The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-02
South and West.

CARL SCHURz was reelected President OF
the National Civil Service Reform League at
Chicago. George McAnany, OF New York,
was elected Secretary and Silas W. Burt, OF
New York, Treasurer.
AT Fort Jones, CAL, a masked mob took
William Dean, an Indian, who murdered
William Barmore, from the custo ly OF Con-
table Dixon and hanged him to a derrick.
TIE death of Gaul, one Of the noted Sioux
chiefs. is reported from. Standing Rock
(South Dakota) Agency. he was next TO
Sitting Bull In rank as chief.
TEE jury in the case OF the eleven man
charged with lynching the six colored pris-
oners near Memphis, Tenn, brought in a
verdict OF not guilty. ~
GOVERNOR BRowN ordered Colonel E. N.
Gather, OF the Second Kentucky Regiment,
| 10 20 to Hazard, Perry County, where the
French-Eyersole fued has broken out
again.
JUDGE Corr decided against the State OF
South Carolina In the case involving the
arms of the Washington Light Infantry, OF
Charleston, which Governor Tlllman re-
1uired the company to surren Ter for In
subordination during the dlspensary riots.
JAMES GrLLrALLIN, Chief Justice OF Min
nesota, died In st. Paul. ~
Dakota to locate on the forfeited right OF
way Of the st. Paul road.
TIE home of the Rev. Solomon Becker
man, at Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by
fire and his two little daughters, aged seven
and eleven years. were burned to death.
"GEN." AND JOHN KENNEDY, murderers,
were hanged at Jasper, Tenn. Both men
made confession before the drop fell, and
the General also stated that they had been
implicated In other robberles.
Washington.
TEE President renominated Interstate
Commerce Commissioner ]. @. Clements.
Thomas j. Clarke was appointed Superln.
tendent Of Mails In the New York Postomce.
The Senate confirmed the following nomi-
nations Edward n. Strobel, OF New York,
to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Chile Herbert @. Squiers,
OF New York, second Secretary Of Embassy
at Berlin. s>2 ha
SECRETARY LAMONT decided that the pro-
posed New York and New Jersey Bridge
must be suspension, single span structure.
PROFESSOR LANaLEY's aeroplane was sue.
Washington.
DkCAuSE VI q CUT III "akCo GA tu0 So@S VI
the Metropolitan Stree. Railroad Company,
in Washington, were left standing In the
streets, and many were lifted from thetrac
by the strikers and their sympatbizers.
TIE Pension Appropriation bill, which
carries S141, 1881, $50, was passed In the House
without amendment.
TIE Senate laid aside the Japanese treaty
to await an investigation OF the massacre at
Port Arthur. a. .. r
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied by
DR.. O'Rsilly, Captain r. D. Evans and
Charles Jefferson, left Washington for brtef
hunting trip on the coast Of South Carolina.
TIE Senate confirmed the nomination of
John B. Jackson, Of New Jersey, formerly
Second Secretary OF Legation OF the United
States at Berlin, Germany, to be. Secretary
OF Embassy OF the United States at that
place.
TIE President approved the act providing
for the dedication OF the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Park, September 10,
1895. "
CHAIRMAN SPRINGER presented the Car
Isle Currency bill to the House, together
with the majority report of his committee.
The President nominated Charles D.
Clark, Of Tennessee. to be United States Dis
trlct Judge for the Eastern and Middle Dis
tricts Of Tennessee, vice David NJ. Key, re-
tired. Humphrey B. Hamilton, OF New
Mexico, to be Associate Justice Of the Su-
preme Court OF the Territory ofNew Mexico.
Thomas O'Hara, OF Michigan, to be Consul
OF the United States at San Juan Del Norte,
Nicaragua.