The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Eastern and Middle statee

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle statee
The election In New Hampshire resulted In q
victory for the Republicans. Governor Pres
colt was reelected, and a Republican legis-
lature and council we're also chosen.
Three buildings of the American Powder
Company, at South Acton, Mass, were COM
pletely demolished by an explosion, and two
men, named Foster and Turpenty, were In
stantly killed. So heavy was the shock OF the
explosion that it Was heard for q distance OF
twenty-five miles.
Jehial Reed & Co., wholesale hat dealers,
and Joseph a.. Marks, commission merchant,
;of New York city, have suspended, the former
owing 5000, 900 and the latter $4,000.
Benjamin Noyes, who was indicted in New
Jersey more than q year ago for bis acts as
president of the National Capital Life In
surance Company, in connection with the trans
fer Of assets of the New Jersey Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and whose bail at that
time wat declared forfeited because he did
not appear when wanted, Wa rearrested IN
Washington and taken to Newark, Nj.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill
creating a banking department: whose duty 1t
SQAll Do W dunAd1ly OIL AASS eNo S~N
ness and stability Of the States incorporated
banks. ,
Students Of the Princeton IN. J.) Theological
Seminary were attacked by Princeton College
students and two Of them severely beaten. Six
of the college boys we're arrested.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, a wealthy widow
residing in, Tuckahoe, n. T., was shot and IN
stantly killed in the presence Of her daughter
by q neighbor named Theron Merritt, who then
hurried to his own house and shot himself
through the heart. The parties to the tragedy
we're related by marriage, and Merritt had
been drinking at the time OF the shooting, but
the cause Of the double crime remains q mys-
terry. The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that Merritt was suffering from temporary
aberrationof mind Il = Er.E
The NewWbnryport (Mass.) Five Cent Savings
Bank has been enjoined by the State bank
commissioner from doing further business.
Joseph La Page, alias Joseph Parish, was
executed at the State prison in Concord, n. H.,
for the murder Of Josie A. Langmaid, at Penn
broke, NH, on the 4th of October. 1876.
Miss Lsngmaid, q girl Of seventeen, and
daughter Of one Of the mostprominent citizens
of Pembroke, started for school IN day OF
the murder. She was waylaid, and in the
evening her body was discovered in a dense
swamp, q few rods from the road. Her head
was cut off and missing, and the body was
otherwise mutilated, evidently for the purpose
of concealing the evidence Of q brutal crime.
The head was found q third Of q mile distant
from the scene of the murder. La Page was
arrested and convicted on circumstantial evil
dence. and sentenced on January 19, 1877. to
be executed. He was granted q new trial,
which resulted in a similar verdict and q SEN
.tence of execution. La Page, it wes believed
n s.-- L. l,:aI ~~,,5o~ol Ms,1 Dali a oobn11
teacher, at st. Adams, Vt, in 1874, but es-
his execution he confessed the murder Of both
Miss Ball and Miss Langmaid. His whole his
tory is characterized BY acts OF excessive bru-
tally. He was accompanied to the scafold by
bis spiritual advisers. He made no remarks
before the death trap WAS sprung, and his
death seemed an almost painless one.
Calvin Stewart, who killed Ira Cole, the rail-
road engineer, at Dover, N. j., last June, and
was sentenced to be hanged on April 8. has had
his sentence committed to twenty years I'M
prisonment- .
There has been q run on several OF the Bos-
ton savings banks by frightened depositors.
Alexander Barlow, treasurer Of the Hshklll
IN. W Servings Bank, has been indicted on
four charges-two for embezzling S61, 900 and
two for grand larceny in taking $4,000.
A demonstratiGngin opposition to the tariff
bill pending in Congress was held at Allen
town, Pa, over fifteen thousand persons TAX
ipg part in the procession.
\ Commodore John Hodges Graham, Of the
at Newburgh, N. Y, aged eighty-four. he
lost q leg In the war Of 1912.
The other day, while the Lechmere National
Bank, Of East Cambridge, Mass, WAS in
charge OF the president, he was called to the
while two men entered the building and stole
over $4,000. The woman and her accom-
plices escaped with their booty:
st. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York
with the usual procession of Irish societies and
annual dinner Of the Knights Of st. Patrick.
Wages Of operatives in the Pacific mills at
Lawrence, Mass, have been reduced ten to
fifteen per cent
A. 8. Boyer and G. Sellers, late officers of the
Dime Savings Bank, of Reading, Pa, have
been held in $5, 600 bail each on a charge
OF conspiracy to defraud. : n ~ Z
The list Of failures in New York has been
sweTed recently by several heavy suspensions,
notably those Of s. q. Mills & Co., prominent
Wall street brokers and speculators'in stocks,
whose liabilities will reach nearly $500, 900,
and Henry g.. Wells, O large contractor, who
has been adjudicated a bankrupt upon his own
petition, with liabilities amounting to 1926, 600.
The Democratic State executive committee
Of Pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and de-
cided to hold the next convention in Pitts
burgh, May %.
A number Of students belonging to Dart
mouth College, New Hampshire, have been
arrested for hazing. The faculty expelled OF
suspended several.
Western and Southern States.
The Farmers and Traders Bank, OF Lexing-
ton, KY, has suspended payments. Its de-
posits aggregate $4,000.
The recent heavy snow storm in Nebraska
and Wyoming Territory was one Of unpre-
ranchmen, sheep herders and others-lost
their lives, while the loss Of live stock ia very
large.
The State Bank Of Arkansas, at Hot Springs,
has gone into liquidation, in consequence of
losses during the recent fire.
s A heavy storm Of hail and rain in Jefferson
county, W. Va, destroyed thousands of acres
OF wheat and other grains, unroofed and blew
down houses and killed cattle. The loss will
reach over $3.50, 900.
Liz How fubiuld lunoib6 UA P1ooON IL
the State Senate-ayes, l29, nays, s. The pre-
tamble opposes increase Of taxation, recognizes
the necessity Of preserving and insuring the
.continued existence of the Institutions Of the
State, including the public school system, and
expressing willingness and anxiety to restore
the former equality Of the public creditors by
distributing ratably among them the entire ex-
cess Of public revenues derived from the pre-
sent rate Of taxation, after q most economical
administration Of the. State government.
A party Of men who were lynching a colored
man, at Pensacola, Fla, for ASSEMBLING a little
girl, were fred upon by a sheritf's posse; one
man was killed and five were dangerously
It is. reported that Sitting Bull is preparing
for another Indian war.
Gus johnson, a white man, WAS hung In
Rome, Ga. for the murder Of Daniel Alfred, q
colorel man. The cause of the crime was
Afred's refusal to hurryin taking o fstboat
across the Coosa river to johnson, who there
upon shot him dead. Before he was hung
johnson confessed that he had murdered two
men and had helped to kill two more.
Tie hard money leagusspf the West, met
at Chicago and Issued an. Mdress to the peo7
pie of the United States, opposing "all paper
initiation and consequent depression in favor
Of coin and paper Of equal value and equal