The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

GOVERNOR BULEIGH was renomlnated by
the Maine Republicans in convention assem-
bled at Augusta.
THE United States men-of-war kearsarge
Dolphin, Baltimore and Galena, composing
the North Atlantic Squadron, arrived In New
York Harbor from Charleston, S. c.
FIETY-FoUR young cadets became second
Iieutenapts at West Point IN. " Military
Academy.
VAssAR COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N. T.,
celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary.
THE United States steamer Enterprise,
now at the Brooklyn IN. ~ Navy Yard
has been ordered into commission. She VIII
probably be attached to the South Atlantic
Squadron.
AT Stanhope, Penn., Thomas Anderson, Of
Port Dram, aged nineteen, employed as a
boat hand, was struck by lightning and
killed. His body was badly burned and the
shoes were torn from his feet.
JAMES DEAN, first Of the gang Of Jersey
City. N. j., ballot boz suffers and repeaters
convicted was sentenced to one year in the
County Jail.
The investigation Of bribery charged in the
Massachusetts, Legislature was begun.
IT having been found impossible to have
the Pensacola ready in time for participa-
tion in the naval display at Portland, Me-,
on July 2, orders have been issued for the
Essex, now at New York, to join the North
Atlantic fleet temporarily for that occasion.
The feet will then consist Of six vessels,
viz, Baltimore, Dolphin, Petrol, Kearsarge,
Galena and Essex.
JOSEPH JOHNSON, aged fourteen, was
killed and George Smith. aged eleven, fatal
ly injured by train at Gray's Ferry, near
Philadelphia, Penn.
FRANCIS W. HILL, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor Of the State of Maine,
died suddenly at Exeter, Me-, Of acute
bronchitis caused by cold contracted at
Bar Harbor few weeks ago.
BAccALAUREATE sermons were delivered
at Harvard. Cornell, Lehigh, Dickinson,
Tufts, Smith and other colleges in the East.
FREDERICK, the seven-year-old son Of
Charles Lang, died at Newburyport, Mass,
in terrible agony of hydrophobia. He was
bitten in the face several weeks ago by a
strange black-and-tan dog.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH and Mary Buckley
were walking on the railroad track near
Mahanoy City, Penn. They were struck by
freight train and killed.
JOHN ONEIL1, ex-Alderman Of the "Boo-
die" Board Of 1884, was released from Sing
Sing IN. " prison after serving over three
years, and has returned to his home in New
York city.
BUNKER HILL DAY was celebrated in Bos-
ton and elsewhere in the East.
WILLIAM L. Scorr was nominated for
Congress by the Democratic Convention at
Erie Penn.
THE New York Court Of Appeals granted
q mandamus compelling Commissioner Gill
ROY to issue a permit to thu Third Avenue
Railroad Of New York city to open the street
and change its motive power to cable trac-
tion.
MINE INSPECTOR WILLIAMS, of the Third
(anthracite) Inspection district Of Pennsyl-
vania, has just completed table Of tia
operations OF the coal miners for
the last twenty years. During
that time tbere were 40, 1852, 7l5 tons OF
coal mined. There were 1901 men killed in
the many disasters during the twenty years.
Tho highest number Of days worked in any
year was 233, in 1888.
THE big strike of cloakmakers, tailors, fin
ishers, cutters pressers and operators in New
York city is on. Nearly 10000 men and
women went on strike, and the cloak manu-
featuring trade is practically at a stand
still.