The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Ess+ern and Middle States

A NATIONAL anti saloon Republican, con-
ference will be held in New York City OF
April is and l9.
OWING to the blinding blizzard, the ensi-
neer Of a fast freight on the Connecticut
River Railroad dashed iuto gang of labor
Jarucs Kennedy and John S;Eea, and fatally
injeeing Mike Connoes
An engine on the Greenwich Railrosd, near
Pk!ladelp phia, dashed into carriage contain
ing the 'Rcvs Phillips Brooks, William N.
McViciar. c. D. Cooper and Miss McVickar,
tossing the vehicle fifty feet, bit the occu-
pants were unIT jured.
DANIEL REESE, Jr., was billed and Mat
thew Davis, John McOIver, aud Stephen
Ward fatalls burned by gas explosion at
Plymouth, Eenn.
THE Msrtha flats in New York City were
destroyed fy fire, rendering sixteen families
homeless Several persons were rescued
from the flames by firenfen.
CHRISTIAN FIEcK, OF >Srowden, PENN,
murdered his wife with a shotgun in ths
presence of his six little children and then
committed suicide by ssecting himself I'm the
mouth He was miner and was insane
from poverty.
THE new $25, ,00G Dinsetors' car of the Della
ware and Hudson Company was blown up by
the explosion Of an experimental heater 1t
was supplied with, and William Burt was
fatally injured
THE business houses of Urling & Sons,
Heeren Bros, and William Haslage & Sons,
were burned at Pittsburg, PENN, with q loss
of S3U0.0O0.
BURNING naphthG in the sewer ct Bing-
hamton, Y. y, caused considerable damage
to property and two men lost their lives.
IN Marbehead Mass. ,diphtheria isepidemic
and twenty eight persons have died thus far.
DURING fire at Norwich, Conn.,, Fred W.
Spicer. a fireman., slipped on the ice and
struck his nose against the hydrant mithsuch
force as to break his neck.
A HEAVY earthquake shock YVES felt at
many places in Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts. Furniture was thrown down and
window glass broken in Newport, E. l., and
New Bedford Mass, but no further damage
was done.
EDWARD WENTwoTH. of Sidney Centre,
Me-, attempted toskill his wife and thirteen
small children, when one of his sons grabbed
the revolver and shot him dead.
THE Retail Grocers of the United States
will hold pure food exhibition at Albany,
n. Y, in June.
THE snow blockade made sad hawocwith
the live stock en route to Eastern markets
from the West. The animals were made
furious from hunger, and tore each other like
wolves. Thousands of them perished.
THE steamship Alexandria has arrived in
New York HarbOr badly battered by a hurri-
cane, which carried away the life-boats, the
shrouds and the rigging. She was sixty days
ut the mercy Of the waves, and, added to
this, smallpox broke out on board and many
were taken i'll with it.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, the eminent botan-
ist of Harvard College, died at his home in
Cambridge Mass, at the age Of seventy
seven.
THE suits for eviction against the miners
who are on a strike in the Lehigh region,
were decided in fsaor Of the strikers, by
Judge Woodward.
BY the derailment. of train at Somerset,
N. Y, two people Eere killed, and thirty
more or less injured.
THE Paymaster Ct New York City lost
satchel containing sss5, 900, but it was found
by stranger, who turned it over to the
authorities.
JOSEPH W. LocHER, of New York City,
was convicted of stealing letters from the
Postofice, and when his mother heard the
cantance she fell dead