The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-11
NEWS SUMMARY,
Eastern and Middle States.

E6SICIH anu NbIuoAo SSA%os
EDWARD HANLAN, for many years Anlerl-
cas- champion oarsman' hos 1us5 oee nae ea niis
defeated at Albany, n. Y, in a three.lnlle
boat-race by John Teemer, of Pittsburg
Penn.
Ex-Governor JOHN B. PAGE, of Yer
mont, died a few days ago at Rutland. ne
was Eorn in 1926, and e.ected governor IN
1867 and 1865.
FIVE prisoners in the Wellshoro (Penn:)
iail took French leave through a hole which
they had cut in the wall.
Josh B1LL1NGs," the humorist, was
buried in Lanesborough, Mass, his native
town.
AN engine ran into a coal train at Swart-
wood Station, n. Y, and William brown,
engineer, his fireman and a brakeman wefe
killed.
TEN trackmen while being conveyed to
their work on a flat car were swept on near
Oakdale, Mass, and all badly injured, one
dying soon after ana several otnerS ioS'nS q
leg by a%mputation.
Mrs. BRIDGET FARLEY, born in Ireland
in 1851, has lust died at Bridgeport Conn,
leaving two children, twenty-five grand
children and twenty-one gr~eat-grandchll-
dren.
A SEAT in the New York Stock exchange
has lust been sold for $34, 600, the highest price
on record.
SARAH CURRY, aged nineteen years, q girl
of Scotch Irish parentage residing at Lover,
N. H., has received a cablegram announcing
that by the recent death Of an uncle IN ScoG-
land she inherits $1,000, 0OO.
A CONNECTICUT life insurance company
took possession of the water works at Evans,
vile Ind, on account OF default IN payment
of interest on bonds.
xrY-,x Drrr ,ylo hoe boon n1,0mjnnnf
in New York business circles through his
connection with various broken institutions
as receiver, was arrested on a requisitlon or
the governor of Massachusetts and taken to
Boston. He was charged with embeZzllng
SIS, 600 of trust funds belonging to the "a
cifc bank, of Boston, of which institution he
had been a trustee. The charge is denied by
Best.
notwithstanding the hubbub of an exciting
election canvas the people of New York CITY
have been greatly, Interested III the
appearance on the witness stand of
James D. Fish, late president OF inc
broken Marine bank. and now an inmate OF
Auburn prison. Fish's testimony concerning
the ~tinancial operations of his former partner
in fleeing the public was very damaging TO
Ward.
ROBERT j.. Cook, business manager of the
Philadelphia Press, had his skull fractured
by a Ratchet blow struck by Stephen mac,
pherson, the colCred ~janitor, whom ne had
Just discharged. Macpherson was arrested,
and Cook, who is best known as a once famous
Yale college oarsman, was taken to a hospital.
FERDINAND WARDS trial in New York for
grand larceny ended in a verdict OF guilty.
the testimony of Fish, the imprisoned OK
president of the Marine bank, telling heavily
against the head Of the once famous firm OF
Grant & Ward.
Up to recent date the Grant National Mon"
ument fund bad reached s9S,5OO.
South and West.
Mr.. PARNELL and other prominent Irish
home rulers will attend the convention OF
the Irish national league Of America at
Chicago next January.
A W1cH1TI FALLS (Texas) telegram states
that the Exchange bank, G. w. Israel &
Co, praprietors, and the firms bank at Hen
rietta, have suspended, and great lndlgna-
ton has been aroused among the numerous
depositors on account Of alleged irregularl-
ties.
REV. ALFRED COFFEE, a colored preacher,
beat his thirteen-ycar-old son TO death at
Madison, Fla, and was arrested.
THE first annual fair of the Mississippi
colored State Fair association has been
opened at Jackson under favorable auspices
The opening ceremonies consisted OF q civic
and military parade. and addresses by Gov.
ernor Lowry, Congressman Barlssdale and
Isaiah T. Montgomery, resident OF the asso-
citation. Every part of the State Is repre-
sented at the fair by exhibits.
JOHN THOMPSON, who murdered James c.
White, O merchant of Glen Alice, Tenn,
was taken from Kingstown Jail late at night
by a mob of 100 men and hanged.
A BRIDGE at East Saginaw, Mich, was
filled with spectators watching a tire when
part of the structure gave way, throwing
about sixty people into the deep river below:
One boys body was recovered, and several
other persons were reported missing.
The regular Democratic candidate Tor
mayor of Baltimore was successful over the
fusion nominee in the municipal election.
A. J. BunRrs, Of Chicago, shot and NOR
tally wounded Mrs. Goode, a widow, and her
sister, Miss Lillian Walters. The ladies had
been employed as type writer's in a Chicago
mercantile agency, and Burrus. also employed
there, had been discharged when he refused
to apologize to Mrs. Gooi.e for defaming her:
Burrus then took this blood-thirsty method
of ''getting even"
Washington.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has approved the
report of the naval board constituted to OK
anime the work and materials of thu untn-
ished cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta,
and to ascertain and declare the fair market