The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
LATER NEWS.

JOHN D. RocKErELLEB, the Standard Oil
magnate, has bought land on the Hudson
| near Tarrytown, N. Y, aggregating about
seven hundred acres. Mr.. Rockefeller
will lay out the grounds in public park
and will erect there q mansion costing
million dollars.
THIRTY thousand Odd Fellows celebrated
their orders day at the Worlds Fair.
THERE were two new cases Of yellow fever
and one death from the disease at Brunswick,
Ga.
CoNsUL-GENERAL EDWARDS, OF Berlin, re-
ports to the State Department that the Ger
man Minister of War has ordered the mill
tary authorities to use Indian corn mixed
with oats in making up the rations of the
army horses. This will lead to heavy impor-
tations OF American corn.
TIE President has determined to discon-
tinue his public receptions.
WILLIAM DoNoHUE, a laborer in the United
States Treasury, succeeded few days ago
in abstracting roll of bills amounting to
$S4O. They were cancelled notes and he is
thought to be insane.
TIE people Of st. PAUL., suburb Of Ham
burg, Germany, attacked q sanitary corps
and killed policeman; there were five new
cases OF cholera, with one death, at Ham
burg; q death was reported in England {;
cholera is ravaging the Eastern shore OF tho
Persian Gulf.
THE Massachusetts Democratic Convention
at Boston nominated John f. Russell for
Governor and James B. Carroll for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
GEORGE WALKER, aged forty-two, died at
Rockland, R. T., Of typhoid fever. He
weighed 500 pounds, was five feet eleven
inches TALL and his waist measurement was
seventy-two inches.
TEE twelve-year-old son Of Farmer Phillip
Bolts, of Oakland, ILL.,, after being chastised
by his father hanged himself.
Two persons were killed and five injured
in collision on the Chicago and Grand
Trunk Railroad in Bellevue, Mich.
WHITE CAPS are forcing up tho price OF cot
ton in Tennessee by burning gins.
The President has nominated Robert E.
Preston Of the District of Columbia to be
Director of the Mint.
The Kearsarge has been despatched by the
government to destroy derelict vessels which
now render navigation dangerous.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote to the Gov
ernor Of Georgia expressing his surprise at
the delay of the Senate in repeating the
Sherman law. He says he wants safe und
staple currency, and does not want to be -e-
sponsible to any laborer or farmer for
shrinkage in purchasing power. Within the
limits OF sound currency he Is friend Of
silver.
The Treasury Department is redsemins
United States paper money and National
bank notes at the rate OF about 81 ,25O.000 a
day.
THE Senate confirmed the following nomi-
nations: Consul-General, J. J. Barclay, at
Tangler; Consuls-Thomas B. O'Neill, OF
New York, at Stockholm {; R. P. Mcdaniel, at
Bahia Frank A. Johnston, at Chihuahus
Charles N. Daily, Of Bayonne City, N. j.. at
Guelph, Canada George Tate, at Barbados;
John Mcguire, at Tampico Thomas Keefe,
OF st. Johns, Quebec; j. Courtney Hi1son,
at Fuchau.
REPORTS OF damage done by the floods at
Gitu, Japan, state that 6S2 houses were
swept away, 14,O25 houses were flooded, 2sS
people were killed and 80, 2Osrendered home
less.
ANOTHER advance In the price OF coal was
made in London 20, 900 women and children
are on the verge Of starvation as O result OF
the miners strike.
MR. GLADSTONE made speech at Edfn-
burgh, attacking the BRITISH House of Lords
for rejecting the Home Rule bill.
TIE officers and crews OF two torpedo
boats which attacked the Argentine Govern
ment naval squadron of the coast and which
were captured were melted to revolt by Col.
onel Espina. Colonel Espina was taken into
custody, and the probabilities are that he
will be shot as traitor.