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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-04
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

The American flag now floats from the
Administration building at jackson Park to
signify that the Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds are in the possession Of the United
States Government
OHIO will erect q mineral cabin in the
Mines building at the Worlds FAIR to illus.
trate its mineral resources. The cabin will
be 32x61 feet in dimensions and twenty
three feet high and be constructed entirely
OF Ohio mineral products.
AN effort is being made to arrange for
grand reunion at the Worlds Fair OF sur.
viving "49-erS"-the men Vho left their
hunters in California. 1t Is thought that
several thousand of them are still living.
The installation of exhibits has already
begun, but has not yet progressed far.
Soon however, the interior OF each one of
the buildings will be the scene OF great ac-
tivity. The authorities are determined to
have all exhibits in place at the opening Of
the Fair.
The educational exhibit at the Worlds
Fair is to have the space it requires. A new
building costing S120, 900 has been ordered
for the chronological exhibit which accord
ingly is hereby removed from the Manufac-
lures and Liberal Arts building, thus
allowing more space for the educational ex-
hibit.
The section from one Of the big California
redwood trees, which the Government
will exhibit in its building at the Worlds
Fair, has arrived at the Fair grounds.
Eleven freight cars were required to convey
1t across the continent. It measures thirty
feet long by twenty-five ee feet in diameter.
The section is followed out and when placed
on end, divided into two stories and lighted,
as it will be, it will form a rustic house
large enough Tor family to live in.
The most approved methods Of artificial
ice making aud cold storage will be exhibit
ed at the Worlds Fair. These processes
will be shown In very hne buildin, :, 1909
255 feet, and five stories high, with observa-
tories at the corners and lofty tower at
the centre. About eighty tons of ice will
be manufactured daily, three methods be.
ing employed, namely: The plate system,
from filtered water; the can system, from
c)nuenscd steam filtered and purified, and
the can system from deaerared water. Three
different processes of cooling rooms will also
be shown.
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THE LABOR WORLD,

In Berlin alone there are $4,000 unem
ployed.
The iron trade, is improving in several
branches.
HOMESTEAD, Pean., calls on the country
to help its starving. ..
In the manufacturing world there is won.
derful activity in ali directions.
SHcE July the International Typographi.
cal Union has gained 5000 new members
THE Baldwin Works at Philadelphia are
turning out seventeen locomotives per week..
TELEPHONE girls typewriters and stem
ographers in Chicago talk about organizing
unions. -. =,
FRENCH unionists designate men who take
the places Of strikers as ''stranglers" (etrau.
gleurs.
THE Eight Hour law has cost the Govern
ment an increase Of from ten to twenty-five
per cent.
SOUP kitchens have been established for
the starving cotton operatives of Ian.
cashire, England. ....
THERE are seven concerns in the country
is q, 100000 feet.
A STRONG effort Is being made to organize
all the members Of the building trades In
the larger cities under the Knights of Labor.
The exceeding severity Of the present
winter throughout the German Empire has
caused untold misery among the working
classes.
The elctric motormen Of Louisville, KY,
are compelled to collect fares and make
change in addition to attending to the rum
ming Of their cars.
AT Chaumont, France, the workmen
went on strike to compel the dismissal Of
one Of their comrades who had been elected
to the Municipal Council but refused to vote
for labor interests.
FROM recent report of the Factory In
spector of Pennsylvania it appears that in
72S workshops inspected there were I29, 5S3
men, II, 9S3 women, and 20,603 children be-
tween twelve and sixteen years employed.
THOMAS RIDLEY, the veteran In service
on the railroads Of Pennsylvania, will short
ly celebrate his flftieth year in railroad SER
is now part OF the Philadelphia and Read.
Ing.
TBE Australian labor unions are agita.
ting for law prohibiting the importation
OF contract labor, more particularly that Of
Polynesians, Asatics, Russians, Poles and
Hebrews. West Australia is now more Asi.
attic than Caucasian.
The wife of John Burns the London
labor leader, is said to be always with him
in his work for the laboring people. While
her husband was out among the men during
the great dock strike she Was often working
twenty-tour hours at TINA handing out ra-
tions to the hungry women and children.
THERE are l60, 900 working girls in Berlin,
and how they manage to keep life in their
! BODIES Is past understanding. or this noble
army OF martrys, $4,000 are sewing girls.
They receive from fifteen to seventy five
cents day for their labor, and they are
5lithesome, patient and submissive, AMI
| tome Of them ara happy.
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Fourteen Lives Lost.

Anost disastrous confagration has oc-
.currd at Berson, a village Of Gironde,
FraI,e and fourteen of the villagers were
eitht burned to death in their homes or
werkillel while attempting to escape.
sst Thtdames, famed by high wind, spread
with fehttul rapidity, aud it was early
seen TIT the efforts to fight the fire would
be fruiess. Attention was then turned to
Savig the aged and little chill dren, and 1t
as Ia this work Of rescue that several OF
sse villagers lost their livss.
TIE greater part Of the village was de.
foyeG and the Srhabitauts are in great
:;traits owing to the lack OF food and proper
.lothire.. The residents Of surrounding vl-
saees are doing all in their power to alleVi-
! te their sufferings.
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Senator GibS$p, Of Louisiana, died few
afternoons ago hot Springs Ark.
At the time OF bis death Mr.. Gibson was
surrounded by the members Of his family.
he passed away az though he had merely
gone to sleep. he had been confined
to his bed since, November u, since
which time his death had been expected
daily. In accordance with his wishes II
was decided to take bis remains for burial
to Lexington, KY, BY the side OF his wife.
who died several cears ago. The funeral
train bearing his remains left for Lexington
next day. =
Randall Lee Gibson was born at Spring
Hill, KY, on September III. lsS2, received
his education, in Lexington. KY, in Ierre
Bonnie Parish, Louisiana, at Yale, and In the
Law Department Of the Tulane University
of Louisiana. In 1855 he refused the Secre-
taryship of Legation to Spain. He acted
ps aide to the Govdrnor Of Louisiana at the
commencement Of ths Civil War, and took
prominent place in the Confederate army.
BE was selected to the Forty-third Congress
from the Second Congress plstrict, but
was not admitted. he was however, q
Representative in the Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty
seventh Congresses and was elected to the
United States Senate without opposition as
Democrat, taking his seat March q; 1855.
In 1888 he was re-electe1. his term Of 'ofhee
running until March 8 lso5.
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LATER NEWS.

The big Philadelphia dress goods mills OF
Bachman Il Co., burned few days ago.
Loss. s235.0OO.
JULIA and Fiossie Hayes, aged five and
six years respectively, were found drowned
in Walkers Pond, Burnside, Conn.
TRUE bills were found by the Grand Jury
at Pittsburg, Penn, against H. F. Demp-
sey, the District Master Workman OF the
K. Of L., and Gallagher, Davidson ano
Beatty, charged with being implicated In
the Homestead poisoning. Thirty.two
Homestead workmen are said to have been
victims of Borgias. Two thousand Others
are said to havs been drugged. D..
V1cE-FREs1DENT-ELEcT STEVENSON was
entertained in Atlanta, Ga, by the Demo-
cratic clubs Of the city.
THREE Bohemian neutrality-suspicious.
der Toski, Albert Hinkarch and John Lor'
bitski-were drowned in an ice hole near
Winona, Mimi.
POLICE CAPTAIN THOMAS GAsToN. OF
OdCXSOu, 1ohu', sonoV ohe O>A'SN ~
Strickland, saloon keeper, for publicly
making charges against his official conduct.
GENERAL RosEcRANs, Register OF the
Treasury, accompanied by his daughter,
left Washington for California, where ne
will spend the winter near Los Angeles.
AN offer of Mine Superintendent Allen, OF
Butte, Montana, to coin silver dollar OF
more intrinsic value than the stan lard dol
lar at the rate of ninety CENTS apiece, will
recsivs no consideration at the Tr easury
Department for the reason that there is no
legal authority for the acceptance OF such
an offer. ~
Two more cases of Asiatic cholera have
appeared in Hamburg, Germany, and EN-.
peror William is indignant at theauthoritties
for concealing the situation.
In an encounter between Dacoits anda q
force Of native Indian policemen, under
command Of British military officers,
Lieutenant Gordon, Of the Bombay Laucsrs,
and four policemen were killed.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Scotch journeys Of Queen Victoria
annually cost her private purse $50, 600.
THE Prince Of Wales has ordered a new
racing yacht speed TO be the first consider.
alton.
sonally Is a woman OF modest and charm
ing address.
GENERAL BotTH, of the Salvation Army,
has stated that the "In Darkest Englandh
scheme is 1925, 900 in debt.
GREAT regret is felt in the artistic circles
Of Germany at the death of Professor Geore
Bleibtreu, the famous battle painter.
THE will of the late Wilson g. Hunt
millionaire, who died in New York re.
Gently, leaves $4,000 to Cooper Institute.
MRS. STEVENSON, mother Of the Vice.
Presiuent-elect is eighty-three years Of age,
and one of the best authorities on the early
history OF Kentucky.
NJ. CARNoT, the French President is a
quiet, sedate and reserved man, who would
seem to have no more backbone In him than
there is in jelly Dish.
IT is stated on the authority of Henry Vii
lard that Prince Bismarck Is Interested In
Milwaukee (Wis) street railroad properties
to the extent Of $4,000.
Mr.. EZRA KENDALL, probably the oldest
Mason in Massachusetts, died a few days
since in Sterling, aged ninety-two. He was
q Mason sixty-nine years.
WILLIAM WATSON, who received tho prize
for the best ode on Tennyson and was looked
on as his most probable successor as Poet
Laureate, has become violently insane.
IT is said that superintendent Byrnea, OF
the New York Police, was enriched $4,000
within q week after Jay Gould's death by
buying Western Union Telegraph stock.
United States Senate in 1913 are now living
James W. Bradbury, OF Maine; ex.Gov-
ernor Felch, Of Michigan, and General
George W. Jones' Of Iowa.
SIR JOHN BERNARD BURKE, Ulster King
at Arms, and editor Of the famous record OF
British nobility known as "Burke's Peer
age" died, few days ago, In Dublin. Sir
Bernard was born in 1915 in London.
TIE late Monsignor verius, Coadjutor
Bishop Of British New Guinea, received news
of his appointment while he was in mud up
to his knees, helping to draw logs from
swamp wherewith to build a mission station.
The Earl Of Dunraven, who will race for
the Americas Cup, is Mr. Quln by his fan-
ily pane, but he has others some OF which
are Earl of Mount Earl, Viscount Mount
Earl. Viscount Adare, Baron Adare, Baron
Kelly. Hes baronet besides.
PETER HART, sixty-nine years old, q war
veteran Of whom it is related that when in
the thick OF the fight at Fort Sumter the
American flag was shot down he, upon the
request OF Major Anderson. nailed another
to the staff through storm Of bullets, died
the other day at his home in Brooklyn.
CHARLES REHMTHE, the oldest bandmaster
In the United States, died recently in New
York. During the late war he wrote "Our
National Union March" which was dedicated
to President Lincoln. In 1872 he receive
the appointment as bandmaster Of the United
States Academy Band at West Point, NY,
and resigned that position in 1897 because OF
illness. He was sixty-six years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-04
THE MAusoLEuM.

stately granite structure Of Ionic de.
sign, says the New York Sun. It is the
most costly and beautiful tomb m the
cemetery. The plot alone cost $50, ,000.s
The dimensions are thirty.three feet in
length, twenty-five feet in width and
twenty feet in height to the apex Of the
roof. The mausoleum hassix columns in
front and eleven on each side, in single
rows. Three rows Of steps run up to the
tomb on allaides. 7.
The interior space is twenty feet long,
seven feet wide, and thirteen feet high.
The roof is solid slab Of grarfts which
weighs six tons. The floor Is plain
marble slab. Along the sides Of the in
terror are the catacombs. OF these there
are twenty, ten on each side, in double
rows. The rows are separated from each
other bygranite slabs. Each catacomb
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WHILE three young girls, daughters OF
John and VIII II Clarke, were walking on
the Ice on X ,lute Lake, Canada, they
broke throu-r ii ware drowned.
AN sgreer, SIC has been signed to release
the Paris n,rnell fund. Messra Dillon,
DSvitt and burlington will award jointly
the old claim. not in excess OF $4,000. and
Messrs. Dnlui and Davitt will award the
remainder.
JOSEPH MELLoR was hanged at Manches-
ter, England. for the murder Of his vile,
Mary Ann Mellor.
A DECREE was issued in Warsaw prohibit.
ing the use Of the Polish language by off,
cials Of every rank. ..r-.
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A NEW SWISS PRESIDENT.

DR.. Charles Schenk Elected-SketcH
OF His Career.
DR.. Charles Schenk has been elected Prasi,
DENT Of the Swiss Confederation, and A.
Frey, Vice-Presidant
DR.. Charles Emmanuel Schenk was born
at Berne In 1923, and was educated for the
ministry. In 1s45 he was appointsd
suffragsn Protestant pastor at Schupfan.
In 1s47 he was called to Laupen, and re-
turned three years later to his former
charge, as full pastor. He became popula,
politically, and was elected presiding officer
Of the Federal Assembly. From 1857 te
1868 he represented the Canton Of Berne In
the Federal Council, Of which he was Vice
President In 1882. He was elected fvi
times, from 1865 to 1880. President Of thu
Swiss Confederation. He was Minister oil
the Interior in 1891, and Vice-Presideni
during 1892.
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South and West.

fHR Kansas Board of Canvassers issued b
certificate of election to Campbell, the
Populist elector, whose election was con-
tested on the ground Of clerical error.
They make all the Kansas electors Pop-
ulists.
ELECTORAL vote in Wyoming is: Harri.
son, 1916; Weaver. 754S.
john BURNS, the murderer Of Maurice
Higgins, has been hanged at Aissoula Mon.
THE official count for Idaho has been
completed by the Secretary OF State, ms FOL
lows: Weaver, 10, ,43,; Harrison, S799; Nc
ConnelI, Republican, for Governor, has
14O9 plurality.
F1asr SERGEANT LLOYD, Troop A,Seventh
Cavalry. committed suicide at Fort Riley,
Kan, By shooting himss BIZ in ths head with
a revolver. he was with his troop IN the
battle Of Wounded Knee and received
painful wound. since then ne had bean In
poor health and was despondent.
OR. JONES was shot and instantly killed,
and his son, Jesse Jones' shot, fatally, at
west of Asheville, n. G. They opposed a
Sherifrs posse.
TIE official canvass Of the vot, cast Tor
Presidential electors in Michigan shows
the following result: Republican, 2a2, US;
Democratic, w, SSo; fopunSG 10, %, ~
hibitionists, 90, 569 Republican plurality,
2o,412. The First, Second, Seventh, and
Tenth Districts were carried by the Demo-
Gratis. and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth by the
Republicans, thus giving the Republicans
nine and the Democrats five votes in the
Electoral College.
THE funeral Of Senator Gibson took place
at Lexington, KY.
In fight among gang OF laborers at
Hog Run near Mason %y tno msa srs
killed and two more were fatally injured.
THERE was heavy snowstorm in Mis-.
sissippi and Texas. ..
A MYSTERIOUS sickness among convict
laborers on an Arkansas railroad aused the
death Of four men.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIzED.
Easter. and Middle States.

THE first $4,000 of the new Columbian
souvenir half dollars w,re shipped a few
days ago from the United States Mint Id
Philadelphia. The first delivery OF 10000
coins left on the $50 express for New York
City. The remaining so. 900, including the
$4,000 very first impression. were CON
signed to the Sub-Treasury at Chicago.
+ AN American syndicate, with headquar-
ters in New York City, has purchased the
right to collect the customs revenues o. the
republic Of San Domingo.
THE hve-story brick building in Brooklr1,
N. Y, owned and occupied by William =.
A. Jurgens. wholesale grocer, was totally
destroyed by fire with several OF the adjoia..
ing buildings on either side Tne loss Will
probably foot up to nearly $500, 900.
THE birthday of the poet John c! Whit
tier was celebrated bv his former towns
people at Amesbury, Mass.
The trial Of Father Corrigan was discou-
tinued by order of Bishop Wlgger OF the
Catholic Church and all proceedings against
over. Concessions were made by both SIDES,
thanks to the industry Of COMMITTEES wnlca
has been quietly working for ten days to ef'
feet settlement between Father Corrlgan
and his Bishop.
THREE fremen were killed by q falling
wall at a fire in the Fort Orange Milling
Company's elevator, at Albany. N. Y.
ROBERT H1LLEK1GHr and a companion,
name unknown, were WASHED of the break
water at Buffalo, N. Y, by the heavy sea,
and both were drowned. They had been out
duck shooting.
STAMBoUL, the holder OF the world trot-
ting record tor stations G0715l, was sold at
auction at the American Institute Building,
New York City, for al, ,0Oo. E. q. Harri'
man, a retire1 Wall street broker, being the
purchaser. The price fetched was disap.
pointment.
The s75. 900 paid by the Chilean Govern
ment in settlement in full for all claims
arising ou5 of the Baltimore affair at VAL
paraiso were covered into the Sub-Treasury
at New York few days ago. Arrangements
were Immediately made for its equitable
distribution to the people for whom 1t Is IN
tended.
CHARLES P. CADMAN, a cashier in the
New York Postoffice, is missing and his
accounts are $500 short.
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Starving Indians.

Reports received from Guthrie, point to
Great suffering in the Western part OF Okla.
homa Territory, while up in the Cherokee
Strip there are reported Indian troubles on
account OF shortage of ratious.
'-.Fort Reno has not yet been called for
that the Indian bucks Of the blanket tribes
are dancing, while the women are starving
The rations were not nearly enough for q
calm winter, not to speak OF the sort OF
weather thst is now prevailing. In one
place ten Indians in one teoee have had but
ten pounds OF meat for over week, with
heavy soggy bread and no coffee OF ether
stimulant.
There are many sick in the tribes who are
divine rapidly. while the settlers who come
inon the Arapahoe lands are suffering for
laGs Of clothing and food. They have lost
alltheir stock by cold or starvation, and the
outlook for their own safety Is gloomy.
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Washington.

rHR military post authorized by act OF
Congress approved May IL, 1892, to be es.
tahIished at or near the city OF Helena,
Montana. will be known and designated as
Fort Harrison, In compliment to the Presi.
dent o; the United States
SECRETARY oE THE TREASURY FOSTER
has senr to tue House an estimate or deh-
cheney appropr ating on aggregation $751;
070 on account OF the postal serVica.
By a unanimous vote OF all the members
nreseut the House Committee on Elections
decided to report in favor OF Edward Scul,
the Republican sitting member from tne
Twentieth Pennsylvania District IN the
contest brought for his seat by inomas
Greevy, the Democratic contestant.
SECRETARY FOSTER, OF the Treasury,
sent to the House q deficiency estimate ag-
gregating $50, 600 for the gu arantine service
for the fiscal year 1898.
THE report of the Chief Of the Bureau Of
Statistics shows that q. 4R immi grants ar.
rived during the month of November last
AGAINST So. 615 in November, 1891. During
the eleven months en,iing Novemoer 30 the
number of imrligrants was $50, 16S, against
56!, !,073 during the corresponding period in
1891.
THE annual report of Professor Msnden-
hall the Superintendent OF the Coast AMI
Geodetic Survey, has been sent to Congress.
It is made up lar yely Of detailed reports OF
the operations of surveying par ties during
the fiscal year ending June 81. lS9!, of which
there were more than elghty-iye IN the
field, actively employed.
PREs1pENr-ELEcr CLEVELAND tele
graphed to the Arlington and completed al.
rangements for the suite OF rooms he will
occupy before the Inauguration. The rooms
engaged ara the large suite on the second
Aoor facing Vermont avenue.
The VicePresident announced the ap-
pointment of Senator Gray, OF Delaware, as
Regent Of the Smithsonian Institution in
place OF Senator Gibson, Of Louisiana, de-
ceased.
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Wool From Glass.

The scientific journals of recent date,
especially those which allot departments
to the discussion of the glassworkers
art, have been filed with marvellous &C.
counts OF wonderful glass composition
lately invented in Vienna This, new
art makes the spinning of ''giass WOO"
possible and many fine webs Of ''crucial
Cloth" have already left the looms. The
flizzled glass threads from which the
cloth is woven are said to surpass in
fineness not only the finest cotton, but
even the threads of the silkworm's cocoon,
their softness and elasticity being even
greater than that of manufactured silk
Stint" Surgeons have already begun
to use this "wool' in place OF cotton,
common wool and silk lint auo the
chemists and apothecaries say that
finely.woven web of cloth makes the
most perfect filter that one could i'm.
apine. The finest and smoothest OF
these glass threads are being woven into
textile fabrics, which in turn are made
into cushions, tablecloths, neckties,
>shawls, cuffs, collars and variety OF
other patterns. In softness to the touch
this glass yarn almost approaches silk
films, being much like that OF finest
wool or cotton. 1t possesses remarkable
strength, and not only remains un-
changed in weight and warmth, but is
not altered from contact with any known
acid. Being noninaammable and In
corAbusible, as we'll IS having great
briIliancy and beauty Of colors. it is es-
pecially suitable fo- dress goods, such
fabrics being much warmer than those
made from cotton or sleeps wool.
If these things are all true the glass
and paper age will jointly occupy the
same throne.-St. Louis Republic.
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Montana,s Official Vote.

The official canvass of the vote Of Montana
shows the highest Harrison elector
cot a plurality Of 1870 over the
highest Cleveland elector. Har.
rison polled Is, S5l votes; Cleveland, = 5si;
rIn to Com sress by II! plurality and the
entire State ticket, except Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court.
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AER0LITE FINDS SILVER.

A 4O,OOo-Pound 81 one Plows Into
Rich Vein IN Mexico.
The largest aerolite etsr seen in Mexico
has been taken to the City Of Mexico from
Jiminez, in the State Of Chihuahua.
The aerolite, which w @ighs 10000 pounds,
fell about four months go about forty miles
from Jiminez, and II Its course down the
mountain side plowed into deep furrow,
revealing arich yeiniit silver, which be-.
,Sso'p0rsins .s';o the 'e lss to that was