The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-21
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English importers, New York City. was ar
tested and charged with tampering with Inn
ported merchandise packages and defraud-
ng the Government OF about S200, 900 In GUS
oms duties.
FRYE OF O party Of seven men who wero re-
urnlng to Pensacola, Fla, in sail boat tiromBlg
'abine were drowned by the capsizing Of the
,oat. The men drowned are W. r. Rollins.
j. N. Washburn, Ted Mobley, Hiram Brown
md q man named MossicE.
Hon. A. ]. MoLAURIN was nominated for
United States Senator on the sixty-seventh
ballot in the Mississippi Democratic Lsglsla-
| i've caucus.
COPPER lands have been discovered in
lama County, Iowa.
A DECLINE In wheat in Chicago made
record-breaking quotation. May broke early
TO 63B cents, selling Il cent lower than ever
before. On late drive the price went 10
629s cents, u cents under any previous rec
ord.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
Of Thomas Moonlight. OF Kansas, to be Minis
ter to Bolivia.
A BILL to restore 1000 railway mail clerks
who were dismissed from the service in the
spring OF 1889 to their former places was
! ordered favorably reported by the House
Judiciary Committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee adjourned
without acting on the Psckham Supreme
Court nomination.
SECRETARY LAMONT sent to the House Of
Representatives report showing that s.
223,9g7 men are available for military duty :
in the United States.
Or. TuEoDoDE BILLEoTH is dead In
Austria. He was everywhere recognized as
one OF tho leading surgeons Of the world.
He was called in consultation 10 Paris, Con-
stantinopie, st. Petersburg, and even to
Egypt. He was the son OF a clergyman. and
was born nearly stxly-fye years ago.
PRESIDENT PEIxoTo has offered to parion
privates belonging to the brazilian insurgent
torces who apply for elemency within two
months.
CITIZENS of Honolulu celebrated their
Abrogati on Day with enthusiasm, and still
hope for annexation.
" b. QuAcKENBoss fell 1856 feet from th
Newark N. J.) Postofice building toweranl
was instantly killed. !,
ANDREW EAyss and wife, an aged coupl-
who lived alone in the borough of MuncJ
Pennsylvania, were found dead In their hom
by neighbor, having been asphyxlated b
gas that escaped from a stove in their bed
room during the night. Both were oves
eighty years Of age.
TIE trial OF Peter Neville. the Chairman d
the Board OF Election Inspectors in thi
Twenty-seventh Election District In thf
Fourth Assembly District, New York City, on
the charge Of making false count Of ths
vote last fall, was concluded. After being
out six hours the jury brought In verdict
of guilty, with strong Recommendation for
mercy.
A. J. McLAUnIN was elected United Slater
Senator by the Mississippi Legislature.
ANDREW PIKNALLEN, a Russian Finn, wM
lynched at Even, Wis.,, for assaulting =
young girl at Bruce's Crossing.
TIE home of Louis Kuecher, at Indiana
polls, Ind, was demolished by an explosion
OF natural gas his daughter, Rosa, thirteen.
was killed. -.
GEORGE GrLL1s fell into grave in Birm.
ingham, Ala, anG the coffin crushed him to
death. .H
TIE vault In the private bank Of J. G. N.
Elder at Deshler, Ohio, was blown open and
completely demolished with dynamite and
scraps Of currency were found IL the debris.
The robbers secured $4,000 in coin and $1,000
IN paper is thought to have beeen blown to
pieces.
TIE House bill repeating Federal Election
laws was passed by tine Senate by. vote OF.
80 to %.
By vote of 176 to Is the House adopted
the resolution condemning Minister Stevens
and sustaining the Hawaiian policy OF Pres
ident Cleveland. ..... (.
GERMANY will have war with Russia within
three months, the Kaiser says, II the COM
mercial treaty is rejected.
THREE persons were killed and twenty in
iured in railroad wreck near Compiegne,
France.
A HURRICANE prevailed in the countries
bordering the North Sea much damage was
done to property in England. p.
An election for President OF Brazil Is to DO
held on March DR.. De Moraes, now Prest-
don't of the Senate, is the only candidate yet
in the field. Five moro torpedo boats ar
rived at Perrambuco for PRECEDENT Pei1oto.