The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25
TIE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JOIN HARVEY, agel twenty-five, gate
tender at q railroad crossing in Boston, Mass,
was fatally hurt while rescuing woman
who had started to cross the track in front OF
train running at high speed.
ABRAHAM D. RIcE, a well-known mer.
| chant of Hainesburg, N. j., committed sui
| eide by shooting. The act was prompted by
| financial difficulties and slow trade.
One man was burned to eath and twelve
seriously injured by burning oil from an ex-
plosion on board German tank steamer i'll
the Delaware River, off Point Breeze, Penn.
THE Republicans of the First District Of
Maine renominated Speaker Thomas b. Reed
for Congress by acclamation.
CHARLES LEONARD, Nelson Watt and
Charles Monroe, ages from eighteen to
twenty, were fishing in boat on Boyden's
Lake, in Perry, Me-, when the boat upset.
Leonard and Watt were drowned, but Mon
roe swan nearly mile to the shore.
JUDGE BEAcH, of New York city, ren-
Gered decision in the famous Tilden will
case, holding that the trust was void and
illegal, and that the dead stateman's estate
should be distributed as if he had died in
testate. The heirs thus succeeded in get
ting the 5000, 900 trust fund.
RICHARDSON BROTHERS large saw manu-
factory at Newark N. j., has been sold to
syndicate for SoOU,OOO.
AT Middlebury, Conn.,. Mrs. Harriet Smith
was drowned with her two sons while trying
to save the latter, who had capsized raft in
small pond.
ELEVEN tiremen were burned, probably
fatally, by an explosion Of gasoline at the
storage house of the Penn Globe and Gas.
light Company, in Philadelphia, Penn.
THE postofice at Golf, Penn, was struck
by lightning and demolished, and Postmaster
Henry was seriously injured.
MRS. SUSAN NEY, of Boston. Mass. drank
by mistake glass of lemonade in which she
had put strychnine with the intention of
giving it to her husband. She died few
hours later.
BACCALAUEEATE sermons were preached
ut Princeton, Fassar and Elmira Female
Colleges, Columbia and the University Of
the City of New York.
Rev. Dr. JAMES CLEMENTS MoTFATT,
Emeritus Professor of Church History, of
the Princeton Theological Seminary, died
few days ago in his eightieth year.
SEVERAL persons were arrested in New
York city for refusing information to census
enumerators, and sixty warrants were is
sued.
HYDE &C. BEHMAN's variety theatre, in
IoAOOhiyH, ~. was Dui ASt, ScuoAl6 q A0So
Of $780, 900.
The unveiling Of the bronze statue of the
late Governor Richard D. Hubbard on the
Capitol grounds, at Hartford, Conn, was
very largely attended.
BANK WREcKER GEORGE II. PELL was
sentenced in New York city to seven years
and six months in State Prison by Recorder
Smyth, and was Immediately taken to Sing
Sing.
FIRE destroyed the business part Of the
borough of Colchester, Conn.,, causing loss
Of about 100000.
ALL the cadets of the first and second
classes at West Point On. ~ Military Acad-
emy passed their examihation safely.
EDWARD J. RYAN, the present chief clerk
Of the First Railway Mail Division, at Bos-
ton, Mass, has been appointed Superinten-
dent of the First Division vice W. b. Bige-
low, deceased
NELLIE DoUGHERTY, aged eleven years,
daughter of Patrick Dougherty, was fatally
burned in fit of anger at Hazleton, Penn,
by her brother, who is about year younger.
THREE French boys aged six. eight and
sixteen, were drowned in the river at Bidde-
ford, Me, while bathing.