The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle ST ltes.

Foun tons of powder exploded at I'd
Keen an lime works, Smiths Basin, N. Z.
Dennis Golden and Joseph Cameron, wi II
had charge of the powder house, were blown
to fragments, some parts of Them being
found half q mile distant.
The palatial summer residence of the we'll
known artist, Mr.. Albert Bierstadt, ut Irving
ton, on the Hudson, known rs "Matkasten,
has been laid in ruins by fire. SO quickly
did the flames spread that not more than q
score or so of the many valuable oil paint
;nps in the building could be saved; the re-
mainder, together with mhny other valuable
works of art and curiosities, were reduced to
ashes. Mr.. Bierstadt estimates his total loss
at 100000.
A PARADE at Buffalo, and q banquet in
Boston, were the methods by which the
jubilant Democrats expressed their s%atisfac-
ton ut the election of Governors Cleveland
and Butler, both of whom ulndo addresses.
TuR one-mile running race between Myers.
American amateur champion. and George,
the English champion, took place IN New
York and was won by the latter.
TRAIN near GAINESVILLE, Pa., was derailed
and the ougine, tender, baggage car and two
passenger cars were thrown down a gorge
thirty feet deep. The engineer was killed
and the fireman seriously hurt
PAINE 4 SAoKETT, Providence, WOODEN
manufacturers, have failed, with liabilities
estimated at 100000.
GEoRox ". BURGESS, who began themanu-
facture of friction matches at New York
in 1881, and was tho first to engage in that
business in America, died the other day in
Norristown, Pa, aged seyenty-eight years.
COMPLETED returns of the Now Hampshire
vote give Halle for governor 3S.39S, Edserly
$500, scattering 939. Hale's plurality over
Edgerly is LAOS, and his majority $50. The
total vote was 1921. Last year the total
vote for governor was Bell Il, 442, Jones 49,
e13, scattering 919.
FIVE coal barEes foundered in Long Island
Sound during the recent gale.
E1LERY ALgRE, the defaulting cashier of
the Ashuelot IN. H. savings bank, has been
sentenced to ten years. Imprisonment in the
State prison.
RETURNS received at the New York produce
excha uge show the majority at the recent
State election in favor of the constitution
amendment making the canals free to be
241, 575.
ANEW YORK State senate committee, up
pointed for tho purpose of Investigating the
evils of grain speculation, held a meeting ut
Buffalo and took testimony. Alonzo Rich
mond, ex-president of the Buffalo board OF
trade, testified thatthe syst sn. of grain deal
ings in futures disturbed IL! } business of the
entire commercial world.
A wATER-TowEE, sixty-tive feet high, de-
sipned for the New York fire department, was
being tested at one of the city piers when IL
snddcnlv overturned. Before the crowd OF
spectators could escape it killed one man,
fatally crushed a second and badly injured a
third.
TIE steamerC City of Worcester was on her
wav from New York to Norwich, Conn, when
she ran into and sank q barge IN the East
river. The barge was loaded with sugar.
and had on board Captain William Taylor
his mother, wife, three children and TWO deck
hands. Captain Taylor was saved, but all
the rest were drowned.
AT Phillipsburg, Pa, Mrs. William Stark,
twenty-five years old, a bride of only three
weeks, committed suicide by taking poison.
The annual meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences took place this year Ill
New York. Many interesting papers on SCI
entific matters were read by leading scien-
fists.
WILLIAM STE1S1rz, champion chess player
of tho world, arrived in this country q short
time ago, and has been defeating the best
players of Philadelphia.