The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
Easta,u and Middle States,


The New York baby show wound up by the
distribution Of prizes to the winning mothers
and infants, at Steinway Hall. The mothers
who did not win prizes we're excluded from the
hall by the manager, but they gathered before
the building and loudly and vigorously protest.
ed, asserting that he had sHindled them Will
promises which he did not keep. The manager
discreetly escaped by a back door.
Hon. Henry L. Pierce, the citizens candi-
date, was elected mayor OF Boston over MIR.
Prince by 2. $50 majority. The board Of alder
Democrats.
! IN. ~ jail by saving the bolts and locks of
the doors.
The Homestead Fire Insurance Company of
Watertown, N. Y, has been ordered by the in
surance superintendent Of the State to close up
its affairs on account Of q heavy impairment Of
its capital stock.
A fire at Bethel, VT, burned out several
business firms and private families. Damage,
over S23, 900; partially insured.
! A cat show has been opened in New York.
A fire at Beringer City, Pa, destroyed the
| Beringer City Hotel and Lthtr buildings. A. 3.
Mccartney, q guest stopping at the hotel was
burned to death, while the other guests mar
rowly escaped a like fate.
Barney Donohue, the leader Of the Erie.
! railroad strikers last August, vas sentenced at
Bath. N. Y. to three mouths imprisonment on
the charge Of conspiracy against trade and
commerce..
The Taunton Savings Bank, Of Taunton,
Mass. has suspended.
A fire in the dye house Of the York Manufac-
turing Company at Biddeford, Me caused
damage amounting to 1926, 700 fully insured.
Two colored men, named Samuel Chambers
and George Collins, were found guilty OF
assaulting a white woman, at Middleton, Del,
and were sentenced to be hanged.
{ Miss Bertha Won Hillern walked $50 miles in
fifty consecutive hours at Philadelphia.
A new telegraph company, with a capital of
$40, 900 600, has been formed in New York city.
The New York State superintendent Of banks
has requested the encouragement to institute
proceedings towards closing ~ the Oriental
Savings Bank, Of New York city.
! John Kintzler and bis wife, both Of them
over seventy years Of age, we're murdered in a
thinly.populated part Of Snider county, Pa,
where they lived in an old log house. Their
occupation was telling fortunes, and on the
night Of the tragedy some OF the neighbors
heard shots, and soon after observed the house
on fire. On investigation the bodies Of the
two were found, burned almost to a crisp,
while several circumstances led to the belief
that they had been shot before the house Was
fred.
An indictment was found against Sherman
Broadwsll, late president Of the broken Clair
mont Savings Bank of New York, and he was
arrested. The charge against him is perjury,
on swearing to the banks condition.
At Whitehaven, Pa, twenty-three persons
were dangerously poisoned by eating liver pud-
ding that had been boiled in a copper kettle.
A native Of Ireland, named Edward Nc
Govern, died in New York at the patriarchial
age Of 100 years.
Three business blocks in Laconis, N. II,
wore destroyed by FIRE, causing q loss Of about
$40. QUO, on which there is s7,5OO insurance ;
and the Forest House, one Of the principal
hotels in Scranton, Pa, was the scene Of an ex-
citing fire, many of the guests having a narrow
escape from sufocation.
; A colored baby show was opened in Gil
more's Garden, New York. Seventy-nine babies
were on exhibition and competed for the vari-
GUS prizes.
A coal oil car on the track Of the Erie railroad
at Paterson, N. j., caught fire, and the burn
ing liquid ran into the streets, communicating
the flames to several buildings. some Of them
half q mile away. A number Of houses, barns
and stables were destroyed
Eight men we're convicted In Wilkesbarre,
Pa, Of rioting last September, during a strike,
and were sentenced to variurls terms Of i'm
prisonment and to pay fines more or less large.
The SEVENTEEN birthday Of Whittier, the
poet, was commemorated by a gathering of
prominent literary men at a dinner in Boston.
Western and Southern States.
According to incomplete returns from the
cotton-producing States, the cotton crop this
year will not BIO 30 large as last year, on account
of heavy rains and killing frosts.
The suspension Of the Simpson Bank Of
Lawrence, Kansas, the oldest banking house in
the place, is announced.
The directors Of the German-Americar Bank
Of Chicago decided to suspend payment and 60
into liquidation
memorial hall, to cost not less than 5000
600, ia to be erected in Indianapolis, to COM
memorate the late Senator Morton.
; The California Legislature has passed a
! resolution calling upon Congress to levy a lax
of $3.50 on each Chinaman immigrating to the
! United States.
John ". Garrett has been reelected presi-
dent Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for
the twentieth time IN as many consecutive
years.
! The two children Of q coal miner named
\ Dennis, living at Benwood, W. Va. fell icto a
tub Of boiling water, and one died instantly
while tie other Was fatally scalded.
An entire block Of buildings was destroyed
by fire at Helena, Ark. LOSS, $1,000.
The indians near Florence, Arizona, are
killing and depredating. Troops have been
sent In pursuit.
]. D. Easter & Co., Of Chicago, manufao-
turers OF agricultural implements, have sus-
pended, with liabilities placed at over $500, 900.
Two thieves at Tackville, Ala, were pursued
by citizens, caught and killed.
The border Of Texas was the scene Of q fierce
fight between State troops helping the civil
authorities and q band OF several hundred
Mexicans. The State troops we're intrenched
In the town Of San Elizario, which was be-
seiged by the Mexicans, b were present In
large force. Six of the State troops we're
killed. Governor Hubbard. of Texas. sent the
following dispatch to President Hayes " | am
officially informed that citizens OF Mexico, in
connection with citizens Of FL Paso county,
Texas, of Mexican birth, were fighting all day
yesterday in Texas with a detachm, mt Of State
troops who were aiding our civil authorities.
The Mexican force being too strong to be re-
PEELED BY TEXAS troops and 1t being impossible
to raise a civil posse from the citizens, who are
nearly all Of Mexican blood and sympathy, and
having NO Reimbursement within several hun
dred miles, I ask tue aid Of such United States
troops as may be nearest to the scene OF
action to repel the invasion OF our territory"
The origin Of hostilities seems to have been q
dispute in regard to the ownership Of certain
salt pits In Ell Paso county. The President
ordered several companies Of United States
regulars stationed in the neighborhood Of the
scene Of warfare to proceed to the assistance Of
tho State troops and aid in rspelling the In
yaders Of American soil.
The Democrats Of the California Legislature
nominated J. T. Farley for United States
Senator, the nomination being equivalent 10 an
election, as they have a majority in both houses.
/. The boiler in the oat meal mandatory Of
Stewart s Douglass, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ex-
ploded, causing damage amounting to $4,000.
From Washington.
The Senate finance committee at a meeting
considered MIR. Wallace's bill authorizing the
issue Of one hundred million dollars worth Of
four per centum bonds now authorized by law,
the long bonds to be Of the denominations Of
twent, five, fifty and one hundred dollars, and
to be issued for the Investment Of savings.
The bill further provides that the coupons shall
be payable either in legal tender notes or in
coin, at the option OF the government, and that
tho money received from the sale OF bonds shall
DO applied to the redemption Of the ive-twenty
bonds. The committee did not take a final vote
on the bill, but the discussion developed tho
fact that the committee will probably report it
to the Senate favorably.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. has been appointed
to I'll the vacancy in the House committee on
poo;fc reiIrnads cauaed Inv the resignation of