The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Homo and Abroa

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Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
Four men were instantly killed by the cx-
plosion of the boiler Of a portable sawmill at
Afford, two miles from Petersburg, Ind. Four
Others were severely injured. The German
emperor, in his speech on the opening of the
rcichstag, expressed the opinion that the peace
of Europe would not be broken. .....New York
policemen arrested two men carrying a trunk.
and, on Investigating tie case, ascertained that
they were burg ars who had just robbed a lace
store of goods to the value of S12, 000, with
which they were hurrying off ......A man who
was restrained from committing suicide by
jumping from a New York dock, announced
that he had just arrived from Kingston, West
Indies, and that while there he had murdered
a man. Ever since he had been so haunted by
conscience and rcmorsc that he wished to end
his miserable existence $500. Washingtons BIRTH
day was celebrated with the usual customs
throughout the country .....A scandal-monger
having circulated stories defamatory Of the
character of Mrs. Della G.. Brewer. a respccta-
BILE married woman of New York, the matter so
proved upon the mind of Mrs. Brewer, as to UNI
hinge her intellect and cause her to commit
suicide by jumping from the top of her house.
......Four men were instantly killed and seven
injured by a boiler explosion in the Clifton nail
factory III Pomeroy, Ohio. One boy was blown
seventy feet in the air.
VIM. Z. Blewit's laundry in Belleville, n. j.,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, 49, coo insur-
ance. 50, 800. 80. The Apache Indians have
cleared the valley of Madalina, Sonora, of all
the stock and killed several of the residents
Other outrages are reported from the vicinity
OF Dcadwcod. Dakota. 800. Russia notifies ship
owners that she is placing torpedoes in the
Black sea-. The Society for the Suppression
Of Vice has succeeded in closing the Clinton
medical institute, New York city, and a~rrestins
the managers for flooding the country with in
decent books. $3.50. European dispatches state
that Adelina Patti (marquise of CauN) elopcd
from st. Petersburg with the tenor, Nlcollna.
......Therc is talk of winding up the affairs of
the Shawmu insurance company of Boston.
Indians attacked two cattle trains near Dead
wood, Dakota, killing two men and wounding
another. They ran off the stock IA horse
thief named Case was hanged by 4 crowd in
Alexandria, La. He had previously shot his
captor twice. MORALLY. .....lt is charged that
Gen. John Macarthur. who has just resigned
the poSt-oflicc in Chicago, is 4 defaulter i'll
$500. Miners at Londonderry. Canada,
having struck. their places were filled with
other men, who were attacked by the strikers.
and a general riot occurred. during which one
man was killed and a number wounded $3.50.
The funerol of the ex-Fenian chief john
o hahonev. was nuInerously attended in Cork.
The coffin was covered with the flag of the
Si~Xtv-Einth (New York; regiment Gen.
Cortina, who has given the Americans on the
Mexican border so much cause for complaint,
has been put under arrest for not complying
with the order of President Diaz, to present
himself at the city of Mexico. ..... Fox's Thea
ter in Philadelphia was completely destroyed
by fire, together with the Mercantile Library
and a number of adjacent mercantile houses.
The aggregate losses are heavy. One man was
killed and several injured by falling walls......
Indictments for perjury III signing false state
mentS has been found against the president
and secretary of the st. Louis Life Association
of America. $500. The German bark Franklin,
from New York for Hamburg. foundered at sea.
and all on board persisted at least such Is the
suprosition The schooners Joseph Hedden,
Walter Freeman and BENZ. Willis were lost on
the Long Island coast during the recent gale
and eleven lives were sacrificed .... Yrs. Hiram
Young. Of Newark. Vt, while insane from
hrooling over the d~escrtion of her husband,
killed her little boy and girl with an ak.
Lieut.. Cummins, with a company Of infantry,
attacked a small Indian village, forty miles
from Deadwood. Dakota, and after n sharp
fight drove out the braves and captured a large
amount of property. including live stock. That
night, the Savages, having been reinforced,
raldcd on tho soldiers camp, but were promptly
driven of......The Mexican election resulted
i'll the selection of Gen. DiaZ for president and
lgnacio Vallarte for chief justice. An assassin
attempted to kill the archbishop of the city of
Mexico, but vas diSarIned and arrested. 500.
1t 1t announced from Nova Scotia that in con-
sequence of the use of an old seal on official
papers instead of the last adopted great seal,
all the acts since 1869. requiring the great seal,
were null and void. Special legislation will be
required to lcgalize t!Icm.... J. ?. Hassler,
late cashier Of the Carlisle pa bank, was
arrested for defrauding the bank out of n large
sum of money. He was released in order to
find bail. but instead of looking, went and
hanged himself to 4 rafter from which. in 1865,
he cut down his predecessor, Cashier Bcrtraln,
who also was a defanlter. IAN institution
containing 1873 deaf and dumb scholars, near
Council Bluffs. Iowa, was entirely consumed by
fire, involving a loss of 800, 900. The inmates
fortunately escaped unharmed $500. Blythe fall
ing of q scaffold in a blast furnace in Bethle-
hem. Pa, SIX men were precipitated seventy
feet, killing two of them outright, fatally wound
ing two and severely injuring the others.
Smallpox does not seem to decrease much in
London. The last weeks report shows 104
deaths from the disease ...... The whaling
steamer Spitzbergen. belonging to Dundee,
Scotland, has been lost near Bergen. All hands,
numbering twenty-five persons, persisted. .....
A dispatch from Cheyenne agency says 900
Sioux Indians arrived there from the hostile
camp on Tongue river, surrenderinS their arms
and three hundred ponies -. Rev. Chas.
Thorpe, Episcopal minister at Berry, Canada,
deserted his wife and family to elope with a
young lady of his congregation ...... The will
of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, under which
the son William H. was to receive the larger
share of the immense property, is contested by
the other members of the family. The most
noted counsel in the country have been retained.
...:..T hos. MacDuNy, confidential clerk of the
well known lumber firm of Gilmour & Co., To-
Gated at Montreal. Canada, is a dcfaulter to the
amount of 80. 600 ..... The heaviest verdict
ever given by 4 jury for personal damages is
probably tina. just settled at Poughkeepsie By
Henry Aston. Of the wealthy family of hstors,
who was obliged to pay the sum of t2O, 900 for
i~ni'lcting permanent injuries Oh the little child
Of one Of his tenants by pushing her out of a
chair. The principal, interest and costs amount
cd t. :22,S14.