The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States
Alfred Hill, a laborer, WAS instantly killed
and Ferris Woodruff, engineer. was fatally
scalded by the bursting Of o boiler belonging
to the Standard oil refinery at Constable
Point, \. J.
At a mass meeting held in New York resolu-
tions were passed opposing, a proposed reauc'
ton Of the salaries Of public school teachers.
The New York Senate, by a vote of % to 3.
adopted q resolution denouncing the Blanc
silver bill.
The shoe manufacturers of Lynn, Mass, are
RAPIDLY filling up their shops with new men,
and many of the striking Crispins are return
ing to work.
As Frank Leslie, the New York publisher,
was returning from a visit to the President, at
Washington, he was arrested in Phlladelphla
on a cnarge of libel, preferred by a lawyer
named Wrigley, whose arrest TOR alleged 1raua.
ulent transactions Mr.. Leslie had caused ~
Lake George, last summer.
At an explosion of nitro-glycerine in a North
Adams Mass.) factory, E. j. Wilson, an en-
ploye, was blown to pieces.
The Providence Or. L. board OF trade passed
I TeSOluIlOuBh IhlllbG LILO W
Johanna Flaherty, q widow seventy years old,
committed suicide by drowning at Palmer
Mass.
The trunk lines held a meeting in New York
and agreed to restore the old freight rates from
Boston to the West. A plan was also adopted
for stopping the cutting Of rates in the West,
Hugh j. Jewett, receiver Of the Erie railroad
company, was arrested in New York upon an
affidavit of an English bondholder, who charged
him with making false statements as to the imam
cial condition Of the road, With intent to de-
ceiye the stockholders.
Recent heavy fires The furniture factory OF
T.. NJ. Holmes Il Co., Boston, and six adjoining
tenements, we're destroyed oy fire, involving q
loss Of about $500, 900 :; at philadelphia, a four
story building in Chestnut street, occupied by
II. P. d ". +. Smith, dry goods merchants,
was burned to the ground, and a loss caused OF
about $500, 900 e.; and in Brooklyn the Ameling
pork-paoking establishment was destroyed by
the flames, causing q loss stlmated at S2o,ooo.
The recent heavy snow storm caused con.
siderable damage all over the country, and
particularly Oh the Atlantic coast. Several
vessels were driven ashore, one at Asbury
Park, N. j., another outside the capes Of the
Delaware river, and a third off Plum Gut
island, Long Island. Travel on the railroads
was also impeded to some extent.
There were 1923 failures in New York during
January, with liabilities Eaggregating s7,113,
039 and assets, 81, 433,S $50.
Waning interest in the marriage Of Thomas
Lord, the wealthy New York millionaire, to
Mrs. Hicks, has been revived by the publication
of Mr.. Lords answer to the charge OF his sons,
that he was Of unsound mind when he con-
tracted the marriage and had been unduly inlu-
enced by his wife. After the marriage the con-
l.l:>~ an,t;o, d;uo noaor rod onI rou11 n0t hp
found. although all the time they were living
privately in New York. The bridegroom's sons
instituted legal proceedings against their father
and had a commission to inquire into his men-
tai condition appointed. In his answer, MIR.
Lord asserts that he is of perfectly sound mind,
in proof Of which he furnishes the affidavits Of
two prominent New York physicians, who GER
tify that he is perfectly sane and capable OF
t~aking,care of himself. He further states that
after the marriage one Of bis sons sent a letter
to Mrs. Lord. threatening to kill her, his own
children, and himself that previous to the
marriage letters opposing that event were
written by his sons and their lawyer that he
kept secluded after his marriage because he
feared some act of violence toward his wife at
the hands of his son, and furthermore the en-.
eagement was one of long standing and not a
sudden whim. 4 stay OF proceedings was
granted by Judge Donohue.
Ameeting in favor Of the silver movement,
held in Cooper Institute, New York, was ad-
dressed By General Ewing, member Of Con-
gress from Ohio.
Joseph Woods WAS hanged at Malone, N. Y,
for the murder Of Stephan Barber, last August.
Tie families of two watchmen guarding hotel
property on Coney Islannd beach, near New
York, were overwhelmed by the rising tide
during the recent heavy gale and drowned.
Three women and five children persisted.
Thomas Durkin, treasurer Of Scranton, Pa,
has been deposed from Office, a deficit OF
81, 900 having been discovered In his accounts.
The Dutch Reformed Church, Of Syracuse.
n. Y, was destroyed by fire, and q loss caused
of $50, 600, on which there is 1926, 600 insurance.
The Huxley locomotive works, Of Boston;
have suspended, with liabilities amounting to
$500, 900.
The almshcuse at Freeport, Me-, was de-
stroyed by fire, and two OF the inmates-an old
couple-were burned to death.
Henry ". Genet, prominently identified with
the Tweed ring, and who has been hidden in
unknown quarters ever since he ran away from
the sheriff four years ago, after his conviction
for obtaining money from the city under false
pretenses, returned to New York and gave
himself up to justice. He was held in 1926, DOC
bail.
Richard, Dell, a farmer about eighty years
old, living near Woodbury., N. j., was fatally
injured by a young bull as he was attempting
to drive the animal away from the cattle yard.
John and James Cassidy, aged one and two
wears, we're smothered to death in q New York
tenement house by the smoke from a burning
mattress, and the recovery OF two elder
brothers, aged four and five, was made doubt.
full through the same cause.
Western and Southern States.
The reported raid Of Sitting Bull into the
United States from British America is denied
but it is asserted that should he take such
a step General Miles and his small command OF
troops would be in danger of defeat at the
hands Of the Indian chief, with his formidable
force of {, 900 warriors.
A special dispatch to the Galveston (Texas'
Ne,os from Laredo, says: Reports have reached
here that on January % q party Of fifty Mexi'
cans, mostly from Texas, under command Of
Colonel Y. Salinas, m adherent of Lerdo,
attacked the towns of Candida, Sayinas aHd
Hidalgo, in the State Of Tamaulipas. They
seized the principal citizens Of these towns and
, forced them to pay $4,000 for their release
! So rapid we're the movements Of the maraudert
that the inhabitants thought there were three
separate bands. Cavalry started in pursuit Of
CQeU lTom ulueIeuI poluto, uPoA "AASu eaCy
separated, and twenty of the band crossed into
Texas, below Laredo. 1t is said that the raid
WAS planned at this place.
The First National Bank Of Kansas City,
Mo has suspended.
MIR. Peter Cooper has under consideration
plan for opening a free institution for girls, il
South Carolina, to be similar in its workings tc
the Cooper Institute, New York. MIR. Cooper
thinks the Limestone Springs" about -four
miles from Spartanburg, to be admirably
adapted for the purpose Of his project, and
SAYS: ~ wish to do something for the South,
and show that a Northern man has some
interest in the welfare Of the Southern people,
During terrific gale the steamer Metropolis
of New York, from Philadelphia for Para,
Sonth America, having on board about $50 per
sons, was wrecked off Carrituck Beach, on the
North Carolina coast, not far from the recent
disaster to the United States steamer Huron
The vessel stranded at about $50 in the even
ing, and Immediately a terrible scene of con-
fusion arose among those on board, many Of
whom were laborers engaged to help bullC
a railroad in South America. TIL steamer wal
laden with railroad iron and other appl :ances
necessary to build the road. AS soon as thu
Metropolis struck she began to break to piece
and washed passengers and craw overheard
Owing to the remoteness Of the telegraph from
the scene Of disaster the first accounts wer'
meagre. About fifty persons were WASHED
ashore, but it is thought the rest met a water.
grave.
Later reports OF the disaster to the steame
Metropolis on the North Carolina coast, stat
that the number Of lost il about one hundred
SbortIv sfter Having PHILADELPHIA the vesse