The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


SUMMARY Uf NEWS
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
Prince Milan, Of servis, has declared war
against Turkey. 49, Colorado voted, by q large
majority, to become one Of the States of the
Union-masing the thirty-eighth. 80. By the
overturning Of a rowboat at Passaic, N. j.,
four men we're drowned. ..Th, United States
debt statement shows the total indebtedness
to be s404, 723, Col. 06-a reduction Of IS. $751;
s97 during the month Of Juno ...... A violent
storm at Fort Madison, Iowa, did great dam
age to property. a Catholic church was utterly
demolished by it's steeple falling upon it......
Orson a. House, a noted advertising divorce
lawyer, doing business in New York, WAS shot
and killed by his reputed wife, at his residence
at Lawrence Station, N. j. Mrs. House was
o divorced woman whom House, also divorced,
had married. They quarreled whenever they
met. House was ill-treating her, when she
picked up a pistol and shot him dead. he had
made much money in his divorce business.
The jury decided that the deceased came to
his death from a pistol shot wound inflicted by
o pistol in the hands Of Irene r.. House, and
chat the act was willful and deliberate. Mrs.
House shows great grief and says the pistol
went off accidentally. ..... The race against
time at Fleetwood park, N. Y, was won by
John Murphy, who rode 155 miles il six hours,
forty-Ave minutes and seven seconds-ffty-
four minutes and ffty-three seconds ahead Of
time. The horses ridden we're not thorough
breds, nor what could be called frst-class run
ming horses, but they we're all good, heavy
animals. In the first ten miles Murphy
changed horses six times, covering the dis
lance in twenty-four minutes and sixteen and
three-quarter seconds.
Gen. Custer found an Indian encampment Of
two thousand lodges on the Little Horn, and
charged the thickest portion of it with FIVE
companies Of cavalry, leaving Major Reno to
attack the othor side Of the camp with seven
other companies. The Indians, being in great
numbers, repulsei Clusters charge, and threw
themselves upon his command in such num-
beers and vith such ferceness as to utterly an
initiate the entire five companies, including
Gen. Custer, his two brothers, nephew and
br~other-in-law, all of whom fell fighting at the
head Of the column. Three hundred and
fifteen Of the troops were killed, Of whom
seventeen were commissioned officers. Major
Reno was surrounded by the savages, who kept
his command an entire day without water,
when he WAS relieved by Gibbons command.
The Indians captured all the arms Of The
killed. ...!
kilograms from various parts of the country
bring reports of oonfagrations and accidents
on the fourth ...... During q thunder shower
at Elmira, N. Y, lightning struck an umbrella
under which two men we're walking, instantly
killing Samuel Gross and injuring Michael
Rohar. The governor of the Dutch East
Indies confirms the report Of the loss Of the
steamer Lieutenant-Ge General Kroesen in the
straits OF Sunda.- Two hundred and thirty
persons we're drowned. 800. Although the great
powers of Europe are putting their armies on
a war footing, they will all remain neutral dur
ing the trouble between Servia and Turkey.
There has been an engagement between the
tro ,ps Of the two powers, and both claim the
victory BY one train Of cars running into
the rear of another near Elm Station, Pa two
mon men were killed and five others injured.
4 terrific storm passed over portions Of Iowa
and did great damage. The village Of Book
Dale, near Dubuque, was overwhelmed with
water and forty-two persons were drowned.
Twenty-nine buildings were destroyed in Bur-
lington and three persons were killed and
others wounded By falling buildings.
Extensive piano frauds in selling inferior
instruments as those Of well known manufac-
turers have been discovered. ....Gen. Clusters
defeat peems to be due to his Understanding
the strength of the enemy, and to the fact that
the two ~detachments Of his regiment were
unable to attack simultaneously. The Indians
were very heavily armed, and were under COM
mand OF Sitting Bull, the most determined
and brave of hostile Indians, who has never
made a treaty with the government ..... Gen.
Santa Anna, the noted Mexican, has just died,
in his seventy-eighth year...... E1-Speaker
Blaine ia still confined to his bed most of the
time. ..... Massachusetts has disbanded thirty
companies Of her militia ...... The disaster at
Rockdale, Iowa, was caused by The breaking Of
q dam, which was unable to hold the amount
Of. water which fell heavily for three hours.
The village, containing two hundred inhabi-
tauts, was built in a ravine, and the flood car
ried of every building except the mill, and
forty-two persons are missing, many Of whose
bodies have been found miles away. The
storm did great damage to crops In the central
part Of tho State also, and fifteen persons are
reported killed in that section.
The servians defeated the Turks and cap
tured the town of Raohka, and the Turks were
successful over the Servians at Belina. 900.
Later accounts Of the Sioux massacre show
that Col. Reno's command narrowly escaped
the fate Of Clusters, as they had been
surrounded and fighting the ssyages for
hours, when relieved by Gen.
Terry. Twelve hundred Indians left the Red
Cloud agency to join Sitting Bull ...... A bill
has been introduced in Congress to enable the
President to accept the services of volunteers
from the far Western States, to be used against
the Indians. 49,. Senator Morrill, has qualified
as secretary Of the treasury ...... The vacant
senatorship from Maine has been offered to
Mr.. Blaine ...... A four-year-old daughter Of
J. Wiley fell into a millpond at Ashburnham,
Mass, when her sister, aged eight years,
jumped in after her, and both were drowned.
..... The Centennial commission, by a vote
of thirty to pine, decided not to open on
Sunday.
In accepting the nomination Of the Republi-
can national convention for the Presidency,
Gov. Hayes, Of Ohio, declares that, IL elected,
he will accept the position for one term only.
......An explosion Of fire damp has occurred
at L'Hopitsl coliery, near st. Avoid, France.
Forty-two persons we're killed and forty-seven
seriously injured ...... The notable Castle
Garden in New York city was destroyed by fire
Sunday. 1t was one of the oldest landmarks
loft in the city, and has been used for a num-
Der Of years as an immigrant depot. Jenny
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