The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED,
Eastern and Middle States.

By the will of William j. Syms, a wealthy
New York wholesale gun dealer, $3.50, 600 was
left to Roosevelt Hospital to build and endow
an operating theatre.
THERE were two cases of slnstroke in
Pittsburg, Penn. Thermometer registered
So degrees.
THREE children of Nathan Powell, Of
Miners Mills, Penn, died of typhoid fever
within few hours Of each other.
THE Hath anniversary of the battle of
lexington, Mass. was celebrated. About
two hundred persons partook of an old fash
ioned breakfast served in Massachusetts Hail.
AT an auction sale of Secretary of the
Navy Tacy's trotters i'll New York ninety
nine horses brought s112.960, an average of
SILL.
JOHN AND MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, aged
nine and five years respectively, sons OF
Spratt Hill PENN miner, ate wild parsnips
and died an hour or two later.
AFTER lingering illness Henry George
Pearson, Postmaster of New York city. died
at Highwood, n. j.. at the home of his father
in-law, eX-Postnlaster-G General Thomas L.
James. He was born in 1S42 and had been
Postmaster of New York for eight years.
DoN SEBASTIAN LERDo DE TEJADA, el-
President of Mexico, has died in New York
city of bronchitis and pleurisy. Ex-PreSi-
dent Lerdo had lived there in retirement since
1876, when he left Mexico on account of pohti-
cal troubles. He was born in Jalapa April 25,
1925.
SEVERAL heavy veins of copper have Just
been discovered on farms in Wayne County,
Penn, and farmers in that section OF the
State are greatly excited.
THE New Jersey Legislature adjourned
sine die.
GEORGE T. RYDER, of the firm of George
T. Ryder & Co., the leading dry goods mer-
chant of Middleboro Mass, has committed
suicide. Dread of insanity and weight of
business cares are supposed to have prompted
the act.
DURING terrific thunder storm at Trinity
Lake, Westchester County, n. Y, the house
of Levinda Adams was struck by lightning.
Noah Adams, eighty years old, and Mrs. l..
Adamss daughter were killed.
HENRY A. THOMAS, of Massachusetts, has
been appointed Superintendent of Mails at
Boston, Mass, vice Peter j. Hughes re-
signed.
By majority of $50, Massachusetts, de
cided against the proposed amendment to its
Constitution prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors.
A FIERCE forest fire ragged in the vicinity of
Bellows Falls. VT, for forty y-eight hours.
About ten square miles of woodland was
swept by the fire, which destroyed many
thousand of dollars worth of logs and cord
wood.
The steamship Missouri landed 365 of the
passengers and crew of the wrecked Dan
mark at Philadelphia amid general rejoicing.
The saved people praised the kindness and
pluck of the crew of the British vessel Mis-
souri, Captain Murrell was presented with
q floral ship and dinner given in his honor.
An explosion of natural gas occurred in
Armstrong; cork factory in Pittsburg, Penn,
wrecking the building and machinery and
killing two employees.
A LARGE public reception was given Cap
tain Murrell, the rescuer of the Danmark's
passengers, in Philadelphia, and in the even
ing he was the guest of the Sons of St.
George. King Christian has intimated his
intention to bestow q decoration upon him.