The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-17
TIE NEWS EPITOMIzEl.
Eastern and Middle StateA

A CHALLENGE to the New York Yacht
Club to contest next fall for the possession
of the Americas cup has been issued by the
Earl of Dunraren. The Earl suggests that
the contests be three OUT Of five races and
the day of the first race September 3otn.
His boat is the Valkyrie.
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the entire Crofton oil field in Pennsyl-
vania.
FLAMES among the oil tanks at Long Island
City, n. Y, destroyed property worth Sloo, =
600 and burned one workman to crisp.
TOBIAS SAMMs, a colored man, about thir-
ty-fve years old, was murdered in New York
city by his brother Reuben, twenty-five
years old, with whom he had quarreled.
THE violent wind and snow storm from the
northwest, rendering the atmosphere as
dense as London fog, caused five collisions
off New York harbor, in which four vessels
wore wrecked, one life lost and many more
jeopardized.
THE widow of General Stonewall Jackson,
to whom was rendered the Office of postmls-
tress Of Lexington, Va, has declined to ac-
cept the same.
TERRIBLE prairie fires were raging near
Cavour, Dakota.
FIVE companies of troops were ia Okla
homa clearing out the invaders.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind storm prevailed in
Southern Ohio. Two men were drowned by
the capsizing of small boat near Lawrence
burg, Ohio
BOTH houses of the Wisconsin Legislature
have passed bill adopting the Australian
system Of voting.
Two miners, Hermann Manti and Peter
jacobson, were instantly killed by the e1-
plosion of dynamite cartridge, which they
Struck in drilling, in the Copper Falls mine
at Houghton, Mich.
NOAH SPENGLER,a well known contractor
and builder of Bethlehem. PENN, committed
suicide. Excessive drinking drove him TO
the commission of the deed.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has been ap-
pointed, by a New York Supreme Court
Judge, one of three commissioners of Esti-
mate and Assessment in the matter OF the
High Bridge Park.
JUDGE ALEXANDER McCUE, Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, died of
paralysis at his home in Brooklyn. He was
death President Harrison nominated Ellis II.
Roberts to succeed him as head of the Sub
Treasury in New York.
THE st. David, full rigged ship, reached
Philadelphia from Havre, with the steward
in irons, hopeless lunatic; the first mate
down with acute bronchitis, the second mate
a victim of rheumatic fever, and seaman
also suffering from a complication of dis
eases.
HOWARD R. SWIFT, agent Of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn,
recently committed suicide in that city.
Financial embarrassment was the cause.
A BIG land slide occurred in Pittsburg,
completely covering the tracks Of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
THIEVES broke into the old Statohouse at
New Haven, Conn.,. and entering the rooms
of the New Haven Historical Society, carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by
the Society as relic. 1t is presentation
sword studded with jewels and precious
stones valued at $4,000.
The change in the Offices of the Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer of New York will
necessitate count of all the moneys and
securities in both Offices, and will take at
least four weeks to accomplish.