The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-09-06
THE NEWS EPITOMlZED.
Wanllington Itama.


once, the War Department announces.
Advlces received at the State Depart
ment from Honolulu say that the vol
,anlc action OF Mauna Loa has entirely
ceased
General Brooke is to be called TO WASH
lngton to confer with Secretary Root con-
,ernlng affairs In Cuba.
Naval Constructor Hobson, who was as.
signed some time ngo to the overseeing Of
repairs on the Spanish warships raised
from the bottom OF Manila Bay and sent to
Hong Kong, has sent long report to
Resr-Admiral Hlchborn, Chief OF the
Bureau OF Construction, In which he speaks
II the advisablllty OF the United States
Government having a shlp-yard and dry
lock OF Its own at Cavlte. He also wants
10 try to raise several vessels still on the
bottom OF Manila Bay.
The Secretary OF War has directed that
The census Of Cuba shall be completed by
January /, 1900, and General Joseph P.
Sanger, OF the Inspector Generals D epart-
ment, will be assigned to take general
charge of the work, With headquarters at
Havana.
The Customs Division Department In
Cuba has appealed to the War D apartment
for aid In suppressing extensivesmuggling
operations going on In nearly every port
OF the island. As result customs secret
service will ,be organized and vigorous
measures taken to stamp out the lawless
Industry.
The Indian Commissioners appointed to
report on the question OF the gold standard
have sent copies OF their findings to the
Washington authorities.
President Mckinley has written to the
Kaiser expressing pleasure at the appoint
ment Of DR.. Mum.n Won Schwartzensteln as
German Ambassador.
An increase in the salaries OF about one
hundred and eighty persons In the eureau
OF Engraving and Printing has been made
by order OF Assistant Secretary Vanderlip.
Domestic.
West Point Military, Academy Is under
unusually strong guard to provide against
visits from several men. who were dis
honorably discharged.
There is great demand for harvest
laborers in Iowa, and the farmers are now
Offering $3.50 to S3a day and cannot secure
men at that price. The railroads are com
planning that the farmers induced their
section men to leave by Offering higher
wages, and that the work In extending lines
otrailway has been seriously crippled dur
Ing the past two weeks.
The President received an enthusiastic
welcome at the Catholic Summer School on
Lake Chsmplaln and responded to cordial
address by Father Lavelle, who said Fill
pinos would make good citizens.
The believers in Spirltuallsm who have
been seeking place where they migas
found national home have selected site
at East Setauket, LII.
Ellis Rhinehart, who was reported to
have been captured and tortured to death
BY the Fllipinos, has returned to his home
near Fort Wayne, Ind, alive and we'll. He
enlisted for service In the Philippines, but
was discharged for disability before his
regiment sailed from San Francisco.
The boycott on the Big Consolidated
Street Railroad lines In Cleveland, Ohio,
is beginning to lose its force. The. Euclid,
Cedar and Wade Park avenue lines, run
ming to the East End, are we'll patrontzed
ut present, though thousands OF people are
still riding In 'busses.
Every one OF the $4,000 inhabitants Of
Everett, Mass, is being vaccinated by order
Of the Board OF Health.
As the result OF stroke OF lighting,
Thomas Short, a deaf mute, can hear to-
day and Is learning to talk. He was stand
ing in barn at Harpersield, N. Y, re-
Gently when the barn was struck by light
ming. he wa; unconscious for some time.
When he recovered he could hear.
Thomas Houlihan, cashier for a packing
house in Chicago, shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide. Jealousy Is
believed to have been the cause.
Ivy Crabtree, the girl who killed her
brother In an attempt to poison her family.
was arraigned at Carmi, ill.,, before Judge
Pearce, who sentenced her to the peniten.
:iary for eighteen years.
The steamer China, from Yokohama and
Honolulu, arrived at San Francisco. Among
the passengers were Dr.. J. G. schurman::
Of the Philippine Island Commission, and
President OF Cornell University.
Mayor James G.. Woodward, Of Atlanta,
Ga, has promised the City Council that
he will stop his indiscretions and drink.
Ing, and as result the impeachment pro.
ceedlngs against him have been dropped.
Five negro children were burned to
ieath on McKowan's plantation. near
Jackson, La. THE parents locked them ur.
in their house, and went to church. On
:heir return the charred remains OF the lit.
lie ones were found.
Further evidence was produced at the
inquest In the Bridgeport Conn trolley
accident showing the unsafe condition OF
;he track and car.
Mrs. John I. DuDgaa was burned C
ieath at Hartford, Conn. Her husband
las typhoid fever, and while she was fumi-
eating his clothes with sulphur her dress
caught fire.
A feud has broken out between the Rob-
nson and Savage families 10 the noun
aims OF Union County, Tennessee. William
Robinson. Savage fatally wounded Robin
on.
Thomas Martins home at Marion, Va,
gas burned. Martin and his three chill
iren, aged eight, eleven and thirteen years
oerlshed.
The Rev. DR.. Walter NJ. Barrows, pastor
If the Second Congregational Church, In
Greenwich. Conn.,, died at Mackinaw Isl.
md, Mich, from kidney trouble. He
caves ~idcw and several children. He
vas flfty-two years old. Considerable
criticism was heaped upon him for marry
ng Mrs. Henry T. Sloane and Perry Bel
mont.
A Lanarkshlre frm has secured an order
or 10000 tons Of Scotch steel for the
United States.
The Executive Council OF the Transvaal
Re public issued orders to the Field Cor
,ets to give out Mauser rifles In exchange !
Tor Martinl-Henry rifles. A great crowd
to receive the arms.
Seven thousand dollars In bank bills
we're stolen from the Canadian Pacific |
Railway station at Toilette, Quebec. This
8 the third time within three years that |
:he station had been robbed. On the 1rst
occasion the safe was cracked for SG0oO.
The second time $4,000 was taken and the
station burned to cover the crime.