The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-07
LATER NEWS.


ate controversy the Senate and House Will
meet IN Joint session on February 6.
WILLIAM T. ZELL, Treasurer of the Lehigh
and wllkesbarre Coal Company and OF the
New York Athletic Club, is a fugitive de-
faulter, shortage of $4,000 or more having
been found in his cash accounts with the coal
company.
TIE Hamburg-American Line steamer
Normannia. bound for Genoa. returned to the
Port Of New York for repairs, having beer
damaged by tidal wave; several OF her
crew were injured.
A BLIZZARD ragged in Kansas and other
Western States.
Mas. ANNA L1SDGRES was crushed to death
at Chicago, ILL.,. while struggling for bread
at relief station. Her husband was TOO
weak to 20 into the crowd and her children
were starving.
A BAND of train robbers was captured by
police in the Indian Territory one OF the
gang was killed and. another mortally
wounded.
TIE Mir and Daniels brothers fought to
the death in Arkansas. OF the four three
were killed.
COMMITTEE resolutions on the Hawaiian
question faroring strict non. Intervention
were brought into both Houses.
IS response to Senate resolution the
Secretary OF the Treasury sent to the Senate
q statement showing that from the year 1875
to 1894 the United States has paid for the
prosecution of criminals in the Territory OF
Utah the sum Of s725, ,555, which amount
was due the United States from that Terri
tory.
SECRETARY HERBERT approved the recon-
1nendation OF the National Stability Board
with reference to the lengthenlnG OF the
gunboats Machias and Castine in order to
relieve top-heavlness.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied BY his
sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, and
Private Secretary Thurber, left Washington
for Hartford, Conn, to attend the funeral OF
Henry E. Hastings. the Presidents nephew.
Mr.. Hastings was the son Of Mr.. Cleveland's
sister.
AT Fredericton, New Brunswick, Judge
Barker sentenced the deaf mute Edward
M. wheary to be hanged on Friday, April
20, for the murder of his slster-in-law, Ber-
tha Wheary,
KAISER WILLIAM has made @ peace offer
ing to Prince Bismarck in the shape of a
case of old wine and the ex-Chancellor has
promised to personally thank His Majesty
for the gift in Berlin. All Germany reioices
at the reconciliation.
LACE of work and scarcity of food are caus-
ing many acts of brlgandage in Spain.
The Brazilian insurgents recaptured Mo-
cangue Island, with three small cannon and
13O prisoners The killed and wounded
number fifty. The insurgents lost fourteen
killed.
STRIKING employees OF the Bridgeport
(Conn. Traction Company returned to work.
UNION women hat makers of Danbury
Conn. prevented resumption in four fac
tories by refusing terms the union men ac-
cepted.
Mr. AND Mrs. GUsrAvE P. TYSON and Miss
Minnie Chapman, teachers in the Sac and
Fox Indian School, at Guthrie, Oklahoma,
were drowned while attempting to ford Deep
Fork Creek.
FIFTY convicts confined in the branch
State prison at Coal Creek, Tenn, escaped
by crawling through the bars Of the water
gate leading into the stockade.
The annual Pension bill reported to tho
House appropriates S15o, 900, 900.
TIE State Department Is advised that the
death OF United States Consul Meade at San
Domingo was caused by yellow fever.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to Wash
ington from Hartford, Conn, where he at
tended his cousins funeral.
TIE ship Willie Rosenfeld, at Queenstown,
Ireland, had two of her crew killed and the
captain and eight others badly injured in
hurricane.
TIE gallery of the Ducal riding school OF
Gotha, Germany, collapsed during the re-
hearsal for the festival when the new Duke
will make his formal entry into the city.
Four Of the persons were killed, and twelve
were so seriously injured that they were
thought likely to die.