The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-05-09
LATER NEWS.

Az explosion Of dynamite at Mount Wash
ington, Penn. caused the death Of Hug
Ralph, aged seventeen, and the fatal injury
Of two others.
MICHAEL DoNSELLY shot three times n
Patrick J. McArdle, who had just defeatet
him In lawsuit, in the Court Of Common
Pleas, New York City. No one was hurt.
TIE coke strikers in Pennsylvania made 6
number of demonstrations and were dis
persed by deputy sherlfrs.
A WATERFRONT and tornado played havoc
about twelve miles west Of Burkeville, Texas
All the houses at Gilchrlst, except one, were
blown down. Flying timbers struck rifle
in Ralph Gilchrist's hands, causing It to dis
charge. The bullet struck Miss Rosa Gil
christ, inflicting q fatal wound.
JEALOUS Edwin J. Workman, OF Lebanon,
Ind, fatally shot his wife and himself.
ALBERT T. BECK, former law partner of
Congressman Bynum. was found murdered
in his bed in indianapolis, Ind.
JAMES REno1cK, Of Caddo, Oklahoma,
whipped his stepdauShter, aged ten years,
to death, because she disobeyed him in a
trihing matter. He has been arrested.
TIE Ohio House Of Representatives at
Columbus PASSED by q constitutional major
ity OF two the Clark Senate bill granting to
women the right to vote In school elections
tits now law.
SAN Francisco, CAL, has discovered 1t has
boo ling LOT OF policemen, who have been
dismissed
RICHARD WHITE. the colored man who
confessed to assaulting "Tonmie" How, the
twelve-year-old daughter OF J. E. How. a
we'll known planter living near Jamaica,
Ca. has been lynched.
CoxEY1rEs seized train in Montana and
spsd eastward at the rate OF forty miles ar
hour until stopped by cave-in. Frye's
"Coxey" army, 800 strong, captured Van
dalia freight train at Terre Haute, Ind, but
the train crew ran the train back into the
yards and abandoned 1t.
SEVERAL hundred stand OF small arms and
repeating rifles were delivered at the
Treasury Department from the War Depart
ment. The small arms were turned over to
Captain Putnam OF the Treasury Watch, and
the repeating rifles were placed at con-
venient points about the Treasurer's end OF
the building.
The nomination OF James T. Yeomans as
Interstate Commerce Commissioner was
farorabIy reported to the Senate.
CAPTAIN O. G. CooN, an ex-employe OF the
Carnegie Steel Company, has charged that
the Bethlehem (Penn.) armor-plate makers
paid Sterling Brothers % furnish brittle
balls for the Indian Head tests, 80 that their
armor would appear better than 1t is. Sec
retary Herbert has been Investigating for
two months.
LORD RosEBERY, the British Premier. in
speech, said Englishmen were getting weary
OF the constant struggle over Irish coercion.
A TERRIFIC gale swept the southern coast
OF Ireland, destroying many fishing boats.
The American Arctic expedition, under
the command OF Walter Wellman, sailed
from Norway.
THERE were 104 new cases OF cholera and
three deaths In Lisbon, Portugal.
ABE BCzzARp, famous outlaw In Penn
sylvanla, and later IN ostensibly reformed
man, was arrested at Reading for safe-rob-
bing.
The entire Pennsylvania coke region, with
the exception Of q few works, is tied up in a
general strike tor the first time since 1891.
Almost every plant Is shut down, and fully
6O00 men went out.
HENRY F. BACHELOR, President OF the
Stock Growers National Bank, Miles City,
Montana, has been convicted of appropriat-
inc SAC, 900 OF the banks money.
Ex-PREs1DEST HARRISON addressed the
Republican Convention OF Indiana at Indian
apolis.
The Detroit will be put out OF commission
for several months for repairs.
TIE number of deaths in the Greek earth
quakes is reported to have been 252.