The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-22
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Interestiur Items from Home and Abroad.
A London dispatch says the Turks won a
great victory over the Russians at Plevna. The
cars troops we're routed after two days fight
ing, with a loss Of 5000 killed and $4,000
wounded. ... Frank Walworth, who murdered
his father in q hotel in New York q few years
ago, and was sentenced to imprisonment for
life, has been pardoned by the governor. .....
At Scranton, Pa, men employed in the blast
furnaces and machine shopsof the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal Company resumed work, and
threats were thereupon made by the other en-
ployees, who were out on strike, that those who
had gone to work would be removed by force:
At eleven A. NJ. q crowd numbering several
thousand persons marched to the machine
shops of the company, burst open the doors
and drove the men from their work. They
then proceeded to the engine room and as
saulted and severely injured the engineer. A
machinist who tried to escape through a win
dow was attacked with stones and pieces OF
iron and left for dead on the threshold o. his
home. The crowd then rushed to the COM
pany's Office, where they met Mayor McKune,
who entreated them to desist- He was imme-
diately set upon and felled to the ground, and
would have been killed had not the Rev. J. W.
Dunn, q Catholic priest, interceded. The mayor
and the clergyman were both injured and
sought safety in flight. Hearing Of the mayors
danger, o company Of about thirty special
policemen, armed with rifles, hurried to his
assistance and halted at the corner Of Lacka-
wanna and Wyoming avenues, where an i'm
mense throng had assembled. Persons in the
crowd began throwing stones and jeering the
company. A signal Of the mayor, motioning
the crowd away, was interpreted by the police
as an order to fire, and two volleys were poured
into the dense throng. The people fed pre-
.:z;koko1, o~l Svho, Tho opool,a ~ tho rfdou
had cleared away q terrible sight WAS dis
closed. Charles Dunleavy lay at the corner Of
the street with the top Of his head blown OF.
In the middle Of the street was Patrick Langan
with his bowels p%rotruding, while Patrick Lane
was terribly mutilated, and died in o few
minutes. Charles Phillips, q cripple, was ter
ribly injured, and two members Of the Citizens
Committee were shot, but not fatally. Many
others were injured, but were instantly re-
moved by friends. At Wilkesbarre, Pa, q
crowd Of seven thousand persons attacked q
mail train that was about to leave the Lehigh
Valley depot. The engineer was stoned and
forced off the train, and the conductor would
have been killed but for the interference Of
friends. The strikers then took possession Of
the engine and ran it up and down the track,
blowing the whistle and cheering. Many pas
sengers were detained in the place.
A hotel at Grimsby, England, at which q
newly-elected member of Parliament WAS stop
ping, was attacked by a large mob, who at
tempted to set it on fire ...... Gov. Hsrtranft
with two thousand troops proceeded to the
mining regions Of Pennsylvania on the day
after the scenes Of bloodshed and violence at
Scranton and Wilkesbarre. An attempt was
made to stop a train containing a large military
force on the way to Scranton, about twenty
miles from the city. The railroad track was
torn up for some distance, but an advance
guard Of the military captured about sixty per-
sons engaged in the work Of destruction and
compelled them to replace the rails, after which
they were sent to Wilkesbarre and locked up.
A large body Of miners at Shenandoah, Pa,
also struck for an increase of wages, and nearly
the them whole 1Ss mini mining region ns Of the State Stat s Wi1i;sm
Campbell was killed and five others were
wounded during a shooting ARRAY which arose
ont of a slight alteration jay Gould was
attacked in q street in New York by Q Spectator
named Selover and hurled over q railing into an
area, sustaining slight injuries. Financial diff
culties led to the assault on the well-known
stock operator. BY o recent order Of the
New York board Of police officers are empow-
cred to arrest without warrant such liquor
dealers as have not complied with the laws
rigidIy enforced, which will have the effect, it
is claimed, Of compelling o large number Of
persons engaged in the sale Of liquor to close
up......R P. Tolle was MORALLY stabbed by
Johnson Mckay at Orangeburg, Ky. -.
A suit for libel has been commenced by
Senator Sargent, Of California, against the San
Francisco Chronicle, and the proprietors Of
that paper applied to the officials at Washing
ton for copies Of letters written by the senator
recommending persons to Office. Attorney
General Devens decided that letters OF recon-
mendation were not a part Of the official
records, and the application was denied. .:...
A fire that broke out in tho cellar Of q cigar
box mandatory in Cincinnati spread rapidly
to the roof before all the employees-many OF
whom we're females could make their escape.
Several girls were seen in the third-story win
dows with their dresses on fire, and in a short
time they disappeared from view. After the
fire had been su5dued the charred and dis
figured remains Of four girls and two men
were taken from the ruins. Two other girls
and two men were fatally injured. The
secretary of the treasury has issued the fifty
fourth call for the redemption Of &c. 600 900
in ive-twenty bonds. 49,. The sum OF $50, OoO;-
900 in surplus greenbacks-for which there is
no d%emand-is said to be on deposit ct the
treasury ...... A gambler from San Francisco,
named Murphy, shot himself dead in q New
York gambling saloon after losing s300......
The inquest on the victims Of the riot in Balti-
more resulted in the coroner's jury generating
the militia from responsibility. .....A great
many liquor saloons in New York took out
hotel licenses in order to meet the require
ments Of the liquor w......W While seven men
were at work on a scaffold above a furnace in
Pittsburgh, Pa, the rope supports caught fire
fiery depths. Michael Cusick and julius Hard
ing were taken out dead and the other five were
fatally burned.
A little girl named Stone, only twelve years
old, belonging in Boggs township, Pa, COM
manded John Woolsencroft, q boy Of ten. to
was carrying, and upon his refusal to do 40 she
shot him dead witha gun. At the Same time the
girl-murderer's sick father, to whose bedsidc
the parents Of the boy-victim had gone, died.
......A fire was discovered at eleven o'clock at
night in the %poorhouse OIL the Industrial farm
near Simcoe, Ont, and as the building WAS Of
wood it was soon totally destroyed. On &C
count of tho lateness Of the hour only a few
persons were present at the fire, and these
could do nothing to save the inmates, seventeen
OF whom were burned to death ...... A recent
decision of the New York court Of appeals
was interpreted by the corporation counsel Of
the city Of New York to signify that by the laws
Of 1857 it was q legal ofense for anybody to
sell liquor in quantities less than one gallon,
except innkeepers duly licensed, while the laws
forbidding the sale Of liquors and ale and beer
on Sunday applied to all without discrimination;
and in accordance with this Interpretation OF
the law the police raided a large number Of
small liquor saloons and arrested the proprie-
tors. The New York Society for the Proven
ton OF Crime reports that there are 7,S74 liquor
saloons in the city, Of which only 2,177 have
licenses, and it intends to compel all to take
out licenses or to quit selling liquor. :.
George Allen shot and killed. John Conkling,
an old gentleman Of seventy-seven, during a
quarrel. The victim resided in Fairfield, Conn.
Mrs. Holmes, o young widow, was waylaid by
q rejected lover named Clark, Oh she was enter
ing her home in New York, and was struck over
the head several times with a Ratchet, receiving
serious and probably fatal wounds ia boy
named Martin Lorenz, four years old, was
bitten by a dog in New York and ten weeks
after he went into commissions at the sight of
water, grew rapidly worse and at last died in
agony. The physician in attendance said it
was a case Of genuine hydrophobia 80. Saint
Boaiface Hospital, in st. Louis. was destroyed
by fire, involving a loss OF s40, 900, OH which
there ia an insurance Of 81. 900. All the
patients we're safely removed. AT all election
for members Of the legislature i'll Kentucky