The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-24
TIE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

OSCAR PEARsALL, aged thirty-eight years,
killed himself over the coffin Of his mother,
Hannah, who had just died, aged ninety years,
at Williamsburg, NY.
JoHNsTowN, Penn, was again threatened
with disaster by the Conenaugh River and
mountain torrents. Heavy storms and floods
created much damage and CONSERVATION, and
many narrow escapes from drowning were
reported.
AT the celebration of the Fourth of July in
Woodstock, Conn, addresses were made by
President Harrison, Congressman Reed, ,Sena-
tor Hiscock, Secretaries Noble and Tracy,
General Hawley and others.
Tue Executive Council of the American
Federation Of Labor has issued an appeal to
organized labor in aid of the 5000 striking
miners in Illinois and Indiana.
FRANK HoYT, paying-teller of the First
National Bank, Of Hoboken, n. j., has been
arrested for embezzhng SIS, 900 Of the banks
funds. He lost the money in Wall street.
GEORGE H. WATEoUs, ex-President of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road Company, died suddenly at New
Haven, Conn, Of Bright's disease, in his
sixty first year.
The Cornell On. " crew won the Childs
Cup from the University of Pennsylvania
eight at Philadelphia in the fastest time ever
rowed-one mile and half in six minutes
and forty seconds.
ALL the mines on the Monongahela River
in Pennsylvania are idle, the men refusing to
accept reduction Of wages. Five thousand
miners are affected.
EDGAR GILMORE, aged twenty, and An
drew Larsen, aged eight, were both drowned
while bathing in the creek at Williamsport,
Penn.
THOMAS EWING SHERMAN, q son Of Gen.
eral W. T. Sherman, has been ordained In
The ceremony was performed by Archbishop
Ryan.
A RAILWAY collision occurred seven miles
east of jamestown, N. Y. Charles Eisman
of Meadville, engineer of freight and Louis
Wentz of Salamanca, baggage master of
passenger train, were instantly killed. V.
b. Derby, and Arthur Sexton had their legs
broken.
FOUR incendiary fires took place in Dan
bury, Conn.
DR.. WATERS, who committed suicide in
New York city, left long, circumstantial
and scientific account Of his sensations dur
ing the two days he tried to kill himself with
morphine and cocaine.
WHILE Charles w. Carrath, a well-known
druggist Of Maiden, Mass, and F. H. Miller,
prominent Boston broker, were out shoot
ing, Carrath's rifle was accidentally dis
charged, the ball entering Miller's neck, and
killing him instantly.
THREE men, each of whom had slain
woman, were sentenced in the Court of
General Sessions in New York city to be exc
cuted on the gallows. Thsy were John Lewis
(colored, James Nolan and Patrick Packen.
ham. The sentence was fixed for Friday
August %. They will be hanged together.
RICHARD LEWIS, plasterer, fatally slot
Mrs. Elmira Moseby and her sister, Emeline
Myers, in Pittsburg, and then committed sui
eide. The cause Of the tragedy was un-
known. The parties were all colored.
RHODE IsLAND's~Legislature met in extra
session to enact a law to regulate the liquor
traffic. Several license bills were introduced.
ELENoN 81. WILLIAMS, Of Colbrook, N.
H, has left for parts unknown, leaving
debts to neighbors and friends amounting to
$4,000. Some of the securities left behind
were thought to have forged signatures.