The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The eight-hour workday movement was
begun in New York city quietly. Only about
a dozen men went on strike. The socialist
labor party and the Central Labor Union
celebrated the day by a parade and mass
meeting at Union Square. There were
demonstrations, also. at Philadelphia, BoS-
ton. Pittsburg, and throughout the Eastern
States generally.
JAMES PALMER, convicted of the murder
of Henry T. Whitehouse of Portsmouth, was
hanged at Concord, N. H.
CATTLE and sheep sheds and barns and
stables covering nearly eight acres or
ground in the West Albany IN. " Live
Stock Yards. were laid in ashes by an incen-
diary'S match.
The Assembly in Albany, N Y, passed a
bill to abolish capital punishment.
GEORGE WEBER was killed at Belknap
crossing. near Attica, n. Y, by being struck
by a train. His wife's skull was fractured,
injuring her fatally.
The failure of the Bank of America in
Philadelphia has been followed by that OF the
Gloucester City IN. j. National Bank. At
the time of the failure the deposits were about
$40, 900. The depositorS are mostly poor
working people.
FEcHHEIMER, RAU &, Co., shirt manu-
facturers Of New York city, have failed; ap-
proximate liabilities $3.50, ,oO5; assets, S215,-
600.
PATRICK D. FLANAGAN entered saloon
at Water Jury, Conn, AMI asked Michael
McDermott to drink with him. AS McDer-
mott responded Flanagan, without word,
empted the six barrels of 32-calibre re-
volver into McDermott's face and throat and
then walked out. McDermott died within
an hour.
THE Fidelity Surety, Trust and Safe De-
posit Company, of Camden, n. j.; the Port
Norris Bank. the Merchants Bank OF At
lantic City, N. j., and the Merchants Bank
of Pleasantville, n. j., suspended payment.
SHARPERs stole $1,000 from the Rev.
Father Thomas J. Ariens at Bridgeport,
Conn, and left baby on his hands.
CRIMINAL proceedings have been begun
against the officers Of the broken Philadelphia
banks.
WILLIE HULsE. aged ten years, son of j.
II. Hulse, No. 323 Hu lson street, New York,
was shot and instantly kille1 by his play
mate, Charles Sickles, aged fifteen, at Gooi
Ground, Long Island, N. Y.
A RUNAWAY accident occurred in Maple
avenue Penn, in which Willie Fitzpatrick.
eight years of age, was instantly killed. His
little sister was fatally injured, and two
other children were badly bruised and cut,
and the father of the deal boy was severely
injured. Mrs. Fitzpatrick became violently
insane after the accident.
The entire business portion of South Day
ton, n. Y, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
S2G, 900.
In New York and Brooklyn nearly all the
carpenters went to work under the eight
hour day system. There was no striking
necessary to gain this point.
WASHINGTON QUINLAN, member of the
New York Stock Exchange, has disappeared
owing about 100000.
JOIN CRoMock a morphine eater, killed
his thirteeu-year-old daughter at Foxboro,
Mass, and then committed suicide.
The Singer Sewing Machine Works, at
Elizabethport, n. j., covering two acres of
ground, were almost wholly destroyed by
fire, together with considerable amount of
the railroad property adjoining The works
employed about $500 hands. The loss is
about s3, 900, 900.