The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-16
NEWS SUMMARY,
Eastern and Middle StatoS.

GOVERNOR HILL issued q proclamation on
the 9th ordering all thu flags on the public
buildings in Now York to be put at half mast
until after the burial of the late Vice-Presi-
dent Hendricks.
APlrTsBURG dispatch states that the pro-
tracted strike of the coal miners on the Mo-
nongahela river has resulted in riot and
bloodshed. A body of 500 miners, some
masked, drove out the men at work in several
mines, and severely beat a number of them.
BY tho fall Of a bucket several workmen on
the new New York Aqueduct were thrown
15O feet down a shaft. Three men were in
stantly killed and a fourth was fatally injured.
W. S. YATES, a Yale College student,
while duck shooting in a small boat, was car
ried out on Long Island Sound and froze to
death.
MUCH fishing property was destroyed at
Gloucester, Mass, and vicinity during the
recent great storm. Along the ocean side of
Cape Cod great slices of the shore, in some
places from 200 to 800 feet long and thirty
feet wide, have disappeared.
GENERAL ALEXANDER SHALER, president
Of the New York board of health, and COM
mander of the first division of the State
militia, was arrested a few days ago on a
warrant charging him with accepting a bride
in connection with the purchase of armory
sites.
A FIRE has destroyed every business house
The total loss is estimated at $1,000
A MATTRESS caught fire in the home of
Patrick Fitzgerald, at Providence, r. l., and
three Of his children, aged respectively one,
three and four years, were burned to death.
The first volume of General Grants Me.
moirs has just been published. 1t is a work
of 5S4 pages, beginning with a preface writ
ten at Mount McGregor during his last days
and ending with army affairs in the autumn
of 1868. The book is dedicated ito the
American soldier and sailor"
South and West.
The steamer Emma Graham, from Pitts
burg bound for Cincinnati with many pas
sengers OH board, collided with a barge on
the Ohio river noar Parkersburg, w. Va,
and went to the bottom. One man was
drowned, and a number Of others were re-
ported missing.
The casket in which Vice President Hen
bricks was buried was made in Rochester,
N. Y, and greatly resembles the one made
for General Grant. It is covered with black
broadcIoth banded with silver bars. The
trimming inside is Of white satin, tufted.
The handles are of the textile style, with
wound centres and silver tips. The cover is
trimmed on the inside with rayed white
satin.
THREE men ware killed and three injured
by the falling in of a house at Slingtown,
Texas.
GLOWING reports are received Of the dis
covery of rich gold fields in Alaska.
MAYOR READ, of Louisville, KY, was ar.
rested while engaged in a fist fight on one Of
the streets i'll that city.
A RIOT between white and black miners
too place at Bevier. Mo-. Many shots were
fired on both sides; two men were killed and
others wounded.
HENRY MASON (coIored), incarcerated in
the Campbell county VA Jail ON the charge
of numbering and robbing a farmer named
Hammersley, was taken from confinement
by a crowd of masked men and hanged to a
tree.
SADIE HAYS, ayoung colored woman, is to
be hanged in st. Louis OH January Is next
for the murder Of Police Sergeant jerks.
THE dwelling of H. A. Grayson, at Mar
quez. Texas, was burned the other night, and
Grayson's wife and daughter persisted in the
flames.
FIVE men were killed by a railroad acct
dent hear Missoula, Montana.
RENEGADE Apaches have been raiding the
San Carlos Indian agency in Arizona. Three
men, mine squaws and a number of children
We're killed.