The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

Groyersdale, Mass, from Dudley, where they
had been carousing, when they ran into OBJ
structions on the roadside and smashed their
wagon. Henry Nickerson Was killed instantly,
and a man named Wabble received fatal in
juries, and the boy was badly hurt.
A meeting of the National Reform conven-
ton to advocate the express acknowledgement
Of God in the constitution Of The United States,
was held in Rochester, N. Y, about two nun
dred delegates being present. Resolutions in
conformity with the principles of the conVen-
ton were adopted.
Thomas Rooney's house in West Point, N. Y,
caught fire during his absence, and his two
children, aged three and five years respectively,
were burned to death.
As John Cronin, q child two years old. was
coming down the staircase Of his fathers
house in Boston, q lad named Henry Ackers,
aged about thirteen, pulled out a revolver and
fred at the little fellow, who lived but an hour.
The story of the shooting, as given, WAS told
by Mary Cronin, aged six, the victims sister,
who was present at the time.
A fire occurred in the immense structure
occupied by the American Desk Mandatory
in New York-one Of the largest establish
ments of its kind in the country-and before
the flames could be subdued damage to the
amount of about 800, 900 had been done.
Mrs. CaIQeTlUe 1tydu, ueT 1Ouf CIllQlSu, dLo
a girl related to Mrs. Ryan were suffocated in
Boston by coal gas.
Shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon
q boiler in the cellar OF the large Wholesale
candy factory of Greenfield & Sons, 63 Barclay
street, New York, exploded with q loud report,
and Immediately thereafter flames were seen to
issue from the building and the front wall top
pied in. At the time Of the explosion there
were over $50 persons in the building, and OF
these about twenty-five were taken to the
hospitals, suffering from burns and bruises,
while a number received fatal injuries. Many
Of the employees, in their desperate effort to
escape, leaped from the burning building, and
it is believed that q large number Of persons
were buried underneath the falling walls, one
corpse having been recovered but it will take
some time to remove the ruins and ascertain
the exact number Of victims. Before the fire
was subdued Nos. 81, G3, G5, G. and 60 Barclay
street were destroyed, and many other build.
lngs in the neighborhood we're more or less
damaged, involving an aggregate estimated
loss Of about s400, 600, which is nearly all
covered by insurance. When the explosion
occurred the proprietor Of the candy manufac-
tory and his two sons we're in the Office, and
several persons were in the showroom making
purchases. Upon these people the disaster
came without the slightest warning, and they
we're surrounded with fire and escaping steam
in an instant and barely escaped with their
lives. Many persons rushed to the fre-escape
and got out in that way, while others in the
upper stories escaped by means Of ladders.
Intense excitement prevailed in the vicinity OF
the disaster, and thousands of persons on their
way home from work aocked to the scsne.
Two bodies were recovered from the ruins
caused by the explosion in the New York candy
factory, while the number of wounded reached
$500 49,, Co-orol M uyara ofi1 SnioGinn
on the day following the disaster, but the list
Of dead will not be 80 large as was at first sup
posed. 1t was also ascertained that. the ex-
plosion was not caused by the bursting Of the
boiler, and the real origin Of the disaster is yet
to be ascertained.
The Tn on League Club of New York gave q
reception to President Hayes. About five
thousand persons were present, among them
being Mrs. Hayes, Peter Cooper, Attorney
General Devens, Secretary of State Evarts and
others.
The largo shoe factory of P & N. Copeland
l. Co., at South Braintree, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing q loss Of about$ 50, 600,
on which there is about s38, 900 insurance.
John Van Dyke. q youth Of nineteen, was
hung at Canton, N. Y, for numbering his wife
last July, after having been married to her
a week.
President Hayes and wife assisted at the
opening Of the American Museum OF Natural
History in New York. Speeches were made by
President Eliot, OF Harvard College, Profess
sor O.. G. Marsh and others, and the museum
was formally opened by President Hayes. In
the evening the President attended the seventy;
second annual dinner Of the New England
Society and responded to the toast, "The
! President Of the United States"
Owen Murphy, president of the New York
board of excise, twice q member Of the assem-
bly,, absconded with nearly $50, 600 belonging
to the excise board. He had been expected al
o meeting Of the board, and when he failed t.
put in an appearance his colleagues made ar
investigation, which resulted in discovering
that no had drawn from the bank a large sun
Of public money under his care, besides a large
amount Of his W funds, and then fled.
Three Wall street New York; brokers were
arrested as members Of a gang OF counterfeit
ers engaged in extensive forging OF railroad
and other bonds, a large amount OF which hat
been put upon the market.
Western and Southern States.
The boiler of the steamer Jesse Taylor, lyint
at New Orleans, exploded, killing one man ant
wounding two others.
The Texas State troops besieged at Sal
EliZario by q Mexican mob, surrendered, ant
three men-Howard, Atkensin and Mcbride
we're Immediately shot by their captors.
The American dairy exhibition opened a
Chicago with q display Of butter and cheese
all the dairy States and Canada being repre-
sented.
The Springfield Savings Bank OF Springfield
ILL.,, has failed.
The oyster .pungy Samuel Washington cap
sized at the mouth of the Rappahannock river
Captain Cephas Bussels and the crew Of fou
were drowned.
Two more heavy failures have occurred il
Chicago-that OF Kelley, Morley l. Co., Goa
! dealers, whose liabilities will reach S3OO,OO
and that Of H. W. Wetherell, wholesale mil
linery and fancy goods merchant. whose lia
bilities were also large. Other failures in tn
West recently are recorded in Henry, Iii.
where L. B. McFadden & Co., heavy operator
in coal mines, went under, owing 1870, 600, ant
in San Francisco, where the Cosmopolitan
Savings and Exchange Bank suspended. owing
depositors $50, 900.
BY the explosion Of 4 dynamite cartridge IL
a tunnel Of the Gunpowder Water Works IL
Baltimore county, Md, Augustus Daoiels
(colored) was killed, Thomas Porter danger
onsly and two others slightly injured.
The Maryland and Delaware railroad was
sold at a trustees sale in Easton. Md, fol
s94, 06O. the purchaser being VIM. 7. BART, Of
Boston.
The Indiana Democratic State convention
will be held at Indianapolis n&'ebruary 2O.
1878.
Hilliard Morgan, " mulatto, aged thirty-tive
years. was hanged in Goldsboro. N. g., fol
committing q burglary in the house OF q
wealthy farmer last February and Henry Nor
folk was hanged in Annapolis, Md, for murder
ing his wife last May. his purpose being to
marry his victims sister, a girl of sixteen.
Russell r. Peck, a Chicago lumber dealer,
has failed, with liabilities amounting to over
3G5, 000.
A fire in Toledo, Ohio, damaged the carpet
establishment of Messrs. Buckmen x Mallet
and several other buildings to the extent of
about $500 0 partially insured.
The Tennessee Senate voted to settle the
debt of the State with fifty per cent. bonds, ut
four, five and Six per cent. interest.
From Washington.
The naval court OF inquiry into the CAUSE OF
the wreck of the Huron, reports that Com
mander Ryan was principally responsible for
the disaster.
William Poor, aged nineteen. died in WASH
ington, Of ~hydrophobia. He had been bitten
by a small dog eight weeks previous to his
death.
John A. joyce, one of the st. Louis "crooked
whisky" men. convicted and imprisoned dur
ing General Grants second term, has been
pardoned BY the President. Joyce had served
bis full term Of two years imprisonment, but
wes unable to pay the additional sum Of $4,000,
which was remitted.
The treasury department reports that a coun-
torfaif Gya dollar Note IN the EirSt National