The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-01
LATER NEWS.

| years old, grew tired OF life and twice In one
dsy tried to kill himself with carbolic acid.
A FOREST fire destroyed tho hamlet OF
Green Bush, N. J.
Mrs. MARY MCCLELLAN, an inmate Of the
Rochester On. ~ Hospital for the Insane,
kicked to death aged Mrs. Gertrude Ethin-
ger. another inmate.
THE Forty-arst Separate Company, n. G..
| s. N. T., was ordered from Syracuse, N. T.,
to Oswego. Trouble with the longshore-
men was expected.
LOUIS LAFERDErrE, Coxeyite tramp, was
lynched near Cincinnati, Ohio. for murder.
Gus assault on farmer who had fed and
lodged him.
n. P. BARNER, boss weaver Of the South
Dallas (Te1as) Cotton Mills, stabbed Super
intendent A. H. Nickels to the heart and
fatally cut his son, John W. Nickels, In
f.enzy over his discharge.
A BOILER at the EccIeson & Parmales
Lumber Association Mills, Jacksonville, N.
c., exploded, killing three colored men In
stantly and fatally injuring fourth.
TIE President sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations David A. Wells, Jr., OF
Connecticut, to be Second Secretary OF the
Legation of the United States at London
James R. Jackson, of New Hampshire, to be
Consul of the United States at Sherbrooke,
Canada.
ORDERS directing the establishment OF a
uniform system Of paying enlisted men in
the navy have been issued by the Navy De-
partment.
The river steamers Nishegorodsetz and
Dobrovoletz came in collision between Perm
and Kasan, in Russia, and the Dobroroletz
waa sunk. Twenty-eight persons were
drowned.
THr American co:ony in London gave
supper to the members of the Yale athletic
team.
TIE Vigilant won the race for the Rear
CommoGore's Cup on Belfast Lough the
Britannia was disabled at a time when the
Vlgiant had winning lead.
N1NETT-THRER men and women started
from New York on pilgrimage to Lourdes,
in France.
AFTER nine weeks OF idleness the 5000
strikers at the National Tube Work. Nc
Keesport, Penn, met and declared the strike
of.
NELLIE KENSE, nine-year-old child.
hanged herself at Bradshaw, W. Va, be
cause she had been kept home from school
by her mother to care fo- two babies. She
was dead when found. She had fastened a
clothesline around her neck and to beam
in the barn, and dropped through hole in
the hay-now.
WILL LONDON met his wife on the main
street Of Kissimee, Fla, and Drained her
with hatchet. The womap's head was split
in twain and the hatchet left In the wound.
He was jealous.
LIGHT earthquake shocks were felt in
parts OF Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and
Missouri.
A HUNDRED AND FIFTY strikers at Pullman,
Chicago, returned to work
Mrs. T. F. MEAeHER, OF Louisville, KY,
shot and killed her father. who was beating
and kicking his wife 10 death.
GOVERNOR T1LLMAS announced that the
South Carolina dispensary system would be
put in operation again on August l.
ORDERS were received by Adiutant-Gen.
eral Maus at the headquarters OF General
Miles. commanding the Department of the
Missouri, for the withdrawal Of the Federal
troops on duty in and about Chicago.
SECRETARY GRESHAM instructed our Min
lister to japan to offer to the Japanese Gov
ernment the good offices Of .he United States
Government in the Korean dispute.
THE Tariff bill conferrees decided to re
port disagreement to Congress.
DIRECTOR PRESTON ordered the mints tc
resume the coinage of silver dollars.
SECRETARY CARLISLE adopted design for
81 silver certificates made BY Will q. Low,
the New York artist.
TIE Italians of Lyons, France, who SUI.
fered injury and loss during the anti-Italian
outrages after the murder of Carnot are suing
for S400, 900 as compensation.
The Samoans have sent to Emperor Will
ian a petition praying that Germany annex
the islands.