The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Iter.s from Homo and Abroad.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Iter.s from Homo and Abroad.
James Baird, the millionaire ironmaster who
recently gave S2,500,000 to the Scottish
church, is dead 80. The mother OF the late
sultan is credited with having instigated and
planned the recent assassination Of tho Tur-
kish ministers out of revcnge..... The war
between Egypt and Abyssipia being over, tho
army cf the former power is returning home
..... Three men we're instantly killed by the
explosion Of the tugbost Workman in New
York harbor .. e. H. Rollins, Republican,
has been elected to the United States Senate
by the New Hampshire Legislature ...... The
Bay sugar refinery Of San Francisco, seven
story brick block, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$3.50, 900 insurance, 1925, ,0O0.. Treasurer
New and Solicitor Wilson have resigned.
Nicsic has at last been relieved by the Turksi
-. Miners wages in West Yorkshire, Eng
land, are to be reduced twelve and one-half
per cent. -. Senator Morrill,, OF Maine, has
been unanimously confirmed as secretary of
the treasury. -. Since the withdrawal of the
British man-of-war Ariel from Whydah, the
king Of Dahomey again refuses to pay the fine
recently imposed by the British commodore,
He e6itt, for maltreating British subject......
During the month Of May there were 2,099
cases Of plague at Bagdad, Of which !, 222 were
fatal ... BY an explosion in one Of Woolf's
frework shops at Greenville N. j., the entire
building was demolished, and Of the twenty
young girls and boys employed therein two
we're killed, five fatally injured and nine
others more or less burned by the illuminate
or disabled by the falling building. "A ter
rife hailstorm occurred near Muskogee, ILL.,,
and completely devastated a section Of country
varying from one-half to two miles in width.
Mr.. Blaine overe1erted himself to make
speech at Hayes ratification meeting in
Washington, and has suffered relapse in
consequence. >. :. The controller Of New York
city having advertised for bids for ss,ooo,ooo
worth Of six per cent bonds, received various
offers ranging from 1O5.50 to 101.. The
Dreadnaught, Estelle, Arrow and Orion were
winners in the first contest Of the international
yacht regatta, off New York city,. The fol-
lowing are the announced dates for college and
amateur sports at Saratoga this season Col
lege regatta, July 1S and 10; college athletic
sports, July 20 and 81; fourth annual grand
international amateur regatta of the Saratoga
rowing association August Z and 9; interua-
tional collegiate regatta, August II, at which
the foreign university crews will contest the
viotors CT the college regatta. The guards
Of the Salt Lake City penitentiary were over
powered by seven prisoners, who made good
their escape after fatally wounding the prison
cook. .. VIM. Adm was hanged in Cleveland,
Ohio. for the murder Of his wife, step-daughter
and another woman. 49,. John Haney and
George Walker, two tramps, stole boat on
the Delaware river, and while endeavo-ing to
pass through Fiddler's Elbow, a rif. below
Milford, Pa, were overturned and Crowned.
Gen.: Crooks command had fight with
Sioux Indians, in which nearly one hundred of
the latter were killed, with loss to the expe-
dition of nine dead and tRenty-one wounded.
......A colored murderer was taken from the
Jail at Burlington, KY, by mob Of masked
men, who intended to hang him. On the way
to the place selected, the mau broke away and
ran, when he was brought down with pistol
shot, instantly hung to tree, and his body
riddled with bullets ...... Paris, KY, has had
ten or twelve buildings, including church,
destroyed by tornado which swept through
the town. -. Scotland won the international
rifle challenge trophy-the score standing:
Scotland, 1926 England, 1,2O1; Ireland, 1,14O.
...... James Courtright has pleaded guilty at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Of embezzling 500, 900 while
county treasurer ...... Minnesota's growing
wheat crop has been seriously damaged by
recent unfavorable weather. .....A CONSTANT
nople correspondent writes that the irregular
Turkish troops committed terrible atrocities in
Bulgaria during the insurrec6on, and names
thirty-seven villages which were completely
destroyed and the inhabitants either killed or
driven away. Among the refugees there we're
no girls over ten years Of age, the Turks hav-
ing carried off all the older ones. The number
of people msssacred is estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000. The English ambassador
called the attention Of the Turkish authorities
to the matter.
Mr.. Sayler, Of Ohio, has been elected Speaker
pro tenn. Of the House-Mr. Cox having left
his duties to attend to politics. -. Two Of
the northern spans of the railroad bridge
across the Mississippi river at Kansas City
have been burned. The loss is estimated at
100000. 1t viii probably take two weeks to
repair the bridge. AT Robinson, ILL.,, a
desperate murderer, who attacked and nearly
killed the sheriff when locking up the pris-
oners for the night, was taken out Of jail by
crowd and hung ...... A mail train ran off the
track near Cervia, Spain, and seventeen pas
sengers were killed and thirty-seven wounded.
$500. .Mrs. Larry McCarty and her daughter
were burned to death by the explosion of o
kerosene lamp in Ogdensburgh, N. Y......
Samuel Nenemacher attempted to go down
a foul well in Philadelphia, when he was over
powered by the gases and fell into the water.
John Solomon went to his rescue, but was also
overcome. Both men expired before aid could
be extended.
The noted Bishop Oummins died in Balti-
more county, Nd, aged fifty-four years.....
The war in Honduras, Central America, is still
undecided. The aid expected from Guatemala
by the revolutionary chief, Medina, has not
been received ...... Venezuela has declared
the church and State separate. All the con-
vents have been suppressed and their endow-
ments given to various charitable institutions.
....Abase ball game between the Yale and Har-
ward mines was won by the former. -. Trouble
is brewing between China and England. :.
The schooner B. P. Chase lost her foremast by
lightning and one Of the crew was killed by
the same agency ...... By an explosion in the
oolliery pit at Sheffield, Eng, six men were
killed. :. . The English are strengthening the
fortress at Gibraltar by all the means that can
be devised.
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS-.