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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24

The distance from the middle of Chicago is
seven miles. One side of the grounds runs
along the great lake and the other side faces
hundreds Of hotels and stores hurriedly
erected at the smallest possible cost. There
is a strip of land six hundred feet wide and a
mile long extending from the main grounds
eastward, and this Is the Midway Plaisance,
which contains the sideshows and private
enterprises. The whole exposition will be
open from an early hour in themorning until
ten o'clock at night and the price Of admis-
sion fifty cents.
The exposition Is marked of into three
great divisions. At the north end Is the Art
Palace, surrounded by the separate buildings
Of the States, Territories and foreign Gov
ernments. This is the social department, land
millions of dollars will be spent in the enter
tatnment Of visitors and in formal banquets.
Going southwark are to be found three
quarters Of a mile OF structures representing
manufactures, machinery, electricity mining,
agriculture, horticulture, forestry and minor
material interests, with buildings here and
there representing woman, music and the
government Of the grounds. The third diyi-
sion Is the Midway Plaisance, dedicated to
Oriental villages, dancing girls, balloons,
bear pits, glass blowers, panoramas, barbar1c
theatres and everything that goes to makeup
the side show life Of an international exposi-
CfOu. u0I0 t1Ou0 VIII tu0 NlSfLOE NO iOiOOo
to pay extra. Outside OF the Midway Plais-
ance everything Is free after the general ad-
mission fee Is paid. with the sole exception OF
the Esquimau Village and the Cave OF the
Cliff Dwellers.
1t was the genius Of Frederick L. Olmstead
that turned the waters Of Lake Michigan into
lagoons, ponds, basins and canals with
bridges and terraces to beautify the place.
Every main building can be reached by water.
There are fifty electric launches and scores OF
gondolas cared by picturesque Yenetians. It
costs twenty-five cents trip on the launches
and the gondolas can be employed at 80
much an hour.
An intermurai elevated electric railway
penetrates to all parts OF the grounds, and
visitors can make their rounds with great
rapidity If they do not care to walk.
Around tho great basin Is grouped the for
m al architecture. At one end Is the noble
per.style with its Corinthian columns, pierced
in the middle by the great Columbian portal,
on the top Of which is magnificent group
representing a chariot drawn by four horses
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LATER NEWS.

THE body Of Roehl, the condemned muir
dera- who recently escaped from Sing Sing
IN. ~ Prison, was found floating In the
Hudson River near Sing Sing. A bullet hole
IN his head and fracture OF the skull from
a blow led to the belief TT his companion,
Pallister, killed him
CAPTAIN ALFRED T. MAHAN, late President
OF the Naval War College. relieved Captain
John F. McGlensey as Commander OF Ad-
miral Walkers flagship, the Chicago, now IN
New York Harbor. .
JOSEPH FRANCIS, the life saving boat In
ventor, died few days since In Coopers-
town, N. 7. He was born on March u, 1901,
in Boston, Mass. In 1887 both houses OF
the National Legislature passed resolutions
thanking him for his ''lifelons services 10
humanity and to his country"
THE National League Of Republican Clubs
and the National Republican Committee both
held meetings In Louisville, Ky. Thomas D.
Carter WAS elected Chairman and Joseph d.
Manley Secretary.
A BARGE loaded with fireworks exploded
onthe river at Thunderbolt, Ga, during an
illumination. Ferguson, q Philadelphia en-
ploye, of Pain d Son, and one colored man
on board were killed. Neither OF the Doo'es
was recovered.
THE President has appointed James Il.
Blount, of Georgia, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hawaiian
Islands, succeeding John L. Stevens, re-
signed. Mr.. Blounts commission will be
sent him by the next mail for Honolulu.
ARGUMENTS were made In the United
States Court in the cases OF the three China
men arrested to test the constitute OF
the Geary Exclusion law.
THE President appointed Frank n. Jones,
Of Springfield, nl., First Assistant Postmas-
ter-General, vice q. Clay Evans, resigned.
By an order issued by the Navy Depart
ment Surgeon-Genersl Browne was relieved
from duty as chief OF the Bureau Of Medi-
cine and Surgery and placed on the retired
list. He was appointed from New Hsmp-
shire, and has served more than forty years
the navy. He was retired on account OF
age.
THE Greek Ministry, headed by NJ. Tri-
coupis, hes resigned, owing to the failure to
negotiate loan for the relief Of the present
embarrassed condition OF Greek finances.
ADMIRAL GOMEZ LoNo, who commanded
the Spanish vessels of war in the recent
naval review in New York Harbor, and who
was prevented by Ill health from reviewing
the land parade, and went to Havana, Cuba,
later in his flagship, the Infanta Isabel, is
dead.
HERR DEIEzuK, actor, committed suicide
on the stage at Lemberg, Galicis, by blowing
out his brains. An actress with whom he
WAS In love fiirted with another man.
QUEEN VICTORIA, of'England, opened the
Imperial Institute In London, and was en-
Enthusiastically received by enormous crowds.
It was announced that it was her last pubic
anpearance
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OFFICIAL CROP REPORT.
ESTIMATES OF THE AGRICUL-
TURAL DEPARTMENT.

The Condition Of Winter Wheat FL
Points Lower Than in Aprl-Rye
and Barley Have Also Suffered
Cotton Seed Scarce for Replanting
Purposes.
The May returns Of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture on the condition OF
winter wheat show reduction of2.1 from
the April average. being 1853, against II. last
month and "a In May, 1892. The averages OF
the principal winter wheat States are: Ohio,
8s; Michigan, II Indiana, 70; Illinois, g.;
Missouri, 70 Kansas, 81. The average ofthese
six States Is 6s.3, against 74.2 In April, Icing
q decline of So points since the first
of last month. In California the condition
has advanced ten points, while In the princt-
pal wheat producing States there has been
considerable deterioration. In Kansas, Colo
,tado and Nebraska, where planting was back
ward and termination slow, owing to con-
tnual drough and much of the plant being
winter-killed, large areas have been plowed
up and devoted to other crops. The same
has been done In Missouri, Indiana and Ilt-
nois, where the plant was badly winter-hlled
and greatly damaged since by the
continued wet weather. In Michigan the
severity of the winter greatly damaged the
plant, and the weather since has been too
cold and backward to admit OF recuperation.
Damage from Hessian fly In some OF the
counties Of the latter State, Indiana and
Ohio is reported, and from the chinch bug In
Kansas. In some Of the principal wheat
States the plant on the uplands Is reported
in good condition, while on lower and un-
drained lands the conditions are poor and
much Of the crop was destroyed by drown
Ing.
Winter rye, like wheat, has suffered de-
cline In condition since last month, its aver
age for May being s2.7, against s5.7 for same
date In April. The average condition OF oar
ley is S8.6, against 92.S last year. The pro-
portion Of spring plowins done May is re-
ported as 1874 per cent, against an average
Of II per cent. for series Of years.
The cotton report to the department for
May relates to the progress OF cotton plant
ing and contemplated acreage. The propor-
hon Of the p-oposed breadth already planted
on the first Of May was S5.3 per cent, which
approaches very closely the area usually
So per cent. In some districts CORE
spondents report drouth, while in others the
returns show the retarding causes to be frost
and excessive rain. termination has been
slow and the growth of plant backward.
Some indications have been given as to the con-
templated acreage, as compared with that Of
last year, which wos considerably below the
average for series Of years, but they are Of
An uncertain character, and therefore 1t is
impossible to base cny satisfactory predic-
Hons thereon, and the figures relating thereto
are only given TO indicate what the corre-
,pondents believed to be the intention as to
acreage. There Will be less replanting than
usual, owing to tho great scarcity Of seed.
Estimate of acreage will be made on June1
ss usual
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NAMED BY CLEVELAND.
A Minister, Consuls, Territorial OIL
GERS, and a First Comptroller.

A Minister, Consuls, Territorial OIL
GERS, and a First Comptroller.
The President announced the following
appointments
Alexander Mcdonald, Of Virgins, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentionary of the United States to Persia.
Consuls- s-General-Wallace s. Jones, OF
Florida, at Rome Alfred D. Jones, OF North
Carolina, at Shanghi.
Stephen Bonsal, Of Maryland, to be Secre-
tary Of the Legation Of the United States to
China.
ConsuIs,James B. Taney, Of West Viz
pinia at Belfast; Charles T. Lyons, OF New
York, at Zanzibar Harvey johnson, OF
Georgia. at Antwerp Benjamin Lanthler, OF
Massachusetts, at Sherbrook; Harrison T.
Williams, Of Missouri, at San Jose, Costa
Rica Ralph Johnson, of New York, at Fort
Erie Henry P. Dl Bellett, OF Texas, at
Rheims: James C. Monaghan, OF Rhode
Island, ut Chennitzi Charles Scaaefer OF
Kansas, at Vera Cruz.
William C. Renfrow, OF Oklahoma, To Do
Governor OF the Territory OF Oklahoma:
Charles G. Richards, Of Utah, to be Secre-
tary of Utah. .
Charles NJ. Bruce. to be Secretary Of Ari-
zona.
Robert B. Bowler, Of Ohio, to be First
Comptroller OF the Treasury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
HORTICULTURAL DISPLAY.
An Exhibition Never Before APP
preached in This Country.

Two years ago Jackson Park Chicago, was
sandy waste, with few puddles OF water
which the waves OF Lake Michigan had
washed over the beach into the hollows.
There was one little hillock near the centre
of the plot, covered by growth Of shaggy
oaks.
When the Worlds Fair landscape garden
ers took hold of the park to put 1t In shape
for the reception Of the buildings, they
deepened the hollows, made silvery lagoons
Of the mud puddles, and an island fringed
with rushes of the wooded knoll. Walks,
roads and avenues OF trees followed, and the
lake was hemmed in by stone embankment,
along which there Is magnificent promen-
ade.
The islands are fringed with shrubbery and
great stretches Of wild flowers growing In
borders Of woodlands and in marshes all
through Northern Illinois. Semi-aquattc
plants troop down to the brink tall reeds
and other water plants rise from the lagoon
itself, and on its quiet surface lily leaves
float dreamily, while the low outlying isles
are tinged living green by the sedgy things
that creep to the waters edge.
There have been planted on the islands and
In the other parts Of the grounds IL, ,618 trees,
50,6 GA shrubs, 151 1894 hardy perennial, her
baceous, and miscellaneous plants, 1851
$500 ferns, 95s2 vines, climbers,
and ornamental grasses 60, 900 VIII
low cuttings, ia, ,920 bulbs and similar plants,
and great collection Of native plants, which
were used by the carloads. The trees used
were principally willows, poplars, water ma
pies, cherries, elms, and lindens. The shrub
berry consists of various kinds of low-growing
willows, cornuses spir@as. loniceras, Hlacs,
snowballs, and barberries. These form the
basis of the groups, but to give variety and
tests their adaptability to the climate many
rare shrubs were added.
The inner, higher part Of the wooded
island. reserved for the use of the Flori-
! cultural Department, was laid out In lawns,
flower beds and rose garden, while the ex-
treme north end space was set apart for the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
THE LABOR WOBLD.

THERE are l0S BARRIERS unions.
THERE are 20 900 union bakers
HIRED girls are fockng to Chicagtl
THERE are 3o7 iron moMers' unions.
CHICAGO reports a scarcity Of sailors.
FRANCE legalized trades unions In 1884.
OF 104 Austrian strikes nineteen succeeded.
PENNSYLVANIA coke miners are reorganiz-
| Ing.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, has letter carriers
band.
TACOMA CWashington) bricklayers receive
e5 day.
BosToN letter carriers work only eight
hours day.
THE boiler makers Of Boston won their
strike for working day Of nine hours.
EIGHT THOUSAND men employed in the
Loire Navy Yards struck at Nantes, France.
ALL the iron ore companies OF the Ashland
CWis.) region, except the Aurora, have closed
down indefinitely.
THERE Is a great demand for mattresses,
sewing girls, dressmakers and servants thu
large towns of Idaho.
IT is said that the railroad managers ofthe
United States have agreed to- sign no more
contracts with labor organizations.
IT is the almost universal practice In
Pennsylvania collieries to discharge men for
notifying the authorities of violations Of the
mining laws.
A REDUCTION Of one per cent. In the wages
Of miners and mine laborers IN the Schuyl-
kll penn. region has been decreed, owing
to dull trade.
A LABOR exchange ihas been established
by the unions in Kansas City, No., who In
tend erecting building after the pattern OF
the Paris Bourse du Travail.
THE employees of the Reading Railroad
Company have commenced working ten
hours daily. Up to the present they have
only worked nine hours day.
The establishment of q Labor Exchange by
the labor organizations OF Kansas City, Mo-,
is an attempt to carry into practical effect
the cooperative idea of Edward Bellsmy.
MAY DAY passed passed of in Europe with
out special note In many places In Germany
the workmen took no holiday, and where
there were parades there was no disturbance.
THE first organized strike in South Africa
was made recently by the carpenters and
joiners Of Cape Town. They want an aG-
vance of wages from $2.25 to $2.60 day,
claiming that the cost of living has lately
largely increased. They ask support OF all
workmen in South Africa.
A PROFESSIONAL acrobat finds employment
at the zinc mines Of Ogdensburg, N. j. His
services are required In getting out snaris
and removing distractions from'the cables
and electric wires used about the ore caSs,
which are run on steep grades. He canwak
on tight rope when necessary.
The union fishermen who were on strike
at Astoria, Oregon, patrolled the sarbor to
prevent fshermen from landing fish or SELL
Ing them to any ono until the cannery men
came to terms and agreed to pay the pro-
posed price of s1.15 per salmon. They also
Compelled the non-un1on fishermen to throw
sverboard all the salmon they had caCy yat-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE German Kaiser is very expert horse
man.
QUEEN v1croR1A's late continental trip cost
about $4,000.
SAMUEL MnrupS PECK, the poet: now
weighs $50 pounds.
In Spain the Duke of Veragua is popularity
known as the best breeder OF bulls for bull
fights.
TIE former Adjutant General Of the United
States Army, General R. C. Drum, Is living
on farm in Maryland
LoR1 WoLsELEY, the greatest Of living
English soldiers, Is below medium heightand
slender and 1.-the Of frame.
The Earl of Craven, at the very altar itself,
and In the act Of receiving the hand Of his
bride, In New York, wore bis trousers turned
up.
JULES VERNE, who is about to bring out his
seventy fourth novel, Is said to be native OF
Warsaw. His real name Is said to be Olche-
witz.
PRINCE BISMARCK recently addressed the
students at Bonn and It Is recorded that In
mentioning the subject Of dueling he did not
actually condemn It.
PREsrpxHT McCosH, of Princeton College,
Is q great lover OF flowers and he watches
over those In his garden as tenderly as does
mother over her baby.
W. 8. GILBERT has 80 far cleared $200, 900
on his play of "Pygmalion and Galstea,"
which Is said to be the most valuable thea
trical property In the world.
WHEN Gladstone is about to make great
speech in the House Of Commons somebody
Tides him up, straightens his neckclotb,
brushes his coat and puts flower In bis but
tonhole.
PROFESSOR CAsPAR RENE GREGORY, the
only American We recall who is aprofessor In
q German university, has Just received the
honorary doctorate In theology from the the
illogical faculty at Leipzig.
HENRY REGINALD AsToR CAREY, nephew
of the late John Jacob Astor, died suddenly
Of heart disease at Newport, R. L he was
member of the Rhode Island Legislature and
prominent In club life In New York City and
bis native State.
MISS JENNIE You're, the American woman
who Owls extensive salt deposits In Chihua-
hua and Coshulla, Mexico, has gone to Eng
families to settle on the lands which she has
been granted by the Mexican Government
The Maharajah Of Patisla has married an
to Sikh rites Patiala is native State In the
Punjab of India, partly In the plain south OF
the Sutlej and partly among the hills near
Simla. It has population Of about /, $780,
900.
FREDERICK WEYERHAUsER, one Of the rich
est Of the lumber kings Of Minnesota, began
work In brewery when he came to this coun-
try from Germany. He worked for 81 day,
then was employed at piling slabs in saw
MILL and finally came to own many saW-mills
and lumber camps.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
A SCORE DROWNED.

A Religious Procession Precipitated
Into the Gallego.
An incident by which twenty persons lost
their lives is reported from the province OF
Saragossa, Spain, near Santa Eulalia, In thst
province.
religious procession was crossing on
pontoons the Gallego River, which runs from
the Pyrenees to the Ebro.
One Of the pontoons collapsed under the
weight of the procession and large numDer
Of persons were plunged into the water,
Twenty persisted in the river, and scores OF
Others were rescued in an exhausted con-
dition.
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OFFICIAL reports show that the neignes OF
Ouebec, Canada, are crumbing. The ram
part wall facing the Parliament buildings has
fallen and reveals cracks and fssures In the
solid rock, such as indicate that large Sec
tions of the enormous elevations are becom-
ing detached bodily, and may at any time
Give way In mass Of ruins.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
FATAL FLAMES.
An Indiana Village Almost Entirely
Destroyed by Fire.

The village OF North Galveston, Ind, has
been almost totally destroyed by fire. The
residence Of J. ]. Jackson, among others, was
consumed, and the entire family, consisting
OF himself, wife, two sons and q daughter,
pershed in the flames. Several other per-
sons were badly burned.
MANY families lost their entire earthly pos
sessions. and made their escape clad only in
their night clothes. The village had no fire
extinguishing apparatus, and being of the
line OF railroad, it was impossible to secure
oid
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
CHICAGO NOW PREPARED TO
ENTERTAIN THE WORLD.
Her Columbian Exposition Polyglot
City With Over 100000 Inhabi-
tants and Municipal Government
Sights That Thrill the Visitor
Striking Features Of the Fair.

A little over two years ago the site Of the
Worlds Columbian Fair at Chicago was
practically wild marsh. To-dayit contains
several hundred buildings, and Director
General Davis estimates the wealth repre-
sented by the buildings and exhibits as some
thing like $3.50, 900, 900.
Fifty Nations and thirty-seven colonies are
represented. Added to these are the United
States Government and the various States
and Territories Of the Union.
Roughly speaking, the grounds contain six
hundred acres. They are a mile long and
about half mile broad at the widest part.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-24
TRAMPS KILLED.
Beating Their Way on a Freight Train
When 1t Was Wrecked.

While the first section Of q north bound
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight
train was taking water near Tadmer, Ohio,
the second section dashed into it, making a
bad wreck. OF six tramps who were in one
OF the cars of the first section beating their
way towards Lima, Ohio, only one survived.
The engineer and fireman Of the second
section saved their lives by jumping an in
slant before the crash. The crew Of the first
section had neglected to display the proper
signals.
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FIFTY shares OF the Keeley Motor Company,
par vslue $50 each, were sold at auction In
New York City for o. for the lot.
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COLUMBUS IN SILVER.
Bartholdl's Design Successfully Cast
"A Ton Of Metal.

The silver status Of Columbus for the
Worlds Fair, designed by Bartholdi, was sue
cessiully cast at the WORKS OF the Gorhsm Man
ufacturing Company in Elmwood, R. L The
statue is somewhat larger than life size.
Nearly q ton OF metal was employed In Its
casting, the value Of the silver being esti-
mated at about S26 900.
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South and West.

TIE big steam pipe In Machinery Hall,
Jackson Park, Chicago, ILL.,, burst. Three
men were dangerously scalded, one fatally.
Two were knocked insensible. q,
WADE HA1NEs, colored, was hanged In the
Jail yard at Columbia, s. G. Jesse Marlborough
was hanged at Appling Court House, Ga, for
the murder Of colored man named Williams.
BAD weather diminished the attendance at
the Worlds Fair, Chicago. Va
CAPTAIN IDA BENEFIT, Of the Salvation
Army, was murdered at Spokane, Washing
ton, by her lover, Daniel W. Hoskins. He
fred two shots into her heart and then fred,
two shots into his own head. In less than
three minutes after the quarrel started both
were dead on the floor OF the Salvation Army
barracks.
A TORNADO did much damage In and near
Gainesville, Texas; a Santa Fe train was
blown of the track and wrecked; there was
also loss In Oklahoma s,., 81 Ygs
v1cE-ADMRAL SIR JOHN O. HOPKINS, ofthe;
British Royal Navy, visited Annapolis CMd.)
Naval Academy, accompanied by Lieutenant
Richard Mulligan, United States Navy, and
two midshipmen from the British fagshtp
Blake. 5I
TIE Chemical National Bank, of Chicago,
Ill, with depositsof 81 ,50o, 900, has failed: It
uttO tu0 UouAhuS pIlfACSO az tAO USAAo . - Ss>A
grounds and had done good business there.
Misunderstanding to his home near Mar
shall's Ferry, IN, In slih, Peter Jackson
was caught In the current Of the Wabash
River and overturned, and Jackson, his wife
and two children were drowned.
COLONEL WARD H. LAMoN died at Martins
burg, W. Va, few nights ago. he was
President Lincolns private secretary.
TIE Worlds Fair buildings and grounds
at Chicago were Illuminated by electricity at
night during the second week In honor OF
the .'flrst opening Of the Exposition.
THREE colored men were lynched at Bear
den, Ark, for murderous assault on Jesse
Norman, merchant. The men lynched
were: Abe Grain, aged twenty-five; Doc
Benson, forty-six !; Jim Stewart, twenty. Z
The Superior Court Of North Dakota has
decided the Prohibition law to be coasttu-
tonai. 1ekEs $3.50 Z. IS