The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

WILLIAM JONES, Tor twenty years q
trusted employe of E. q. Butler & Co., edu-
cational publishers Of Philadelphia, has dis
appeared. He is said to be short $40, GOO in
his accounts. Jones is bachelor.
THE State Committee met in New York
city and decided to hold the Republican
State Convention at Saratoga on Septem-
ber 25.
ABOUT 22OO plasterers struck in New York
city for an increase of wages from 81 to 81. so
day. About 700 had their demand con-
ceded.
PROFESSOR ELIAS LOOMS MUNsoN, Pro-
fessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy
at Yale University, died in New Haven,
Conn, of Bright's disease. He was born In
1911.
GREAT devastation was done by storms on
the New Jersey coast. Many watering
places were seriously damaged.
AFTER nine-days'-vacation in New Eng
land President Harrison left Bar Harbor,
Me-, for Washington. He stopped at Man
chester, n. H, long enough to drive about
among the mills. At Concord, n. a., he was
formally received by members Of the Legs
lature in joint convention. He made brlef
address. He went thence to Fall River,
Mass, where he took the steamer Pilgrim
for New York. e,
DURING the late storm Benjamin Andreas
and William Mcdonald, both married, were
drowned at Walnut Port, Penn. They were
employed on the bridge being erected across
the Lehigh River.
THE vicinity of Mammoth, Penn, was
visited by snow storm. The ground was
completely covered.
MICHAEL and John Murphy, two brothers,
aged five and six, respectively, while sailing
&IS,;r l,tfla hoorc noor Rl0nrnfin1d N II fell
into the Marris Canal and were drowned.
EBEN S. ALLEN, e1-President of the Forty
second Street and Grand Street Railroad
Company, of New York city, who had pleaded
guilty, in the Court of General Sessions, to
the fraudulent issue of stock of the company
was sentenced by Judge Gildersleeve to four
teen years imprisonment in State Prison.
ANexplosion of gas in the crockery store Of
T.J. Macable, New York city, killed Ja-
cobs Morris, aged seventeen, and wounded
twenty-five other persons.
UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM NJ.
EvARTs sailed for Europe, from New York
CITY. accompanied by his son Allen and
daughter. He goes to have eminent oculists
operate on his eyes, which are failing him.
A HORSE and wagon hired from Pearsalrs
livery y-stable at Freeport, N. Y, were stolen
from in front Of the hotel in Bellmore.
Next day the outfit was found at Baldwin's
in the possession of Miss Susie Brower, of
Merrick, N. Y, highly connected young
woman, who confessed the theft.
DRUNKEN quarrels among miners at Pitts
burg. Fem, who he'd just been paid off, re-
suited in two murders in quick succession.
Thomas Smell, a sinker, aged forty-fve, and
Charles Fitzgerald were the victims.
GOVERNOR GooDELL has prorogued the
New Hampshire Legislature. During the
last session the Governor approved 23S bills
and Sc Joint resolutions, and vetoed one
act
CHARLES KELLER, Of Philadelphia, and
two girls named Mamie and Winnie Colli-
gan, aged seventeen and twenty years re-
Spectiyely, were carried over the falls at
Easton, Penn, while boating. The girls
were drowned.
REV. FRED A. BARN1Tz, Of Middletown,
Penn, retired clergyman, and Charles b.
Carpenter, Of Philadelphia, were fishing
from boat on Swatara Greek, near Middle
town, Penn, when they were drawn into
whirlpool and drowned.
Mrs. MARY HINcK, and Mrs Emma White,
of Byron, N. Y, were killed by an engine at
a railway crossing in Rochester, N. Y.
ALFRED PORTER, aged about nineteen
years. of Dover, N. a., student Of Dart
mouth College, was accldentIally SnoC anu
instantly killed at Kenniston's Island, by
Herbert E. Towle of Dover.
THE Finance Committee of the Worlds
Fair Committee met in New York city and
organized; Jesse seligman, the banker, sub
mitteda plan to raise money without asking
Congress for help.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
made arrangements to establish pension
system for its emp ployes, the first Of its kind
in the United States. The pension plan will
be introduced in connection with the COM
pany's relief association.
THE body of Frederick Wilcox, aged
twenty-six, was found hanging in hayloft at
Virgil N. Y. He was to have been married
in short time. Temporary insanity is the
alleged cause.
The New York State Committee met at
Saratoga and decided to hold the Democratic
State Convention in Syracuse on October
1st.