The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
LATER NEWS.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND unemployed working
ingmen met in Madison Square Garden, New
York City, and adopted resolutions urging
the State ami city governments to provide
work.
IrJE1 ELY QCrGa (Repu5lican) and
Isidor Straus (DemocraD were elected 10
Congress from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Districts in New York City.
THERE was severe snowstorn. with high
winds, all over New England and New York
State a gale did damage in New Jersey.
The boiler in the mill OF J. N. Mercer at
Crow Hickman, Ky, exploded and five men
were killed and one severely wounded. The
explosion was caused by running cold water
into the boiler.
CHARLES DnEHEn killed Miss Bertha
Huneke in st. Louis, Mo. She would not
marry him.
JUDGE Cox. Of the District Court, refused
to issue an injunction asked for by Grand
Master Workman Sovereign, Of the Knights
of Labor, restraining Secretary Carlisle from
issuing bonds.
The Bell telephone patent has expired, and
up-to-date instruments are already on sale
at $3.50 each. ... g.
The Swedish bark Wilhelm, bound with
q cargo of coal for Alicante, has been
wrecked on the coast OF Cornwall, England.
The captain of the bark and Ava OF her crew
were drowned. -
The outrage at the American Legation
quarters in Rome, Italy, is believed to have
been aimed at Minister Potter personally.
RUSSIA has yielded to England in the
Pamir dispute.
THE Federal troops have crushed the in
surrection in the northern part Of Mexico
after eleven hours fighting. The insurgents
lost thirty men killed and the Federal troops
seven killed.
WI1L1LA Drummer, a manufacturer:
jumped or was thrown from the Washing
ton Bridge, New York City, and was instantly
killed.
A GANG OF rufflans made an attack upon
the private car OF Mrs. Leland Stanford at
Vina, Cal.
A LoNa-sTAND1Na quarrel between Patrol.
man Bacon and Louis Arado was renewed in
saloon at Chicago, Ill. Policeman Charles
.Arado Joined his brother in the fight and
was shot and killed by Bacon.
A BREAK in the leree at Sacramento CAL,
caused the inundation OF about 500 acres OF
the finest land, some of it being hop lands.
Il is valued at 5000 an acre. All of this will
be covered with '.shckens," washings from
the mines in the mountains, and thus be rem
dered valueless.
The Kentucky Legislature adopted a res
oiution instructing Senators Blackburn and
Lindsay to vote to reject the nomination of
Peckham to be Associate Justice OF the Su-
preme Court. .'-
sMALLpox epidemics have broken out in
Council Bluffs and New Hampton, Iowa.
The President sent to the Senate the name
OF Thomas E. Ferguson, of Maryland, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Mirister Plenipo-
tent:ary of the United States to Sweden and
Norway.
ASSISTANT ATToESEy-GENERAL THOMAS has
decided that letter carriers are exempt from
militia duty.
PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE denied
statement published in London that he in
tended to resign Immediately. but said that
his age and failing sight and hearing might
compel him to retire from Office at any mo-
ment.
FoUn sailors of the American fishing
schooner Gertie E. Foster were drowned by
the stranding Of that vessel at Liverpool,
Novia Scotia. The schooner went to pieces.
AS11-roBAcco monopoly riots have taken
place in Bogota, the capital OF the republic
of Colombia. Seven thousand men attacked
the Government offices and were charged by
the troops. Many were killed