The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States

The skating season on the Central park, New
York, has begun.
4 freight train jumped the track near Halle
ton, Pa, falling on Its ~side-killing the fire.
man and brakeman, and badly Rcaldlng two
others.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones started from
his residence at Wynnewood, Pa, to visit q
neighbor, and Was found before midnight
frozen to death by the roadside.
William Sexton defeated George F. Slosson
in q billiard match for the championship OF
America. The match took place In New York,
and at the close the score stood Sexton, 600
Slosson, 1853.
Brevet Major General Donald @. McCullum,
one Of the greatest bridge engineers OF the
country, and manager of railroads for the
federal army during the war, died in Brooklyn,
N. Y, q few days ago, aged sixty-four.
Hoffman Beach, q clerk in the Importers
and Traders national bank, Of New York, was
sent to the clearinghouse with a package COD
tanning $209, 600 in money and securities. He
was accompanied by a detective, as was Gus
tomary and yet when he reached the clear ng-
house and felt for the pocketbook containing
the package it was gone. The bank at once
offered a reward Of $5, 1000 for the property's
return.
Kate Punch, a sixteen. year-old girl, who had
been committed to tho House OF r fuge, in
New York, on complaint o. her parents, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
The combination Of coal mining companies,
which has been in existence for q yesr past. in
the anthracite coal interest, was broken at q
recent meeting in New York.
More than fifty thousand persons paid an
admission fee Of fifty cents each to Gilmore's
garden, in New York, during the Six days
pedestrian contest between Daniel OLeary, OF
VI Ala 1tn a-l AL Torn-
pana. late peddler, Of Bridgeport, Conn.,, to
whom public attention was recently drawn by
his reported defeat Of O'Leary best time $50
miles in six days. As a trial Of speed the
match proved e failure, OLeary covering only
400 miles in the specified time, and Campana-
who ia forty-three years old-357 miles.
An explosion Of nitro glycerine in the ~. L.
Rand Rendrock Works." at Black Oak Ridge,
N. j., caused a sbosk like that of an earth
quake, utterly demorshi6g the building in
which the terrible material WAS ttored, and
tearing to atoms three work,ncn-John Man.
ley, Charles Hensel and Ferdinand Marks. So
terrific was the force OF the explosion that the
frozen ground about looked like q plowed
field, and there was q hole fifteen feet deep in
the rock on which the shed containing the
nitro-glycerine stood.
Fifty thousand persons visited the lakes in
the Central park, New York, on tho first Sum
day Of the skating .esson.
Upon request of the New York State bank
department tho Haverstraw savings bank has
been enjoined from doing further business
cting-Superintendeut Lamb charging that the
institution is insolyent.
The pocketbock lost by the messenger Of the
New York Importers and Traders national
bank, was returned in an envelope sent through
the postofice; but pearly SO, 900 G. the $209, 900
nonoprioipo ifI cNofapfc hod haen anpfranto6
Field & Jones, New York brokers, purchased
$50, 900 in government bonds for John ".
Hull, q %speculator. Hull obtained possession
Of the bonds, left the firms Office without pay.
ing for them, and forget to return.
During q struggle in the hallway Of the
Metropolitan hotel, in New York. between q
lupatic named Palmer and several policemen,
Officer Asa d. Furness received two bullet
wounds, from the effect Of which he died the
next day.
The Cocheco print works a. Dover. N. a.,
have incurred a loss Of nearly $75, 600 by the
burning Of their shearing room.
The New York Historical society held meet
ing at the Academy of Music, to commemorate
the death Of William Cullen Bryant, and listen
ed to q memorial address upon the dead poets
life by George William Curtis. Among those
preaent were the President and Mrs. Hayes,
VIce-President Wheeler, Secretary Evarts, At
to:ney- Genera Devens, Generals Sherman,
Hancock and Bristow. Peter Cooper, and many
other men ~well-known to the county,
The United States steam sloop.of-war Rich
mond arrived at the Brooklyn 10 ~ yard, a few
days ago, after a trial trip from b. ton. Tho
Richmond will proceed to Hong Kong, but on
the way will stop at some station In the Medi-
terranean, to take up General Grant and his
son, Colonel Fred Grant, who intend visiting
the East Indies, China and Japan.
A subcommittee of the committee appointed
under the Blaine resolution to inquire into
election practices, has gone to New Orleans, to
take testimony. The subcommittee consists
of Senators Teller. Cameron and Kirkwood,
Republicans, and Garland and Bailey, Demo-
Gratis.
Western and Southern States.
The congressional yellow fever and cholera
committee of investigation met in Memphis
and organized. DR.. John NJ. Woodwork, sur
geon-general Of the marine hospital service,
having been appointed by the joint committees
to investigate the causes and methods Of pre-
venting yellow fever, has been constituted
president e1-o6acio Of the experts provided for
by resolution Of Congress. The points OF in
quiry to be investigated are the origin, cause
and destructive features Of yellow fever and
cholera whether indigenous, or how brought
to this country where and how they are pro-
pagated ; how their introduction into this
country is to be prevented the method OF pre-
venting their spread when once introduced,
and the number Of deaths that occurred in the
United States during the last epidemic, with
the accompanying expenditure OF money and
injury to business.
Peace prevails again in Breathitt county,
KY, the scene of the recent pitched battle be-
tween rival factions. A number Of arrests were
made by the State guard.
Peter MoNamara, described as q well-known
resident Of Washington, was bitten in the fin
ger by a man during an alteration, two months
ago. The injured finger was amputated, but
too late to prevent the poison entering Nc
Namara's system and causing death.
The viaduct which connects the two sections
Of Cleveland, Ohio, over the Cuyahoga river,
was opened with great ceremony, in presence
Of Governor Bishop, the military and civil
societies, and q large number Of guests. The
viaduct is over half q mile long, built Of iron
and masonry, and cost 50, 10000.
Twenty illicit distilleries were destroyed and
sixty prisoners captured in Tennessee and Ken
lucky, during a recent raid by revenue officers.
The DeKalb county courthouse at Mayville,
Mo-, was destroyed by fire, and nearly all the
county records were consumed. LOSS, 800, 600.
From WASHINGTON.
In response to the request Of the Senate
committee appointed to investigate the man
ner in which the recent elections we're conduct
ed in various States, Senator Blaine specified,
in q letter to the committee, a number OF
frauds, outrages and instances OF violence al
legged to have been committed in Louisiana and
South Carolina, gave the names OF several wit
nesses to be called, and referred the committee
to " large mass Of information in the office
Of the attorney-general Of the United States"
General Sheridan has replied to Secretary
Schurz' request for specifications in support
Of charges OF Encouragement OF Indian az
fairs in the West.
According to the annual report Of Public
Printer Ds Frees, the government office during
the past year turned out 74,3j7 ,653 blanks. en-
velopes, etc., 120, 731 blank books and AZ, los
miscellaneous volumes, in addition to 1922 .O32
pages Of document matter printed only.
Foreign News.
Robbers attacked a train near Puebla, Mexico.
killed the baggage-naster. wo ;nded the con-
ductor, and carried cI s27. 100 in silver.
The distress existing in Ccsra-tho north
enn capital Of Braz;l-is reported as appalling
the deaths from sms!lpox numbering six hun
dred daily, ind the people dc touring carrion
and corpses.
john OBrien's hOise. neir Dnbliu. Ontario,
was destroyed by fire. and Mes O'Brien. her
son and daughter persisted in The flames.