The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08

Prince Luigi, Of Savoy, and his party OF
Italians reached the summit Of Mount st.
Elias July 81, at II o'clock noon. The alti-
tude indicated by the mercurial barometer
is Is, 100 feet. It Is the most successful ex-
pedition ever undertaken. The party was
flfty-one days on snow and Ice without
sickness or accidents.
Mary Kyle Dallas, the well-known poet
authoress, expired at her home in New YORK
City Of heart failure. She was about sixty
years Of age.
Reports received at Little Rock, Ark, in
dicate that six Of the colored men impli-
Gated in the murder of Johnson and the
assault on Hanley in Cleburne County have
been lynched. Eight lynchings occurred
In the State in four days.
Gal" Hankins, a Chicago gambler, was
killed by the collapse Of his folding-bed.
Commander Booth Tucker returned from
Europe with the assent Of General Booth
to 90 ahead with his colonization schemes
In the Southwest.
Jacob Barber, child Of four years, was
shot through the heart near the village OF
Langford, n. Y. His mother is thought to
have done the deed and is believed to be In
sane. The mother was not arrested, but Is
being watched. It is said her actions have
been strange for some time.
The Western Passenger Association re-
fused to make special rates for New York
buyers.
Former Judge Dillon announced that he
would urge the Gould family to criminally
prosecute the conspirators who, using Mrs.
Angel as dupe, plotted to obtain share
Of the late multi-millionaire's fortune.
The question of applying the new jury
law in the trial Of Adolph L. Luetgert in
Chicago was settled by the prosecution ac-
quiescing in the objections Of the defence.
In Brooklyn Mrs. Otillia King, former
actress, OF Vienna, shot herself after an un-
successful attempt to kill Placida Saitto.
G. D. Leggs large poultry house at
T1scola, Ill.,, was destroyed by an incendi-
ary fire, and Robert Lathrom's body was
found in the ruins,
The Seattle (Wash.) authorities COM
PEELED the overloaded Alaska schooner
Moonlight to carry less freight.
A train in the coal city branch Of the Al
ton road was ditched near Branchville,
Iowa. The wreck is believed to be the
work Of striking miners. The engineer and
Hremen were killed.
A sudden and heavy rainfall caused great
damage by floods In New York City and
Brooklyn.
Mrs. W. L. Scruggs, wife Of the ex-
Minister to Venezuela, who was Injured on
August IA by falling from train, died at
Atlanta, Ga.
The Futurity Stakes, the great race Of
the Coney Island Jockey Clubs fall meet
ing, was won by Thompson Brothers t!ly
L'Alouette. The track was muddy and the
time, although good. was not fast.
Fire almost destroyed Alva, Oklahoma.
The loss Is $50, 900. The town has 1000 pop
ulation. The town is new, having only
been built four years, and the whole busi-
ness portion consisted OF wooden struc-
tureS
L boiler exploded in ". q. Halliday's
brickyard at Cairo, Ill. Riley Bradley, the
engineer; Gideon Ricks, a moulder, and
Henry Schiller, temperer, were instantly
killed. Eight other men were badly scaided
or otherwise injured. The injured are all
colored except Schiller.
The trial Of Adolph L. Luetgert, the
ssusage-maker, for the alleged murder OF
his wife, began at Chicago. .
The full-blooded Cherokees threaten vio-
lence If their tribal government be abol-
ished.
Cotton mills in Fall River, Lowell, Man
chester and other New England centers re-
sumed operations.
W.K. vanderbilt's estate at Islip, Long
Island, has been assessed this year for
S250, 900, an increase Of 200 per cent over
last year. The owner has entered pro-
test, and the small taxpayers OF the place
object to a reduction.
Ex-Police Captain Nathaniel R. Mills was
Instantly killed in runaway at New York
City, a Fire Department team dashing him
against an elevated railway pillar ON Co
lumbus avenue.
The Davis will case of Butte, Montana,
has been settled after seven years OF litiga-
tion, under which the estate shrank In
value S5,000,O0o
A policeman, Charles Hemminger, sur
prised burglars in the basement of Isaac
Harter & Sons savings bank at Canton,
Ohio. The burglars lookout opened fire
on the officer, and the latter shot one OF
the men who had been in the cellar. The
burglar died at the hospital later without
revealing his identity. The burglars had
big lot of tools and explosives in the cellar,
and were, no doubt, professionals.
New York Anarchists have retained coun-
gel to prevent the exclusion Of their fellows
coming here from Europe.
California papers say that the States
dried apricot crop this year VIII I'LL lOOu
cars.
William W. Lawrence shot and danger
ously wounded Judge Seaver, of Woodstock,
Vt, the crime being the outcome OF domes-
tic difficulty between Lawrence and his
wife, which had come up before Judge Sea-
yer for decision.