The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.


THREE men were crushed to death by
train at the Port Richmond PENN coal
wharves.
JAMES IRWIN and wife perished in the
burning Of the Dickson Flats, in Pittsburg,
Penn.
THE lower house of the New Hampshire
Legislature killed the Senate bill enacting
legislation for the guidance of the clerk;
thirty-seven Republicans voted with the
Democrats.
DIR. FOSTER of New Haven, Conn.,, has
made the first experiment in this country
with Dr. Koch's lymph, using the huld sent
to Professor Chittenden, Of Yale University,
on three patients, with excellent results.
JOSEPH B. ABBOTT, bookkeeper for Henry
W. Sage & Co., committed suicide at Al
bany, n. Y, when his defalcations to the
extent of S1OO, 900 had been discovered.
Four large business buildings, seven stor-
les high, on Liberty street, Pittsburg, Penn,
were burned Chief Engineer Samuel Evans
and five firemen were caught under falling
wall. Firemen Quigley was killed and Au-
gust Both fatally injured. The total loss IS
estimated at S35O,0OO.
THE special session of the New Hampshire
Legislature was declared adjourned by Gov
ernor Goodell.
A FIRE in the big N. Cohn building. in
New York City, caused loss of o,Oo0.
Two hundred and fifty men and women were
thrown out Of work.
EDWARD 81. AMMIDowN, senior partner in
the firm of Ammidown & Smith, dry goods
commission merchants, and probably one OF
the best known business men in New York
City, made a personal assignment, without
preferences. His liabilities are over $500 OOO.
He was President of the Rittenhouss Mills,
Passaic, N. j., which failed recently.
THE failure of William Furnel, woolen
manufacturer at Wilton, Me-. has created
a great sensation throughout the State. The
liabilities are $4,000
Two men, named Soper and Mclaughlin,
employees Of tho Ontario Paper Mill, near
Watertown, n Y, were lowering the flood
gates at the hume when long lever slipped
from their grasp and swung around against
them with great force in6icting injuries
from which they died soon after.
NINE persons have mysteriously disap-
peared from Reading, Penn, and neighbor
hood within the past five weeks, and 1t Is the
general opinion that they have been fouly
dealt with. Their names are Jonathan
Smith, Engineer Thomas Mengle, Of Pine
Jesse Corbett, of Phoenixville; Francis ScheI,
Of Washington; and Kerling Sellers, OF
Robesonia; John Konovoskle, Of Hickory
Swamp; Antonio sud-, of Temple and Rosa
A. B. Freese, of Pottstown.
THE British ship Buckingham, from Dun
dee, Scotland, came into the port of New
York in charge of her first mate, her captain
having been assassinated on the voyage by
the ships cook, Lascar namel Bahguhan
Dhaas.
FRANK SHIRLEY and John Trapper,
miners, were fatally injured in an explosion
in the Crabtree mine Of Greensburg, Penn.
George Houghman, boarding house keeper,
had his skull fractured by stone from the
same blast.
A LERIaH engine exploded at Dale, N. Y,
with terrific force, killing two men and badly
injuring three others.
ROBERTS, CUsHMAS G. Co., importers of
hatters' materials, in New York City, failed
for S5000O0.
PRICE, SHERMAN & Co., hat manufactur-
ers, Of Philadelphia, Penn, have assigned,
They are rated from $500, 900 to $500, 900.
TIE settlement in the hat trouble at Dan
bury, Conn.,. is complete victory for the
manufacturers.
WRITTEN, BURDETTE & YOUNG clothiers,
Of Boston, Mass, have assigned. They are
rated at $1,000, 600; G. W. ingalls, & Co.,
shoe dealers, also of Boston, assigned with
liabilities of $500 200. They were large deal
ers and managed about twenty stores
By vote of IA to II the Aldermen of New
York City granted franchise to the New
York and Long Island Railroad Company to
construct tunnel under Forty-second street
from the East to the North River.
Boston, Mass, elected as Mayor N.
Mathews, Jr., Democrat.