The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-10-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

SUMMARY Ut NEWN.
Eastern and Middle States.
AT the New York State Democratic
convention in Syracuse the claims of
the various factions from New York city
we're settled by granting to the County
Democracy thirty-eight seats, Tammany
Hall twenty-four seats and Irving Hall ten
seats. Lester B. Faulkner presided.
On the fourth ballot Grover Cleveland, mayor
of Buffalo, was nominated for governor, re:
ceiving 21l votes against l5G for Genera
Henry W. Slocum and fifteen for Congress-
man RoswcllP. Flower; necessary toa choice,
1913. This result was attained by the united
delegations from New York city going overto
Cleveland on the third ballot. DavidB. Hill,
mayor of Elmira, was nominated for lieuton-
ant-governor on q rising vote, as was also
General Henry w. Slocum, of Brooklyn, for
Concentrating. William @. Ruger,
of Syracuse, was nominated on the first bal
lot for chief Judge of the court Of appeals, re-
ceiving 2l0 votes, against 1G3 for Rufus ".
Peckham. On the State committee New
York city now is represented by two mem'
bers-John Kelly and Augustus Schell:lrv-
ing Hall by one member. and the County
Democracy by the remaining four members.
THE recent three-days' rain storm which
prevailed in many parts of the Eastern anu
Middle States was the heaviest that had
visited this section of the country in many
wears and did all enormous amount OF dam
are to property of all kinds, more particu-
larly in New Jersey. In New York city
there was a rainfall to the extraordinary
depth of six inches. Mementos of the great
storm wore scattered over the Atlantic slope
from New England to tho Curolinas, and its
rayarcs extended far into the interior. Small
creeks became raging torrents, streets and
houses were flooded, railroads were washed
out in many places, trains and mails were
delayed and some lives wore lost. The ag-
~orerate damage throughout the country is to
be reckoncd by millions. At Plainfeld, N.
J., q bridge that was crowded with people,
watching tho progress Of the flood, suddenly
gave way and nearly fifty persons fell into
the stream. Two or three were reported
missing and many others we're injured.
ALoNzo FoLLErr, n prominent New York
commercial paper broker, has failed, his
total indebtedness being variously estimated
OF from $780, 900 to $1,Oc0,0O0.
DURING a dense fog the steamship Edam,
oil the Observation-Disclosures Steam Naviga-
ton company, from New York bound for
Rotterdam, was run dow and u at sea by
the British steamship Lepanto, bound for
New York from Hull. Two of the engineers
of the Edam were killed by the collision.
The passengers and crew of the wrecked
vessel were brought to New York by tho Le-
panto. The Edam was valued at about $780,
600 and carried a general cargo of 3,OOt
tons.
AT Buffalo Mrs. James Benson, while in q
delirium from fever, left her bed, and taking
her youngest child, q boy two years old,
drowned herself and him in a cistern.
A DELAYED Harlem railroad train was
standing in the Fourth avenue tunnel in New
York, when it was run into from the rear by
another train with such terrific force that two
passenger cars were completely wrecked.
Madame ALBERT, a teacher; was instantly
killed; William Howe, a bookkeeper, died
soon after of his injuries, and twenty-one
other persons were hurt, several of them with
probably fatal effect.
JAMES WALL, ago eighteen, James Con-
way, ace sixteen, William Ducan. age twenty
five, and james Stewart, Of Buffalo, N. T.,
went upon Lake Erie for a sail. When about
zen miles from shore a sGuall upset the boat
and Wall, Conway and Dusan we're drowned
Stewart padded the boat ashore in twelve
hours.
AsALuTE was being fired on Governors
Island, New York harbor, in honor Of a
French frigate, when two tlirty-two pound
cannon were prematurely discharged. -Four
Of the canroreers were terribly injured, each
having m arm torn from its socket. Private
Mali died in ten minutes; Private Whelan
succumbed to his injuries soon after; Private
Sidner received probably fatal injuries, and
Private Clunis lost his left arm.
Twof farm hands at Centre Square. Pa,
died from the effects of eating toadstools for
mushrooms.
THE VIII olesale dry goods house of We'll
lington Brothers & Co., of Boston, has sus-
pended, with liabilities aggregating about
100000.
TIE factory of Mossrs. Maltby, Stevens i
Curtiss, manufacturers of plated and cocoa
nut wares at Birmingham, Conn.,, has beon
destroyed by fire. The total loss on the
building, stock and machinery is $4,000.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH w. COLLINS, of Gloucester,
Mass, has returned from a trip to the edge
OIL the Gulf stream in search of tile fish in
the interest of the United States fish com
mission. Tho trip resulted in the discovery
of a new food fish, believed to DO of great
value.
JOSHUA P. B. EDDY, \ Philadelphia COL
ored minister, eighty-four years old, died
there the other day in the midst Of squalol
and apparent poverty. Upon investigation
twas found tibet he possessed property worth
more lllu SlOO,OOOs LIZ o"hS nav ~
houses in different parts of the city, nine in
Camden, two farms in Now Jersey and
other property.
The ffty-frst annual fair Of the American
Institute has been opened in New York.
A SATISFACTORY settlement has been made
in the famous Newburg IN. W poker case
between Francis p. Reed, the victim, and
DR.. M. Hedges and ". NJ. Scott. By the ar
ticles of agreement not only the crimina
proceedings against Hedges and Scott are to
be discontinued, but the civil suits against
them are also stopped. Weed is understood
to have accepted $4,000 in full settlement,
and comes out of the affair a loser to the e1-
tent of about $4,000.
Miss ELIZABETH CRoMMEL1N, a New York
school-teacher, is the third victim OF the
collision in the Fourth avenue tunnel, having
died from the result Of her injuries.
ALBERT E.. SMITH, a Yale college student OF
the senior class, has been arrested on a charge
of obtaining money from other stud ntS
under false pretenses. Smith, it is charged,
collected money to pay the expenses of a
baseball nine and then appropriated 1T to
his own use.
South and west
JACK CHATHAM (colored) was hanged at
Belleviow. La, TO: the murder of another
colorcd man named Williams. Jealousy and
a desire for revenge prompted the deed.
4 TERRIBLE six-sided duel, in which foul
men lost their lives, is reported in the follow
ing dispatch from Denver, COL: "George
Howard, owner of q herd of 5000 cattle, and
John Kelley, owner of Il herd of 1000, wer
driving eastward in company from Arizona
North of Trinidad, COL, on the plains, the
two herds were to separate. Howard was to
take The old Santa Fe trail to Kansas City
and krr:ey WIS to drive northward to Den