The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

The State convention of the Vermont
Greenback labor party, held at Montpelier,
nominated delegates to the national conven-
ton at Chicago and adopted q platform in
conformity with the principles of the party.
The village of Stuyvesant, on the Hudson
River railroad, eighteen miles below Albany,
has been almost totally destroyed 0y fire,
the flames extending to all the buildings on
both sides of the railroad track and covering
q radius OF more than a square mile. The
loss is estimated at $500, 900; insurance about
100000.
Pa, have boon devastated by IRE. In seven
DAVIS over $50, 900 barrels Of crude oil have
been consumed. The fire cut a swath four
miles in width extending through the valley
for uine miles.
William Dalzell, who recently killed John
j. Van Houten at Paterson, N. D., thereby
creating an all-day riot among the exasper-
ated reople, has been indicted by the grand
Jury for granddaughter.
: Henry r. Weiss, Israel Brandt and Josiah
FUNNEL we're hanged the other day at
Lebanon, Pa, for being accomrlices in the
murder OF Joseph Raber, an old man upon
whose life they, in company with two other
men named Drews and S~tichler, had effected
a heavy insurance. Drews and Stichler were
the principals in the murder OF Raber, whom
they drowned while crossing a brook, and
were hanged tor their crime last November.
Thus all i've men engaged Ill the conspiracy
have expinted their crime on the gallows.
On the same day that the three above-named
men were hanged Edwin Hoyt suffered a
similar fate at Bridgeport, Conn, Tor the
causeless murder of his aged father two years
ago.
The second trial of Jesse Billings at Ball
ston, N. T., for the murder OF his wife, re-
suited in 81 a~cquittal by the jury.
The number of buildings burned at Milton,
Pa, was 666, and only two places OF business
escaped destruction.
The body Of William Blanford, a Philadel-
phia policeman who died in 1874, has become
petli1ed and turned to stone. 1t now weighs
nearly 500 pounds.
Two whites and five negroes were publicly
whipped the other day at Newcastle, Del,
among those punished being a boy OF ten
years, who received i've light lashes tor
larcenz.
John n. flasher & Co., Boston grain mer-
chants, have failed for about $l5O, 600.
The execution OF Carl Manke tor the murder
of John Atlof took place q few days ago az
Buffalo, N. Y. Manke met his death with
stolid indifference, cursing his spiritual ad-
visor and attendants to the last. ,
Hon. Sanford E. Church, chief justice OF
the New York court OF appeals, died suddenly
and Unexpectedly of a apoplectic stroke q
few days ago at his home in Albion, N. 7.
Judge Church was q prominent member OF
the Democratic party in New York State tor
nearly forty years, and held Office as member
OF the legislature, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, State
comptroller, etc. At the national Demo-
cratic convention held in New York in 1858
judge Church was nominated for President by
Samuel j. Tilden, and the New York dele
gates cast its vote for him seven continuous
times. In 1870 Mr.. Church was elected chief
Justice of the State OF New York.
Almost the entire business portion vi the
town of Milton, Pa, has been destroyed by
fire. The fames burned over q space seven
squares in length and two in width, and licked
up about 400 buildings, including six churches,
all the banks, telegraph Office, Pennsylvania
Railroad depot, Academy OF Music, gas works,
and all the hotels. Several persons persisted
in the flames and $50 families were rendered
homeless and compelled to camp out in the
fields. The pecuniary loss is estimated at
about 81, 00O, 900. Immediately after the fire
Governor Hoyt sent a dispatch to the mayors
OF the cities throughout the State, saying that
5000 people were houseless and destitute of
the necessaries of life, and asking that i'm
mediate aid be furnished the stricken people.
Thousands OF acres OF timber land have
been burned over by forest fires in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and on Long Island.
In New Jersey more than 100 square miles Of
valuable berry boys, timber lands and vine
yards have been destroyed.
The New York supreme court has decided
unanimously that burial cannot be claimed
Tor one Denis Coppers in his plot in a Catholic
cemetery because Coppers was a .
The cemetery authorities refused to permit
the burial of Coppers' body in his plot, and
his relatives brought suit to test the question.
The village OF Coudersport, Pa, has been
destroyed by fire. Every store, dwelling and
business place, with lew exceptions, was laid in
ashes. About forty buildings were burned,
and the loss is estimated at $780, 600. On the
same day, at Pittsburg, George 8. Lacey's
large planning mill, one OF the most extensive
in that region, was destroyed by fire. -Four
acres of machinery and lumber were burned,
entailing a loss OF $3.50
By the caving in OF a mine ut Shenandoah,
Pa, William Kendrick was instantly killed
and six other men severely injured; and by q
similar accident OF Chester Springs, Pa,
Joseph Miles and James e. Brown were
killed. ,
In New Jersey 1885, 0) acres of woodland
end 200 buildings have been burned by forest
fires, tho total loss being set down at nearly
81, 600, 600. Pennsylvania has suffered nearly
Gs much.