The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-04
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

BRIGAD1ER GENERAL NELSON b. DAVIS
(retiredl died at Governors Island, New
York harbor, of heart disease.
MRS CoRDEL1A F. HALL, wife of Presi-
dent G. Stanley Hail. of Clark University.
Worcester, Mass, and their eight-year-old
daughter, Julia, were found dead in bed at
their residence, sutfocated by illuminating
gas.
THREE little boys were killed by bank ct
earth falling upon them in Brooklyn, n.
OLIVER BELL BUNcE, editor, author and
playwright, died suddenly in New York
city.
THREE Italians were killed and several
others severely injured by the collapse of a
coal bank at Olyphant, Penn. The mass
started from the height of 100 feet and fell
upon the victims.
FIVE men sought shelter in a deserted
cabin near Moose River, Me-, and built a fire
on the floor There was a keg Of powder
buried there Two of the men are dead, the
other three were terribly injured, and the de-
serted cabin is no more.
The Excise Commissioners of New York
city were indicted for mis1emeanor by the
Grand Jury for neglecting their duty.
COMMANDER McCALLA was detached from
command of the Enterprise at the Brooklyn
(N " Navy Yard.
GOVERNOR BULKELEY, of Connecticut, as
sisted by his staff, inaugurated the Soldiers
Hospital at Noroton. There was big crowd
present.
SYLvANUs RAND, aged eighteen, and his
sister Josephine, were drowned by the sink
ing of row boat at Portsmouth, N. H.
A TRUE bill was found by the Grand Jury
at Scottdale, Penu., in the case of Edward
Callaghan against General Master Workman
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legged conspiracy in defeating Callagnar for
the Senatorial nomination in 1883 and ruin
ing his business.
JACOB S. RE1sINGER, for many years the
Superintendent of the County Poor Farm,
was murdered with an axe at Fresport ILL.,,
by an insane man named William Wilhelm.
ARTHUR PELL Frank Griffith and James
Wilcox were drowned in Fox River, near
YorSville Ill. They were out in boat fisn-
ing and it is supposed had been drinking.
CONVICTION, the notorious saloon town
across the river from Sioux City, Iowa, has
been totally destroyed by fire.
ALEcK SrREcKs, colored, was hanged at
Doaaldsonville, La, for the murder of Lettie
Washington His neck was instantly dislo-
Gated by the fall.
THE Secretary of the Navy has ordered
the North Atlantic Squadron to rendezvous
at Portland, Me-, on July and I, on the oc-
casion of the twenty-frSt annual reunion Of
the Army of the Potomac.
Ex-Governor ELISHA DYER Of Rhode
Island, died in Providence, aged seventy
nine years
OWEN EVANS and Thomas Burke were
killed in the Empire Colliery at Georgetown,
Penn, by an explosion of gas.
BAsTINo IPoLDo on Italian bootblack,
was killed in New York city, in plain sight
of many passersby, by live electric wire.
CAPTAIN MALVERN GRISDLE and his
brother Frederick were drowned at Castine,
Me by the capsizing of boat.
HENRY MARTIN, of Piscataway Township
NJ, died in his ons hundred and first year.
He was the pioneer oysterman Of the Raritan
River.
JEREMIAH CURRIEa, nineteen, Of Man
chester, N. H, snapped revolver at his
twelve-year-old brother. The gun happened
to be loaded and the boy dropped dead.
THE Public Grain and Stock Exchange,
limited, of Is Wall street, New York city,
the largest bucket shop in the country, has
FLOODS have ruined crops and washed out
railroads in Central New York. Canisteo,
n. Y, was inundated, and great damage was
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Binghamton.
RICHARD VAUx Democrat) was elected to
Congress from the Thiri District of Penn
Sylvania, to succeed S. j. Randall.
JOHN MARoNEY, scooper, fell into tho
hold of the steam barge Italia ut Buffalo, N.
Y, and was instantly killed His sister, Mrs.
Thomas Hanrahau, upon being notified OF
his death fell dead from heart disease.
THE Union Labor Convention Of Portland,
Me-, has nominated L.R. Clark for Governor.
LUDWIG MARoUARDT, an artist, of Phila-
delphia, Penn, murdered his wife, Frederika,
by shooting her several times, and died
shortly afterward from the effects of poison
he had evidently taken before attempting his
wife's life.
Boston striking carpenters have received
q draft for 5000 from the Amalgamate1
Society of Carpenters aal Joiners OF Eng
land.