The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-29
LATER NEWS,

MAYOR GLEASON, of Long Island City, N.
Y, was convicted of assault in the third de-
gree.
GOVERNOR BRAcKETT, of Massachusetts,,
nominated Daniel W. Bond, of Northamp-
ton, to be Associate Justice Of the Superior
Court.
JAMES PHILLIPS, a miner, was killed by
fall Of rock and coal in the No. colliery at
Audenried, Penn. At7oclock that same morn
ing two Hungariaps met similar fate in one
of the chambers in No. II slope, at the same
place.
DIR. Henry G.. McGoyEGAL, who killed
Annie Goodwin, the cigarette girl, by NAL
practice, was sentenced in New York city to
fourteen years imprisonment at hard labor
at Sing Sing. He is more than seventy years
old.
TIE Leland Hotel at Syracuse, N. Y. was
destroyed by fire, and the fist meagre de-
tails indicated that nearly fifty guests and
employees perished in the flames.
TIE third fair of the Piedmont Exposition
Association was formally opened ut Atlanta,
Ca, in the presence of large crowd. The
procession to the grounds was made up of
military companies. Senator Colqutt and
John Temple Graves were the orators Of the
day, and Mayor Glenn was master Of cars-
monies.
The Consolidated Ice Machine Company
of Chicago ILL.,, has made an assignment.
Assets s475, 900; liabilities, S3500O
CoNcoRD1A COLLEGE, at Milwaukee, Wis,
has been closed because Of an epidemic OF
diphtheria among the students.
OFFICER THOMAS J. MADDEN shot and
mortally wounded brother policeman, Al
bert Junge, in Chicago, III. The shooting
was the outcome of differences between the
men over. politics.
J. BAILEY, William R. Davis and j. Fisher
were killed, and two other men were hurt by
fall Of rock in the Ludington mine at Iron
Mountain, Mich
FOUR horse thieves were captured in the
Iowa Reservation by three Deputy Marshals
after desperate fight. One Of the thieves
was killed. When they saw that they could
| not get away with the horses, eleven In oil,
they shot them.
The Census Bureau announces that the
population Of the State Of Alabama Is
1,5Os, ore; increase, 245,5Gs; per cent. 1915.
THE Secretary of State received dispatch
from Minister Ryan, at the City Of Mexico,
announcing that the Mexican Republic will
adopt the recommendations of the Interna-
tional American Conference in regard to a
uniform system Of weights and msasurez.
The contracts for the three battleships for
the Navy have been settled, the Cramps, Of
Philadelphia, building two vessels, and the
Union Iron Works, Of San Francisco, one'
The former firm will receive s3,063.333 for
each ship, and the latter So, 223, 1853.
THE President made the following appoint
ments: D. Geoghegan, Register OF the Land
Office at Vancouver, Washington; George W.
BRYANT Receiver Of Public Moneys at Los
Angeles CAL; Thomas A. Starrh, Receiver
Of Public Moneys at HALEY, Idaho; Charles
C. Warner Agent for the Indians Of thu Ne
vada Agency, Nevada; David Wade Nat
thews, Agent for the Indians of the Klamath
Agency, Oregon.
THE deaths from cholera at Alcppo Tm-
key, average fifty daily.
TIE Russian Government will shortly in-
troduce reformed Judicial system in ST.
IBERIA and the Russian possessions Of Central
Asia.
An imperial order was issued in Berlin,
Germany, that all the schools be closed on
October 26, the nineteth anniversary of the
birth Of General Count Won Moltke.