The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-30
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
E,stern and Middle States.

Six of the officers of the Navassa Phos-
! uhate Company, who were involved In the
recent riots in the island Of NaTassa, have
arrived in Philadelphia.
THE fertilizer factory of g. Ober. Sons q
Co., at Baltimore, Nd, has been burned
Loss, S260, 00O.
The State Board of Health has issued a
proclamation declaring diphtheria to be cpl
iemic in Carbondale, Penn. Some OF the
undertakers have refused to further endanger
the lives of their families by handling the
bodies of the dead.
The House of Deputies at the Episcopal
Convention in Now York city rejected the
resolution designed to facilitate the establish
ment of Court of Appeals.
GOVERNOR HILL and Chauncey N. Depew
spoke at the laying of the cornerstone OF the
new World building in New York. The
structure, when completed, will be the high
est building in America.
THE great trotting match at Fleetwood
Park, New York city, between Belle Hamlln
and Harry Wilkes, for $4,000. was won by
the former in two straight heats. lime
PIG %, 2:19111.
JOHN FEEKs, 6 Western Union lineman,
was killed by an electric light wire in New
nearly one hour while thousands looked on.
Six men have died in New York city from
the same cause within few weeks.
THOMAS SHIELDS, whose negligence in
leaving rails unspiked led to fatal wreck at
North Haven, Conn, has been found guilty
of manslaughter.
In Franl1ford Township, Penn. a child was
Instantly killed by mad bull The animals
horn caught the little girl in the back and
penetrated to the heart.
THE leading manufacturers of Philadelphia
have signed document declaring New YORK
eity to be the financial centre of the country,
and recognizing it as the appropriate place
for holding the Worlds Fair in 1892.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York city, has
given orders to cut down all electric wires
not operated according to the rules OF the
Board of Electrical Control.
TIE delegates to the International Ameri
can Congress visited Niagara Falls and were
entertained at dinner by Erastus Wiman.
JOHN +. DoNAHoE, head noney-ordeI
clerk in the Hartford (Cann) postofice, IS a
defaulter to the amount of about $1,000.
QUARTERMAsTER WILLIAM II. STOWE, OF
Admiral Foote Post. G. A. r., of New
with the post
GEORGE P. MARIs, once prominent in Bal
timore society, died from chloroform poison
ing in a lodging house in New York city.
THE grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson at
Concord, Mass, was opened by vandals; the
coffin was exposed to view, but the body was
not touched.
A FIERCE storm ragged of the Massa
chusetts coast and did much damage to
shipping.
A WOMAN named O'Brien was killed WITH
her babe by falling from thereof of tene
ment house in New York CITY.
THE American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions began their annual session
in New York city.
THE Episcopal General Convention in New
York city decided that it was in favor Of
further revision of the Prayer Book.
MORE than three-fourths of the private land
actually needed for the great fair Of 1892 in
New York city has already been voluntarily
offered by property owners.
THE annual meeting Of the Republican
clubs of New Jersey was held in Elizabeth.
The schooner Laura capsized in the East
River close to New York city, and three
sailors were drowned.
TIE first general assembly of the Demo
cratic societies of Pennsylvania was opened
in Philadelphia.