The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-12
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The four-story brick block, 65 to 101
Bristol street. Boston, has been Quilted by
fire. Five men were injured, and the loss Is
estimated at $1,000
ADAM FoREPAUGH, the veteran Snowman,
died at his residence in Philadelphia of pneu-
monia superinduced by grip. He was sixty
eight years of age.
Two little girls named Walker were killed
by train near Allegheny City, Penn.
SEVERAL men were shooting at a mark
near SnoHshoe, Penn, when Mike Bordner,
one of the party, shot and killed man
named Stachick who was replacing the tar
get.
Mr. AND Mrs. GEORGE CoMsTocK, an aged
and wealthy couple of Wilton, Conn, while
returning home in carriage from the fu-
neral of relative, were struck by tram
and fatally injured.
A oU1NTUPLE wedding took place in Daviess
County, KY, the other day. The five brides,
dressed alike, came in one carriage anu the
five grooms in another.
H. BUSH, fireman, who was injured by, a
sswild train,n has recovered $40, 600 from the
Northern Pacific Railroad. He lost all use
of his legs.
By the explosion of gas reservoirs at Sioux
City, Iowa, several workmen were fatally
u,
worth of machinery destroyed.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
League was organized at Cleveland, Ohio.
ALBERT PAUL SMITH, manager of the Chi
cago Clearing House, dropped dead OF heart
disease.
NICHOLAS MEYER, Of Chicago, ILL.,, muir
dered his pretty twenty-year-old wife In nj
of jealous rage.
FIVE men were killed and several injured
by the premature explosion OF a blast,
caused by a cigarette, in Wilkes County,
N. c.
AS a funeral procession was crossing
railroad track in Chicago an express train
dashed into it killing three persons and
wounding another.
HEAVY storms have prevailed on the At
lantic. and a number of steamships have
arrived at New York considerably battered
by the waves.
ADDISON NJ. SAWYER, the millionaire of
Athol, Mass, inventor of the Sawyer gum
which was used during the Civil War, IS
dead.
GEORGE G. LouNsBERY, for many years
cashier of the New York Postoffice, shot
himself at the home in Hackensack, N. j.,
after he had been told that he must give up
his place to another man; shortage OF s2',-
300 in his accounts was found.
BY the sudden cave-in of an embankment
in an ore mine near Norrlstown, Penn.,
three men were smothered beneath twenty
tons of dirt.
DURING confirmation services at st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia,
a young man arose from his seat IN the
church, and pointing revolver at Bishop Y.
". Whitaker, who was taking part in the
services. fired shot at him. Immediately
there was great confusion, and the would-be
murderer was taken into custody.
THE body of J. G. Ditman, banker in
PHILADELPHIA, was found floating in the
Schuylkill River.
ToBAcco-GRowERs in session in Syracuse,
n. Y, passed resolutions demanding pro-
lection from Sumatra leaf
SIXTEEN miners families at Walston and
Adrian, Penn, were put out Of their houses
by Sheriff Safer. The Sheriff was accom-
panied by fifty-four Pinkerton police with
their Winchesters, but the miners made no
trouble.
GENERAL LESTER B. FAULKNER, the we'll
known Democratic politician, died at Cana
seraga, N. Y.
GEORGE R1rcH1E, of Moose Hill, Me-, aged
l6, was shot and killed by his cousin,
Bernard Ritchie, who mistook him for a
deer, while hunting in tho woods.
JOHN HAFFY, of Centralia, Penn, went
home drunk and threatened to beat his wife.
She gave him some laudanum to make him
sleep, and it killed him. No one will prose
cute.
JAMES KNAPP, at Danbury, Conn, kicked
his wife to death because she hid his supply
If whisky.
The Congregational Church at Danvers
Centre Boston, has been burned. The church
is historic one. 1t was the successor of the
ancient Salem village parish church in which
the witchcraft troubles began.
JOHN Voroz1L, Bohemian cigarmaker, Of
New York city, in a fit of insanity flung his
boy through window and killed him.
W. II. McHENRY and Alexander Carmen
we're blown up by nitro-glycerine near Brad
.ord, Penn, while preparing to torpedo
well.