The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-03
Domestic.

Ar New Orleans, La. the Grand Jury
h1ch has been investigating the leyee Hots
eturned indictments for murder against
twenty-elght Of the participants. Il
In the Maine Senate, at Augusta, the wo-
mans Suffrage bill, which had already
passed the House, was rejected by vote Of
II to Is. u,
GENERAL NEAL Dow, 'sthe father of Pro-
hibition," celebrated at Portland Me-, his
ninety-irst birthday. He had many callers.
A TERRIFIC simeon, filling the air with
sand, swept over. Denison, Texas. Houses
were unroofed, trees blown down, and q
great deal Of damage done. "
A. E. BUTLER, Cashier Of the Arlington
(Mass.) National Bank and an Alderman,
committed suicide by shooting. Mr.. Butler
was taken Ill few weeks before with grip
and had been suffering mentally.
JOHN KURTz, asaloon-keeper, and Anthony
Ketchum, an insurance agent, were killed at
fire in New York City, and other tenants
were rescued by heroic firsmen. Kurtz lost
his life while brayely attempting to save bis
wife and children. ~
Eight Mile Creek, Texas, six persons were
killed and as many more manned.
The Danish steamship Horsa left sayan-
nah, Ga, bound for Monrovia, Liberia, with
lS6 colored passengers, men, women and
children, on board. o..
The National Bank OF Kansas City, Mo-,
failed to open its doors. The. assets are
$l 600, with liabilities Of 81 ,050, 900.
The Populist Convention Of the Tenth
Georgia Congress District met at Thomson,
the home OF Thomas E. Watson, and nomi-
mated him unanimously for Congress, to
make the race in the special election made
necessary by the resignation Of Congressman
Black.
PRESIDENT BRowNsoN and Cashier Morgan,
Of the wrecked Chenango Valley Savings
Bank, Binghamton, were arrested.
WHILE Frederick Marcott, the inventor of
a patent rope flre-escape, and his cousin.
an exhibition at Duluth, Mimi, the rope
broke, and they fell sixty feet. The boy was
instantly killed. Marcott was fatally in
jured.
The Supreme Court OF Illinois gave
decision declaring that the eight-hour law,
or, as it Is generally known, the sweatshop
law, Is unconstitutional. About 10000
women in Illinois who work in factories are
affected. NlEz
PASSENGERS from Cuba brought areport to
Key West, Fla, that the Spanish gilpboat
Arcedo fired on and sank an AMsrican'
schooner of Puerto del Padre, and that the!
crew Of sixteen was lost.
GOVERNOR MoINTlRE, OF Colorado, offered.
$1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction OF
the lynchers Of Italians at Walsenburg. He
received telegram from the State Depart
ment at Washington saying that the Presi-
dent approved his course.
DANIEL WARD, who was arrested in Bos-
ton, has been identified as one OF the gang
who tried to burn New York City during the
War.
TIE fifth attempt to burn Algons, Iowa,
was made. Four business houses were
burned. The militia was then placed on
guard.
The New Jersey Senate, as High Court OF
Impeachment. removed Justice Connolly, OF
Bayonne, from Office.
POLICE CAPTAIN Cross and Wardman
George Smith, who were dismissed from the
New York force by the Police Commissioners
as guilty OF extortlon and neglect OF duty,
were reinstated by decision OF the General
Term OF the Supreme Court.
The General Term of the New York Su-
preme Court ordered a new trial for Erastus
Wiman, convicted last summer on charge
Of forgery.
BETWEEN 100000 and $3.50, 900 in money
and bonds, which was in care OF the Adams
Express Company, was believed to have been
destroyed in q fire which followed the smash
ing passenger train at Terre Haute, Ind.
JOHNSON JACOB, full-blooded Choctaw,
was executed by shooting at the Pushmata
District Court House, Indian Territory, for
the murder of his wife.
WREcKAas from the steamer Chicora.
which was lost with twenty-four persons on
board several weeks ago, has begun coming
ashore at St. Joseph, Mich.