The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle statee

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home for working women-was opened. In New
York to the general public for examination,
and nearly 40, 900 persons passed through the
building during the evening. TIL immense
marble structure faces three public streets and
is built around q spacious court yard. which is
itself q beautiful garden with many rare plants
and a large fountain. Everything about the
building is new and handsome, and the place
will be conducted on the plan Of q first class
commodations for one thousand guests. The
cost of the hotel has been SS, zoo, 600. Guests
will be charged Sc q week.
The New York Assembly has passed . bill
limiting the salaries of officials in cities and
placing the power Of reducing salaries in the
hands Of the common council Of q city, except
in cities where there is q board Of apportlon-
ment, who shall act as it deems proper in re-
gard to the amount Of salaries and number OF
employees.
Governor Van Zandt, the Republican can
didate, has been reelected in Rhode Island.
The general assembly is Republican.
Sylvester Town and his father-in-law, while
attempting to cross q small lake q few miles
north Of Auburn, N. Y, in a boat were cap
sized and Town was drowned. MIR. Town had
been married the previous evening.
General Thomas C.. Devin, Of the United
States army, died at his home in New York,
aged ffty-two years.
At the Commencement Of the New York
Medical College for Women twenty-five young
ladies received diplomas to practice medicine.
Holt Il Bugbee, Boston lumber merchants,
have failed for $175,000
A complimentary dinner WAS given in New
York to Bayard Taylor, newly-appointed United
States minister to Berlin. Speeches we're made
by Mayor Ely, William Cullen Bryant, Mark
Twain and others.
An oil train and a freight train on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, at Slatington, Pa, collided,
and the shock caused an explosion Of the
engine attached to the oil train. Several cars
of oil we're set on fire and an oil tank suddenly
exploded, scattering a large volume OF burning
oil over a number Of spectators, one OF whom
was killed and about fifteen more or less dan
g~erously wounded. A frightful spectacle was
presented, asthe ol-covered men ran wildly in
all directions, wrapped about in flames which
shot up several feet above their heads. Only
one man had presence Of mind. to run to the
river, while another ran into q house and the
inmates smothered the flames with carpets.
Some Of the oil-soaked men passed friends who
we're helpless to aid and could only look on in
impotent horror. The pecuniary loss is esti-
mated at 5000, 600.
At q variety performance in the Pawtucket
(R. II Opera house, Mile. Volante supported an
apple upon her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fowler,
whose stage name is Franklin, was to shoot the
apple while standing with her back to the mark,
taking aim by the reflection in a mirror. The
rifle was discharged and Nile. Volante fell dead
on the stage, the bullet having pierced her
forehead. Mrs. Franklin's arrest followed.
Governor Mcclellan has appointed John P.
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sioners to the PARIS exposition from New Jer-
sey.
The New Jersey Legislature has adjourned
for the session.
A ffty-horse power boiler in the engine
room Of the Boston stamping manufactory Of
Leavey 4 o., Cambridge, Mass, exploded,
and three men were killed, another was fatally
injured, and six others more or less severely
wounded. The boiler was hurled through the
brick walls Of the epgine-room and the wooden
walls Of the building incloEng it 1870 feet
across the canal. Michael Moirland, the en-
gineer, WAS found. crushed between the boiler
and the granite walls Of the canal. James
Anglin and Nathan Burgess, at work in the
r~iveting-room in a line with the course Of the
boiler, were taken from the cana dead and
mangled, having been swept along. by tho
boiler in it's terrific flight. George Gerrity was
taken from the ruins Of the engine-room fatal
~ injured. The two-story building containing
the engine was completely demolished, and the
five story main building, In which one hundred
persons were at work, was considerably shat
tered.
Seven persons injured by the shower of
burning oil at ~Slatington, Pa, have died.
About twenty thousand persons witnessed
the launch Of the new steamship City Of Para,
belonging to the Brazilian line, at Chester, Pa.
Among those present were President Hayes,
Secretaries Schurz, McCreary and Thompson,
q quorum from both houses Of Congress,
Governor Hartranft, the mayors Of New York
and Philadelphia and other prominent persons
from those cities.
The insane asylum connected with the Steu-
fben County (N..Y.) poorhouse, situated two
miles north Of Bath, was set on fire by one of
the inmates who was subject to fits but was
considered harmless. The building contained
between sixty and seventy inmates at the time
the flames broke out, and Of these fifteen were
burned to death while the rest were rescued
with much difficulty. The building WAS Of
brick with ~iron-grated doors and windows,
which made it impossible for the unfortunate
persons, Inside to get out without assistance,
and the scenes presented as the fre.surround
ed prisoners endeavored to get away were
horrifying in the extreme. Ten Of those burn
ed to death were females and five males.
Ex-Governor Moses, Of South Carolina, was
arrested in New York upon O requisition OF
Governor Hampton, charged with having
forgeda note for S316. =
seman Klous, anew York dealers In hatters,
materials, has failed for 100000.
The New York Produce Exchange has begun
thirty-nine suits in sums aggregating $50, 900,
against the Pennsylvania railroad company
for losses incurred during the labor troubles
last July.
Western and Southern States.
Spring elections in various cities and towns
of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois have
been held, with varying success for both par
ties. In many cases local issues carried the
day. In Terre Haute, Ind, the National party
was successful over both Republicans and
Democrats. In Michigan the N~ationalists also
developed unexpected strength.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad WAS sold
at auction in Richmond, Va, for 90, $50, 600.
It was purchased by the chairman Of the COM
mittee Of purchase and reorganization, in pur-
suance Of o plan to r~eorganize the road.
Mr.. J. Rechte and bis child were drowned
while trying to cross the .Maumee river, in
4 sktf, near Napoleon, Ohio,
The steamer Dawn, with q cargo Of cotton
and live stock, was destroyed by fire, thirty.
two miles above New Orleans. Loss, over
800, 900.
Moss & Martin, vicksburg (Miss.) cotton
buyers, have failed, owing $10O,0 600 and with
no assets.
The Oregon Greenbackers held q convention
at Portland and nominated q State ticket
headed by y. Wilkins for governor.
Ex-Governors J. Madison Wells and P. B. 8
Pinchback, both Of Louisiana, have had inter
views with the President recently.
Gardner K. Clark, q prominent grain broker
of Detroit, Mich, fed to Canada with his wife
and child after having victimized nearly all the
aggregating over 81, 000.:: (.
Henry Crouch q farmer living near Augusta
Mich, bis wife and two children, were drowned
while fishing in a small pond.
John 8. Wilcox, of Elgin, H., a speculator
has filed q voluntary petition in bankruptcy
His secured debts are S526, 600, and unsecured
1928, OOO.. He also is responsible on discounted
paper for $500, 600 and has no assets.
A strike of the employees Of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company at To
peka, Kansas, has taken place, and freight ant
passenger traffic has been greatly delayed.
While q party of workmen were gathered
about a derrick on the Tuscarawas railroad il
Harrison County, Ohio, the supports suddenl,
gave way and the derrick fell upon the men
instantly killing two and fatally inturing a third
The steamboat Colonel A. B. Rooms struck
snag on the Red river, in Louisiana, and sunk
Three deck hands were drowned
Isaiah Gabbart, who was shot in the public
square at harrodsburg, KY, by Henry Noel