The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-04
NEWS ITEMS.
What Is Doing In the Old World and the
New.

"hat Is DOING In the Old "orId ana the
New.
The khedive Of Egypt has offered the sultan
thirty thousand troops and three men-of war in
| event of a conflict ...... The principal block OF
was destroyed by fire. Loss, SITS, 000. 49,.
Six women and a little boy lost their lives by
being ~trampled to death at st. Francis Xavier's
church, New York city, in a panic which ensued
from a false alarm Of fire. The priests were
holding all evening "woran's meeting" with n
congregation of nearly three thousand, when a
woman tainted i'll the gallery and created some
excitement, whcrcupon a child's shrill voice cried
out fire" and in a second of time the vast
audience was u struggling mass. intent only on
escaping from the editice. The dead bodies
were found at the foot of the s~tairways, and
bore the marks of many feet which had ruth
lessly been stamped on the poor victims bv the
paIic-stricken people who passed over them.
The slightly injured were exceedingly numerous,
owing to the selfish conflicts which took place in
the cndcavors to escape first. -. The Morces-
ter coliery, Swansea, England, has just been
the scene of a terrible explosion. 1t is unknown
at present how many miners were killed, but
thus far sixteen bodies have been recovered. 80.
The overlooking of the floors Of a five-story
grocery house in Washington street, New York
city, caused the entire building to collapse, en-
failing loss of $50, 900. The accident occurred
at night, otherwise q friShttul loss of life would
have occurred, as the street is crowded all day.
900. Ten buildings in Ellsworth, Kansas, were
DESTROYED by an incendiary tire......By the
burning of Weber's hat store and Gross cloth
ing Establishment in Evansville, Ind, ST. 900
worth Of property was destroyed ...... The
Colombiad (South American) government troops
gained n decisive victory over the insurgents.
after an all-day fight, in which one thousand
men were killed. VIM. F. Speakman, of
Oakdalc. Mass, was arrested while in the act OF
numbering his wife, and found to be insane,
from the effects of hard drinking. Subsequent
". the dead body of his sister was found in the
woodhouse, where Speakman had killed and
horribly mutilated her with an ak ...... Joseph
LA Page. who violated and then hrutallv muir
dercd Josie Langmaid, in New Hampshire, q
year ago. has just been convicted q second time
and sentenced to be hanged March is, 1878 e..
...... Charges of fraud and cmbezzlement are
made against the officers Of the Protective Life
insurance company of Chicago.
The coroncr's jury in the case of the Ashtabula
victims. who have been awaiting the reports of
experts in regard to the safety of the bridge,
has Just rendered its verdict, in which it finds
that the bridge was defective in design and con-
struction. and ccnsures the railroad company
for not having inspected the structure during
the eleven Years it was i'll use they therefore
declare the COMPANY answcrablc for the dis
ast,r. They also find that the company violated
tho State law regulating tho heating of cars,
and are therefore responsible for the fire which
consumed 50 many bodies. The fault of not
subduing the flames is chargcablc to those who
first arrived Mt the ~sccne-therc having been
abundant means of extinguishmcnt. To con-
clude, they hold the railroad company RESPONSE
bic for 'he loss of hfe...... Hou. Oliver -Alnes,
the SURVIVING brother of the late Cakes Amcs,
and the head of the immense works bearing the
family name, died in Easton. Mass, aged
screnty-one years. IA terrific wine storm
prevailed over the greater portion of the country
and an incalculable amount of damage was
done in the way of demolishing and unrootng
buildings, tearing off signs, fences, etc. Several
churches lost stecples and many vessels were
driven into collision and more or less damaged.
Numerous persons were injured in New York
CITY by falling signs and trees. The wind was
moving at q velocity of from sixty to seventy
five miles per hour ..... Thirty of New Iork's
most prominent lottery and policy agents were
arrested on complaint of Anthony Comstock.
Among them were the representatives of the
Havana and Wyoming lotteries 1t Is general
" believed that the disastrous fire in New York,
by which the jewellers suffered so severely, was
originated by contact of steam heating pipes
with woodwork 800. Nine of the principal
business houses in st. Johns. n. B., were de-
stroyed by fire. An explosion of chemicals in
one of the buildings caused the walls to topple
over on the adjoining cditice, killing five promi-
ncnt men and injurlng a number OF others.
The ~saleratus factory of J. NJ. Taylor in
Brooklyn, n. Y, was burned to the ground and
a valuable stock of goods DESTROYED. The loss
Of $40, 900 was partially covered by insurance.
x.o,,pp man pon,a5 Burrbell while hast
ening to the bedside of his dying mother,
jmsDed from a moving train in Elmira, n. Y.
and was killed. ..... Twenty lives were lost by
the burning of an Egyptian man-of-war in the
gulf of Suez. 49,. -Four boys at Ware, Mass,
ate poisonous wild turnips, and one of them
died in consequence New York glass dealers
who had the foresight to lay in a large stock of
mazarine glass on the breaking out of the "blue
glass" fever, are now reaping a harvest -.
Peter H. Pcnwell and wife. of Erin Center, N.Y.,
after wears of ouarreling, took arsenic with the
design Of ending their troubles, but an over
dose simply made them sick. The husband
then beat out his wife's brains with an ax and
attempted suicide by cutting his throat. lie
was arrested 49,. A Brooklyn On. y servant
dropped q lighted kerosene lamp, and the con-
seque ces was the destruction OF three dwell
ings and n loss of SIS. 900 1.-Two children
were suffocated to death in the upper story of
a New York tenement, and a number OF others
were saved from the same fate only by the dar-
ing efforts of the tiremcn. The conflagratiOn
was caused by 4 two-year-old child pulling a
burning kerosene lamp from a table ..... len
million dollars in bonds of May and November,
1865, known as the tive-twenty'S. are called for
redemption by the Treasury department. This
is the forty-second call for bonds of this de-
scriptiou. 49,. The condition of the famine
stricken portion OF India is improving, and the
government is not required to extend as much
aid as formerly.
James Kingan, for many years a prominent
specufator in produce in the New York market,
is a fugitive from his creditors. His liabilities
are ~variously estimated at from 100000 to
81, 900, 900. 49,. The foot and mouth disease
has broken out among the cattle in England.
The rinderpest also prevails ..... Hon. Simon
Cameron. senator from Pennsylvania, firing of
the cares of official life, has resigned his sena-
torship. . The cabinet oficcrsindorsc President
Hayes utterances on civil service, and conse-
1uently will not remove incumbents from office
without sufficient cause New York plasterers
struck for 52.50 per day deeming the old rate
of q not sufficient ..... .Fredk W.. Seward,
son of the late secretary, has been invited to nc
cept the position of assistant secretary of state
by secretary Evarts LA fire in Pulaski,
Tenn, destroyed tho Giles county bank build-
inss and two hotels, involving a loss of Sl4, 900;
insured for S12, 900. $500. During a theatrical
performance by the scholars of o school in Coal.
Run, Ohio. it was arranged that Stephen Rum
bic should pretend to strike a dagger to the
heart of one of the other actors named Mason.
1t was planned that a small bag of red fluid
should be suspended under MasOn's clothing,
which the dagger vast 10 pierce. and be shown ap-
parcutly bloody. Mason's body was to be pro-
tected by 4 thick wooden plate. During the en-
citcment of the play. however, the plate was
permitted to slip out of place, and when Rumble
struck the dagger entered Mason's heart, and
he fell a corpse i'll the presence of the Mortified
audience. The two young men had been init
mate friends.
Snow fell in the mountains of Utah for twelve
consecutive days. Numcrou, snowslidcs have
occurred, and during one of them two men were
killed ...... While Vim. i. Rutter, cashier OF the
First national bank of Pott,town, Pa, was con-
fined to his bedby sickness, theparty wor.ang at
the books discovered a discrepancy, which led to
the accounts of the sick man being ovcrhauled
and the development of q deficiency of :l7,WO.
.....T The porter of the New York stationary
house of Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor d Co. for
the past year has been stealing large quantities
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