The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-04
LATER NEWS.



years has been the book-keeper and confider-
tial manager of the Smith G. Griggs Manu-
featuring Company, at Waterbury, Conn.,,
was arrested, charged with embezzling
$4,000.
C. F. L. K1NNIER, cashier of the Pennsyt
vania Gas Company, at Warren, is q de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000
A FREIGHT wreck occurred at Elizabeth
Furnace, Penn. Fifteen cars and one engine
were demolished. An engineer, fireman
and two brakemen were killed.
Six washouts were reported on the Upper
Coos Railroad, in New Hampshire. A
wrecking train that started out to make re-
pairs went through an undermined bridge
six miles north of Stratford. J. Twohey,
Superintendent Of the road, and a section
man were buried under the engine and killed.
A LAsoRER named James Hendrickson,
sxty-five years DID, in Chicago, ILL.,, unsuc-
cessfully attempted to shoot his daughter,
Mrs. Peterson fatally wounded his wife and
killed himself within minute.
GRANT ANDERSON, colored, was taken
from the court room at Columbus, Miss,
where he was being tried for assault upon
thirteen-y year-old girl and hanged to the
nearest tree.
HOTEL KEEPER LITTLEF1ELD, of Jesup,
Ca, shot and killed County Surveyor Mccall
and his unfaithful wife, Mrs. Littlefleld.
THE resignation of Sergeant-at-Arms Can
aday was presented in the Senate, to take eff
feet June 80.
AT a Cabinet meeting the British pro-
posals for settlement of the seal question
were rejected, and the United States war
ship Bear has been ordered to seize and dis.
mantle British vessels engaged in sealing in
Behring Sea.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed an act pro.
viding that all mail matter, Of whatever
class relative to the census and addressed
to the Census Office, to the Superintendent
of Census, his chief clerk supervisors, or
enumerators, shall be transported free by
registered mail.
The President has nominated Isaac W.
Dyer to be United States Attorney for the
District of Maine.
J. D. ABRAHAMs, Deputy Controller Of the
Currency, rendered his resignation to the
Secretary of the Treasury.
The United States Navy Department has
formally accepted the cruiser Vesuvius from
the contractors, the Pneumatic Dynamite
Gun Company, of New York.
FRANCISCO ROMERO, a tax collector in
Merida, Yucatan, committed suicide by
shooting because he was found to be $SOOC
short in his accounts.
EYRAUD, the Paris murderer, was cap
tured in Havana, Cuba.
The Provincial Government of Nova
Scotia is sustained in the elections by large
majority. Twenty-eight Government can
didates are reported elected out of House
of thirty-sight members.
DISPATCHES from Acheen, Africa, say that
the Dutch lost three killed and fourteen
wounded in futile attempt to recover po-
sition from which they had been driven by
the natives The latter lost fourteen killed.
!: A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres, Argen-
tine Republic, says that twenty. six parsons
were killed and forty-one wounded in the re-
cent rising at Puerto Allegro.
CHILE declines to sign the Pan-American
treaty for compulsory arbitration.
! AT Conselice, Italy, a mob of 500 women
and 200 navvies who had gone on strike
tried to force an entrance into the Town
Hall, shouting 1--WE are starving" The
crowd stoned the troops VINO were guarding
the Municipal Building and the latter were
compelled to use their firearms. Several
persons were killed and number were
wounded.