The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-06
LATER NEWS.

JENNIE wAncK and Minnie Splane, aged
twelve of New Haven, Conn, were drownsd
in the Quinepiac River while bathing. They
had waded out beyond their depth.
ORDERS were issued to shut down the Ed
gar Thomson Steel Works. at Braddocx.
Penn, because OF lack Of orders. -.
EXCESSIVE rains have injured the corn and
cotton crops of Mississippi IL
The Mayor OF Brunswick, Ga, advised
people to leave that city on account OF the
presence of yellow fever.
The Hon. James II. Blount, OF Georgia,
Minister and Special Commissioner to Ha-
wall, arrived in Washington and went to the
Shoreham. After brief rest he went to the
State Department, and, by previous appoint
ment, had an interview with Secretary
Gresham. Mr.. Blount was quite reticent,
and referred all who inquired to Secretary
Gresham. Ill.
Docron CHAUMoSTEL Councillor Of State
In the Duchy Of saxe-Altenburg, while de-
scending the Scharwzsnsteln Mountain In
Tyrol slipped into the crevasse OF glacier
and disappeared. Rescue was impossible.
TIE steamtug Dorcas, with the barge Eta
Stewart in tow, coal laden, from Sydney FOR
Halifax, Nova Scotia. was wrecked near
Three Eathom Harbor, and all hands, twelve
In number, were lost. ''
LATEST French election returns show that
315 Republicans, 80 Socialists and Socialist
Radicals, 13 "Conservateurs Rallies" and IS
Conservatives have been elected. Second
ballots will be necessary in ITO districts. ~
WILLIAM Goss. while confined in the Mar.
tinsburg (Penn.) jail for drunkenness, set
fire to the cell In which he was confined and
was burned to death. The lookup was en-
tirely destroyed. .-... IS:
SUPERINTENDENT SASBoRS and other old
Old Colony Railroad officials were sentenced
to months imprisonment in the House Of
Correction for rioting at Arlington, Mass.
TIE police broke up two anarchistic meet
ings in New York City, at one Of which, in a
synagogue, incendiary speeches were made.
The Industrious unemployed were generally
orderly and measures for their relief were
pushed forward. ..... ....... .,Gf
TIE boiler in J. W. Willett's saw mill in
Bushnell Township, Michigan, blew up. W.
N. Eckhert was instantly killed. and two
other men fatally injured. The mill was
wrecked. ~
Two dead men wers found beside the csr-
cass ola butchered ysarling near Bagttckalo,
in the Choctaw Nation. It Is thought they
were shot BY ranchers who had caught them
stealing cattle.
WESTERN NEW Yoax. Delaware and West
Virginia celebrated at the Worlds Fair.
GOVERNOR Bo1Es was renominated by the
Democratic State Convention OF Iowa, at
Des Moines the convention adopted a COM
promise silver plank.
THEsz Is falling of in the cotton crop IN
| Texas, and owning to the financial string
ency the banks are unable to advance plant
ers money to move the product. . 4, D. Il Il
TIE President sent to the Senste the ap-
pointnent OF Joshua Z. Dodge, Of Wiscon-
sin, to be Assistant Attorney-G General, vice
William A. Maury, resigned -....s,Gs y,
TIE President has approved the joint res
olution making immediately available the
appropriation for the payment Of mileage to
Senators and members Of the House OF Rep
resentatives. ,,s,sE
SECRETARY SMITH has approved, the lease
Of 5000 acres Of asphalt lands in the Ulntah
Indian Reservation to the American Asphalt
Company. t-, -
LORD DuSRAy.S's cutter Valkyrie, the
challenger for the Americas Cup, sailed
from Southampton for the United States. y
Two cases of cholera have occurred in Rot
terdam there Is a caso in Rio Janeiro, with
twenty-five cases in Sac Paulo, Brazil;
Turkey has established quarantine against
Russian ports.
TIE Duke OF Saxe-CoburG and Gotha Is
dead the Duke Of Edinburgh has taken the
oath az his successor.