The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-04-08
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle StateS.

" pOllC6 OlllClul, ulcu 6uuueul1 Ouo JULIO
morning, while on his way to a station
house.
PROMINENT Delaware peach-growers pre-
dict an average crop II no lato severe frosts
come.
A BILL reported favorably by a committee
of the New York legislature prohibits girls
under fourteen years Of age from attending
skating Kinks after 5 o'clock r. NJ. without the
written consent of their parents or guardians,
or being accompanied by them, and prohibits
children from attending during school hours.
Mrs. JOHN MALLEN's boarding house in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire,
and the proprietress and a boarder named
Bowen were burned to death, while George
jured.
Mrs. SARToRrs, General Grants only
daughter, arrived in New York from her
home in England a few days since. She has
come on q visit to her sick father. The gen.
eral was reported considerably better.
A PORTION of tho New Jersey State CAPT.
tol has been destroyed by fire. The pnrt de-
stroycd is the facade Of the original State
house, built in l7nO, and altered and i'm
proved in 1915. The burned building con-
tanned the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS office,
and the offices OF the acknowledgement, con-
t~roller, clerk in chnncery, clerk Of tho su-
prem. court, secretary of state, and State
treasurer and the museum. The entire build
| ing is worth 500, 600. Oh which there is n
liberal Insurance.. Most OF the important
documents and tho war relics In the museum
wore saved.
BECAUSE he was reproved by his parents
for playing baseball Albert Gamble, a boy Of
fifteen, residing at Mountville, Penn, hanged
himself.
IMMEDIATELY after a portion of the New
Tor>rn1, cy,io cn,,tto1 of Tronfon UNA 6ocI 70 vp1
by fro, Governor Abbott sant q message to
tho legislature recommending the appoint
ment of q commission to supervise the re-
building of the burned section in an enlarged
form. A committee of three from each
house to take action in the matter was APP
pointed.
The Rhode Island house has passed a res.
olution proposing O constitutional amendment
comforting upon women the right to vote
upon the same conditions as men.
GORDON W. BURNHAM, the aged New
York millionaire, left $4,000 to Miss San
born, the authoress, to whom he was engaged
to be married at the time of his death.
GENERAL JAMES McQUADE, prominent
New York politician, twice mayor Of Utica,
d ed a few days since in that city, aged fifty;
SIX.
A FIRE in Buffalo, N. Y. destroyed the
Music hall and the St Louis Catholic church,
two prominent edifces. Joseph Green fell
from the roof Of the church and was killed.
The losses exceed S250,00 0
South and West.
THE struggle in the Arkansas legislature
for q successor to Attorney General Garlauds
seat in the United States Senate eliminated
in the election OF Ex-Governor James H.
Berry, who lost a leg in the Confederate
army and has been prominent in State poll
tics the last twenty years.
TIE Ohio legislature hos adopted q joint
resolution for the submission Of a c%onstitu-
tional amendment to change the time for the
State election from October to November.
FIRE broke out in the Langham hotel, Chi
cage, while the guests, numbering 100, wero
at supper. Mrs. Belknap, an elderly lady,
was killed by jumping from the fourth story.
Two firoInen and two hotel employees were
killed by falling walls and two men injured.
The pecuniary loss is about s350,0N.
AT Richmond, Va, the jury investigating
the circumstances connected with the death OF
Miss Fannie Lillian Madison, whose body
was found in one Of the city reservoirs, rem.
Cluverius, the young lawyer, had been d.
rectly or indirectly the cause Of her death
A hotel clerk identified Cluverius as tho man
he saw in the hotel parlor with the young |
Indy aSlss on the night before her body was dis
CHIEF JosEPH's band of Nez Forces In
dams, many members OF which have been
dying off in Indian Territory, arc to DO sent
back to Idaho.
An all-day snow.storm, tho heaviest in ten
years, visited parts of Virginia on tho I'd.
A BOILER explosion in the wholesale gro
Gerry house Of Ruffner Bros, at Charleston,
w. Va, was followed by a fire which de
stroycd the building and the adjoining Hale
house, the principal hotel in the city. George
Welchers,, janitor in the grocery house, was
instantly killed, and q bookkccper seriously
injured. The losses aggregate about S:W,
900.
CLuvERIUs, the young lawyer sent to jail
ut Richmond, Va, on the charge Of murder
ing Miss Madison. is O near relative OF Prcsi-
dent Tyler.
AGANG of six colored men and two women
who hal committed a burglary in Ocono, s.
c., wore pursued by a sheriff's posse and dis
covered in a hut in tho North Carolina noun
tains. One of the women killed the sheriff
with an ak, two of tho negroes were killed,
and three of the posse wounded. Four ne
groes were captured and two escaped.
TH1RTY-sEvEN horses were burned to death
In a livery stable at Urbana, Ohio.
In Scottsville, Va, Melville Barrett, n boy
of seven, was hanged by his cousin Mary
Cooper, a girl of eight. The little girl and n
Ave-year-old sister who aided in killing the
boy were taken to Jail.
A NEGRO named Glass, charged with muir
der in Texas, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
John A.. Culp and ex-Constable Rush
meadows, lis ptiysuers. in the Indian Terri
tory.
JACOB THOMPSON, secretary of tho interior
under President Buchanan, died the other
afternoon at Memphis, Tenn, aged seventy
four years..
CHARLES BANKS, employed in the Office OF
tho Florida Railway and Navigation com
pany, Bainbrldge, Ga, called Allison, the
checking clerk, a liar, and jumped on him
with his feet. Allison drew q revolver and
shot Banks dead.
REV. WILLIAM HARRIS, treasurer OF
Princeton college, New Jersey, and a Pres
byterian minister of considerable eminence
died suddenly in Savannah, Go.