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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-12-13
AN EARTHQUAKE.
Shocks Felt in Canada, New York
and Other States.


and Other States.
An earthquake, the most severe In the his-
tory OF Canada. visited Montreal. Houses,
churches and great public nnd mercantile
buildings shook violently. Never before mad
such scenes been witnessed in the city,
although there we're no fatalities. The
whole population seemed to realize the
awful danger, and almost instantly the
streets we're thronged with terrified
people fleeing from buildings which
momentsrily threatened to crumble and
fall. Stores, offices. the City Hall, the
courts. the great Board OF Trade build
ing, Police Headquarters-au were aban-
doned. The weak were trodden on, clothes
were torn. and prisoner on trial for seri-
Gus offense, abandoned by his custodians,
gained the streets and liberty unhindered.
Hardly building has escaped without some
marks OF the earth's upheaval. ,
An earthquake shock was experienced ut
st. ,Johnsbury, VT, about noon. The .remor
lasted three or four seconds and buildings
shook perceptibly, as II under tbs influence
OF some nearby explosion.
Inhabitants of Barre. VT, were startled nj
noon by rumbling sound, which at hrst ap-
seared to be the sound OF moving train
but upon investigation it appears to have
been an earthquake. Buildings shook, dishes
ratified and doors flew open in all directions.
Shocks OF earthquakes were plainly felt at
Greenfield, Mass. It was a swayinS morton
az though the earth suddenly slid forward
several feet and as suddenly came back.
The towns OF Rouss's Point, Plattsburg.
Au Sable Forks, Keeseyille, Peru, Port
Henry, Rome and Tconderoga, ia New
York. all report that they felt an earthquake
lasting from five to ten seconds, conmenc'
ing at 11.47 a. m.
At Keesevile the clerks left Prescott s FUR
nture store, fearing the building would lall.
similar reports come from the small towns
on the west side OF Lake Champlain.
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The unveiling of the Nathan Hale statue
In the City Hall Park, New York city, wa.
made beautiful and impressive ceremony
by the patriotic efforts Of the Sons Of the
Revolution, aided by army and navy brig.
AIDES and delegations from many ancient
and honorable civic societies. The occasion
was also the anniversary Of the British evac.
uation OF the city, thus making It an espe.
cially appropriate day to commemorate the
heroic death of the patriot spy who was
hanged near the spot where his statue
stands, when caught In an attempt to learn
the movements OF the English troops;
On Broadway near Mail street, facing the
yelled statue, q stand WAS erected to accom-.
modate the speakers, officials. and number
of guests, and to this Mayor Gilroy led from
the City Hall the little procession composed
OF these persons, including some Colonial
Danes, when the head of the parade was
seen passing the Post Office on Broadway.
First come the army brigade, composed
Of batteries from the first and Second Ragi.
.ments OF Artillery, Engineers and Hospital
Corps, commanded by Colonel Langdon.
They swung into Mail street and
halted there. facing the park. Colonel
Langdon and his staff, Major Brown and
Lieutenants Bailey and Hunter taking post
ton at the southeast corner OF the park. In
the rear of the Broadway end Of this
brilliant line stood the Hospital Corps, q hit
OF bright green color for that side OF the
picture.
commanded By Captain Dillenback. did not
turn into mail street. but kept to the plaza
In front of the City Hall. They On.
liyened the picture by unlimbering and
placing their breech-loading pieces In
Ill Aha 1I<whA hnN
tery into the plaza came the marines from
the ships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The
bluejackets are great favorites with New
York crowds, and as they rolled into place,
carrying their guns as II they were capstap
bars, they were eheered. Captain Black
United States Navy, commanded the naval
brigade.
The Sons of the Revolution and the Old
Guard marched into the park and grouped
themselves about the base OF the statue, and
all the other civic organizations finding
places on or about the stand the picture was
complete and the ceremonies began.
The official ceremonies were brief. Aher
q PRAYER by the Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix and the
presentation OF the statue to the Sons on be-
half OF the Statue Committee by William Gas
ton Hamilton, Miss Cornelia Montgomery
pulled the cord.twhieh released the yelling
flag. and the beautiful bronze stood exposed.
That was q signal for thelight artillery, and 1t
thundered out salute OF thirteen guns
The bands played and the people cheered.
But the statue did not yet belong to the city.
President TallmadgeI accepted 1t on behalf
Of the society, and in turn presented 1t TO
the city. It was gift deserving q handsome
Acknowledgement and Mayor Gilroy made
It In brief speech.
There were excellent addresses by Major.
General o. o. Howard and the Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale, great-grandnephew oil
Captain Nathan Hale. Then there was pat
riotic music by the bands and the ceremony
was over.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

PARIS iocksmiths get $3.50 per day.
FRANCE has had 300 strikes this year.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, has 10l union grocers.
SICILY has 800, 900 union agriculturists.
CHICAGO has SO, 600 idle clothing workers.
COMMERCE employs 1890, 900 Americans.
COOPERATIVE agriculture is thriving in
France.
ILLINOIS weekly payment law sis uncon-
stitutional."
I.HEr say 100000 men are idle in the
United States.
FLORIDA reports 1900 tramps on the road
to Washington.
KANSAS Eight Hour law has been de-
clared unconstitutional.
The Commercial Club of indianapolis,
Ind, and. the Board OF Trade have started q
movement to aid the idle.
COLORADO is sending her unemployed men
OF Texas and Texas feeds them and sends
them on from town to town.
The Brooks Locomotive Works at Dun
kirk, N. Y, which usually employs 1900 men,
now has only 100 on the rolls.
BUDA-PEsTH, Hungary, reports strike Of
5000 on account OF the discharge OF man
for being a member of the union.
A NUMBER Of large iron mills in the West
have resumed work. and many wooden mills
in New England have started up again.
MARRIED men and residents Of the city will
have precedence when Seattle, WASH, shall
begin tho work on local improvements to
provide work for the unemployed.
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QUIET IN HAWAII.
There Have Been no Late Sensational
Developments.


The steamship Alameda has arrived at
San Francisco, CAL, from Honolulu. She
brought news that all was quiet there, and
that there had been no change in the politi.
cal situation. Up to the time the Alameda
sailed Minister Willis had made no intima-
ton to the Provisional Government as to the
nature OF his instructions.
A letter brought from Honolulu says
minister Willis has been so non-committaI
that no one can guess what are his purposes.
His latest declaration is that he will take no
decided action until he gets advice from
Washington. On the other hand royalists
and some naval officers claim TO have in.
formation that the Queen will be restored.
ssBetween these different rumors the ex.
feeling lust before the Provisional Govern.
ment was firmly seated. The patience OF both
sides is becoming exhausted and any event is
liable to lead to street fighting. Some OF the
annexationists believe that the royalist
brae about the Queens restoration Is merely
a blind to cover q bold design to recapturs
the Government and hold It, II only for q
day, so that Minister Willis could then
legally recognize them rs the existing
Government. TO provide against against the
force OF sharpshooters has been per.
manently installed in the Government
Building and the regular guerl has beer
strengthened. 1t would be impossible now
for any except q large and determined force
to get possession of the building before the
reserve force Of four hundred men could be
summoned.
';About the only significant speech made
BY Minister Willis was in response to com.
mittee OF the newly organized protec-
tive association known as the American
League. The committee rendered Willie
their aid In case he should need 1t in
carving out his instructions. but they de-
clared Ilainly that they supported fully
the Provisional Government The new Minis.
ter responded by saying that hewould like 'tc
Zee the Stars and Stripes, under certain con-
ditions. floating over Hawaii, as we'll as over
all the other islands Of the Pacific Then he
added that nothing which ne could say or dc
would alter the policy Of the United
States. which had been fixed. He said he
was an executive officer, delegated to carry
out certain Instructions, and at the appoint
ed time these instructions would be exc
cuted and no local power would be permitted
to interfere. He closed by saying that Ameri
cans would have nothing to regret over the
action OF the United States, and that IL his
instructions had conficted with his
own personal views he would never
have accepted the Office OF Minis
ter. This address, which was delivered
under pledge Of secrecy on the part
Of all present, has leaked out, and each side
takes radically different view Of it. The
annexationists look upon it as sign that
protectorate will be established over the
Provisional Government, while the royalists
see in it declaration that protectorate
will be declared over the restored monarchy
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LATER NEWS.

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T. Y. POWDERLY OUT.

His Successor as Head of the knights
of Labor Is J. r. Sovereign.
The General Assembly Of the Knights OF
Labor has just closed at Philadelphia, Penn,
the most exciting session it ever held. For
the first time in fourteen years T. Y. Pow
derry is not atthe head Of the order. His
resignation was accepted By . vo;e Of twen-
ty-hve to thirteen.
james r. Sovereign, Labor Commissioner
of Iowa, was elected 10 succeed him by a
vote of twenty-three ont OF thirty-four cast,
Powderly getting two votes, T. B. Mcclure,
one, and James Campbell of the window
glass workers Of Pittsburg, eight votes.
The following anti-Powderly men, Tao
were named by General Worthy Foreman
Bishop while acting rs General Master Work
man pro tenn, were elected to the Executive
Board: H. B. Martin, Minneapolis !; G. A.
French Boston, and J. !. Kenny. Omahs.
The result has caused ! split in the order.
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INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Annual Report Of Commissioners
Miller.

Miller.
Tho annual report Of Joseph 8. Miller,
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, makes
no recommendations. The bulky volume
Of over 200 pages (not including tables)
Is made up entirely Of statistical infor.
nation. No mention is made OF In
come tax, or increase In the rate
oftaxation on distilled spirits, malt liquors,
tobacco, or any other products coming under
the scope of the Internal Revenue laws. As
suming that rates oftaxation will remain the
same, the Commissioner estimates the proba-
BILE revenue from internal revenue for next
year at $150, ,0O0, 900. This is S15, 900, 900 esa
than last years estimate. and $11 600, 900 less
than the actual yield last year, which was
$161, ,0OO. 900. There has been decrease Of
S5, 5,519, 900 in the first three months of this
fiscal year. The chief collections have been
from distilled spirits, and next to that malt
liquors and tobacco.
There has been decrease Of over $50, 900
in the amount collected for chewing and smok.
lion OF the law permitting the sale oftobacco
sin hand, by farmers and retail dealers.
In cigars, cigarettes, and snuffs there has;
been an increase .of receipts. Nearly four
and q half millions more gallons Of whisky
have been withdrawn from bond during the
year than last year. Most OF it was Bourbon
whisky, and the reason for its withdrawal
WIS that the bonded period had expired and
efforts to obtain an extension failed.
In regard to sugar productions the Com
missioner says:
The operation Of the law in relation to the
bounty on sugar has had the effect, 30 far as
cane sugar Is concerned, to increase the pro-
duction and to lessen the number of sugar
factories or licensed producers.
In the district Of Louisiana, where cane
sugar Is principally made, there were during
the first season In which the law was in oper-
alton (that Of 1922 627 producers licensed
to manufacture sugar. and the product OF
that period aggregate 357 ,875, ,557 pounds.
Thenumbsr Of producers licensed during the
season of 1923 was 618, and the amount of
sugar produced aggregated AS, ,857 $40
pounds. an increase Of 81, 982, ,283 pounds, not
withstanding O reduction Of over eleven per
cent. in the number Of licensed producers.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 900 have been
invested in Louisiana In improved ma
chinery for making sugar since the begin
ming of the present year, the full effect Of
which will not be seen and appreciated until
the conclusion OF the coming season. These
charges In the machinery OF sugar factories
result In a more economical manufacture OF
sugar and indicate 4 gradual departure from
the primitive and more wasteful methods
formerly in use.
The production of beet sugar in the States
OF California and Nebraska and the Territory
of Utah showed an increase Of Is, ,000, 900
pounds. Sorghum sugar decreased on ac-
count of the ravages OF "chinch bugs" The
production OF maple sugar had increased
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JUMPED TO THEIR DEATH.
Disastrous Results of q Big Blaze In
Detroit.

Shortly after noon the immense wholesale
dry goods establishment of Edison, Moore 4
Co., occupying the ave-story building
at Nos. 1874 to 204 Jefferson avenue, De
troit, Mich, was burned to the ground,
with IN estimated loss of $3.50, 900. Re1ford
Dunning, a porter, aged forty-four, and
James Mckay, aged thirty y-eight, were killed
by jumping from the top story Of the burn
ing structure. 49,.
Three other men were reported missing
and were supposed to have lost their lives 10
the flames. Their names are Edward Zoit;
order clerk Edward Genther, entry clerk,
single, twenty-eight years old, and Pat
Markey, thirty-two years old. A fireman
who was forced to Jump from one ofthe win.
dows was seriously injured.
The burned building and stock were amply
insured. An explosion on the top losr IL
supposed to have started the fire.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-12-13
MELLO'S GREAT REVERSE,

His lronclad Ship Javary Sent to the
Bottom of Rios Bay.
The Brazilian Legation in London has re-
ceived despatch from Rio de Janero. say
inc that the insurgent war ship Javary had
been sunk by the Nlctheroy battery. The
rev of the vessel went down with the ship.
The Javary was an iron tdrret ship OF 364O
tons displacement. She was 24O feet long,
fifty-eight feet beam. and drew eleven feet
four inches Of water. Her engines were OF
a5OO-horse power. She carried four twenty
one-ton guns, besides an auxiliary battery.
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FOUR BUENED TO DEATH.
A Fatal Fire in Oil City-A Mothers
Devotion.

Fire, which started at ~ o'clock.s. m. at
Oil City, Penn, resulted in tho loss Of
four lives and the destruction Of about
$50, 900 worth of property. The district
burned comprises the square In the heart OF
the city bounded by Center street. the rail-
road tracks, Sycamore street and Elm street.
The buildings were all occupied as stores,
saloons, markets and the like. They were
old wooden structures. erected in the ea-ly
days of the oil excitement.
The fire originated in defective due in
Shields restaurant and spread with such
rapidity that it was with difficulty that any
of the inmates escaped. Mrs. Hugh Shields,
wife OF the proprietor. after carrying one OF
her six children to tha sidewalk in safety,
returned for the Others and lost her life
while attempting their rescue: Her daugh,
ter Fannie, aged fourteen, Charles, aged
five years, and a baby aged seven months
completed the list. .E'
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THIS seasons orange crop In Florida Is
much above the average in quantity being
estimated at 5000, 900 boxes. and is much
earlier than usual. While during the whole
of last season some IS, 900 boxes were shipped
through Savannah to New York City, more
than SO, 900 boxes have already beon shipped
there this year. Unusually large shipments
have also been made to Europe, where
Florida oranges are now beginning to COM
pete successfully With Mediterranean fruit
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NEWSY GLEhNINGS.
q daf,cit os al ann O0o

CHICAGO has deficit OF 81 5000
TIE unclaimed funds in the English court,
amount to $3.50. .252, ,410.
A GOVERNMENT medical school has bocr
established at Washington.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND horses are used In
the carrying trade OF London.
A PHILADELPHIA tailor is making an over
coat for customer which Is to cost $500.
TACOMA, WASH, claims population ol
1898 on the strength of new city directory.
IT has been decided to remove the Bureau
of Awards OF the Worlds Fair to Washing
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KILLED BY HIS WIFE.

Mrs. Schell Was Playing With Re-
yolver When 1t Was Discharged.
A special from buchanan, Ga, says William
schel, q prominent citizen OF Bremen, was
accidently shot and killed by his wife.
Mrs. schell picked up pistol and was
playing with it and 4 thirteen-months-old
baby, when the pistol was discharged, the
ball passing through her husbands BODY
aear the heart.
The only words he uttered were in reply to
her question If he forgave her. He replied,
81 forgive you," and expired.
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A BIG FAILURE.
The Corporation Which Involved
Cashier May ofthe Bank Of England.

Cashier May oIthe Bank Oh EnSiand.
The American Association Qimited). the
English corporation which founded Middles.
borough, Ky, and which is said to have in
solved Cashier May, of the Bank OF England
was placed in the hands OF 4 receiver by
Judge Barr In the Federal Court at Louis
Vile on suit brought by the Central Trust
Company. of New York, to foreclose mort
gage OF nearly million and half dollars.
The corporation owns thousands of acres
Of coal, iron and timber lands, and Middles-
borough was laid out for q great city, hun
dreds Of thousands were spent on improve
taents, streets were graded for miles, electric
lights placed in fields, costly system OF
water works and drainage canals constructed
and immense furnaces built, but tho money
anally gave out and the bottom dropped out
of MiddlesborouShs boom.
But now stealthy growth has commenced.
and Middlesborough will probably become
an i'm portant n-producing centre, but the
dreams OF the English promoters will hardly
be realized.
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MANIACs AWFUL DEED
Re Deliberately Murders His Family
Of -Four. s;it,'ta Z s

OF -Four.
At Uniontown, Ohio, John Foster killed
his wife, his three children and himself.
Foster was forty-four years old and well ia
do. He has been considered weak-minded
at times by his neighbors, the lnarmity
growing out of wound received In the
late war. - ssyt.
The hour OF the tragedy was shortly before
midnight and the weapon used was q reyol.
yer. Mrs. Foster was the first to su6er, being
shot through the heart. The murderer then
went into the bedroom where his children.
TWO boys and girl, aged respecttvelyeieVent
and seven years, were asleep. From ths
attitude in which the eldest boy waa
found, he must have been awakened By
the shot which killed his mother. HA
hands were clasped above his head, and
he was kneeling, Us II In prayer.
The other two children were shot through
the head as they slept -
Returning to the dead body Of his wife,
Foster sent bullet through hts own brain,
and .elL PROSTATE scross the corpse.
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OPPRESSION IN WARSAW.

Fifteen Persons Sent to Siberia With
no Publication Of Their Offense.
The rumors of tho arrest and banishmeni
of Poles from the western provinces Of Rus
sia have been confirmed. Eleven priests
have been suspended from their duties and
placed in prison, and scores OF citizens arc
detained in the citadel at Warsaw.
Fifteen persons, including some ladies and
young girls, are already on their way to 81
IBERIA, although their friends have no knoWl-
edge OF their offense.
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The cholera in Russia Is less virulent. The
official statistics show that from May to Sep
tsmber, 1892, there were throughout the Elm
pire 4S3, ,643 cases Of the disease and 215,1B
deaths, and from January to November, 1893,
76,167 cases and 50, ,264 deaths.
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ACTIVE ANARCHISTS.
A Bloodthirsty Manifesto Sent Out
From London.

From London. -
An Anarchist manifesto. published in Lon
don, and printed on red paper, has been
sent to Belgium, France and Spain, predict
ing vengeance for the execution OF the Chi
cago and Xeres Anarchists, and expressing
regret that General Martinez Campos es-
caped when Pallas threw tho dynamite
bombs at him at Barcelona, Spain. The
manifesto continues:
'.But the dynamite was not lost, as some OF
the subordinate rufflans of his suite were
disembowelled. The only unfortunate side
Of tho Liceo explosion was the escape Oh
Campos and his family"
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South and West.

GUSTAV TRuHN, a'well-to-do farmer in Bush
Lake township, Minnesota, killed his Vile
and child while in fit of insanity.
AT Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Tom O'Hara,
Texas ranger, shot and killed Cheyenne
Indian named Red Moon.
The United States cruiser Olympia started
on Ger official trial trip from San Francisco,
Cal. She made her run on the first trip over
the course, averaging 22.2 knots. On the
return a bolt in one Of the auxiliary pumps
was broken and the trial was abandoned.
JESSE o. SMITH, formerly q merchant OF
Kankakee, ILL.,, shot and killed his divorced
wife, Ella Haughn Smith, and her friend.
Mrs. Catherine Graybill. He then turned
his pistol on himself. sending q bullet
through the top OF his head.
RATS have taken possession Of the Worlds
Fair grounds. They are there In droves, and
where they came from is a mystery. Work
men who are daily tearing down the popcorn
and lunch booths find regiments OF the rats
huddled under the floors, in the walls and
corners. The Administration Building seems
to be a tavorite haunt.
The Mississippi is frozen from shore to
shore at Galena, ILL.,, forming the earliest ice
blockade in twenty years.
The New York State Building at the
Worlds Fair, which cost $50. 200, has been
sold to the Chicago House Wrecking Com
pany for $1,000.
THE epidemic of yellow fever at Bruns-
wick, Ga, is over.