The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle states.

New York, come home from WOrk, ana a1ter q
customary scene Of domestic violence with his
wife with whom be had been in the habit of
quarreling, he went down stairs and drank
several glasses Of wine. Returning to his home
he sent out for son beer and renewed the
alteration with his wife. Suddenly he entered
the bedroom, where his three bright AMI at
tractive children we're, and fired a shot at each,
killing Martha, aged six years, MORALLY wound
ing Adam, q boy Of four, and seriously wound
ing his oldest boy, John, nine years old. The
father then shot himself twice in the breast,
In his statement to the coroner Hausmann said
that he had been married eleven years, that the
first FIVE years he lived happily with his wife;
but that during the past six years existence
had been made miserable to him by her excess
sive drinking.
Mrs. Eveline Stuart, who was married abou
six months ago, and resided with her husband
in a fashionable hotel on Fifth avenue, New
York, became respondent on account Of her
husbands dissipation, and committed suicide
by taking laadanum.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, a female pedes-
trian, walked 100 miles inside Of twenty-eight
hours at Philadelphia.
An agent Of the Russian government has
been negotiating with a Philadelphia bridge
company to build q bridge across the Danube.
The price offered was 50, 600, 900.
While acting as a scorer at a shooting match
at Albany, N. Y, Charles Clapper was acct.
dentally shst through the heart by Dr.. j. V.
Lansing.
The ocean steamer City of Brussels, while
entering New York harbor, ran into and sank
the schooner Alexander Young, bound to New
York from Philadelphia and laden with coal.
Two sailors on the schooner were drowned, aud
the rest Of the crew had 8 narrow escape from
q similar fate.
An examination Of the accounts Of the First
National Bank Of Highstown, N. j., showed a
deficiency Of over $1,000, chargeable to the
cashier, ". 81. Howell, who was dismissed on
his return from New York, where he had gone
on q spree.
Two seven-story buildings on West Twenty
ninth street, New York, were destroyed by fire
and q loss OF over 500, 900 was thereby in.
CURED.
An explosion Of fire damp occurred in one
Of the chambers OF the Jermyn mine at Scran-
ton, Pa, and the miners in the vicinity were
thrown in every direction, while carts a quarter
Of a mile of were overturned. Six miners
we're hurled over thirty feet and were terribly
injured.
Mrs. Eliza Mlllar, Of New York, claims the
Jehn Young estate, consisting of 1884, 600 acres
Of land in Virginia, West Virginia and Ken
lucky, as well as valuable property in Philadel-
phia and Alexandria, Va; altogether valued at
$50, 600, 600, and has signed documents prepare
tory to bringing suit for the recovery Of the
estate.
Intense excitement was caused in Reading,
Pa, by the suspel sion Of its three savings
banks-the Reading Savings bank, the banking
house Of Bushong & Bro, and the Dime Savings
Bank. All three institutions closed their doors
to the public within q few hours Of one another.
James Savage, Of Belgrade Depot, Me-, killed
his wife while intoxicated.
Two parties in Trenton, N. j., are Aercely
opposed to each other on the question whether
or not the street cars shall be run on Sundays
and the matter will probably have to be sub
mitted to the people at a special election.
The works Of the Meriden Screw Company a!
Meriden. Conn, were entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, $25, 900 insurance, S12,S5O.
A number Of striking cigar makers of New
York have been elected from their homes, which
were owned by their employers.
The Chinese in New York are said to be
bringing to that city the revolving disease
this terrible scourge was found lying on a bed
Of straw in Baxter street. He presented a hor-
rifying appearance, his body bel. & covered
with ulcers and sores from the crown of his
head to the soles Of his feet. He stated that
he had caught the disease in San Francisco,
where it prevailed to q large extent among his
countrymen, and that its losthsome effects
could not be stayed by any known remedy.
A fire at Fall River, Mass, totally destroyed
Borden Mill No. !, a cotton mill containing
$500 spindles and employing $50 operatives.
It was insured for about $460,00O.
The building occupied as the Dispatch, Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, was partially destroyed by fire,
but the paper was issued as usual on the follow
ing day.
Az Mrs. Alexander Sayres was about to past
out Of st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church
in Philadelphia, where she had been worship.
ing, her husband, from whom she had beer
separated two years, shot her in the back
i~nticting q fatal wound.
While the chief engineer Of the fire depart
nent Of New Haven, Conn, the fire marsha
and other members Of the department were
being shown through the immense establish.
ment Of the L. Candee 4 Co. Rubber Company,
a fire broke out in the arctic shoe room and
spread with such rapidity that in two hours the
building was totally destroyed. A number Of
workmen were hemmed in by the flames and
had to jump for their lives from the third story
windows, several Of them sustaining severe
injuries. The company employed 600 persons,
alo1 VI ACn ACh3o4Soy ~ ~ VSkho V
running night and day. The loss is over $500,
900 and the insurance about $3.50, 900.
At Morristown, N. J., nine railroad employees
were convicted Of taking part in the recent
labor troubles and were sentenced more or less
severely, some receiving ten days confinement
at hard labor added to q fine Of $50, while
others we're let of with imprisonment without
fine.
A fire broke out in the Fort Edward IN. "
Institute, and the building was totally de-
stroyed, causing q loss Of 1926, 900, on which
there is $50, 600 insurance. At the time over
two hundred students Of both sexes were In
attendance and many Of them lost all their
clothing and money.
The vote for governor Of New Jersey Is
as follows, according to the official returns
Mcclellan OemocraN, 1880 Newell (Repnb.
lican), IS, 100 Hoxey (Greenback), 1858
Bingham (Temperancel 1885.
Western and Southern States.
Ex-United States Marshal. Schaffenberger,
who has been in the Kansas penitentiary for
government Of $40, 900, has been pardoned by
the President.
The boiler Of the steamer Tom Morgan OK.
ploded near Greenville, Miss. and the engineer
and owner Of the boat were killed.
The schooner Berlin, Of Buffalo, struck q
reef and went to pieces in Lake Michigan.
Captain johnson and the cook were drowned,
while the four survivors chung to the wreck all
night and until four o'clock next day, when
they were taken OF by a lifeboat, although two
the captains son and o s~ailor-died from e1-
posllre.
The South Carolina and Mississippi State
fairs at Columbia and Jackson, opened with
q large attendance Of visitors.
A fire broke out in the immense retail dry
goods establishment of Field, Letter & Co., al
Chicago, ILL.,, and as the fremen were mis-
directed to another part Of the city the flames
gained considerable Roadway before an attempt
was made to extinguish them, in consequence OF
which the building was completely Quilted dow
to the two lower floors, which were not so
much injured as the others. During the pro-
gress Of the fire q stairway suddenly gave way,
burning q number of hremen, instantly killing
one and seriously, il not fatally, injuring four
more. The loss on the building and stock will
not be far from $1,000, 900.
W. F. Coolbaugh, president Of the Union
National Bank Of Chicago, committed suicide
by shooting himself with q revolver. He had
been in i'll health and WAS subject to fits of de-
preston.
A fire in the building partly occupied by
NJ. J. Steinberg, halter and furrier, at st.
Louis, destroyed property valued at 800, 900,
which is insured.
A company has been formed in San Francisco,
having for its object The laying of a cable
between that city and China and Japan. Its
capital stock is $40, 00O, 900.
An earthouake occurred in different parts of