The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-10-17

persons have persisted drring the famine IN
India. .....A number Of buildings were burned
in Indianapolis, Ind, and q loss incurred Of
&75, 900 80. The savings bank at Hannis,
Mass, suspended after a heavy run Of several
days.
1t WAS accidentally discovered in New York
that William G. Gilman, an insurance broker,
whose reputation for honesty and business
integrity was une1ceptionable, had perpetrated
q series of astounding frauds by which he had
realized hundreds of thousands of dollars. His
method was to obtain certificates Of profit"
or insurance script of the Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company for small sums and raise
them to O much higher figure. He would erase
the words "one hundred" In q certificate for
s1GO and insert instead stem thousand" max
ing it q certificate for $40, 900 and although
the forgeries were clumsily executed, yet Gill
mans standing in the business community was
30 high that the certificates were never e1-
amined closely, and the forgeries were CON-
mitted with comparative impunity. 1t was
rumored in Wall street that Gilman had also
"raised " some bank stock in a similar manner.
......The American forces under Lieutenant
Bulls that had entered Mexico in pursuit Of
Indian horse thieves, returned without accom-
plishing their object. They were not nlolested
BY the Mexican authorities ...... James. R.
Hawkins, colored, was sentenced to death by
the Howard county (Maryland) circuit court
for an assault on a thirteen-year-old girl in
April last.
In New York the car depot of the Dry Dock
Railroad Company was destroyed by fire. Be-
sides the building about ninety horse-cars were
burned and q loss incurred Of $3.50, 900, which
is covered by insurance. 80. The Most Reverend
James Roosevelt Bayley, archbishop Of Balti-
more and primate Of the Roman Catholic
Church Of America: died in Newark, n. j.,
aged sixty-three years. Archbishop Bayley
was born in New York and was q graduate of
Washington (now Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn. He was ordained minister Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, and subsequently join
ed the Roman Catholic Church, preparing him
self for the priesthood at st. Sulpice, Paris. He
was the founder of Seton Hall College as well
as Of numerous schools, academies, converts
and churches, and was one OF the highest dig
~nataries Of the Roman Catholic Church in
this country. 80. Titiens the opera singer, died
ghany Savings Bank, the Oldest bank
IN Allegheny city, Pa, and the Gap Cod Five
Cents Savings Bank, Of Harwich, Mass, have
suspended payments. Five persons were
killed and q number were wounded by the
explosion Of the boiler on the steamer Comfort,
bound from Wheeling. W. Va, to Marietta. 80:
A fire which broke out in McKeesport, Pa, at
one time endangered the whole town. Before
the flames could be subdued q large number of
business houses and private residences were
burned and a loss incurred Of about $4,000 {;
partially insured. 80. One square in the business
portion Of Frankton, Ind, Was destroyed by
FIRE. Loss, about 5000 /; no insurance.....:
The National Episcopal Congress opened ct
Boston ..... The steamer Magnolia, running
between New York and Savannah, WAS lost at
sea, owing to o leak ; no lives were lost.