The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-07-08
NEWS SUMMARY
rastern and Middle Statcs.

| By the bursting Of a machine in mill near
Eric, Penh., Frank Dyke was instantly
killed, Nelson Wing fatally injured, and
three other men hurt.
! HERMAN kIPP, a flve.ycar-o!d boy Of New
ark. N. j., was bitten on April by dog,
and few days since died in intense agony Of
| hydrophobia.
JOHN o. DAY, of Sharon, Penn, twenty:
one years old, while intoxicated, quarrel2d
with and killed his father.
| JAMES r. MCKEE, of Togstown, Penn,
| shot his wife and then himself, both dying
soon afterward. They had lived unhapplly
| together.
GENERAL GRANT resumed work on his book
| on the Goth ut Mt. McGrcSor On the 2lst he
had refreshing sleep Of nine hours, and felt
much better.
FIRE hastevastated the village of Ontario,
| N. Y, destroying the business section, caus
| ing nh estimated aggregate loss OF $S0,0JO,
and rendering eighteen families homeless.
| AN immense crowd witnessed the parade at
tho national cncampment Of the Grand
| Army of the Republic in Portland. Me-
| About 5000 men were in line, 20, 0OJ Of them
in uniform. General Logan was present, and
made 4 short address.
! CHARLES \. BuDDESSEIK, the New York
builder whose poorlybuilt tenement houses
recently fell and killed n man, has been sem
fenced to ten years Imprisonment and to
pay n fine Of $5O1.
VICE president HENDRICKS was present
at the commencement exercises Of 4ale and
Harvard colleges. At Boston he was given
reception by tho Bay State club.
GENERAL GRANT was feeling much stronger
in his mountain home ut Mt McGresor on
the 2Jd. lie had recovered his voice, and
for the first time in several weeks dict ,ted
more of his memoirs to stenographer.
BUSINESS and social circles of New Haven
have beon shocked by the suicide of G. B.
Demarost, q wealthy carriage manufacturer.
He had been suffering from malaria and
overwork.
TIE officers of the French vessel which
brought over the Bartholdi statue have re.
| ceived many attentions in New York.
South and West.
A MAN at Cleveland, Ohio, sold his wife
and baby for 500 to another man, who took
his purchases to Logan.
The balloon in which William Patterson
was making an ascension at Charleston, w.
Va, caught fire and collapsed Patterson
fell several hundred feet and was dashed to
death.
T. j. CLUvERGUs, the young lawyer found
.uilty at Richmond, Va, of numbering his
cousin Miss Madison. has been sentenced to
be hanged on November = til next. When
asked whether he had anything to say why
death should not be pronounced against him,
| the prisoner. III q low and rather husky
voice, addressing the court, said: II will say,
sir, that you are ,pronouncing sentence on on
innocent man. That is all 1 have to say,
sir"
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, has re-
| nuectad avery nmnloya Of the ritv tO hand
in written resignation.
AT Ross Fork Agency, Idaho some Indian
thieves having treacherously murdered two
Indian police, vera surrounded and four Of
their number killed.
Mrs. TIMOTHY HILL and her daughter
Jennie, handsome and cultured young lady,
were shot and killed ut their home OH Chin
colleague Island, Md. by William T. Free
man, who wound up his bloody work by conf
mitting suicide. Freeman was in the employ
OF Mr.. Hill, who found him q waif in the
streets of New York years ago, and brought
, him home. The young man was madly in
love with Miss Jennie, who rejected his ad-
vanceS.
HENRY HOWARD, a negro who attacked
and terribly injured two young white girls
near West Lafayette, Ohio, was fcrcbly
taken from Jail at Coshockton by 100 ma 'kei
mon and hanged to tree in the colrt house
yard.
FIVE colored people-Andy Jackson and
bis wife, and three others-were taken from
Jail at Elkhart, Texas, by n crowd, and
hanged. They had been imprisoned for the
murder of Mrs. Hazcl!, white woman Mrs.
| jackson had confessed the crime.
MARY KLEMAN, Il young woman in Jail ut
Chicago OH the charge OF trying 10 poison
Ter sisters family, has confessed her guilt
and also made further confession of causing
the deaths of her mothor, father and another
sister i'll Dubuque. Iowa. Her mother died
in July oflast year, her sister in August, and
her father in March of this year. She as
signs no motive for her crimes other than she
was imrclled to commit them, and is evil
IDENTIFY insane
An insect called the dumb locust is COM
mitting ravaseS on apple trees in some of the
southwest counties Of Virginia, and trees are
dying hy hundreds.
TonSADoEs have done much damage in
Ravenna, Ohio anil vicinity, and III portions
of Missouri, Kansas and Dakota Tho losses
, at Ravcnna nro estimated Mt $15,OO. At
sSherhrooke. Dakota, every house except the
county building was blown down.
CHARLES KRUG. of st. Helena. one Of the
most prominent vineyardiSts Of California,
has failed. The liabilities are 1000, and
tho assets $lSl,C00.
Hon. GEORGE A. DCSHISGToN, editor OF
tho Grafton (W. Va.l Sentinel and promi.
nent citizen, has narrowly escaped assassina-
tion. While returning to his hotel man
sprang upon him with leveled revolver and
fired. The editor struck down the weapon,
and the bullet passed through his leg. The
would.be assassin fled.