The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-26
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


of Chelsea, Mass, were killed by tram
while walking on the track near EVerett'
Mass.
JOHN WEISEL and wife, nm aged German
couple residing at Burnt Hill, n. ~ at
tempted to cross pond on thin ice ana were
drowned.
The Surveyor of the Port Of Philadelphio
and his assistant were slmnarlly removed
from Office by President Cleveland.
THREE brothers. named John j. Ruti.
Blake j. Ruff and Reuben Albert Rnlt, were
struck by an cast-bound train au Paterson,
n. j., and the two Oldest were instantly
killed.
THE dynamite gun cruiser Ncsuvus, con-
structod for the | nitea states Government
hv tie MrsSrs Cramp. had an official trial
to determine her speed over measured mile
near the Delaware Pe,n.) Breakwater. She
showed speed of Al knots pr hour. Inc
contract calls for speed Of twenty knots an
hour
THOMAS & Sons tack works, Mt Norris
town, Penn, has been burned. Loss, S50,OOO.
REAR ADMIRAL W lillian EDGAR LIE Roy,
of the United States Navy. better known as
lie Chesterfield Of tie navy" has died IN
New York city, of paralysis. Except Rear
Admiral Rogers Admiral Leroy had seen
more sea service than any other admiral Ill
the navy, having served his country at sea
twenty-eight years anh one month.
THOMAS v. HNHT. Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Boston, defeating HnGh
O'Brien, Democrat, by 2GO0 ma iority. Owing
to the school book question. about lS,OOo
women voted for School Board candidates.
Miss MATTE Ross, an aged woman living
near Anontown, Penn, was hound, burned
and tortured by three masked nen until she
revealed the hiding place of her money. Inc
thieves cot but s..
South and West.
Two men LOST their lives by sutfocation
while cleaning out still Of the Peerless Oil
Refining Company, at Finilay, Ohio.
SAMUEL PLULFEI has been hanged at
Norkviile, s. C.. for the murder of Lucy
Smith. At the same time and pace Adolphus
Wheeler was hanged for the murGer or
George Bechbaunl. Both confessed.
THE American Forestry Congress, which
has been in session at Atlanta, Ga. adjourned
The next meeting will be held i'll Philadelphia
Governor J. \. Beaver, OF Pennsylvania, was
elected President.
DIR. Fl. NJ. BEILDER, one of the best known
citizens of Tcxarkaua, Texas, was killed on
the street hy Ed Spears, a fourteen year-old
boy, whose father the doctor had caned.
THREE-ouARTERS of the large iron ship
building plant of the Globe Iron Works IN
C eveland, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at S2Oo,O0O
THE Maryland Central Railroad, running
from Baltimore to Delta, Penn, forty miles,
has been sold under foreclosure for $500, ,090.
The company will be reorganized with o
capital stock OF S400, 00O and funded debt
of SS5O,001.
JOHN MARTIN, of Chicago, shot and killed
Mrs. Nemie, a married woman with whom
he was infatuated, and then killed himself.
SHERIFF ROBERT JONES, of Wabash, Ind,
was killed by John Fleming, an escaped con-
vict, whom he attempted to capture.
A vERITADLE voc1no, ejecting fire, ashes
and lava has burst out with activity at
Charles, Mix County, Dak., within few
miles Of Hot Springs, which discharges into
the Missouri River near Fort Randall.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE, OF Missouri, has
sent State troops to Bevier on account of i'll
o?ndiary acts done by striking coal miners
there.
ORDER hos been restored in Birmingham.
Ala The Jail is under military guard. GOV.
elnor Seay approves the action OF Sheriff
Smith in defending murderer Hawes against
the mo- Six more victims are dead, max
ing fifteen i'll all.
Two boys named Ollie Redman and John
Wrigh. were drowned in the river at Gin
c;nnati.
UxlrEn STATES SENATOR BUTLER, OF
South Carolina, has been reelected.
THE seventv-third birthday of Indiana
was celebrated in various ways by she cnIl- o.
dren of that State, State holiday having
been made therefor.
NOAH TAYLOR, colored, charged with the
murder of q man named Stegull at har'
risonburc, Mss, was taken from Jail by
q mob and hanged.
As Stroll g. HaInans's feed mill Mt Irow-
bridge, Ohio. was about TO start, Henry
Hannns stopped the steam, when the boiler
exploded, killing him and customer who
was standing near by. Wallace Stroll ana
one bov were fatally injured and another boy
slightly. Everything is total wreck, ex-
cept the grinder.
By an explosion of gas in coal mine near
CANYON City, Col, while workmen we're
engaged in distinguishing q fire that had
previously lrokeu out, two men were Killed,
two morteliy injured and eight more seriously
hurt
JOSEPH LAMP, eighteen years old, caused
the death of Jonathan Mason, a lad of the
same age, at Martipsburg, W. Va, by
slapoing min on the jugular vein.
TIE Stone and Lumber Company, of
Columbus, Ind, has assigned with liabilities
of SSr, 900. The assets are $136,O0o.
THE case of eX-Messenger David b.
Fotheringham against the Adams Express
Company, at.st. Louis Mo-, for false i'm.
prisonment in connection with the celebrated
Jim Cummings robbery, has been settled at
St. Louis, the company paying him SsOOo.
Washington.
The National Government has ordered
from Duluth Mimi dealers three thousand
telegraph poles for the use Of military tele-
graph lines in Dakota.
ARMY and navy men at Washington say
the bursting during the test OF the Bessemer
steel gun at Annapolis was due solely to the
fact that cast steel has neither sufficient
strength, elasticity nor tensile power to be
utilized for heavy ordnance.
AN award of $4,000 in favor Of repre-
sentatives Of Charles Won Bokkelen. a United
States citizen has been filed at the State De-
partnent and Haytian Embassy. Won Box
kelen was imprisoned for debt at Port au
Prince. AMI the authorities refused to allow
him to make an assignment for his creditors
and Dc released.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
Emory II. raunt, formerly Lieutenant in the
Navy, as Consul to the Congo River Free
State, with headquarters ut Bona, Africa
ORDERS have been issued by President
Cleveland for the vessels Of the revenue ma
rine on the Atlantic coast to cruise along tho
coast during the season of severe weather
for the purpose Of affordinG aid to distressed
navigation.
RAILWAY mail clerks have been placed
under civil service rules by order of Post
master-General Dickinson.