol wagons soon arrived.
The most severely injured person, the
woman supposed to be Mrs. Carson, was at
ones put into one of the wagons and
started for Mercy Hospital. Before
the wagon had gone far Conductor
O'Connor and Driver Stanley, who
were ON the street car, and Engineer Ross
,up and Fireman Meager OF the train were
arrested, That the accident was due to the
zrossest carelsssness cannot be doubted. BY
heir own statements the two crossing men,
Albright and Schwartz, were not attend
ing to their duty, and neither OF them
knew Of the danger until after the crash.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
STABBED BY A TRAITRESS.
anvyer Mccoy Suffer. Death in
an Amateur Performance.

lawyer Mccoy Suffer. Death in
an Amateur Performance.
A party Of about fifty friends assembled
shs other night at the house Of Sidnsy Nc
Csy, q young lawyer Of San Francisco, Cal.
Ths feature of the evenings entsrtain-
2snt was the production of short play
written by Mccoy and performed by am
atsurs.
The plot Of the play was the betrayal Of a
land OF Russian Nihilisrs by one Of their
uumber. The Nihllists discover the traitress
aad condemn her to death. Thew decide by
bot who shall perform the execution, and the
numoer fell to the laracter portrayed by
MCCOY. Miss Grace King plavei the part
0f the traitresS, who is given the choice OF
baing killed or stabbing herself, and chooses
3he latter alternative.
Mccoy handed Miss King stout dagger
3hat had been in his family for many years
IN the play the girl, instead Of killing her
ynaf, stabs her assigned eNecutioner, and as
Miss King received the knife she reached
ssrward to touch Mccoy on the breast with
&. At the same instant Mccoy started
toward the girl, when she stumbled, and,
1alling forward with the dagger in her
Annd. drove it through McCoy's heart.
Mccoy staggered into the next room,
asked for q doctor and then fell dead. Miss
King knew there had been an accident OF
,ome kind, but di | not know that Coy
YVES killed. She was taken home, nd after
wards, on advice Of friends, gave herself up
1o the police. she was taken to the City
Prison at o'clock in the morning, and when
phs entered the prison she tainted, and for q
kng time remained unconscious.
Next morning McCoy's two brothers. Sc
cared her release by giving bonds for $40.
600 for her appearance. The girl was then
taken home. but is still in critical con-
dition.
Miss King recently suffered from q
sprained ankle an l had been using crutches
20 walk witp, but had laid taen ASIDE to
practise the part in tle play. AS she made
= motion to stab Mccoy she rested her
weight on the weak foot and it gave way
Holl fnrHzand
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
1,0UIsIANA'S NEW SENATOR
Donaldson Caff,ry Appointed to Sue
ceed the Late Mr. Gibson.

Donaldson Caffery OF ST.. Mary's Parish
was appointed by Governor Foster to De
Senator Of thu United States from
Louisiana to fill the unexpired term OF the
late Senator Gibson.
Mr.. Caffrey was born in the Parish OF st.
Mary La. on September 10, 1885. He was
educated at st. Mary's College, Maryland,
and graduated with honors. He began life
as a pioneer farmer in DraySon County,
Texas. but returned to his native state IN
1858. He was admitted to the bar IN 1ne
following year.
The death of his step.iaughter, which oc-
Cured a oout this time. necessitated giving
his entire time to his large property ana
his family. When the war came he en-
listed in the st. Nary Cannoneers, homs
company, from which he resigned arter q
few months service to enter company IN
active service at the front At Shiloh ne
fought under General Gibson.
In lS63 he was m lde lieutenant in the
Second Louisiana Infantry, but did not serve
with the regiment, being transferred TO tne
trans Missouri department., where ne servea
as aide-de-camp on the stan St General Joe
Walker.
At the close of the war Mr.. Caffrey began
the practice Of his profession in his native
parish, and soon rose to pro nlnence as a
member OF the bar. He was elected to the
Constitutional Convention in 1879, and
served in that body with conspicuous dis
tinction. At present he is President OF the
Bar Association OF Louisiana.
In the last campaign he became candl-
date for State Senator, to which office he
was elected by an overwhelming majority.
He rendered valuable service as Chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Cuffrey was prominent leader OF the
anti-lottery cause. He is identified with the
sugar industry OF the State, being large
sugar planter. To him is largely due tho
erection Of the Caffrey Central Sugar Fac
torythe largest in the State.
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LATER NEWS,

GOVERNOR LUzoN B. MORRIS OF New
Haven, the ffty-ffth Govsrnor of Con.
necticut was inaugurated with appropriate
ceremonies
JOSEPH AND HENRY AUSTIN, eleven and
thirteen years old, while skating on Lake
Quapassaug, Waterbury. Conn.,, went
through the ice into fifty feet Of water and
were both drowned.
HENRY CABOT LODGE has been nominated
for United States Senator by caucus
majority Of the Massachusetts, Legislature
THE official canvass of the vote of Oregon
at the recent election shows the following
results: Harrison. IS, COZ; Cleveland. 1923;
Weaver, 26,s75; Bidwell, 22s1; Pierce
tDemocratio-Populis Elector,, 35,sl3.
A SERIES OF explosions of natural gas in
Chicago, ILL.,, injured several employees and
many fremen. Four blasts partially wreck
the printing house of Donohue G. Henne-
berry.
The President made the following NOM
nations: Gilbert A. Pierce, Of Minnesota,
Minister Resident and Consul General of the
United States to Portugal; George W
Bartch, Associate Justice Supreme Court Of
Utah.
SECRETARY ELKINs has appointed a
Board of Officers to suggest remedies for the
bad sanitary conditions Of army posts.
FIFTEEN men were killed by an explosion
in Russian mine
A RIOT occurred among the striking
miners in the Saar District of Germany.
EIGHT people lost their lives in railway
collision In Hungary
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
CATTLE PLAGUE IN AFRICA
Millions of Cattle Perish From the
Niger Nearly to the East Coast.

Millions Of Cattle Perish From the
Niger Nearly to the East Coast.
The cattle plague reported by Captain
Lugard as having swept away most Of the
cattle in the region of tho Victoria Nyanza
appears to have extended its ravages clear
across Africa. Captain Monteil, who has
just arrived in Algiers after crossing the
Souian from west to east between the Niger
and Lake Tcha1 says that millions Of cat
tie have died and on long stretches Of his
route not a single animal survived.
Captain Lugard says that the Wahuma,
north OF Victoria Nyanza, have been ex.
clusve.y pastoral, and lived solely on the
milk AM fe*h OF their CATTLE Now that the
p asue has totally destroyed their stock,
the people are dying in vast numbers and
the remnant are de endent on the agricul.
tural settlers for scanty subsistence.
When Captain Lugard left Uganda the
Wahuma were slowly learning to cultivate
the fields, but vegetarian food was unnatural
10 them, and their gaunt and half-starved
forms attested the hardships they were un.
dergoing.
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that so many fashions are set by actresses
The one question almost answers the other.
In every case the secret of their attaining
their reputation lies in their Skill shared by
almost all women on the stage Of adapting
fashions to their personality. The mere
woman slaps on whatever happens to be
"the rage" and she does so whether the
particular rage makes fright of her
or not. The actress will not touch fash
ion if it is distinctly and irrevocably unbe-
coming to her; nor will she touch any FASH
ion without modifying it to suit her own
needs. The other woman confines herself
to the fashion of the hour; the actress
searches the modes of all times and adapts