The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Fifty physicians have been appointed special
tenement-house inspectors by the New York
Board OF Health.
Meinrod Spattenhuber was hanged at Leba-
non, Pn., tor the murder OF John 1vison during
a quarrel. S%pattenhuber insisted to the last
that he had killed Ivison in selt-defence.
At Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester,
Mass, the steamer Isaac Davis, loaded with
passengers, careehed to one side as she
reached the wharf, on account of q sudden rush
of people to get on board, her hurricane deck
broke of and scores Of persons were thrown
into the water. Seven persons lost their lives.
John F. Seymour, O brother-in-law Of Bishop
Seymour, was found dead in the grounds OF
the General Theological Seminary OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York.
He was discovered early in the morning by his
wife and the bishop, and had a bullet wound in
his breast. Mr.. Seymour, who ives O large
and powerful man, was in the habit OF going
out early every morning to clear the grounds
OF tramps, and il was while out on one OF
these expeditions that he met with his death.
Mrs. Andrew johnson, her fve-year old son
and q little girl named Miller were drowned
by the giving way of q crowded wharf at Nor
ris Island, near. Trenton, Nj.
A big hole has been made in the business
portion OF the college town of Amherst, Mass,
by m incendiary fire. The Amherst House,
tho largest hotel in the place, the postofice,
the Amherst Savings Bank, the public library,
". E. Stebbins' large lir"'v e'"!'". the Alpha
Delta Phi and Pei Epsilon college, secret So
ciety buildings, a number OF brick and wooden
blocks, and several barns and sheds were swept
away. The burned district extends from
Amity street nearly to the Baptist church,
about twenty rods along the upper side of the
college green. The loss is from $4,000 to
$500, 900.
As Mis-, Jennie Dunbar, q young music
teacher, WIS walking in q grove near Mat
teawan, N. Y, several boys threw some fire.
crackers which exploded under her clothes,
setting them afire and burning her so terribly
that che died in great agony the same night.
Joseph Atkins, age seventy-one, a fruit gar
denerlivinga few miles from Greensburg, Pa,
instantly killed his wife, age seventy-three,
and alter telling his nearest n~eighbor that he
had "killcd the old woman" placed the muz-
zls Of the gun under his W chin and killed
himself. The quarrel arose from a dispute
about a little piece OF property.
Twelve hundred men and boys employed in
four collieries at Shamokin, Pa, struck for IN
advance OF ten cents per wagon.
Mrs. Josephine A. Cotton, wife OF a New
York printer, from whom she had separated,
shot and killed herself alter an interview will
her husband.
Herbert F. Burrell and Andrew B. Coon
started from Boston tor a trip around the world
in tn Golden Gate, the smallest craft that ever
attempted such q feat. She is O schooner, 10
feet long, p feet depth of hold and II tons
burthen.
The skeleton remains of a mastodon, a huge
prehistoric animal, have been found ut Little
Britain, N. Y.
Vanderbilt's projected new rapid transit
route through some OF the most prominent
streets of New York has been killed by the
alderman.