The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-27
LATER NEWS.

SAMUEL McKELvHY and William Minnis, Of
franklin, Penn, were killed by freight
train near Polk, Penn.
Two young men named York and Bashey
were drowned in Bound Brook, Augusta,
Me-, while bathing.
KINGSTON, N. Y, was visited by one Of the
most violent hail storms known in years. It
was accompanied by fierce gale. The
hailstones were an inch n diameter. Much
damage was caused to fruit and crops
Many windows were broken.
A SHARP frost visited Idaho, resulting in
great damage to vegetables.
The house Of farmer, Mitchell, near
Grady, Oklahoma, was struck by lightning.
Orton Mitchell, aged twenty, was instantly
killed and his three sisters fatally injured.
MINERS were dissatisfied with the terms Of
the settlement agreed on in Columbus, Ohio,
and the workmen In many sections declared
they would not accept the compromise.
TIE Proh.bitionists, in convention at
Emporia, Kan, nominated E. o. Pickering
for Governor.
TIE President has nominated Joseph 3.
Jewell, of New York, to be agent for the
Indians Of the New York agency.
SPAIN, France, Italy and Germany sent
warships to Morocco, where civil war was
thought to be inevitable. ,
THE seventeen-year locusts and an as
founding crop OF mosquitoes have New Jer-
sey at their mercy. Special church services
were held for relief from the plague
WHILE out rowing at Forty-ninth street
and the North River, New York City, two
men lost their lives by the capsking OF
boat. One was Antonio sapio and the other
Norman Drisdale. ..
JOHN NJ TAYLOR, for many years citizen
Of Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, has con-
fessed that the $4,000 in pensions he has
drawn from the Government has been OBJ
tanned by perjury, forgery and bribery.
Mrs. HENRY L. SWEET and her thirteen
year old son were found drowned In Lake
Superior, near Duluth, MINI. D..
TIE Kansas Populist Convention adopted
woman srffrage plank. whereupon Susan
! B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw. publicly
donned Populist badges. Governor Lewell-
Ing was renominated by acclamation.
| TIE coalition of the American Railway
J Union and the Knights Of Labor was effected
at the first annual convention Of the Railway
| Union at Chicago.
A sAwM1LL engine near Laclede, No., e1-
ploded, killing James Lague and son.
SECRETARY CARLISLE appointed the Hon.
Herman Stump, Superintendent Of Immigra-
ton DR.. Joseph Il. senner, Commissioner
Of immigration at Ellis Island, and Edward
F. McSweeney, Assistant Commissioner Of
immigration at Ellis Island a Commissioner
to investigate the general subject Of the i'm
| migration laws, with special reference to the
padrone system. They are clothed with full
power. a..
| TIE President selected the following
Board Of Engineers to recommend what
length Of span, not less than 1000 feet, would
be safe and practicable for bridge over the
Hudson River under the terms Of the act OF
Congress recently passed Professor W. b.
Burr, OF Columbia College, New York
George s. Morrison, OF Chicago; G. Bous-
caren, OF Cincinnati; Theodore Cooper, of
New York, and Major C. ". Raymond, Corps
Of Engineers, United States Army.
PROPERTY valued at more than 81 900 600
was destroyed by fire in Panama. .-..
| BRAZILIAN insurgents are gaining victories.
General saraivas troops are reported to have
taken Baulista de Curlm and to be now ad-
vancing upon Santa Anna.