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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
JUDGE ALLISON KILLED.
Shot by the Clerk Of His Court In
Nashville.

Chancellor Allison, Judge Of the Chancery
Court, was shot with double-barreled shot
gun and instantly killed In the Court House
at Nashville, Tenn, by George K. Whit
worth, the Clerk and Master OF the Court.
After killing Judge Allison. Whttworth drew
q revolver and shot himself twice, fatally.
Court had Just adjourned. Judge Allt-
son was crossing the corridor when from a
dark hallway he heard a voice call "Oh,
Judge" He turned and saw Whitworth
standing ten feet away with the gun leveled,
Whitworth fired one barrel and then the
other. The charges OF buckshot went full
into the Judges breast.
Whitworth instantly dropped his shotgun.
drew his revolver and turned It upon him
self. The first bullet passed under his heart
and the second pierced his left lung.
Being taken into On office, Whitworth In
uuired as to the condition OF the ''other fel-
son was dead he expressed his satisfaction
and then demanded pistol that he might
finish himself.
"a man can't live In the same climate with
me and do Inc dirt like that" Whitworth
said in explanation. "The public knows all
about II"
Chancellor Allison had announced that he
would appoint his son. Granville Allison,
Clerk and Master In place of Whitworth,
who had held the Office six years under
Judge Allison. Whitworth expected to be
reappointed because he had spent several
thousand dollars In securing the reelection
OF Judge Allison. The Office Whitworth
held paid $4,000 year.
Whitworth Is O son OF Judge James l..
Whitworth, wealthy and prominent citi-
zen, and Judge Allison was known through
out the State.
Chancellor Allison was about fifty years
old, and had just begun bis second term OF
eight years. Whitworth is about forty-two
years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
M'OOOK SUCCEEDS HOWARD.
Colonel James w. Forsyth Named for
Brigadier. General.

COlOucl JamcS w. oTeS Ill NdLncO AoE
Brigadier- General.
Brigadier- General Alexander Mcdowell
McCook has been appointed Major
General Of the United States Army,
vice General Howard, retired, and
Colonel James ". Forsyth, Of the
Seventh Cavalry, has been promoted to be
Brigadier-G General, to succeed General Nc
Cook.
General McCook has been for the past year
In command Of the new Department OF the
Colorado, with headquarters in Denver.
During the riots In that city last March he
had famous alteration with Governor
Waite, In which he demonstrated to that Of
ficial that the laws OF the United States and
his own duty as commander Of the Federal
forces and guardian OF Federal property
were paramount to any authority that
could be claimed BY the States execurIye.
General McCook comes CT the "ashting Nc.
Cooks" being tho oldest OF the ten brothers
IN the National army. He was the fourth
Brigadier-General in the army, and by the
Presidents selection Is promoted over Gen.
erals Ruger, Merritt and Brooke. However,
he retires April 92d, next year, on reach
ing the age Of sixty-four, when the
others Will have chance to reach
ths, highest grade now author
ized in the service. General McCook
graduated from the Military Academy In
1852, and was assigned to the Third Infantry
until he left the regular service In 1861 to
accept the appointment OF Colonel OF the
First Ohio Volunteers. He commanded his
regiment In the first battle OF Bull Run, and
was brevetted there for gallant service.
BrIgadier-General Forsyth was born In
Ohio In 1885 and appointed to the Military
Academy from that State. He graduated
and became q second lieutenant OF infantry
In 1856. General Forsyth has served In
various staff capacities since the war and
took part In the Bannock campaign OF 1878.
He has published "Report OF an E1pedi-
ton up the Yellostone River In 1875"
President Cleveland made these assign
ments Of general officers OF the army:
Major-deneral Miles to command the De.
partment Of the East, with headquarters on
Governors Island, New York City.
Brigadier-Gensral Thomas q. Ruger to
the command Of the Department OF the Mis-
souri,, with headquarters In Chicago.
Brigadiar-General Wesley Merritt to the
command OF tho Department Of California,
with headquarters In the Presideo, Cal.
--Brigadier-G General!J ohm R. Brooks to tn,
command Of the Department OF the DaSotS,
with headquarters In st. Paul. MINI.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JAMES FOLEY, fortythree years Of age,
awaiting trial at Philadelphia, Penn, for
kicking his mother to death while drunk,
hanged himself in his cell with rope made
of the lining Of his coat.
ALFRED CARPENTER, aged fifteen, Of New
Brunswick. N. j.. was struck on the head by
a SNOWFALL at st. Paul School, Concord, N.
n. He fell insensible, and died few hours
later without regaining consciousness.
AT the Trenton (N. J.) Fair Grounds the
University Of Pennsylvania football eleven
defeated the champion Princetons by score
OF u to 0. Fully $1,000 persons saw the
game.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed
the decision Of the lower courts declining to
enjoin nuns from teaching in the public
schools.
A SHOCKING tragedy occurred at Pittston,
Penn, Henry Martin, a seventeen-year-old
boy. deliberately shooting his mother, who
died soon after.
J. HOOP WRIGHT. OF Drexel, Morgan q
Co., well-known f1nancier, died suddenly
OF apoplexy in the Rector street station OF
the Ninth avenue "L." New York City.
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KILLED A BANK R0BBER.
He Had $500 in a Grain SACK
When He Was Shot.

Reports received from Sylvan Grove
Kan. little town twelve miles from Hutch
inson on a branch OF the Union Pacific roaa'
tall OF bank robbery and a murder.
Three men heavily armed entered the
bonk. demanded the money and got It. The
bandits placed the money in grain ssaSas sack
and were preparing to mount thelr no1ses
wnen one Of them was shot In the oack.
The fellow was able to mount, however,
md ride some distance before he fell TO the
ground, weakened from the loss OF Dioou
and soon died. He has been identihed as
S,snhen Mckee, who lived about thirty miles
nnrrh of rns scene of the tragedy. All the
monev taken from the tank, about Sl5oo,
was recovered with the dead tody.
Mckee was a member OF an ORGANIZED
pane which made its headquarters In the
SIue Hills in Osborne County.
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South and West.

Two children of Alfred Hindstorm, Of
Chassell, Mich, were burned to death, hav-
ing been left alone in the house, which
caught fire and was consumed.
FOREST fires; the most destructive and
general ever known in the timber regions Of
the South, ragged In Eastern Arkansas, North
ern Mississippi and Western Tennessee.
THREE masked men entered E. G. Ender.
ley's store at Thermopolis. Wyoming, and
compelled the proprietor with guns to give
them $500 from the safe. In escaping one
Of the robbers, Jake Snyder, was fatally shot.
THE Federal Grand Jury at Jackson re-
fused to tndict the Governor, Treasurer and
Auditor OF the State of Mississippi on the
charge Of printing State warrants In imita-
tion Of National currency.
FLORA McGRossEN, of Cedarville, Ohio,
was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary
for horse stealing. She issixteen years old.
A TRAIN was held up at small station
named Verona. No., by two masked men.
The affair did not occupy more than twenty
minutes. The amount secured by the train
robbers was not more than $400.
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LATER NEWS.

MISS ELLA CooNEY, of Cato, n. Y, who
disappeared three weeks ago and sent
letters to her parents saying she was being
held captive by colored men, was found in
Syracuse, her hair cut of and her mind
wreck.
AWAKENED by a burglar in his room, the
Rev. F. G. Seckerson, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
,prang out OF bed and grappled with the
.obber, who, in the struggle, stabbed the
minister before the latter, using his revolver,
wounded the thief twice. The marauder es-
capped.
TIE President appointed John Kurel, Of
illinois, to be Consul-General Of the United
States in st. Petersburg; Charles Jonas, Of
Wisconsin, to be Consul-General Of the
United States In Prague, Bohemia.
The report Of the commission which In
Eestigated the recent railroad strike In Chi
sago was published. ....
TIE body of Alexander III. arrived In st.
Petersburg, Russia, and was taken to the
Cathedral Of St. Isaac, there to lie In state
until the funeral.
ALBERT F. WR1aHT, aged eighteen years,
died at susquehanna, Penn. His father
Congressman Myron B. Wright. OF the
Fifteenth Pennsylvania District, died Of
Trenton, Canada, two nights before.
JoHN wAsHBuas exploded shotgun In
the firearms store Of Captain Abraham
Jones, in Sing Sing, N. Y, and In the gem
eral explosion that followed he was killed,
and many others were injured and the
building was demolished.
SEVEN miners, charged with murder and
arson, were locked up In the tail In Bldg
way, Penn. During the recent strike, 1t is
alleged, they destroyed and burned valuable
property, and blew down several houses
with dynamite. A boy was killed In one
house.
THE wife Of Tom Hayne, farmer OF Do.
netti, Ala, was assaulted by colored en-
ploye, Bob Mosely. Aposse pursued Mosely
found him in a nearby swamp and shot
him.
TIE President commuted to life imprison'
nent the death sentenceof Charles Hopkins
sentenced to be hanged IN the District o.
Columbia for murder.
SECRETARY CARLISLE Is officially informed
that the Republic Of Honduras has adopted
the gold dollar OF the United States as IT!
standard coin.
TIE report saying that 5000 Armenians
including women and children, wer'
massacred in Turkish Armenia during re
cent attack by Kurds, Is confirmed. 4
force Of Bashibazouks raided a number o
villages and killed and wounded 5000 per-
SONS. ---
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THE LABOR WORLD.
NEW YORK has 600 unions.

NEW YORK has 600 unions.
TELEPHONES employ 10, 900 Americans.
CINCINNATI horeshoers work ten hours.
AMERICAN tackmakers organized In 1924.
CINCINNATI carpenters get from 90 to SO
day.
ST. LOUIS women shoemakers have formed
union. s
The sicilIan authorities are allotting land
to laborers. "..
SAVANNAH, Ga, has colored longshore-
mems union.
INTERNATIONAL cigar-makers have sur
plus Of $45O, 900.
The American Railway Union Is gaining
ground in the East.
THIRTY per cent. of tine Union molders OF
Cleveland, Ohio, are idle.
NEW HAMPSHIRE central labor unions have
formed State association.
ABOUT 200 tailors are employed In the unl-
form factories OF Great Britain. .
CoL11ERY riots cost the West Riding, OF
Yorkshire, England. S120.0OO in 1898.
THERE are s466 railroad engineers en-
ployed in the United States and Canada.
EMPLOYEES OF the United States Glass
Company has been on strike eighteen
months.
TIE Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association
of New York has nearly 200 members and
fund of $4,000.
The owners of the Cocheco mills, at Dover,
n. H., have increased wages five per cent.
without any demand from the operatives.
TYpEwR1rERs in the British War Office re-
ceiye only from $3.50 to S6 per week, and
an agitation for higher wages Is IN progress.
The trades unions Of Australia have pro-
tested against the admission OF non-unton
men to the public and charitable hospitals.
TIE defaulting Secretary and Treasurer OF
the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
took 932, 900 OF the money belonging to the
Order.
WASHINGTON C1TT has go. fodr-cent bread.
but 1t is making trouble in the bakeries, as
the bakers want to reduce the wages OF their
employees, and strike Is threatened.
The number Of employees OF all grades In
the famous Krupp gun manufacturing es-
tsblishment at Essen, Germany, Is 1915;
the number Of children is Is, ,658, and that OF
strikes, 0.
IL consequence of the ciosing OF twelve
sulphur mines in Sicily almost 1000 laborers
were reduced to the danger OF starvation.
In the mines still open laoorsrs are glad to
work fourteen hours day for twenty cents.
s.THE Mutual Society OF Linotype Oper-
ators and Employees" is the latest trade Or
eanization In England. It is independent OF
the London Society Of Compositors, and Will
probably include hand compositors who
work in offices where the linotype machines
are used.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
KENTUCKY RACE WAR.
Celebrating the Republican Victory
Causes Tragedy.

SOkSbEoL4uk tAO AsSPoSAAS~A se~S~~s
Causes Tragedy. "
The colored men OF Elizabethtown gave
monster parade In celebration OF o Repubh-
Gun victory in the Congressional district and
elsewhere. Bad feeling was created at
first when the colored men insisted on
leading the parade, only one white
man falling into line behind 9
colored band. The colored men were ell
armed, having been granted permission to
shoot blank cartridges. As the parade pro.
creased Il was seen that bullets and shot
were contained In the charges fred bythem.
AZ the home Of Mrs. Woodsone bullets
crushed through the windows and barely
missed her daughter. who sat reading.
Town Marshal Neighbors halted the pa.
rade at tho public square and said he wanted
to see II the cartridges being fired were
blank. As he advanced George Wilson, one
Of the colored men. said: ~ will give you
the contents OF my Shells" and, leveling ns
gun, fred. The charge tore OF part OF the
Marshal's overcoat and entered the BODY OF
Blake Robertson, aged eighteen, son OF e1-
CONGRESSMAN Robertson, who was standing
on the sidewalk rs spectator. Neighoors
fred his pistol at Wilson, wounding him In
the arm. Robertson died at o'clock a. m
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Foreign.

The Spanish coasting steamer Fernando
foundered twenty miles north of Bahia
Honda, Cuba. Ten Of her passengers and
crew were drowned.
THREE men were killed and several others
injured by the collapse of the Montreal (Can-
ada) Street Railway Company's seven-story
stone building.
The embargo of Germany on American
cattle and dressed meat has been extended
to Asace and Lorraine.
AFTER stately funeral pageant through
the streets OF Moscow, Russia, the remains
Church Of the Archangel Michael.
AT Bruex. Bohemia, twenty persona were
killed In an explosion at colliery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
FATAL EXPERIMENT.
Three Men Tried to Thaw Out Some
Dynamite.

An explosion OF dynamite occurred at
Huntington, Ind, and resulted in the death
of three men and the injury Of many more.
The dead are: John Hartman, Norton
Ksefer and John Flynn, all married.
The explosion occurred at the Flint Creek
sewer, which crosses the entire city from
northeast to southwest. Some OF the men
had built fire on the bank and were thaw-
ing out afty-pound box OF dynamite. There
was great crash and the entire city was
shaken.
Hartman was literally torn to pieces. His
body was lifted in the air 800 feet and fell on
Market street sidewalk, a square away. The
others were not kllp1 outright, but died
later.
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He was graduated from West Point In
1854. took part In the Seminole War In
Florida as Chief of Ordnance on General
Harney's staff, and subsequently was an In
srructor at West Point.
he went into the Civil War Colonel, and
came out a Major-Geueral Of volunteers,
minus an arm. After the war he was at the
head of the Freedman's Bureau.
Re-entering the army In 1872, he was In
1883 given command Of the Department OF
the Atlantic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-28
PORT ARTHUR FALLEN,
China's Great Naval Stronghold
Taken by the Japanese.

China's Great Naval Stronghold
Taken by the Japanese.
A despatch from Shanghai, China, says 1t is
reported there that Port Arthur was taken by
the japanese without resistance. The Japan
ese, after bombarding the place for short
time. made 4 land assault upon the enemy's
works, when the Chinese surrendered. The
General In command and the other chief Of
fcprs OF the Chinese forces at Port Arthur
had abandoned the forts on November 6 and
disappeared.
Alter fruitIess efforts on the part OF China
TO induce England, France, the United
States, Russia and Germany to intervene,
Prince Kung, the recently appointed Presi-
dent of the Foreign Office and OF the Ad-
mirally. exclaimed. Then China is lost ~
Major Won Hannekpn, who formerly was
chief adviser OF Ii Hung Chang, and who
was recently summoned to Pekin, has coun-
selled peace ut any price. He has left Pekin.
The flight from Pekin is increasing every
day. Hur dreds Of the ladies of the Imperial
harem, Ministers of State and wealthy peo-
pie have already left the capital.
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Washington.

SECRETARY MORTON has appointed DR.. ".
G. Byron. of the Washington and Lee Uni
versity, Virginia, first assistant chemist In
the Department Of Agriculture.
SECRETARY LAMONT issued orders assign
ing General Miles to the command of the
Department OF the East. made vacant by the
retirement OF General Howard.
TIE Federal Commission appointed to in
yestigate the great railway strike reported
to the President, c1ndemning In the main the
action Of the railways in combining to con-
troll wages arbitrarily and recommending the
establishment OF permanent "strike COM
mission"
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Victories for japan.

Adyices from the armies commanded by
Field Marshal Count OYama, now operating
on the Leaotong Peninsula, confirm the re-
ports Of Japanese victories at Chinchiu (K1n'
ehow) and Tslienwan. One brigade OF jap
anese captured Chinchiu. The next day
Talienwan was captured. Field Mar
shal Oyama states in his official DIS
patches that the Chinese forces at Kim
chow numbered 1000 infantry and 100 cav.
aIry at TalIenwan 5000 infantry and $50
cavalry. The Chinese made little resistance
at either places. They retreated toward
Port Arthur. The Japanese lost only ten
men In capturing both places. The Chinese
losses also were slight.
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INTERVIEWS with large retailers In Chi.
ago result in the unanimous opinion that
more goods are being sold than In 1892 at
this time, but the gross return Is much
smaller because of the lower prices. All ex.
pressed themselves as satisfied with the
outlook.
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FLFIY-FOURTH CONGRESS-
H0WTHE POLITICAL PARTIES
WILL BE REPRESENTED,
So Close in the Senate That the
Populists May Hold the Balance
of Power-Prominent Democratic
Candidates Who Were Defeated
For Reelection.

The balance Of power in the Senate OF the
Fifty-fourth Congress will evidently be held
BY the five or six Senators who are now
mis:ellaneously clsssed as Populists,
silver advocates, or Independents, at pres
ent. With three vacant seats, the member
ship OF the Senate is divided as follows :.
Democrats. A.; Republicans, 36; Populists,
8. Mr. Irby, OF South Carolina, Is classsd
In this arrangement as Democrat, and Mr..
Stewart and Mr.. Jones, Nevada, are counted
rs Populists. Republicans are certainly
sure of election to the three vacant seats
from Montana, Washington and Wyoming.
while In four other States es-Kansas, New
Jersey, West Virginia and North Carolina
Republican Senators will probably be chosen
10 succeed Democratic 1ncumbents. These
changes would increase the Republican
strength to 49, and reduce the number OF
Democrats. Mr.. Irby included, to 40, leaving
Messts. Stewart, Jones, Kyle, PETER and
Allen to give the deciding votes on all ques-
lions OF Organization and legislation. Messrs.
Jones, Stewart and PETER have heretofore
been disposed to side with the Republicans
On other than financial questions, while
Messrs. Kyle and Allen have affiliated with
the Democratic side.
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THERE Is a great demand In New York
Olty for a decrease In the price Of bread
owing to the chespness of -four, but no
general reduction has taken place. Small
bakers say that they are doing very badly,
and that the Bread Trust, which Is making
all the money, should reduce their rates.
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A JURY has allowed, ssO, 900 to be paid by
The Government to the Gettysburg penn
Electric Railway Company for the taking OF
lands required to keep the historic bsttle-
1eld intact. .........
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Changes In State Pluralities.
The changes in pluralities made In many
4 the States at the election Of 1894, as COM
,ared with the pluralities at the Presidential
lection of 1892, are given In the following
ohla. -r r.'
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CASSIUS NJ. CLAY MARRIES.
The Eighty-four-Year-Old Kentuck-
ian Weds Girl, Aged Fifteen.

Ian Weds Girl, Aged F11teen.
General Cassius Marcellus Clay, OF Ken
lucky, has Just done one Of the most aston
ishing things Of his sensational career.
Driving to Richmond from Whitehall,
the home Of the Clay family for
generations, he went to the County
Clerks office and secured license
to marry a fifteen-year-old girl, Dora
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IT Is said that about thirty-three per cent:
Georgia was destroyed by the late storm.
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KILLED BY EARTHQUAKES.

Violent Shocks In Bolivia and Along
Chile's Northern Coast.
There have been violent shocks OF earth
quake along the northern coast OF Chile
and In Bolivia.
One hundred people have been killed BY
the seismic disturbances within a radius Of
forty miles from La Paz, Bolivia. The
cathedral has been rendered unsafe One
tower was thrown down.
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Congressional Library building will be
ready for occupancy BY the summer OF 1895.
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GHERARDI RETIRED.
The Distinguished Admiral Leaves
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

When the last gun Of q parting salute Of
thirteen was fred at 1880 q. m. from the
Cob Dock battery at the Brooklyn On. ID
Navy Yard, the nag Of Rear Admiral Ban.
croft Gherardi, the "Admiral Of the Blue"
was slowly hauled down from ITS SIAN
oficer of the United States Navy
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GENERAL HOWARD RETIRED.

He Leaves the Army Under the Time
Limit.
Major-General Oliver Otis Howard has
been retired from active service in the United
States Army under the age limit. With the
exception Of General schoaeld, General
Howard was the last Of the corps command
ers OF the war In active service.
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Mr.. Green accepted the duty and will be-
gin work Immediately upon general plan
of consolidation, which will be passed upon
by the Commission and the details decided
upon later.
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GREATER NEW YORK.

posed Consolidation.
The Greater New York Commission, on
motion of J. 8. 7. Stranahan, settled upon
President Andrew q. Green, the New York
Hnancier, who has been the leader In the
movement to unite the City Of Churches and
New York, tho work and responsibility OF
solidation for submission to the Legislature.
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Total plurality. .174, 1893 Dem l, ,24o, ,S44 Rep