The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-28
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Mrs. BENJAMIN HARRISON, wife OF the
President, was called by telegram to the
bedside Of her sister, Mrs. Scott-Lord, VINO
was very Ill at Nantucket Mass.
GENERAL HENRY DU PoNT, head OF the
sreat powder manufacturing firm OF Wil-
nington, Del, died few days ago on tne
18th anniversary OF ms birth. ne iea'es ah
.state valued at S15 600, COO
MISS MARY CUsHMAN was elected Tax
Collector and Mrs. Minerva Cushman DlStrlc1
Clerk of Lockport, n. Y. Riverside, n. Y,
tpain elected Mrs. T. G.. Albertson School
Librarian. Many ladies voted in both
places.
SECRETARY TRACY sailed on the Govern
nent boat Despatch for Ber Harbor, Me-,
where he was to Join the President as the
yuest of Secretary Blaine.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and party arrived at
Bar Harbor. Me-, from Boston. The party
we're met at Mount Desert by Secretary
Blaine, who had gone over on a special boat
10 await the arrival.
JOHN RANDALL and Thomas Foyle, of Syra-
:use, N. Y, were killed in collision near
Columbus, Ind.
THE Vanderbilt family have bought con,
rolling interest in the Beach Creek Railroad
n Pennsylvania.
Two more bodies were taken out OF the
;and at Johnstown, Penn. One was 1dena-
led as that of Alex. Hamilton, Jr, proml-
,ent resident of the town.
SHERIFF FLAcK, of New York city, re-
igned his Office of Grand Sachem in the
rammany Society, and also resigned from
the General Committee of the Tammany or
raniZation, because of charges that were
made against him in connection with secur-
ne divorce from his wife.
A TERRIBLE explosion Of natural gas oc-
Cured at Oliver Brothers & Co.'S South
Side mill, Pittsburg, Penn. John Miller,
,ged seventeen years, had his neck broken
md died almost instantly; John Connor,
carpenter, had his skull crushed and died
instantly; John Greiner was fatally injured.
MAYOR GRANT, Of New York city, ap-
pointed four committees Of twenty live each,
IN Permanent Organization, Finance, Legs
ation and on Sites and Buildings, to make
!he first preparations for the international
Exposition of 1S92.
A RIOT occurred at the Hecla works,
Sreensburg, Penn, owned by William Thaw.
Three men were fatally injured. About 700
men went there from the Mammoth works
and asked the men at work to quit. Upon
heir refusal the drunken mob made the fatal
assault.
PRESIDENT HARRISON attended services
conducted by Bishop Doane at Bar Harbor,
Ne.
THE annual athletic exhibition of the Clan
na-Gael at Philadelphia was attended by 25,-
700 persons. The profits, which amount to
5000, will be devoted to securing the arrest
md punishment of the murderers Of Dr.P.H.
Cronin, of Chicago.
DR.. ALEXANDER BROWN MOTT, one Of the
most noted of American surgeons, and son
Of the famous surgeon, Valentine Mott, died
at his country seat, near Yonkers, n. Y, OF
pneumonia. DR.. Mott was born In New
York March 81, 1926.
81. WEBB, of Wlkesbarre, Penn, thirty
Tour years of age, and Herman Newmayer,
of the same place, forty-ive, jumped from
train at Chain Dam, Penn. Webb was in
stantly killed and Newmayer was fatally
hurt.
THE Riverside and Oswego mills property
in Rhode Island and New York have assigned
with liabilities Of 100000.
THE steamer City of Paris lowered the
pecan record eastward, crossing from New
York to Liverpool, England, in five days,
twenty-three hours and forty-four minutes.
JUDGE BooKsTAvER, in the Court of Com
mon Pleas, has annulled the decree Of di-
yorce granted by him to Mary A. Flack,
wife of the Sheriff Of New York. The an
uulrnent is on the ground that the divorce
was fraudulently obtained, without Mrs.
Flacks knowledge or consent. Lawyer
Wright in an affidavit threw the blame for
the fraud on the shoulders Of Mcneil and
Referee Meeks. Meeks was forced to resign
his Office of searcher.