The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad

Interesting Items from Home and Abroad,
G. G.. Platner, q merchant, of Auburn,
n. Y, mysteriously~ disappeared during g bust.
ness visit to New York city in November last
and no clue to his whereabouts could be ascer.
tanned until q few days ago, when his body was
found under one Of the ferry houses wedged
between logs ..... After o thorough examina.
Niagara Falls, is pronounced perfectly safe.
The italian bark Papa Luigi went ashore Oh
Nantucket island. when on her way to Boston
with a load of birthstone, and proved o tota
wreck. A life saving crew rescued the mel
aboard. ..... The Montenegrin army has beer
supplied with a years rations by the Russian
authorities ...... Emperor vii JAMS birthday
occurring Oh the TIVE ty-second Of March, was
~ioyously observed throughout Germany ......
Fredk. J: D: Rumpf, a broker, of Newark,
n. j., defaulted with considerable money be-
longing to patrons, most of whom are Germans
.... The two men arrested in New York fol
having in their possession bogue bonds Of the
Missouri Pacific railway, were discharged from
custody, rs not having forged any signatures
or affixed false seals to the bonds, they could
not legally be held. The bonds are fac SMILES
of the originals, and exceedingly hard to detect,
It is thought that another lot bearing sigma
lures and seals will be pushed on the market
and brokers are accordingly warned. 1904
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ashore on Cape Henry. The crew we're rescued
by life service men. .....A silver bearing ledge
has been discovered in Red Buttle canyon,
Utah, and large bodies of men are focking
there 1.-The United States district court Of
Maryland has decided adversely to the consti'
tutionalty Of the civil rights law, in the case OF
a colored woman who was not allowed to enter
any car she wished on the Baltimore and Ohio
railway. The law imposes n penalty Of $500
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but the court held that local travelling was O
privilege enjoyed as a subject of the State, and
not of the United States, and hence Congress
had no right to intiict a penalty. q. . John
West was cut in two parts and instantly killed
by falling across q circular saw in Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The still Of the Boston dyewood and chemical
company, at East Boston, exploded, badly
scalding four men, two OF whom are probably
fatally injured. The building was demolished,
! IA girl, ten years of age, a daughter of F,
dentallv shot and killed by her brother, aged
eight. AS a freight train on the Indianapolis
and Yinccnnes road crossed q bridge neal
! Worthington, Ind, the two end %cars-being 0
freight and the caboose-jumped the track and
fell of the bridge. The caboose contained
twelve people, Of whom one was killed and
the others were more or less seriously injured,
The New England glass company, of East
Cambridge. Mass, has wound up its affairs, be-
ing unable to compete, with Western and South
ern factories. Two hundred men were thrown
out of employment. John D. Lee, sentenced
to death for the Mountain Meadow massacre,
twenty years ago, whereby q large party of i'm
migrants were enticed to the protection of q
body of Mormons, and then slaughtered fol-
their stock and household goods, was shot al
the scene of his former crime. He. bore him.
self bravelv, and at the word " fire, fell dead or
his coffin with five bullets in his heart. He made
an address Just previous to death, in which he
denounced the Mormon leaders for having
inveigled him into the crime and then
made him the scrapegoat for the entire com,
munity. ..... Reuters Rome telegram says the
health of the Pope is fairly satisfactory but he
has lost the Use of his legs and is carried about
in q chair. 80. Indications point to q now rerolu-
ton in Mexico this time against President
DlaZ......A fire in Pillsbury, Pa, destroyed
$40, 900 worth Of property, consisting of Weldon
hat factory and four small tenements. Partially
insurcd.... G. l.. Whiting, for the past twelve
years bookkeeper OF the Brooklyn q. " bank,
secured the combination Of the vault by an in
genious device. and then, staying late one night,
to work OH his books, opened the vault and
packed the available contents in q sachel and
decamped, carrying off with him Sll5,0O0 i'll
, negotiable !.otes and s57, 900 in cash. He left
q note for the president, saying that he was
willing to return the notes if lie would be al
lowed to 80 free and his bondsman released
telling the bank officers to insert o personal in
the Herald. if they accepted his proposition.
They put the notice in the paper to keep him
from leaving the city, and then put the entire
detective force hunting up the fugitive. He
was finally found, having in his possession a
bag containing the notes and a small amount
Of cash, but for hours declined to give any in
formation as to the whereabouts of the balance
OF the money, only Welding at his wife's sOlici.
t~ation, when he told where $4,000 conld be
found. The remaining 10000 he positively
declined to give up. lie had previously been
held in high repute.
The lrotter Rarus beat Bodine in three straight
heats in San Francisco. ALBERT Brown, cashier
Of the Springfield Nt.) national bank, il de-
clared a defaulter to the amount OF $50, 600
principally securities deposited for safe keeping,
which he used for stock gambling. The bank
itself loses comparatively little ...... The great
English university boat race took place over
the usual Thames course of four and 4 quarter
miles. and resulted III q dead heat between the
contestants. Oxford and Cambridge, although
it is generally conceded that the former would
have gained the prize but for the breaking OF
Ill Oarlock $500. The fast train from Scotland
to London, known as the "Flying Scotchman,'
ran of tho track near Merpeth. and several
coaches were dashed to pieces, killing five per
sons and injuriug a number, ten Of them seri-
ously .... George Hoffman, q German of
scventv-tive years. committed suicide by throw
ing himself off q dock in New York. A few
years ago he divided his small fortune among
his threc sons, setting them all up in business
until they all tired OF him, and in their ingrati-
tude turned him out Of doors to o suicides
; death. 49,. The French eide-de-camp, sent to
Berlin to congratulate Emperor William on his
birthday, was cordially received 49,. .1ntelli-
gcnce from Rome intimates that the illness Of
the Pope is much more serious than the daily
bulletins acknowledge.
hatcher & Sons cotton mill at Darby, Pa,
were destroyed by fire. Loss. $50, 900 insur-
ance, S25, 200. .... Five masked men fired OH q
stage full Of passengers near Deadwood, i'll the
Black Hills, killing the driver and %wounding
a passenger. The stage horses were whipped
up and the other occupants escaped, although
twenty shots were fired by the highwaymen... 80.
DR.. Budington's church, Brooklyn n. y, voted,
by 1856 to 90, to take no part in councils to which
Plymouth church is Invited ...... The steamer
Ilockaway, the largest excursion steamer ever
built, and designed expressly to accommodate
New Workers, was launched at Norfolk, Va, and
taken i'll tow by q ting for passage to New York
in order to he fitted with machinery. When of
Absecom light q storm arose and the new YES
sels timbers sprung to such eli extent as to
cause her Ia ill with rapidit,r. She @s aban-
donsl by the tug and shortly nftcrward broke
III two and drifted ashore. She was valued at
S2G, 90. .... Further horrible outrages by Turks
are reported from Herzegovina. At Otchievo,
the peasants were repairing their homes, when
Bashi-Bazouks appeared. burned tile place, and
killed ten Of the Inhabitants, with the greatest
cruelty. At Glamosh, a Greek Wedding pro-
cessivn WAS Stopped, the bride brutally out,
ragged. and four Of the guests murdered and
their heads raiscd Oh pikos...... The American
schooner Joseph Nickcrson was captured and
robbed By natives OF Congo. on the west coast
Of Africa, which event being reported to the
commander Of the British war steamer Avon,
lie bolabarded seven Conger towns and killed d
number Of natives, for their treaclery .....
Andrew Champion, of SINNERS Eddy, n. y,
lost his situation shortly after marryiuga young
sirl, wjicreupon she reproached him in u violent
manner for reducing her to poverty, and de.
clared her intention OF leaving him if he did moi
secure employment. On hia return home the
next day, he answered her intrrrogatory as tC