The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-25
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AT WilkeSbarre. Penn. W. HowelS, q
mining boss. entered the compartment where
miner WAS at work and ordered him to prop
a defertive part of the roof. AS Howe,ls
spoke the looscncd mass of coal fell, crushing
him to death.
AT Cumberland Mills, Me. burglars en-
tered the apartment of Mrs Thomas Stacks
and murdered her before the eyes Of her in
valid and helpless husband, whom she was
nursing.
ARNOLD G. HARRIS, whose thrilling and
remarkable adventures as q Union spy during
the Civil War made him famous, dropped
dead from heart disease at Buffalo, n. Y.
REV. DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT has been chosen
temporary pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn. at salary of 500 a week.
E. B. WILBUR, Il prominent grain mer-
chant of Buffalo, y. Y, has absconded to
Canada with $4,000 belonging to confiding
business men of that place.
WM FINK, farmer near jersey City, n.
j., was arrested while endeavorng to sell in
New York city thousand pounds Of meat
infected with pleuro-pneumonia-
DIR. JAMES NJ. GAssAwAY, United States
Marine Surgeon, at Portland, Me +, and his
eleven-year-old son were passing from the
road when gale of wind dashed them off
the platform, blowing them some distance
and instantly killing the boy.
MAJOR JOSEPH R. WELLES, of Millville, n.
j., a veteran Of the Civil War, was killed on
the Reading Railroad.
OBEDIAH PERKINS, Register of Wills at
Allentown, Penn, has disappeared, being
short in his accounts 5000.
ISAAC MERR1cK, of Camden, N. j.. shot
and killed his foster daughter, Sallie Harr1-
gan, and then committed suicide.
ASA w. WIcKEs, cashier Of the Central
National Bank of Troy, N. Y, played poker,
and hence is defaulter for $1,000.
A PARTY Of tobogganers at Torrington,
Conn.,, lost control of the steering apparatus,
and the unmanagable sled dashed against q
tree, killing Miss Kittie Miller and seriously
injuring two of the party.
DR. WESLEY NJ. CARPENTER, of New
York, the well-known medical writer, is
dead.
"AUNr" EUNICE CoTTRELL, a agreat-grand-
child of King Philip, the Pequot sacehm,
has Just died on the Indian reservation,
near Norwich, Conn, at the age of 115
years.
CAPTAIN RICHARD THOMPSON, Of the Eng
lish steamship Newcastle City, and crew Of
twenty-six men were shipwrecked Off Nan.
tucket Shoals, and after enduring great hard
ships were rescued by the United States
lighthouse ship Verbena-
LAST September Julius Feuret, young
German convict, escaped from Sing Sing,
and after marrying a French Canadian girl,
settled down as drug clerk in Williams
burg, n. Y. Several days ago an old pal of
his revealed his identity to the police, who
arrested and returned him to prison.
HEAVY freshets are reported from the vi
cinity of Lock Haven, Penn. Barns and
dams have given way, and millions Of feet OF
logs have broken loose.
JOHN NEWELL was reelected President Of
the Erie Railroad
LAST year there were forty-two persons
killed and two hundred and four injured on
the surface and elevated railroads in New
York city.
A COMMITTEE appointed by the New York
Legislature in 1886 has reported in favor of
the adoption of electricity as the mode of ex-
ecuting criminals instead Of hanging.
A NEW York jury has awarded Miss
Clara Campbell $45, 900 in her breach-of-
promise suit for 100000 damages against
Charles Arbuckle, a wealthy coffee merchant.
Defendant will appeal.
THREE paupers were tburned to death in
the poorhouse at Monroe, Conn, an inmate
named Collyer rescuing nine others from
similar fate.