The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-15
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AT Mount Pleasant House, n. H., all vese.
tation was killed hy frost. Six inches Of
snow is reported at Mount Washington and
the temperature at eighteen degrees.
JOHN JAY, ex-United States Minister to
Austria. was painfully and perhaps fatally
injured in front of the Grand Central Depot,
New York city, being knocked down by q
cab and sustaining fracture of the neck.
LEVI and George Bryant, of Jonesport,
Me-, only sons of Andrew Bryant, were
drowned while tending lobster pots.
JOHN New, thirty-fve years old, COM
mitted suicide at Philadelphia Penn, by
shooting himself as he stood over an ica-oox
containing the dead body of his wife.
Mrs. MILLER, the wife of farmer, was
murdered in lonely wood near Merchant,
willie, n j.; colored man has been arrested
for the crime.
THE Prouty e. Barr Boot and Shoe Com
panv. of Philadelphia, Penn, was seized by
the Sheriff on judgments aggreSatlng So5,-
Isl.
THE Barrowsville Mill at Taunton, Mass,
was burned, together with storehouse and
a two-story tenement house. Loss, SI5, 900
to S1O0, GOO.
THE Worcester tN1ass.) Music Festival
closed with the performance OF Mendelssohns
"Elijah."
A PECULIAR distemper has broken out
among the horses in the vicinity OF Man.
chester, N. H., which has baffled the veterin-
arians. The disease begins in slight lame.
ness and eliminates in swollen limbs and
running sores.
EDWARD TRYAN and George Barnard
were instantly killed by touching an electric
light guy wire which came in contact with
an incaudescent circuit in Winchendon,
Mass.
IRA ". SMITHERs, a farmer, while TEN
porary insane, hanged himself in his barn,
near Rensselaer, Falls, n. Y. A week before
he tried to poison himself.
A SOUTH bound freight train jumped tia
trestle at Sheppervilie. Penn, killing Fire
man Silas Elder and Brakeman Shreckengost
and fatally injuring Engineer Frank Wood.
COUNTY CLERK EDWARD F. REILLY died
from pneumonia at his home in New York
city after short illness
JOHN KEEN, driven insane by grief over
the death of three children out Of five within
three days from diphtheria at NewarK, n.
j., killed himself with revolver in New
York city hotel.
Two brothers Of the name of De LasEi
were drowned in the Erie Canal at Utica, n.
Y, by the upsetting of a rowboat.
Mrs. ANNE G1LRoY, widow Of John Gil
roy, died of old age, at the relnarkab BILE age
Of 107 years, at her home, in Newark, n. j.
She was q native of ireland, having been
born in Fermanagh in 1873.
COMMANDER FRANCIS G. DALLAS, Uritel
States Navy, retired, died at the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital for the Insane, after an i'll
ness Of six weeks, aged about sixty-eight
years. Commander Dallas was declared
lunatic in April, 1854, as lieutenant COM
mander in the navy.
FREDERICK BILLINGS. ex-President Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, died at Wood
stock. VT, from the effects of paralytic
stroke and advanced age. Mr.. Billings was
born at Royalton, VT, September q, 1923.
RAPHAEL & LEwEN3URG, dealers anl
manufacturers of cloaking, Boston, Mass,
have assigned. Their liabilities are est;'
mated at from S175, 900 to 5000, 900.
AN express train dashed into tho carriage
containing Mr. and Mrs. Arthur b. William:
at crossing in Camden, n. j. Mr.. Williams
was mangled and killed instantly and his
wife fatally injured
MAJOR GOULD has declined the Republican,
nomination in Massachusetts, for State Audi
tor.