The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-28
LATER NEWS.

FIRE did $40, 900 damageto the Bath (Me)
Iron Works. I
GOVERNOR McKrSLEr was nominated for
the Presidency in '9S by tho Convention Of
Republican Clubs in Columbus, Ohio.
WILLIAM ARTMASS, farmer, living about
six miles northeast OF Tell City, Ind, killed
his wife and eldest son while insane. he
stamped his wife to death. The eldest boy,
aged twelve, tried to defend his mother and
was killed.
SEVEN persons we're killed in Penzlin, Ger
many, by the collapse of a church tower dur
ing storm.
BANK TELLER DRYDEN. of Charleston, W.
Va. shot himself because his 1ancee, Ken
tucky girl, broke the engagement.
MORE than thirty lives we're lost and thou.
sands of cattle persisted in the blizzard in
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
IT is thought that Secretary Carlisle will
issue more bonds shortly. !
INCREASED internal revenue receipts indl-
cate that business is reviving.
The United States demurrer to the claim
for 1926, 900 arising out Of the seizure of the
Itata was overruled by the Chilean Claims
Commission.
The President has nominated Eugene
Townsend. of Pennsylvania, to be SuperinI
tendent Of the United States Mint at Phila-:
delphia John r. Reid, Of Pennsylvania, to
be Collector of Customs for the District Of
Philadelphia P. Gray Meek, of PennsyL
vania, to be Surveyor OF Customs for the
Port OF Philadelphia.
HANS VoN Bulow the distinguished Ger.
man pianist, is dead. He was born January
8, 1880, at Dresden; he studied under Rich
ard Wagner and List.
COLONEL GREooR1oFF was hanged as spy
at Odessa, Russia. For two years he had
betrayed Russian military secrets to Austria,
although he was commanding o regiment of
Russian cavalry. He received $4,000 annu-
ally from Austria for his services.
The Turks killed 125 Armenians in the re-
cent riots.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has recommended
that the beacon ofthe Statue OF Liberty, New
York Harbor, be extinguished.
TIE Massachusetts Legislature has abol-
ished Fast Day.
FrsE destroyed part Of the colonnade be-
tween the Agricultural Building and Ma
chinery Hall in the Worlds Fair Grounds,
Chicago.
L. ROWLAND, who attempted suicide with
morphine at Paragoula, Ark, was saved by
permanganate OF potash, the new antidote.
DEMOCRATIC members of the Senate Fl.
nance Committee agreed to increase the
whisky tax to S1.2O gallon.
PosrmAsrER-GENERA1 BIssELL has forbid
the payment of money orders and delivery
of registered letters to the lottery company
at Port Tampa, Fla.
The Senate refused to conhrmthe nomina-
tion Of Benjamin Lenthier, of Massachusetts.
10 be Consul at Sherbrooke, Canada.
At the Plymouth conference OF the British
National Liberal Federation the House OF
Lords was denounced and its abolition de-
manded.
The Paris police have succeeded in fixing
the identity Of the man who threw the bomb
In the cafe OF the Hotel Terminus. His
name is Emile Henry and he is an active An
archist.
PRESIDENT PEl1oro, OF Brazil, discovered
a plot for the secession OF the State OF Per.
nambuco from the Republic.
YELLOW fever is killing off the crews OF
American merchantmen at Bio, Brazil. Ad-
miral Benham has sent the cruisers Newark
and Detroit away.