The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-14
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


Ex-UN1TED STATES SENATOR STEPHEN W.
DORSEY has been arrested in New York city
at the instance of the Nevada Bank Of San
Francisco, Cal, because Of his failure to pay
Judgment of $45250S.
FIVE Paterson On. J.) breweries, Katz
Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth
ers, Sprattler & Mennett and James A
Graham have been sold to an English syndi-
cate for 50, $4,000.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER CHARLES g. Tall
coTT of the United Staess ship Atlanta, COM
nitted suicide in New York harbor, in the
bathroom of the ship by shooting himself
through the mead. No cause for the suicide
is known.
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, who went to the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from
New York years ago when poor and un-
known lawyer, died a few days ago of pa
ralysis at his summer home, at Watervlle,
N. z, aged eighty-one years. He was
worth SEQ, ,0oO, COO.
THE New York commission dry goods firm
of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, with
liabilities placed at s., 200, 900. The assets are
seid to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness.
Cornelius N. Bliss is the assignee.
MRS. WILLIAM IRWIN, Of Washington,
Penn, and her three-year-old son were killed
The Richmond Paper Company of East
Providence R. l., has failed for $500, 900.
ENGLISH syndicates are said to be trying
to buy New York dry goods stores and New
ark IN. J) leather factories.
The new Hamburg-American twin-screw
steamer Columbia has arrived in New York
harbor after sailing from the Needles Eng
land, to Sandy Hook-2100 miles-in Sax
days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seven
minutes That is the best time ever. made
GENERAL JOHN KILPATRIcK, one Of the
most conspicuous figures in political circles in
Pennsylvania, died at his home in Harbor
Greek, Penn, at the age Of sixty-eight. He
stood almost eight feet high.
The United States gunboat Yorktown re-
turned to New York from a cruise at sea,
stability and the effectiveness of her main
battery. The results were highly salts
factory.
A CYCLONE, followed almost Immediately
by a terrific rain storm, visited North Wlbra.
ham, Massachusetts,, doing considerable dam
age to property. The earth was torn up
p1owing furrow fifteen feet wide for a
long distance. It threw water fifty feet high.
Public thoroughfares were badly damaged
in many sections Of western Massachu.
setts.
LAUREL, Del, and the surrounding coun-
try have been visited by disastrous storm,
which continued with uninterrupted fury for
two days. Small wooden bridges across the
streams and fences have been washed away,
and fields and orchards ruined.
JOHN IRELAND, well-Mown New Yorker,
who for years has kept a popular restaurant
on Lispenard street, was robbed Of $43, 900
in securities while patient in Chambers
Street Hospital.
E. & A. b. BArcHELLER, of Boston, Mass,
one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the
country, have assigned. Their liabilities are
$1,250, 900.
EDWARD STYLES, son Of DR.. D. W. Styles,
and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both Of Buff.
falo, N. Y, were drowned while boating.
McKEAN & APPLETON, shoe manufac.
t1rers, Of Salem, Mass, have failed, their es-
timated liabilities being between s65, 900 and
S75, 900.
In Ulster County, N. Y, tornado de-
stroyed several houses, and three persons
were badly hurt one,of them fatally.