The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-28
LATER NEWS,

EIGHT Of the bakers who have been boy.
cotting Mrs. Gray's bakery in New York
by parading in front of her place and re-
questing people by circulars not to purchase
in her store we're arrested, and four Of them
fined for disorderly conduct Since the boy
cotting began Mrs. Gray's busin ess has
largely incl eased, and she has received con.
tributions in money amounting to over $500.
The boycotters announce their determine
tion to keep up the fight.
CHARLES e. REILLY, another of the New
York ex-aldermen, was arrested on the 18th,
charged with selling his vote for the Broad
way railroad franchise. He gave bail in the
sum of s25,00O
ADDITIONAL postmasters nominated by the
President: James P. Owen at Camden. N.
Y; Francis G. Boswell at Phelps, N Y;
James F. Robertson at Culpeper, Va; Fre-
derrick A. Ross at Tuscumb:a, Ala. Philip B.
Spencer at Newport KY; W. H. Camp at
Guthrie Centre, Iowa; John Shaw at Van
Vert, Ohio; Jacob P. Kerlin at Warren, Ill :;
William B. Beck at Tekamah, Neb; II. C.
Briley at Dell Rapids, Oak.
A BURGLAR entered the sleeping room Of
Mr. P. Kendall, at Locklani, Ohio. He drew
a pistol, but Mr.. Kendall was too quick for
him, and the intruder fell dead at the first
fire.
The strike On the Gould system of rail
roads and the subsequent failure of all at
tempts at arbitration have led to an ami
mated and pointed correspondence between
Mr.. 7. V. Powderly, the head of the Knights
Of Labor order, and Mr.. Jay Could Mr.,
Powderly has declared war upon Jay Gould
as ''the master monopolist of the age" and the
latter having invoked the protection Of the
law, the battle will be fought in the courts if
possible.
FIVE strikers, among them c.. L. Graham,
master workman of Knights of Labor
assembly, have been arrested at Little Rock,
Ark, by the national authorities on the
charge Of impeding and disturbing the ad-
ninistration of justice in the United States
circuit court.
The sheriffs deputies who fired into a
crowd at st. Louis were held responsible for
VIC dSU NY Uuo D
RUMoRs have been abundant lately of the
approaching marriage of the President to
Miss Folsom, of Buffalo. The lady is described
as young and handsome, and is the daughter
Of the widow Of President Cleveland's former
law partner.
Mr.. PowDERLY has issue a circular from
Philadelphia calling upon the knights of
Labor throughout the country for funds to
help sustain the strike on the Gould system
of railroads in the Southwest.
THE drivers and car conductors Of the
Third Avenue railroad, the leading horse
car company in New York, struck on the
10th because the company refused to dis
charge some Of its employees upon the demand
of the strikers. The company determined to
resist the demands of their employees, and the
cars thereupon ceased running.
LATER report; put the number of killed by
the tornado in Minnesota at over seventy
five and the injured at more than 200.
BAPTIsTE Fry, railway engineer'at East
st. Louis, ILL.,, refused to join in the strike.
n number Ol ul0u u VI ulS
wife that he should join the strikers, but she
said it wonld be useless to give such prom
ise. as he had determined to continue at work.
The men left, declaring that Fry should quit
work or stiff, the conse lueuces. During the
night, while Fry was absent his house, was
set on fire, and his wife and five-weeks-old
baby had narrow escape from being burned
to death. Coal oil had been poured over the
side Of the house in which the occupants
slept.
CHOLERA has appeared at Brindisi, Italy.
NINE persons were killed and number in
jured at Ajaccio. the capital Of Corsica, by
the collapse and fall of a mansion.