The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-29
LATER NEWS.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, the greatgrandson Of
President John Adams, twice Democratic
candidate for Governor OF Massachusetts,
died at his summer residence in Mount
Wollaston. Mass, aged sixty-one years.
PROMINENT Plttsburgers have called con-
vention, to be h sld at Braddock, Penn, tor
the organization OF a new national party.
BLUEF1ELps has been retaken by 1000
Nicaraguans who arrived from Rama and
Greytown on board transports flying the
United States flag. The American marines
re-embarked on their approach. The British
cruiser Mohawk has arrived at Port Limon.
Costa Rica, with Chief Clarence and III
refugees from the Mosquito coast on board.
CoP1ous rains in the corn belt have done
much good to the crop.
"ED" PARDR1DaE, the noted Chicago grain
speculator, accounted a multi-millionaire
and proprietor OF one Of the largest dry
goods stores in the city, became crazy and
violent from drink, and was forcibly removed
to an inebriate asylum by his son.
Two colored men were lynched near Mac
alpin, Fla, for assaulting fourteen-year-
old girl, and for similar ofrense, the victim
being farmers wife, Marshall Boston, also
coored, was taken from the Frankfort (Ky.)
jail by $50 men and hanged.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote an encour-
aging and sympathetic letter to Chairman
Wilson Immediately after the passage Of the
Tariff bill, admonishins him to guard his
health in order to continue the fight for
tariff reform.
GOVERNMENT receipts are expected to
amount to $780,, ,251, ,142 under the new tariff
law.
TIE President has approved the act to sub
ject to State taxation national bank notes
and United States Treasury notes.
TIE British House Of Lords rejected the
Evicted Tenants bill.
MORE than 4D0 Anarchists have arrived In
London within the last few days.
soIAREs, the Peruvian rebel commander,
Is marching upon Lima and says he will
shoot President Caceres.
SEVEN Anarchists, said to have plotted to
blow up Premier Crispi, were arrested In
Rome, Italy.
IT is estimated that when the Tariff bill
passed Congress the 1875 bonded warehouses
In New York City contained $4,000 pock-
ages Of goods valued at $40, 100000, upon
which duties to the amount OF about $30,-
000, 900 remained unpaid
COMPTROLLER EoKELs said to bankers at
Saratoga, n. Y, that the powers possessed
By every business man are denied the frat
financial officer Of the United States. He
predicted speedy return to good times.
A THOUSAND barrels Of sugar, wirh large
quantity OF other groceries, were destroyed
in fire in R. C. Williams &c Co.'s building
in the wholesale grocery district, New York
City.
The strike commission appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the Pull
man and railroad strikes began Its work In
Chicago.
THE United States cruiser BENNINGTON, with
the Salvadorian refugees on board, was
stopped by Government tug outside the
three-mile limit, off San Francisco, Cal.
DEMOCRATIC State Conventions met in In
diana and Tennessee. The Missouri Repub-
lican Convention met at Excelsior Springs,
Mo.
SECRETARY CARLISLE wrote letter saying
that free sugar meant deficit of $50. 900 900.
TIE Kafirs in the Transvaal Republic.
South Africa, are said to have murdered
Boer farmers by the score and committed
atrocious cruelties.